Description
Prerequisite(s): MA 1025.
Provides foundational skills for exploring unstructured business problems. Covers techniques to approach decision making in a systematic manner, enabling students to become more comfortable in handling tasks or projects that are not initially well defined. Methods include Linear and Integer Programming, Transportation, Transshipment, and Assignment Problems, Goal Programming, AHP Modeling, Network Flow Modeling, Multicriteria Decision Making, Nonlinear Programming, Simulation building and testing, Queuing Analysis, Inventory Management and Forecasting (such as spreadsheets and visualization software).