Award of Merit |
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The Award of Merit is awarded to a present or past member of CORS in recognition of significant contributions to the profession of operational research. |
2011 Award of Merit Recipient | (Top) |
Eldon A. Gunn, Department of Industrial Engineering
Dalhousie University |
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Eldon Gunn is the recipient of the 2011 CORS Award of Merit. Eldon has been a mainstay of operational research in Canada since the 1970's. With his early start working for the Nova Scotia Research Foundation to his current work with the Forest Value Chain Optimization (VCO) Network, Eldon has been at the forefront of OR in this country, particularly in solving problems in natural resources area, for forty years. In every way, Eldon exemplifies a CORS Merit Award winner. He has a long, distinguished and accomplished record of research in both the theory and practice of OR. He has served the OR community through his dedication to CORS, serving as president in 1991-92, and was instrumental in the success of CORS annual meetings held in Halifax. He has served on several NSERC committees and chaired the NSERC Industrial Engineering Grant Selection Committee. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, INFORMS, the Mathematical Programming Society and a senior member and fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. |
"Eldon’s contribution to Operations Research has not just been limited to theoretical developments. There are very few OR researchers in Canada and probably the world who have regularly gone out to companies, studied their problems, and used OR to model and help solve them. The number of companies he has worked with is staggering and even more impressive is the number of sectors in which he has worked: forestry, fisheries, mining, manufacturing, SMEs, and more." [Uday Venkatadri, Chair, Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie U.] |
Commenting on his recent leadership in the NSERC Strategic Research Network on Value Chain Optimization (VCO) for the forest bioeconomy, Sophie D’Amours (Scientific Director of the VCO network) said "Eldon has been a key investigator in the implementation of the VCO Network. He has provided both knowledge and leadership in defining major orientation of the research framework. He has actively connected with FPInnovations, the business partner of the network, and rapidly brought together the top Canadian experts to work on one of Canada's most critical issues: linking the forest and industry through new modern strategic planning approaches. Within the network, Eldon is not just active in setting the stage; he is also driving a number of research projects. This is a testimonial of his passion for research and desire to contribute to a better society." |
Eldon has also been very instrumental in building and developing Industrial Engineering and Operational Research in Atlantic Canada. He was the Head of the IE Department at Dalhousie University from 1997 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2010, and has been primarily responsible for the growth and success of the TUNS/Dalhousie program. John Blake, an Industrial Engineering faculty member at Dalhousie said “I know from personal experience that perhaps Eldon's strongest contribution has been his ability to mentor and foster development of undergraduates, graduates, and newly minted faculty. Quite simply, Eldon Gunn has been a pillar of OR in Atlantic Canada and beyond.” |
Eldon’s past PhD students echo these sentiments. “Eldon not only made my PhD program an enjoyable and successful enterprise but continued to support and mentor me as a new faculty member and a novice researcher. His mentoring extended far beyond OR to include professional ethics, advice on career choices, how to deal with search committees and other challenges that arise in academia. I have the ultimate respect for Eldon’s judgement and standards and profited from his advice many times.” [Evelyn Richards] |
Dave Martell (l) presenting the 2011 Award of Merit to Eldon Gunn.
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Previous Recipients | (Top) |
2010 |
Bernard Gendron |
DIRO and Director of CIRRELT, Université de Montréal |
"Pour ses nombreuses contributions à l’application et à la diffusion de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada ainsi que pour les multiples services rendus à la communauté de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada et à l’étranger." |
2009 |
David Martell |
Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto |
"For his outstanding contributions to the development and application of operational research in forest management in Canada and the world, and for his many contributions to the Canadian Operational Research Society." |
2008 |
Alain Martel |
Faculté des sciences de l'administration, Université Laval |
"Pour ses nombreuses contributions à l’application et à la diffusion de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada ainsi que pour les multiples services rendus à la communauté de la recherche opérationnelle au Canada et à l’étranger." |
2007 |
Peter C. Bell |
Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario |
"For his significant contributions to education and the practice of Operations Research in Canada, as well as his many years of dedicated service to the Canadian Operational Research Society and beyond." |
2006 |
Teodor Gabriel Crainic |
CRT, Université de Montréal |
"For his many contributions to the application and dissemination of Operational Research in Canada, as well as for numerous services rendered to the Operational Research community in Canada and abroad." |
2005 |
Martin L. Puterman |
University of British Columbia |
"For his significant contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research and for his numerous contributions to the Canadian Operational Research Society." |
2004 |
Erhan Erkut |
University of Alberta |
“For his contributions to the teaching, practice, and promotion of Operational Research in Canada, and service to the Canadian Operational Research Society.” |
2003 |
Mohan Chaudhry |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Royal Military College of Canada |
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2002 |
Dr. Jean-Marc Rousseau |
First Vice-President
Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO)
Montreal, Quebec. |
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2001 |
Michel Gendreau |
"For his numerous contributions to the theory and practice of Operations Research in Canada, and for his significant contributions to the Canadian Operational Resesarch Society." |
2000 |
Michael Carter |
"For his many contributions to the application and dissemination of Operational Research in Canada, and for his significant contributions to CORS activities." |
1999 |
Winfried Grassmann |
"For his many contributions to Queueing and Markov Chain Theory, Application, Analysis and Optimization in Academia and Industry, as well as for numerous services rendered to the O.R. community in Canada and abroad." |
1998 |
Maurice Queyranne |
"For his many contributions to the theory and application of Combinatorial Optimization in Academia and Industry, as well as for numerous services rendered to the O.R. community in Canada and abroad." |
1997 |
Pierre Hansen |
1996 |
Suresh Sethi |
1995 |
Jim Templeton |
1994 |
Gilbert Laporte |
1993 |
Wilson Price |
1992 |
Dave Deziel |
1991 |
Cecil Law |
1990 |
Ed Silver |
"Made significant contributions to CORS as a founder of the South Western Ontario Section, Council Member, Vice-President 1979-80 and President 1980-81. Co-author of the book "Decision Systems for Inventory Management and Production Planning" which had a major impact through its organization and clarification of the state-of-the-art in the field. An outstanding teacher of the theory and applications of Operational Research at the University of Waterloo 1969-81 and the University of Calgary since 1981. Made major research contributions in the area of inventory and production, in particular through the development of reasonable and implementable solutions to difficult practical problems (e.g. the Silver Meal heuristic), thus contributing to improved practice in many organizations." |
1989 |
John Buzacott |
1988 |
Michael Florian |
1987 |
K. J. Radford |
1986 |
John Roberts |
1985 |
John Gratwick |
1984 |
George Lindsey |
1983 |
Omond Solandt |
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