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Department of Management Sciences
Faculty listed in 1972–73
Donald J. Clough, B.A.Se. (Toronto), M.B.A. (Toronto)
S.D. Saleh, B.A. (Cairo), M.A., Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve) EA. Silver, B. Eng. (McGill), Sc.D. (M.I.T.)
K.D. Mackenzie, 4.B. (U.C. at Berkeley), Ph.D. (U.C. at Berkeley) S.S. Sengupta, M.A., D.Phil. (Calcutta)
Irwin Bernhardt, B.A. (N.Y.U.), Ph.D. (U.C. at Berkeley)
F.E. Burke, B.A. (London)
Faculty listed in 1972–73
D.W. Conrath, 4.B. (Stanford), M.A. (U.C. of Berkeley), M.S. (Carnegie Tech), Ph.D. (U.C. at Berkeley)
W.P. McReynolds, B.A.Sc. (Toronto), M.Sc. (U.B.C.), Ph.D. (Toronto) K.J. Radford, M.A. (Cantab), FSS (UK)
J.B. Moore, B.A.Sc. (Toronto), M.Math., Ph.D. (Waterloo) M. Saltsman, M.P.
N. Bernhardt, 4.B. (Reed) L.G. Fisher, B. Math (Waterloo)
Activities and Scope
The Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering was established in 1969, as a graduate department and has recently extended its activities to undergraduate programmes.
The present activities of the department are: (1) the pursuit of advanced research in selected fields of the management sciences, (2) the provision of post-graduate courses of instruction for people who want to achieve high professional qualifications, and (3) the provision of undergraduate courses in the management sciences for students registered in the Faculty of Engineering.
Active faculty engagement in advanced research as well as experience in professional practice is considered essential to the development of adequate courses of instruction. The boundaries between pure research, applied research and professional practice become indistinct when the aim is to discover imaginative new ways to solve complex management problems. The research activities of the faculty members fall into three major categories: operations research, applied economics, and organizational behaviour. A major aim of the Department is to strengthen and develop these major fields of study.
Undergraduate Programmes
At the present time, the Department offers a minor programme consisting of a package of four MS courses for students registered in any undergraduate programme in the Faculty of Engineering. The main objectives of this minor programme are to provide an awareness of the nature of managerial problems, to present some of the issues, concepts, and techniques related to these problems and to motivate the students to
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learn the scientific approaches to management. Although the courses emphasize practical problems, rigorous theoretical and conceptual approaches are presented. The structure of the four course package is based on the appreciation of the complexity of management problems and the importance of being introduced to the different principles, considerations, and approaches of tackling them. In a programme of this nature, it is considered advantageous to have an overall appreciation of the nature of the problems rather than dealing, in some depth, with only a few of them. Therefore, the minor programme is intended to introduce several approaches and different considerations in relation to managerial decision making. Enrolment in these courses will start in term 3B and will be primarily for students who will take all four courses offered.
Course Descriptions
(2 hours lecture and one hour lab per week)
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MSCI 406 Managerial Decision Making 1
The nature and context of managerial decision making. Elementary introduction to utility theory. Basic probability theory; review of important concepts. Strategies for decision. Criteria for decisions, including multiple objectives. Brief introduction to optimization. Examples from management problems.
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MSCI 407 Managerial Decision Making 2
Introduction to mathematical programming: linear programming, transportation, assignment and network models, dynamic programming. Examples from engineering management problems. Information requirements and problems for managers. Management information systems. Simulation studies.
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MSCI 405 Managerial Economics
The course is designed to give the student an appreciation of the usefulness of basic concepts from economics in managerial decision making. Topics considered will include costs, costs as foregone opportunities, accounting definition of cost, production as a process in time relating costs to benefits.
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MSCI 404 Organizational Behaviour
The course presents a systematic approach to the study of human behaviour in organizations. It synthesizes different concepts and findings from the behavioural sciences and shows their applications to business. More specifically the course deals with some manpower problems, i.e., selection, training, control, and motivation problems; with interpersonal and small group behaviour, norms and values, leadership and authority, and with organizational structure and change.
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