In the first week of period five SCOPE | Vectum organized the yearly Case Day in Maastricht again! The Case Day offered a remarkable opportunity to get to know four companies in the fields of Econometrics, Operations Research and Actuarial Sciences. This was the perfect timing for such an event, as many of the students in Vectum had already begun job hunting for once they graduated this year!
For this year’s Case Day, the companies CBS, Districon, Pipple and RiskQuest made their way to the south of the Netherlands to present themselves and challenge the students to try and solve some cases. Early on the Thursday morning the members of Vectum turned up in the SBE, looking both dashing and smart in their formal clothes. The morning started off with everyone picking up a name tag, which would reveal which companies you were assigned to.
With excitement buzzing all around, people started to head to their designated rooms to attend the first two cases of the day. CBS and RiskQuest both hosted morning cases, which commenced once the rooms were filled. During CBS’ case, they showed how they conduct a census which happens every 10 years; and they we were challenged to come up with ways to fill in missing data. Alongside this, RiskQuest presented their case, which dealt with risk models in the financial sector. Each team presented their takes on the problems in short presentations, and after that we headed to a wonderful lunch. We got to have our lunch while talking to the different company representatives; a great opportunity to ask questions about the companies and the working environment.
After lunch, we headed back to the SBE for our second case, which was presented by either Pipple or Districon. Pipple presented a very interesting case on machine learning; having us attempting to create some form of an evolutionary program. While complicated, the actual case was very interesting and had many of us research the field independently later on in the day. Districon presented a case focused more on logistics. The case had everyone highly engaged, with discussions on the problem continuing even past the allocated case day time.
All in all, it was a great day! A big thank you to the External Affairs committee for organising this amazing day!