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　　应必威·BETWAY管理与经济学院院长魏一鸣教授邀请，新加坡国立大学工业与系统工程系主任董润桢教授于3月25日访问了必威·BETWAY管理与经济学院，并作了题为“Challenges facing Management Science/Operations Research/Industrial Engineering education and research: Singapore experience”的学术报告，管理与经济学院崔立荣、张祥等老师以及部分学生参加了本次报告会，院长助理王兆华教授主持了报告会。

　　在本次报告会上，董润桢教授指出近年来有一些对MS/OR/IE未来发展以及在教学和科研领域价值取向的重新思考，通过回顾新加坡ISE发展的历史，提出一些关键的、创新性的思想以提高MS/OR/IE在教育和科研上的价值；同时，也为老师和学生在面对不可知未来之时，更好的充实自己提供一些借鉴。

　　报告会后，董教授也与管理与经济学院几位老师交换了对教育和科研创新思想上的看法，学生们对董教授的演讲充满兴趣并向董教授提出若干问题。此外，董润桢教授也欢迎管理与经济学院研究生同学积极申请去新加坡国立大学继续学习深造，本次报告会在热烈的讨论中拉上帷幕。

主讲人简介：
　　Prof LC Tang (董润桢) is the Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He obtained a Ph.D degree from Cornell University in 1992 in the field of Operations Research. Dr LC Tang has published more than 90 SCI papers in international peer-review journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Quality Technology, Naval Research Logistics and Queueing Systems. Notably, he has won the 2010 IIE Transactions Best Application Paper Award -Quality and Reliability. He is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Quality Technology, the flag-ship journal of the American Society for Quality. He is also an active reviewer for about 30 international journals including Operations Research, Technometric, etc.. He has been consulted by more than 20 international corporations on problems demanding innovative applications of probability, statistics and other operations research techniques. He is the main author of the book, “Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for BB and MBB” (John Wiley & Sons) which was presented with the inaugural Masing Book Prize on the International Academy for Quality in 2007. He is also the co-author of a book on stochastic processes, Markov-Modulated Processes and Semiregenerative Phenomena (World Scientific Publishing).

（审核：魏一鸣）