Information and Decision Sciences
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by
Samu Thomas, BS ’16, has one piece of advice for UIC Business
students: find your area of interest and focus. Thomas works as an
IT consultant for Maven Wave Partners, where consultants like
himself help clients like Nike, US Foods, Bosch, and other familiar
names stay up to speed in the digital marketplace. Thomas found
this work–and the IDS degree that led to it–after a little
soul-searching of his own. “Early on in college, I was doing
electronic and communications engineering,” Thomas says....
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017 by
For Brandon Feld, BS ‘13, a regular day at the Googleplex involves
a mix of project management and writing code in SQL, Java, and
Python, a balance of duties Feld sought from the start, when he
enrolled as a freshman IDS major at UIC Business. “Before I came to
UIC, I was living in Northbrook, and trying to make a college
choice between Arizona, Iowa, and a few University of Illinois
campuses,” Feld says. Raised in a single-parent family, Feld said
the in-state tuition helped him narrow his...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 by
Karthik Sundar is a full-time MIS candidate graduating from UIC
Liautaud this year. Sundar earned his B.Tech in Communications
Engineering from SASTRA University in India, and has been working
in the security industry with the goal of moving into marketing and
CRM analytics. He recently interned for ADT, a leading provider of
security and automation solutions for homes and businesses in the
United States and Canada. Sundar sat down with our student writers
at the beginning of the Fall 2016...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by
If you haven't set your fall schedule, consider some of the
college’s special topics courses, which provide intensive study of
business topics not regularly covered in the course offerings. In
this post, we feature Professor Arslan-Ayaydin’s Islamic Banking
and Finance course and Professor Liotine’s Global Sourcing &
Logistics course. FIN 494: Islamic Banking and Finance A few years
ago, Professor Arslan-Ayaydin started looking into the steady
double-digit annual growth of the Islamic finance...
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Friday, June 3, 2016 by
On any given weekday, a handful of analysts are working in an
office above North Wacker Drive, collecting current data on over
200,000 railcars scattered across North America, the fleet of the
TTX Company. Freight is constantly in motion, and this means data
is constantly pouring in. Miranda Powell, a senior at UIC Business,
is one of the analysts who makes sense of it all. “A railcar goes
over alerts on the tracks, and we get data from each axle or
'truck' on each car,” says Powell. “Alerts...
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Monday, March 14, 2016 by
Many students underestimate the importance of building
relationships during their time in school. Liautaud students have
heard again and again and again the importance of building a
personal network during school and maintaining it into our careers.
The student organizations at UIC Business provide some of the best
opportunities for students to network and build lasting
friendships, but each student only has so much time to devote to
extracurriculars, and finding the right organization can be...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 by
The faculty of the Professional Development Program at UIC Business
are here to support all UIC students, whatever their area of
specialization. We offer the soft skills that help them stand out
among professionals in their fields. Self-awareness, self-control,
the ability to work in a team; these elements of professionalism
raise students above their peers both in job searches and in the
workforce. Our BA 100 and BA 220 Professional Development classes
are required for freshmen and sophomores...
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Monday, February 15, 2016 by
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Who we are You know those people who use free pizza to lure
audiences to their boring PowerPoint presentations? Or people who
waste hours at a conference table batting around buzzwords? We are
NOT them. We are the young consultants, coders and zealous geeks of
UIC Liautaud united against the boring misuse of pizza and of time.
What we do We organize events to help MIS students, MSBA students
and anyone from the information...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 by
Do Jeopardy! fans out there ever wonder what became of IBM Watson
after its 2011 game show victory? Far from simply resting on its
laurels, IBM Watson has been developed toward a wide range of
applications in the public and private sectors, including a number
of apps based in the Watson technology. The growth of IBM Watson
has also reached UIC Liautaud, where the Watson system and the
field of cognitive computing were the focus of Professor Aris
Ouksel’s graduate IDS course last fall. “Cognitive...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 by
I used to tell myself that once I got into business school I would
focus on marketing and marketing only. In meetings with my career
advisor, I was confident that after immersing myself in marketing
studies, I’d transition easily into a marketing career. He would
push back - a narrow focus on marketing might be inadequate, he'd
say, to a job market driven by demand for data skills. Fortunately
for me, Liautaud’s IDS courses were an option. I waded into IDS
last semester with an Introduction to...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by
During the 2015 fall semester, UIC Business undergrads and Liautaud
MIS students participated in student-business partnerships as part
of the UIC Business Center for Research in Information Management
(CRIM). Under the guidance of Professors Matt Liotine and John
Fyfe, students formed project teams through a process of resumé
review and grouping by skills and interests. Once formed, the teams
were paired with participating organizations. The organizations for
the fall semester were Complyse,...
