ABSTRACT
Since 2002, the Transportation and Logistics Society in the University of North Florida's Coggin College of Business has annually conducted Career Day, which in recent years has included over 200 one-on-one, 25-minute interviews conducted between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. during a single day. In 2007, Career Day involved 16 firms and 42 participating students, with each firm given 13 interview slots — creating 208 interview slots over the day — and each student getting as many as five interviews. In the past, the interview schedule was manually generated by a committee of students and faculty, necessitated 10+ hours to complete, inadvertently created occasional time conflicts for students and/or firms, and was sub-optimal in terms of firm and student preferences. In 2007, a pure binary integer linear program was employed, which assured no time conflicts for participants, optimized the combined preferences of interviewers and students, and constructed the schedule in three seconds.
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B. Jay Coleman
B. Jay Coleman (PhD, Industrial Management, Clemson University, USA) is the Richard deRaismes Kip Professor of Operations Management and Quantitative Methods in the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida. Dr. Coleman's research on the quantitative modeling of managerial decisions has been published in Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Industrial Relations, Production and Inventory Management Journal, and Computers and Operations Research, among others.
Yemisi Bolumole
Yemisi A. Bolumole (PhD, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield University, UK) is Associate Professor of Logistics in the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida. Dr. Bolumole's research on logistics and supply chain management has been published in Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Logistics Management, Transportation Journal, and Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing.
Robert Frankel
Robert Frankel (PhD, Marketing and Logistics, Michigan State University, USA) is the Richard deRaismes Kip Professor of Marketing and Logistics in the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida. Dr. Frankel's research on logistics and supply chain management has been published in Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Supply Chain Management Review, among others.