Management Science

Catalog description

An introduction to management science techniques in order to facilitate quantitative reasoning as an aid for managerial decision making. Emphasis on developing analytical skills. Decision-making cases and problems presented with the aid of computers. Topics include linear programming (including modeling, computer solution and sensitivity analysis), assignment/transportation/transshipment problems, project management techniques (PERT/CPM), queuing models, simulation, inventory control models, decision theory, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Markov processes. Prereq: MATH 235, and BUSN 206 (306).