As a Textbook Affordability Champion, can you explain the role and responsibilities of this title, and how you plan to make textbooks more affordable for Embry-Riddle students? Open education makes higher education more affordable and democratic. The emphasis on textbooks is primarily during the education phase, but the knowledge of software is lifelong. Each business task requires different software, and various companies utilize distinct software. Being a software expert limits you in the job market, but being an analytics expert enables you to use multiple tools to address business challenges and prepares students for diverse roles in analytics leadership. For that reason, we are teaching the most demanded software and skills but not limiting students with these constraints. Can you share why textbook affordability is important to you? I believe I can help people by helping them reach social mobility through their career in analytics, and making this education affordable and inclusive can be done through open education and textbook affordability. Can you share some success stories or feedback from students who have benefited from the textbook affordability initiatives you’ve been involved in? Business Analytics alumni have been so successful that most of them got job offers as data scientists and business analysts even before their graduation from such Fortune 500 companies as Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Chase and the U.S. Air Force, just to mention a few. What strategies or approaches do you employ to actively seek out and adopt open or affordable resources, and how do you encourage others to follow your lead in this regard? Advocate for open education at departmental and institutional levels. Offer e-book solutions. Employ dynamic information sources, such as academic databases and institutional repositories. Teach students how to use academic databases and open-access repositories, datasets and large language models such as ChatGPT to conduct research. Teach students how to use forums and communities such as StackExchange.
Dr. Burak Cankaya has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Lamar University, an M.S. in Technology Project Management from the University of Houston and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Karadeniz Technical University. Before joining Embry-Riddle as an assistant professor, Dr. Cankaya was a senior operations research analyst at NetJets, an industry-leading Berkshire-Hathaway- owned private jet company. He has previous industry and research experience in transportation and energy. His passion is analytics, operations research and data science. He has published numerous articles in the aviation analytics field and has received grants from Embry-Riddle, Google and the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as awards from Embry-Riddle, INFORMS and the Project Management Institute. He has been named Faculty of the Year, Best Teaching Faculty and Best Research Faculty by the college. Cankaya played a significant role in building the B.S. in Business Analytics degree, which is textbook independent and software agnostic. He was recognized as a Textbook Affordability Champion for his contributions to this degree.
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