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SAS Academic Program Business School Newsletter - Winter 2005/2006 Edition
The SAS Academic Program would like to take the opportunity to wish all our subscribers a Happy New Year and a great start to 2006! In this issue we feature student experiences and projects from around the world and will highlight our student-specific offerings through our global Academic Program. Enjoy the newsletter, send us your questions, suggestions and feedback, and share the newsletter with your friends, colleagues and fellow students. Your Academic Program Team
Thought leadership: When Knowledge is PowerIn 2005 SAS celebrated "25 years in Europe". Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO, founder and owner of SAS, and Art Cooke, President of SAS International, SAS customers, and employees celebrated SAS' birth in Europe in the UK. Read this interview to learn from SAS thought leaders about the SAS success story and how SAS provides every major industry and company with The Power to Know®. Read More
SPOTLIGHT ON: SAS Student Intern Michael DrutarMeet Michael Drutar. He's new to SAS as an employee, but he's not new to the SAS Education and Medical Practice, where he spent just over eight months as a SAS administrative student, working on the SAS Scholars Digital Library of Analytics. As an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, Drutar majored in mathematics with a statistics minor, spending much of his time running computer simulations and searching through lines of code, data sets, and graphs. Early on, he says, it became apparent that SAS was not only a useful number-crunching tool but also a computing language that seemed to be recurring in several classes. Drutar recalls attending one class where he heard a student ask an instructor, "Why do I need to learn SAS?" The answer was short, to the point, and true: "In the working world, SAS can get you more money." Events like this were more than enough incentive for Drutar to learn about SAS whenever he could!Drutar also put in time working for the NC State Statistics Department. Talking to professors and PhD students during this time greatly enforced the importance of being 'SAS-savvy' as academic careers progress, Drutar says. It was during this stretch of employment that Drutar first got wind of a student opportunity in the SAS Education and Medical Practice. After professors in the Statistics Department encouraged him to apply, he did, and the rest, as they say, is history. Read More
Student Offering: SAS Fellowship ProgramThe SAS Fellowship Program provides access to SAS for cutting edge student research.Are you a student looking to use SAS for your cutting-edge research - your thesis, PhD or a special project? The SAS Fellowship Program might be just what you are looking for! The SAS Fellowship Program has been offered outside the Americas for several years, and undergraduate, master and doctoral students from the United States, Latin America and Canada now are eligible to apply to participate. Launched in the Americas officially in January 2006, the SAS Fellowship Program gives students the opportunity to use the world's leading analytic and business intelligence software for research purposes by granting a free limited software license and access to SAS technical support. At the end of the fellowship, students will submit their papers to SAS, which seeks to grow the body of knowledge in the use of analytics. Students interested in participating should submit an application packet containing an abstract of their research, a project plan, letter(s) of recommendation and an application to the program. Specific details of the program may vary depending on your region. A limited number of students will be accepted to the program at any given time. If you are interested in applying to become a SAS Fellowship student, please contact your local Academic Program Manager, or send us an e-mail.
Student Offering: SAS Student Ambassador CompetitionSAS Student Ambassador Competition Now Extended to Students in the AmericasToday's students are on the cutting edge of research, with the freedom and opportunity to pioneer new ways to use SAS and an intense drive to distinguish themselves from their peers. The Student Ambassador Competition began five years ago at SAS Forum International for students from Europe, Middle East & Africa as well as Asia Pacific. The annual SAS Users Group International (SUGI ) hosted in the Americas is a conference to encourage idea-sharing among users and SAS staff from around the world. It seemed only natural to link students with SUGI, so the SAS Student Ambassador Competition was extended to the Americas! The SAS Student Ambassador Competition, which is designed to recognize and support student researchers who use SAS technologies in innovative ways to benefit their respective industries and fields of study, officially launched in the Americas in August 2005. The competition called for students to submit their research papers, and submissions were received from the United States, Brazil, Chile and Canada. Five winners were chosen, and they will have their expenses paid to present their research at SUGI 31, scheduled for March 26-29 in San Francisco, California. The Student Ambassadors will have the opportunity to meet with business leaders and specialists from every industry and sector as well as SAS experts to discuss real business challenges and solutions. The winners represent the following schools: the University of South Carolina, the University of Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and the University of Louisville, which produced two winners. Since its inception, the student presentations have proven to be extremely popular with SAS customers. Many Student Ambassadors have even received job offers as a result of attending SAS Forum International, partly because SAS skills are in such high demand and also because the students presented their complex research topics in an exceptionally professional manner. For more information on the SAS Student Ambassador Competition, please refer to the SAS Student Ambassador Competition Web site or send us an email. Or, if you plan to attend SUGI or SAS Forum International, stop by the SAS booth for information on each of the Student Ambassadors. And if you happen to spot a SAS Student Ambassador at either conference, be sure to offer your congratulations on winning this prestigious award!
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford - MBA Experience at SAS UKAs part of its strategic consulting programme for MBA students Oxford's Saïd Business School worked with SAS to develop a vendor-neutral model for the Total Cost of Ownership of business intelligence suites. As part of the academic requirements for their degree, MBA students from Saïd Business School developed the model, which will be validated through research into organisations that have already installed business intelligence software from a number of different vendors. Follow the students' progress through their weekls web diary.Read More
International Management Institute, India Fosters Global Leadership Competencies With SASEstablished in 1981, the International Management Institute (IMI), India was launched in collaboration with IMI Geneva (today known as IMD Lausanne, Switzerland). Strategically aligning itself with the needs of global industry, the Institute has benefited from international alliances with Manchester Business School, U.K.; Rennes International School of Business, France; and the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. According to Dr. Himadri Das, professor at IMI, India, "We were looking for a business intelligence solution that could be used to teach MBA students applications of data mining on large amounts of historical business data. SAS fit the bill very well in terms of functionality offered in the data mining space." The introduction of SAS in the curriculum was made to equip MBA students with a strong grounding in not only the theory of business intelligence but also its applications.Read More
News: "A Day In The Box" The Varsity Match - Oxford versus Cambridge.
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The Global Forum on Management Education was held October 19-21, 2005 in Santiago, Chile with a theme of Redefining Management Education in a Globalized and Technology-Driven World Redefining Management Education in a Globalized and Technology-Driven World. Hosted by the Council of Latin American Management Schools (CLADEA), it brought together 350 management educators from 46 different countries interested in exchanging best practices, developing partnerships, and networking with colleagues. Dr. Mark Milliron, Vice President of the Education and Medical Practice at SAS, Inc.(shown in the photo, along with Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Director of the Academic Program of the Americas), spoke during the session entitled Technology Innovation in Management Education, and talked about how increasingly companies are interested in the kind of insight business intelligence software provides and the necessity of teaching business students how to be prepared for this reality. He also led a session on business intelligence during CLADEA's annual conference, which began the day after the Global Forum in the same location. In addition, SAS was a silver sponsor and exhibited during both events, staffing the booth with representatives from SAS' Academic Program from Brazil, Chile, the United Kingdom, and the US.
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