Highlights of University Construction Projects include ORFE
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
News at Princeton is currently featuring a story highlighting the University's summer construction projects.  Among the various projects is the new engineering building that will house the ORFE department.  According to the overview provided by the Office of Design and Construction, the new building will have "interior finishing and landscape work ... completed in August in time for the opening." (via News at Princeton)
 
ORFE Congratulates the Class of 2008 (Class Photo)
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
The Department of Operations Research and Financial offers sincerest wishes to the Graduating Class of 2008, pictured here.
 
ORFE Graduate Receives Tenure at Cornell
Monday, 19 May 2008
The ORFE department would like to issue its congratulations and sincerest wishes to graduate Huseyin Topaloglu, who was recently granted tenure at Cornell University in the department of Operations Research and Information Engineering.  Huseyin completed his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1999 and 2001 studying under Professor Warren Powell.  His dissertation, Dynamic Programming Approximations for Dynamic Resource Allocation Problems, laid the groundwork for future specialization with stochastic optimization problems at Cornell.  Since his time at Princeton, Huseyin has also continued to collaborate with Prof. Powell and co-author a number of papers on the topic of approximate dynamic programming.
 
About ORFE
Welcome to the Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. ORFE is engineering for business, commerce, and industry.
Our students are innovators and entrepreneurs. They acquire the skills to become leaders in finance, information technology, management consulting, insurance, and operations planning. Our researchers develop the tools used to make better decisions, improve the performance of complex systems, and manage resources efficiently.
The Department was formed in 1999 and traces a distinguished history to activities at Princeton between 1930 and 1960.