August 2001 • Volume 28 Number 4 The following table of contents lists articles in the August 2001 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments Features INFORMS News Departments Inside Story President's Desk INFORMS Online Cyberspace Issues in Education Was It Something I Said? Real World Calendar Call for Papers New Books Classifieds OR/MS Today now features Online Classifieds Features Special Issue: Innovative Education Reversing Tradition By Thomas A. Grossman Nonlinear optimization deserves more emphasis   Online Exams Put to the Test By Erhan Erkut and Armann Ingolfsson Despite some technical obstacles, concept computes for introductory management science course   The Science of Decision-Making By Eric V. Denardo A problem-based approach using Excel   Shop Talk 101 By Judith Shaul Norback, Donna C. Llewellyn and Jill R. Hardin Integrating workplace communication into undergraduate engineering curricula   Executive Education Opportunities By Wayne L. Winston Millions of analysts need training in spreadsheet modeling, optimization, Monte Carlo simulation and data analysis   Course Correction By Ingjaldur Hannibalsson Classroom case study: University of Iceland professor increases interactive teaching in Operations Management to meet changing demands of students   Computing Software Review: TransPro By Mark Peterken Third Party Logistics Provider puts transportation planning package through its paces   Linear Programming Survey By Robert Fourer Solver or modeling: OR tool can take different approaches to reach common goals   INFORMS News Miami Beach Meeting 2001 Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium Industry, Doctoral Nominations OR in the News First Practice Meeting Results President-Elect Nomination Statements People von Neumann Nominations Meetings OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2001 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2001 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.