Mini-Sourcing Contest :)

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It’s been a while since I ran the last sourcing contest. Here is a new one. Try your sourcing and research skills!

The first person to email me the correct answer will be eligible to take the Sourcing Certification Exam in July or August 2014 (their choice; the fee waved) and, as usual, will be featured on the Boolean Network.

Read on.

A good friend of mine is a tour guide in Moscow, Russia. She loves to take photos. Yesterday she sent me a photo of a cool-looking car, brought along by American travelers, whom she was helping to get around during their visit.

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I was curious about the visitors.

It turns out that one of the people riding in that car is a woman with an interesting professional background. In the past she used to be a flight test pilot in USAF and spent hundreds of hours in the air. She has other accomplishments too – including several college-level degrees.

The Contest Question: In what year did she get her PhD and what was the title of her PhD thesis?

Deadline: July 2, 2014 (closed if not solved by then).

Tip: you do not need to locate my friend and ask her for any information to find the answer. Google will do the job.

When I receive the correct answer, I will update the post.

Best of luck!

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Update:

Hey All – nice work! I have received the correct answer – which is found by first Googling the car license plate – from several people. You can find more information about the car in this video and an interesting report on the same site about the tour. The rest is also done by Googling. 🙂

The first person to send me the correct answer was Vidhya Lingappan of Roland & Associates, a company in India that has many excellent researchers, some of whom I have met “virtually”.

Roland himself has achieved the Advanced People Sourcing Certification and is listed among experts on our site.

Congratulations! Vidhya solved it together with a coworker, Siva, so it was a “team” effort.

More to come!

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  1. Lisa Kearney got her PhD in 2008 and the title of her thesis was”Examining Burnout of Part 121 Air Transport Pilots”

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      1. Col. Catherine “Cady” Coleman, Ph.D – She received her PhD in 1991 on “Polymer Synthesis Using the Olefin Metathesis Reaction, and Polymer surface Modification”

  2. Hi,

    I think the Answer is Eileen Bjorkman PHD 2012
    Title”Test and Evaluation Resource Allocation Using Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure
    of Test Value”

  3. – Eileen Bjorkman

    – PhD, Systems Engineering: – 2012 Test and Evaluation Resource Allocation Using Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure of Test Value (The George Washington University)

  4. Eileen Bjorkman
    The George Washington University
    PhD, Systems Engineering
    she got her PhD in 2012
    Thesis Title:
    Test and Evaluation Resource Allocation Using Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure
    of Test Value

  5. No, it was Eileen Bjorkman. PhD in Systems Engineering in 2012. Her dissertation title was “Test and Evaluation Resource Allocation Using Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure
    of Test Value “.

    Easy peazy, lemon squeezey.

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      Yeah… The correct answer was supposed to be emailed to me though 🙂 Good luck next time – the next one will not be as easy as this, I promise!

  6. Elmira College awarded Eileen Collins an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the college’s 148th Commencement Ceremony on June 4, 2006.

  7. Eileen A. Bjorkman graduated from the school of engineering and applied science of The George Washington University with Doctor of Philosophy as of Aug 6, 2012. Her dissertation was titled Test and Evaluation Resource Allocation Using Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure of Test Value.

    Check out her blog! – http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3D6VKT743&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&u=http://worldautotour.com/&usg=ALkJrhjpMMJ3L_LgEYUSxo3zRmYUN77Y9A

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  8. She got her PhD in 2012 from The George Washington University and her thesis was titled: “Test and Evaluation Resource Allocation Using Uncertainty Reduction as a Measure of Test Value”

  9. Col. Catherine “Cady” Coleman, Ph.D – She received her PhD in 1991 on “Polymer Synthesis Using the Olefin Metathesis Reaction, and Polymer surface Modification”

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  11. Late for a date here…sorry guys. Irina, when will the next one be? I am itching to win another contest or two 🙂

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