Omega Rho

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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.

FoundedApril 1, 1976; 49 years ago (1976-04-01)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
TypeHonor
Affiliation
StatusActive
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Omega Rho
ΩΡ
FoundedApril 1, 1976; 49 years ago (1976-04-01)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
TypeHonor
Affiliation
StatusActive
EmphasisOperations research and management science
ScopeNorth America
MottoAd Optimum per OMEGA RHO®
Colors  Blue and   Red
SymbolSaddle projection and tapered arrow
Chapters38
Members181 active
8,069+ lifetime
Headquarters5521 Research Park Drive, Suite 200
Catonsville, Maryland 21228
United States
Websiteconnect.informs.org/omegarho/home
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History

Omega Rho was founded at 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 University 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]

Symbols

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®.

Membership

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]

Activities

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.

Chapters

Following is a list of Omega Rho chapters.[5][8]

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Charter date and range Institution Location Status Ref.
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 Buffalo, 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
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Notable members

Collegiate and faculty members

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Steven Nahmias Professor of operations management at Santa Clara University
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Honorary members

Following are some of Omega Rho's honorary members.[10]

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Name Initiation date Notability Ref.
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 Çınlar 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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