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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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556
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Consulting
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| Abstract - #300494 |
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Title:
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Innovative Strategies for Incorporating Consulting into Graduate Education
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Author(s):
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Nagaraj K. Neerchal*+ and Matthias Gobbert
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Companies:
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University of Maryland at Baltimore County and University of Maryland at Baltimore County
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Address:
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Baltimore, MD, 21250,
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Keywords:
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Consulting ;
Interdisciplinary ;
professional development
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Abstract:
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UMBC, a small public university of 9,000 undergraduate and 3000 graduate students, has gained recognition for significant growth in interdisciplinary research in the last decade and a half. The Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (CIRC) is a joint venture between the Applied Mathematics and Statistics graduate programs at UMBC. A unique feature of CIRC is that it promotes the idea of graduate students themselves forming teams of fellow graduate students from other departments and proposing interdisciplinary projects and lining up faculty help. This has resulted in publications with graduate students from different departments as co-authors. This experience in business development has not only created attractive resumé entries but also has helped the graduate students develop contacts on and off campus. CIRC has formed a strong alliance with the campus initiative of creat
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