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Friday, November 20, 2015 by
As UIC Business students knuckle down in the Fall ’15 homestretch,
a handful of students are working overtime on coursework that is
more than just coursework. Three teams of 2-3 students each have
partnered with area organizations to help them solve a range of
business problems, and their December deadlines are looming. These
student-business partnerships are a core program of the UIC
Business Center for Research in Information Management (CRIM). With
the help of faculty from the Department of...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Hello my UIC Ladies! I know that many of us just finished
swapping our resumes for company business cards
(http://blog.business.uic.edu/business-cards-101) from the
Business Career Center's Spring 2015 Career Fair! I hope many of
you had a chance to chat with lots of companies and hopefully snag
some interviews for spring/summer internships. As you're waiting
for that phone call/ follow-up email reply, you should start
thinking wardrobe REVAMP! "Gaby, why would we think that?"
Once those...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Bernard Gaytan, Class of 2016 Major: Information and Decision
Sciences Hometown: Elgin, IL What attracted you to UIC? What
attracted me most to UIC is its location. UIC is located in the
heart of Chicago, a very diverse city with many opportunies to
learn from other cultures and ethnicities. Also, UIC is a public
research university. Students are able to get a quality education
with a reasonable financial investment. Did you want to become a
business major before you started college? Yes, I...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Dear Graduating seniors: Each year the Business Alumni
Association throws a party in your honor. This is a great
opportunity to say celebrate your achievements! Join several
hundred of your classmates and fellow alumni as we honor your hard
work toward graduation and introduce you to the Business Alumni
Association and how you can remain involved as graduates. This is a
free event, but you do need to RSVP by Monday, May 12. Follow
the link for a quick registration. We hope to see you all...
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Monday, September 14, 2015 by
Sunny Shah Class of: 2014 Major: Information and Decision Sciences
Email: sshah210@uic.edu Internship Position Company: Cook County
Government Title of Position: Information Security Intern
Why did you choose your current position? I have been very
interested in cyber security throughout my college career and due
to the recent cyber-attacks on the news, it has become a very
important issue for the U.S. I think my internship is a great
starting point to see how companies combat cyber-attacks...
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Saturday, April 4, 2015 by
Alexandra Molina Class of: 2015 Major: Information Decision Science
Semester Full Time Co-Op Company: Monsanto Title of Position:
R&D IT Co-Op Why did you choose your current position? I chose
this position because I want to gain real-world experience in the
IT field before I graduate. Monsanto offers an extensive number of
options for IT co-ops that are engaged with important issues that
will impact the organization as a whole. This opportunity will give
me better chance in obtaining a...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by
Now that the semester is coming to an end, many of us are gauging
our success in our classes. We all want to know how that final is
going to help or hurt us. So we sleep little, eat the worst food,
and become an emotional mess once when the lovely week of finals
comes by. Last semester, however, has taught me an invaluable
lesson about studying and time management that actually has allowed
me to not feel those terrible symptoms of "end of the semester
disease" this semester. 1. I stopped...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014 by
The semester is almost over, and we all know that it is now time to
register for your Fall 2014 classes! Scheduling for the next
semester can be exciting, but it may also be a tad bit
overwhelming. This is why today, I have compiled some useful tips
for you to help create a schedule that works best for you!
- Make an appointment with your adviser. Many of us have already made our appointments with our adviser, but if you haven’t done so yet, then this is the first thing you should do! Academic...
Monday, November 25, 2013 by
Are you looking to study business at UIC, but still haven’t decided
on a major? Fear Not! UIC’s College of Business Administration has
six exceptional majors you can choose from. These majors include
Accounting, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, and
Information and Decision Sciences. Many students who apply
to the College of Business Administration either have a clear
vision on what career path they would like to pursue, or they are
not entirely sure. If you fall into the...
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