The Center for Business Analytics (CBA) at the Milgard School of Business hosted the 3rd Annual Student-as-Adaptive Innovators – Applied Project Showcase on June 5, 2020. Our Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) students utilize advanced strategic thinking, operational excellence, complex problem solving, creativity, and teamwork skills to tackle organizational challenges by co-creating value-added services over our twelve month program. The culmination of students’ hard work is showcased through demo/poster style sessions open to public viewing. Each team is represented and able to discuss the analytics methodology followed to co-create the digital solution, specifically highlighting the tools and techniques they used to discover, plan, develop and deploy their working prototype analytics solutions.
In the last 3 years, 141 MSBA students have worked with a diverse range of industry partners including: Boeing, CHI Franciscan Health, City of Tacoma, Columbia Bank, Communities in Schools of Tacoma, Costco Wholesale, Data Central US Corp., Delta Airlines, EDB of Tacoma, Harbor Wholesale Foods, IBM, Metro Parks of Tacoma, Metropolitan Appliance, Microsoft, Regional Healthcare Organization, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport WA, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Providence St. Joseph Health, Sound Credit Union, South Sound Military & Communities Partnership , Stellar Industrial Supply, Tacoma Power, Tacoma Public Schools, TCS World Travel, Turnover Intelligence, WA State Department of Natural Resources, Hyundai Capital of America.
This year (During AY 19-20), two cohorts of 76 MSBA student consultants are working on 19 projects with 19 different organizations including CHI Franciscan, Communities in Schools of Tacoma, Costco Whole Sale, Delta Air Lines INC., Harbor Wholesale Foods, Inc., IBM, Metropolitan Appliance, Regional Healthcare Organization, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport, Point Defiance Zoo, Providence St Joseph Health, Sound Credit Union, South Sound Military & Communities Partnership, Stellar Industrial Supply, Tacoma Power, Tacoma Public Schools, TCS World Travel, Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Hyundai Capital of America.
Attendees of the showcase were asked to vote for the best project in each of the four YouTube channels streaming their presentations for the day. We received 290 votes and the winners for best projects this year are the following teams:
Channel 1 – Team A5 – A Large Healthcare Organization in the Pacific Northwest
- Yashika Jain
- Moulika Balaram
- Richa Rajpal Das
- Michael Turek
- Sai Sindhura Poosarla
Channel 2 – Team A8 – TCS World Travel
- Sonika Vijaykumar
- Rathana San
- Junjun Mo
Channel 3 – Team B1 – Costco Wholesale
- Aleyn Murray
- Rob Rush
- Shyamalaa Sathyamurthy
- Kirsta Marth
Channel 4 – Team B7 – Metropolitan Appliance
- Amarjot Kaur
- Barani Bhoopalan
- Jashandeep Singh
- Sharmistha Ghosh
Please join me in congratulating our winners of the showcase presentations.
You can see all of the project teams and their posters on our website here.
You can contact me at helsem@uw.edu if you’d like to have a student team work on a project for your organization. Proposals are due on June 15, 2020
Blog Post Contributed by Michael Helser, Ph.D. – Milgard Center for Business Analytics
