American honor society for management
Not to be confused with the unrelated local fraternity at Centenary University.
Omega Rho (ΩΡ ) is a North American scholastic honor society for students in the fields of operations research and management science . It was established in 1976 and became part of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 1998. Omega Rho has chapters in the United States and Mexico.
Omega Rho was founded at the the Institute of Management Sciences and Operations Research Society of America (TIMS/ORSA ) joint national meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1976.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] It is an honor society to recognize students in the fields of operations research and management science and to support study in those areas.[ 2] Its first president was Clinton K. Ancker Jr. from the Universty of Southern California .[ 3]
It was admitted to the Association of College Honor Societies in 1983 with full membership in 1986.[ 4] [ 3] [ 2] It became part of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 1998.[ 1] [ 3]
In 2012, Omega Rho had an active membership of 181 and a total membership of 8,069[ 2] As of 2024, it has 38 active chapters in the United States and Mexico.[ 5] [ 1] [ 2] Its headquarters is in Catonsville, Maryland .[ 6]
The colors of Omega Rho are blue and red.[ 7] The symbols of the Society are explained in its Bylaws as being a saddle projection (~3D model) superimposed by a tapered, red arrow. Its motto is Ad Optimum per OMEGA RHO® .
Omega Rho is coeducational.[ 2] Potential members are juniors, seniors, and graduate students who are must in the top 25 percent of their class, with a 3.5 GPA.[ 2] Faculty can join as faculty members.[ 2] Omega Rho also admits honorary members.[ 2]
Each fall, the society hosts the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture at the annual INFORMS Meeting.[ 2] [ 3] Presenters of the plenary lecture include Anna Nagurney .
Following is a list of Omega Rho chapters.[ 5] [ 8]
Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference April 1, 1976 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Active April 1, 1976 Columbia University New York City, New York Active April 1, 1976 George Washington University Washington, D.C. Active April 1, 1976 Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California Active April 1, 1976 New York University New York City, New York Active April 1, 1976 North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Active April 1, 1976 Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas Active April 1, 1976 State University of New York at Buffalo Bufffalo, New York Active April 1, 1976 University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois Inactive April 1, 1976 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Active April 1, 1976 University of Southern California Los Angeles, California Active October 12, 1981 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Active November 3, 1981 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Active October 25, 1982 United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland Active April 25, 1983 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, California Active April 25, 1983 California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, California Active May 14, 1984 Air Force Institute of Technology Dayton, Ohio Active November 26, 1984 Babson College Wellesley, Massachusetts Active October 27, 1986 George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Active October 27, 1986 Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri Active October 27, 1986 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Active April 27, 1987 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Active May 1, 1991 University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts Active April 24, 1995 Cornell University Ithaca, New York Active April 24, 1995 Portland State University Portland, Oregon Active December 4, 1995 United States Air Force Academy El Paso County, Colorado Active January 2, 1996 Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México San Ángel , Mexico City, Mexico Active November 4, 1996 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina Active February 9, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Active April 12, 2018 Georgetown University Washington, D.C. Active January 1, 2022 Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Active [ 9] 2002 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Active August 21, 2003 Florida International University University Park, Florida Active September 28, 2005 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana Active 2005 United States Military Academy West Point, New York Active September 27, 2010 University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Active July 28, 2012 Saint Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Active [ 1] February 9, 2015 University of Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania Active November 20, 2019 University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, Texas Active xxxx ?–20xx ? Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? Miami University Oxford, Ohio Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon Inactive xxxx ?–before July 2011 Polytechnic Institute of New York University Brooklyn, New York Inactive xxxx ?–before July 2011 University of Delaware Newark, Delaware Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland Inactive xxxx ?–before July 2011 University of New Haven West Haven, Connecticut Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas Inactive
Collegiate and faculty members [ edit ] Following are some of Omega Rho's honorary members.[ 10]
Name Initiation date Notability References Russell L. Ackoff 1992 Organizational theorist , consultant, and management scientist Robert Bixby 2007 Professor emeritus of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University Alfred Blumstein 1988 Professor at the Heinz College and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University Seth Bonder 2004 Engineer who made substantial contributions to operations research for the US military Jonathan Caulkins 2014 Drug policy researcher and professor at Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University Abraham Charnes 1987 Mathematician Erhan Çinlar 2003 Probabilist and professor meeritus at Princeton University David S. C. Chu 1996 US Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis & Evaluation William W. Cooper 1997 Founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences Richard Cyert 1985 Economist , statistician , organizational theorist , and President of Carnegie Mellon University George Dantzig 1992 Mathematical scientist known for his development of the simplex algorithm Ralph E. Gomory 1989 Applied mathematician and IBM researcher and executive Stuart L. Hart 2005 Academic, writer, and theorist Karla Hoffman 2013 Professor of systems engineering in the Volgenau School of Engineering of George Mason University Ronald A. Howard 1999 Emeritus professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University Edward H. Kaplan 2000 Professor at the Yale School of Management , Yale School of Medicine , and Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science Richard M. Karp 1998 Computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley George Kozmetsky 1984 Technology innovator who co-founded Teledyne Inc. Gilbert Laporte 2009 Professor of operations research at Université de Montréal Richard Larson 1998 Engineer and operations research specialist known for urban service systems and disaster planning Judith Liebman 2003 Operations researcher , civil engineer , mechanical engineer , and professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign John Little 1997 Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert E. Machol 1989 Professor of systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University Thomas L. Magnanti 2001 Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology William L. Maxwell Professor of industrial engineering at Cornell University Thomas J. Murrin 1983 United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce George Nemhauser 1987 Professor of industrial and systems engineering at Georgia Tech N. U. Prabhu 1992 Mathematician , known for his contributions to queueing theory Alan Pritsker 1982 Engineer and one of the founders of the field of computer simulation William R. Pulleyblank 2001 Professor of operations research at the United States Military Academy James G. Roche 2002 20th Secretary of the Air Force and executive with Northrop Grumman Herbert A. Simon 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Robert M. Thrall 1985 Mathematician and a pioneer of operations research John A. White 1990 Chancellor of the University of Arkansas and dean Georgia Tech's College of Engineering
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