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a new member in the OR&S group.

Since 01/01/2013, Laura Willems has joined our OR&S group for a period of 4 years to carry out high quality (hopefully :-)) research in Operations Research, with a focus on Project Management, including Risk Management and Project Control, and the development of integrative and novel tools and techniques.

ArcelorMittal award for best thesis at Ghent University.

The students Pieter Beeckman and Kenny Vanleeuwen have received the ArcelorMittal prize for the best thesis during the graduation ceremony for the Commercial Engineers (Handelsingenieurs) on 21/09/2013. The thesis was supervised by Prof. dr. Mario Vanhoucke from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from the Ghent University.

Best Student in Commercial Engineering receives Dexia Asset Management Award

On Saturday, 21/09/2013, there were a lot of awards in the graduation room. While the Arcelor Mittal Award was given to the best thesis on Operations Research and Project Management to Pieter and Kenny, I had also the privilige to hand over the Dexia Asset Management award to the best student of the past five years. "Best" is here defined as the highest overall cumulative score on all the exams in the three Bachelor and two Master years.

Measuring Time in Persian

The book "Measuring Time" is a popular book in Iran for both profesional Project Managers as well as academics. Given the amount of emails and requests on topics related to the book and our software tool ProTrack, I have been in contact with many interesting people from this country. 

Integrated Project Controls

Using Operations Research to improve the efficiency of project control

Project Management course at Ghent University

University Contest 2013

When: Thursday 06 JUNE 2013
Where: USG-ICT, Frankrijklei 101, 2000 Antwerp
What: The chapter evening of PMI Belgium titled "How to Improve Project Team Dynamics - Team Building Workshop"
How: While the first ray of sunhine finally appears in Belgium, we're talking about project team dynamics

Book review

A book review of the book "Project Management using Dynamic Scheduling: Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis & Project Control" has been published in the second edition of the Measurable News, including references to Measuring Time, ProTrack, PSG and much more.

ProTrack goes mobile: Proof of concept by students at Ghent University

Last Tuesday, May 7, the students have presented their work for the course "Project Management" and have shown how ProTrack could be integrated in a Mobile App. They have posted two movies on YouTube to illustrate what they have done: 

Research - Teaching - Practice

At universities, research is the driver for innovation and its use in teaching activities is crucial to stimulate critical thinking.

At OR-AS, research is the starting point for our software developments to tighten the bridge between the research and the practical applications.

At EVM Europe, research meets practice by bringing students, academics and professionals together.