{"id":175,"date":"2020-07-06T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:46:10","slug":"about-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/about-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>The Metropolitan College (MET) Decision Sciences Research Lab is a collaboration among MET faculty and graduate students.\u00a0 Our aim is to enhance the education of MET students through their participation in applied research projects.\u00a0 \u00a0With students studying a variety of fields, we are able to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to our research.\u00a0 Most of the projects involve an aspect of decision making, often in the context of manufacturing and service supply chains and healthcare organizations.\u00a0 The role of risk and uncertainty in decision making is usually an important aspect of our work.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>The Lab\u2019s faculty are committed to creating a collaborative environment that values the knowledge and hard work of MET students.\u00a0 We appreciate that students can make important contributions both technically and by offering new perspectives.\u00a0 We especially appreciate the multi-cultural nature of our students.\u00a0 We strive to allow for the free flow of information while maintaining a respectful, yet informal, atmosphere within the laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>MET is one of the 17 Boston University Schools, with faculty located on the Charles River Campus in Boston, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Most of our students are enrolled in programs that lead to Master of Science degrees in applied fields.\u00a0 Students taking part in research have majors such as <a href=\"https:\/\/bumetprograms.bu.edu\/scm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supply chain management<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/programs\/graduate\/enterprise-risk-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enterprise risk management<\/a>, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>This site highlights our people, and the projects we have completed and those on which we are currently working.\u00a0 In all of our projects, we seek opportunities to disseminate results through local, regional, and international conference presentations, poster presentations, and academic journal articles.\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Photo Courtesy of Danqi Lu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan College (MET) Decision Sciences Research Lab is a collaboration among MET faculty and graduate students.\u00a0 Our aim is to enhance the education of MET students through their participation in applied research projects.\u00a0 \u00a0With students studying a variety of fields, we are able to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to our research.\u00a0 Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18030,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/met-dslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}