9 courses in the 1990–91 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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Management Sciences
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Introduction to the concepts of learning, person perception, attitudes and motivation in an organization. Consideration of communication, roles, norms and decision making within a group. Discussion of power, control, leadership and management in light of the above concepts.
Axiomatic development of probability. Conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem and independence. Discrete and continuous random variables. Special cases of uniform, binominal, Poisson, and normal mathematical expectation. Derived distributions. Sampling from normal populations. Estimating parameters and testing hypotheses.
Economics 1 . This course is designed to satisfy Engineering Economics requirements of the Canadian Accreditation Board. Price and output decisionse Choosing among alternative inputs and production processes. Evaluating alternative investments, equipment service life, and new products.
Macro theories of organization and organizational processes are discussed. First half of course examines the development of organizational theories. The second haif discusses organizational processes such as conflict and communication control. Throughout, an effort is made to relate course material to organizational structures.
Prereq: M SCI 211
The Operations Research approach to problem solving. Deterministic mathematical programming including linear programming, transportation method, assignment problem, network methods, and dynamic programming. Elements of deterministic inventory models.
Classification of stochastic processes. Recurrent events including birth and death processes, and branching processes. Waiting line models and applications. Markov processes and decision problems. Applications include inventory control, reliability, equipment * replacement, maintenance, design of service facilities, etc. , Prereq: M SCi 251 or equivalent and M SCI 331
Introduction to a number ot problem areas in the management of production/industrial engineering. Topics chosen trom production planning and inventory control, planning/ control of large projects, quality control, reliability/maintenance, facilities layout, job design, production standards and work measurement. °
Prereq: M SCI 331
Structures, functions and processes of development of computer hardware.
Software and databases for the - management of information. Concepts
of information, humans as information processors, information management concepts, introduction to information systems analysis.
MSC! 452 W 2C,1T 0.5
Decision Making Under Uncertainty Review of probability, distribution theory, and classical statistical inference methods. Linear statistical models, analysis of variance, regression. Bayesian analysis, contingent decision making, value of information.
’ utility and risk.
Prereq: M SCI 251 or equivalent
Economics 2 : The course is concerned with cost mininizing choices of inputs to production. Topics to be considered are: production functions and cost functions; the relation between “size” and unit cost; labour Nputs, labour as a quasi-fixed input; oroductivity measurement; learning-bydoing; capital inputs, investment rules, capacity decisions under scale economies. - .
Prereq: M SCI 261 or equivalent
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