Information and Decision Sciences Department
Welcome to the Department of Information and Decision Sciences homepage. The IDS Department offers graduate and undergraduate courses
in Computer Information Systems (CIS), Production/Operations Management (POM), and Quantitative Methods in Business (QMB).
The Department of Information and Decision Sciences Mission is to provide the highest quality of education to the citizens of El Paso and
the West Texas region and is in line with the mission of the College of Business Administration. In support of The University of Texas
efforts, The Department provides a wide access to quality higher education which allows our graduates to be competitive in the job market
in the fields of Production and Operations Management and Computer Information Systems.
Recent Highlights
2012 COBA Teaching and Research Awards
Excellence In Graduate Instruction
Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhyay
Excellence In Undergraduate Instruction by a Ph.D Student
Aurelia Donald
Excellence In Undergraduate Instruction
Rajesh Tahiliani
Wenming Chung
Operations and Supply Chain Management Research Award
"Price Markdown Scheme in a Multi-Echelon Supply Chain in a High-Tech Industry"
European Journal of Operational Research
Kallol K. Bagchi, Peeter J. Kirs and Godwin J. Udo
Information and Decision Sciences Department Research Award
"Using SERVQUAL to Assess the Quality of E-learning Experience"
Computers in Human Behavior
October 2011
Fernando Parra awarded Best Student Paper at the International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB) Conference San Francisco 2011 for his paper
On A Firm's Core Competency through Information Systems: A Meta-Analysis.
August 2011
Dr. Himanshu Shee from Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia) visited COBA and the IDS department to share his research and define collaborative research projects.
June 2011
Dr. Jose Ablanedo visited Yiwu City (China) known as the “world supermarket”. He joined researchers from Zhejiang Normal University and investigated the new business model that arose in Yiwu. This research will appear in the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management.
Summer 2011
Dr. Jose Ablanedo is invited to present his research at Zhejiang Gongshang University and Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics located in Hangzhou, the capitol city of Zhejiang Province, China
April 2011
Dr. Laura Hall awarded for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction by the Business College Council
April 2011
Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhay awarded the 2011 Best IDS Department Graduate Teaching Faculty by the Business College Council
December 2010
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October 2010
Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhay of the IDS Department and Rafael Gutierrez of Industrial Engineering Department, along with Professor Adriano Solis of York
University, Canada have won the prestigious conference wide best paper award at the International Conference on Modeling and Applied
Simulation, 2010, Morocco, MAS 2010 for their article Inventory Control Permformance of Various Forecasting Methos When Demand is Lumpy.
September 2010
Jose Ablanedo and his research colleagues Alex Ruiz-Torres and Johnny Ho published in OMEGA The
International Journal of Management Science.
June 2010
Dr. Godwin Udo receives the Best Paper Award at the 2010 Global Supply Chain Management Conference
Summer 2010
Dr. Jose Ablanedo is invited as a guest speaker at Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics (Hangzhou), Zhongyuan University of Technology (Zhengzhou),
and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai) for his work in supply chain and port logistics
January 2010
M. Adam Mahmood and his research colleagues published in the IEEE Computer Journal.
