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The aim of this talk is to develop the ideas that teaching, research and industry relations are complementary. By industry relations, I mean interacting with industry, selecting research problems of interest to industry, and writing for the industry audience. I will use two personal examples of the linkage between the three areas. The first example, in the domain of workforce scheduling, developed from my dissertation and main research agenda pre-tenure. That lead to a complex scheduling black-box program I created for a large hospitality company, a primer series of four industry-oriented reports, and to material that I still use in class. The second example, restaurant operations optimization, was driven by an Excel®-based simulation model I created for an undergraduate class. The evolved into a research tool which lead to 13 academic papers and 9 industry-focused reports and tools. I will show a short demo of the current version of the teaching simulator, which continues to evolve as students use it in class.
