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2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MGMT 308 - Introduction to Management Science

(3 credits)
An introductory course surveying popular management science and operations research techniques and their application in contemporary business and economics environments. Topics include mathematical modeling, linear programming (the graphical, simplex, and computer algorithmic approaches); the transportation, assignment, and transshipment problems; integer programming using branch and bound techniques; network algorithms (shortest-route, minimal spanning tree, and maximum flow problems); the program evaluation review technique (PERT) and critical path method (CPM) analysis. Queuing theory and computer simulation analysis are also studies. Prerequisites: MATH 111  or MATH 130 , STAT 101  or STAT 301 . as needed