Alumni!   This page is for you, and you can influence its construction.  Check back here for an overview and links to alumni events, alumni news, alumni profiles, and opportunities to support ORIE.   If you have news to report or ideas about how this page can help you, contact us.

We would love to hear from you.  Please visit the ORIE Alumni Information page and tell us something about yourself.

Links:

• History of ORIE
  
• Events, including events for alumni in Ithaca and OR Manhattan
  
• News, including news about alumni and about OR Manhattan
  
• Cornell Engineering Alumni Association
• Alumni Update June 2008 (pdf of alumni breakfast brochure)
  

How you can help ORIE:

• Endow a Chair
• Endow a non-tenured teaching position
• Provide graduate student support
• Upgrade our teaching infrastructure
• Advance our strategic goals
• Encourage other new initiatives

Endow a chair for

• a current faculty member. Too many of our positions are on "soft money" funding not appropriated by the central administration.
• a new faculty member, improving our faculty/student teaching ratio. We currently have the largest student/faculty ratio in the College of Engineering.
• a new non-tenured faculty member as a "Term Chair" position. This will help us attract top new Assistant Professors.
• an academic administrative position, such as the director of the Master Engineering program and the Director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

Endow a non-tenured teaching position to expand our course offerings. Post-doctoral and lectureship positions can help improve our faculty student ratio, and sometimes lead to promotion to tenure track positions for excellent teacher-researchers.

Provide support for Ph.D. and Master of Engineering Students.  Fellowships attract and fund excellent applicants, including women and under-represented minorities.  Teaching Assistantships help offset the instructional load, especially for sections, labs and grading in large classes.  Join fellow alumni Girish Reddy,  Harpal Singh,  Mark Eisner and others in supporting students.

Upgrade our teaching infrastructure:

• Facilities, especially computers, in classrooms, instructional laboratories and student offices need continual upgrading.
• Creating and implementing new experiential-learning initiatives contribute to the quality of instruction.
• Getting Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan, ORIE's Wall Street office, underway continues to impose start up costs.

Advance our strategic goals:

• Healthcare Applications
  • establishing a new curriculum in the application of OR to health, for example in such areas as planning for large-scale diseases and disasters, increasing healthcare systems efficiency, customizing radiation therapy, and deploying ambulances.
  • attracting faculty and Ph.D. students to solidfy healthcare as one of the School's primary research areas.
    
• Financial Engineering
  • accommodating the extremely high student demand for courses.
  • building the new Master of Engineering third semester at CFEM to focus on practice and interaction with Wall Street alumni.

Encourage other new initiatives to prepare our students to meet new challenges and contribute to societal needs. The scope for applications of Operations Research and Information Engineering continues to grow, but existing commitments limit our ability to respond to the challenge without additional financial support.

Make a gift now (mention ORIE and your specific objective as an 'other gift designation' on the form)

or contact Lauren Fielding for more information.