Opportunities for Visiting Scholars
The Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at WPI has initiated a visiting scholars program in system dynamics. Selected scholars and practitioners in the field are invited to spend a sojourn at WPI to collaborate with the SSPS faculty on research in social and business policy, using behavioral modeling and computer simulation. The program is open to both foreign and local scholars.
The Visiting Scholars Program complements the SSPS Department's recent initiative in developing a new degree program in System Dynamics and has already drawn considerable attention from interested practitioners of system dynamics.
Inquiries about the program should be sent to Professor Khalid Saeed.
Recent Visiting Scholars
Our first visiting scholar, Alexander Ryzhenkov, joined the program in March 1999. Dr. Ryzhenkov works with the Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Russia. He is a well-known system dynamics scholar, concentrating on sustainable economic development and the privatization of the Russian economy. His visit to WPI was supported by the World Society Foundation, Switzerland.
Dr. Akira Uchino from Senshu University in Japan, spent a year with the department, working with department faculty on developing curricula for teaching system dynamics in Japan.
Dr. Lee Peng Tan, Associate Professor at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, spent four months with the department, researching the dynamic effects of trade liberalization on developing countries, a system dynamics simulation analysis.
Prof. Lyle Mitchell, a faculty member at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, worked on furthering System Dynamics models of revolving loan funds for cooperative enterprises.
Dr. Charles Weed, professor of political science at Keene State College, Keene, NH, pursued his interest in integrating System Dynamics into the social science curriculum, and sought assistance in developing his teaching agenda.
Dr. Martin Simon, head of the physics department at Enge High School, Zurich, Switzerland, spent six months with the department working on developing curricula in physics and mathematics using system dynamics as pedagogy and acquiring deeper modeling skills.
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