News: ORIE

A score of ORIE alums come to Ithaca to recruit at career fair

The strength of the ORIE alumni network was in evidence when at least 20 ORIE alumni, representing 16 or more companies, came to Barton Hall for the annual Career Fairs that span two days in early September, one of which was specifically devoted to recruiting engineering students. Among the alums who participated in the Career Fairs were Eric Gentsch '80, M.Eng. '81 and Siobhan McCabe M.Eng. '07 from LMI, Andrew Ng and Stephen Cheung '06, M.Eng. '07 from ZS Associates, Erica Mallare '08 and David Wolkoff '05 from Kurt Salmon Associates, and Lei Zhou '06 and Lindsay McCarl '06 M.Eng. '07 from... Read more

Statistician Dawn Woodard joins ORIE faculty

Professor Dawn B. Woodard received a B.S. degree in mathematical and computational science from Stanford University and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, where she studied in the Department of Statistical Science. She joined ORIE in Fall 2008 and currently teaches the Statistical Data Mining course, which deals with extracting information from large sets of data in order to draw conclusions relevant to business and other problems. In welcoming Woodard to ORIE and the wide Cornell community of Statistical Science, Professor Bruce W. Turnbull noted that "with the rapid advances... Read more