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Management Sciences (MSCI)

9 courses in the 1993–94 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.

MSCI 211 Organizational BehaviourF,W,S 3C,1T 0.5

Introduction to the concepts of leaming, 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. Antireq: PSYCH 333 or 338

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MSCI 251 Probability and Statistics 1F,W 3C 0.5

Axiomatic development of probability. Conditional probability, Bayes’ Theorem and independence. Discrete and continuous random variables. Special cases of uniform, binomial, Poisson, and normal mathematical expectation. Derived distributions. Sampling from normal populations. Estimating parameters and testing hypotheses.

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MSCI 261 Managerial and Engineering Economics 1F,W,S 3C,1T 0.5

This course is designed to satisfy Engineering Economics requirements of the Canadian Accreditation Board. Price and output decisions. Choosing among altemative inputs and production processes. Evaluating altemative investments, equipment service life, and new products.

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MSCI 311 Organizational Design and TechnologyF,W 3C 0.5

The focus of this course is on the procedures and variables involved in the design and redesign of organizations. issues such as departmentation, differentiation, integration, internal politics, innovation, authority and control are discussed in the context of the underlying technology of the organization. Emphasis will be placed on how one designs both the technical and the organizational systems to ensure their compatibility, noting the effects that one has on the other.

Prereq: M SCI 211 or PSYCH 338

MSC! 331 F,W,S 3C 0.5

Operations Research 1

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.

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MSCI 431 Operations Research 2W 3C 0.5

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, reli-

ability, equipment replacement, mainte-

nance, design of service facilities, etc. Prereq: M SCi 251 or equivalent and

M SCI 331

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MSCI 432 Introduction to Production ManagementF,W,S 3C 0.5

Introduction to a number of problem areas in the management of productiorvindustrial engineering. Topics chosen from production planning and inventory control, planning/control of large projects, quality

Course Descriptions

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MSCI 441 Management of Information SystemsW 3C 0.5

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.

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MSCI 452 Decision Making Under UncertaintyW 3C,1T 0.5

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 Antireq: SY DE 334

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MSCI 461 Managerial and Engineering Economics 2S,F 3C,1T 0.5

The course is concerned with cost minimizing choices of inputs to production. Topics to be considered are: production functions and cost functions; the relation between “size” and unit cost; labour inputs, labour as a quasi-fixed input; productivity measurement; learning-by-doing; capital inputs, investment rules, capacity decisions under scale economies. Prereq: M SCI 261 or equivalent

Mathematics (See also Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization, Computer Science, Mathematics Electives, Pure Mathematics, Statistics.) Undergraduate Office MC 5115, ext. 3905 Some first-year MATH courses have been renumbered. The chart below identifies the renumbered courses and shows the present first-year MATH course offerings: Subject 92/93 Calendar 93/94 Calendar Unchanged Title Calculus 1 MATH 106 (deleted) Mathematics for Kinesiology

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