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MATH 615Management Decision-Making Laboratory

Level
Graduate
Faculty
Mathematics
Last listed
1968–69

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1968–69 (before that, 1963–64 to 1967–68 used the number for Group Characteristics and Representation Theory); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Participation in analysis, planning, and decision-making under competitive and fast-time stress using functional and industrial simulations. 618* and 619* People, Machines and Organizations. Interpersonal and group behaviour in systems of people and machines; phenomena of perception, communication, learning, decision-making, morale, conflict resolution, and goal-seeking. Problems in perceiving and modelling behaviour; the human factor in organization design. Function-oriented Courses 620.* Introduction to Marketing. Techniques in market research, product, and market analysis; modelling of consumer and industrial market behaviour; competitive strategy in marketing planning; distribution systems design; sales forecasting. Economics of information sampling and consumer surveys. 630.* Introduction to Production. Techniques of production planning and control; models of aggregate production and workforce, interaction of production and inventory control; scheduling algorithms. 632.* Operations Research in Processing Industries. Systems representation of single and multi-unit processing facilities, experiment design to measure system parameters; simulations including economic factors; sensitivity analysis, production planning and control; capital resource evaluation; process optimisation. 640.* and 642* Strategies of Research and Development. Review of factors influencing the effect of research and design on a business or national economy. Economic measurement; information flow; organization theory; psychology of discovery and innovation. Case histories of technological changes. 650.* Introduction to Information Processing. The nature of information as a product of complex systems; element and rule concepts; decision tables; document tracing; report generation; communication networks; data banks; decision-organization and work flow relationships; generalized study of the creation of an information system; nature and role of EDP in an information system; information retrieval. 652.* Advanced Information Processing. The nature of a system; system elements and relationships; structuring a business system; management objectives, organizational concepts; the information system; organizing a data processing centre; task force se- Management and Systems Engineering Programme lection and training, hardware selection; satellite computer systems; tele-processing; data linkages and sub-systems; the total system concept. 660.* Introduction to Corporate Finance. Capital Sources; investment psychology, strategic and probabilistic considerations in financial planning. 662.* Advanced Corporate Finance. 665.* Introduction to Corporate Law. Legal concepts as expressed in laws pertaining to company organizations, contracts, securities, and patents. Court administration and procedure. Information retrieval and O.R. applications in legal and legislative procedures. Advanced Methodology (Advanced Graduates) 680.* Advanced Stochastic models. Properties and characteristics of stochastic models, with emphasis on Markov and Poisson process, queuing theory models and applications. 682.* Network Methods. Advanced network methods, with maximal flow algorithms, as related to production control, plant location. 684.* Advanced Mathematical Programming. Review of non-linear, quadratic, and integer programming, also convex programming. Extension of linear programming with possibly non-linear objective functions and constraints; and integer solutions. 686.* Quantitative Economics and Econometrics. Local, regional and national economic planning for developing and industrial economies, using quantitative models. Advanced Integrative Courses (Advanced Graduates)

As printed in the 1968–69 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.

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    In the scanned calendars

    How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

    1968–69 1 calendar

    Participation in analysis, planning, and decision-making under competitive and fast-time stress using functional and industrial simulations.

    618* and 619* People, Machines and Organizations. Interpersonal and group behaviour in systems of people and machines; phenomena of perception, communication, learning, decision-making, morale, conflict resolution, and goal-seeking. Problems in perceiving and modelling behaviour; the human factor in organization design.

    Function-oriented Courses

    620.* Introduction to Marketing. Techniques in market research, product, and market analysis; modelling of consumer and industrial market behaviour; competitive strategy in marketing planning; distribution systems design; sales forecasting. Economics of information sampling and consumer surveys.

    630.* Introduction to Production. Techniques of production planning and control; models of aggregate production and workforce, interaction of production and inventory control; scheduling algorithms.

    632.* Operations Research in Processing Industries. Systems representation of single and multi-unit processing facilities, experiment design to measure system parameters; simulations including economic factors; sensitivity analysis, production planning and control; capital resource evaluation; process optimisation.

    640.* and 642* Strategies of Research and Development. Review of factors influencing the effect of research and design on a business or national economy. Economic measurement; information flow; organization theory; psychology of discovery and innovation. Case histories of technological changes.

    650.* Introduction to Information Processing. The nature of information as a product of complex systems; element and rule concepts; decision tables; document tracing; report generation; communication networks; data banks; decision-organization and work flow relationships; generalized study of the creation of an information system; nature and role of EDP in an information system; information retrieval.

    652.* Advanced Information Processing. The nature of a system; system elements and relationships; structuring a business system; management objectives, organizational

    concepts; the information system; organizing a data processing centre; task force se-

    Management and Systems Engineering Programme

    lection and training, hardware selection; satellite computer systems; tele-processing; data linkages and sub-systems; the total system concept.

    660.* Introduction to Corporate Finance. Capital Sources; investment psychology, strategic and probabilistic considerations in financial planning.

    662.* Advanced Corporate Finance.

    665.* Introduction to Corporate Law. Legal concepts as expressed in laws pertaining to company organizations, contracts, securities, and patents. Court administration and procedure. Information retrieval and O.R. applications in legal and legislative procedures.

    Advanced Methodology (Advanced Graduates)

    680.* Advanced Stochastic models. Properties and characteristics of stochastic models, with emphasis on Markov and Poisson process, queuing theory models and applications.

    682.* Network Methods. Advanced network methods, with maximal flow algorithms, as related to production control, plant location.

    684.* Advanced Mathematical Programming. Review of non-linear, quadratic, and integer programming, also convex programming. Extension of linear programming with possibly non-linear objective functions and constraints; and integer solutions.

    686.* Quantitative Economics and Econometrics. Local, regional and national economic planning for developing and industrial economies, using quantitative models.

    Advanced Integrative Courses (Advanced Graduates)

    1963–64 to 1967–68 5 calendars

    Another title: Group Characteristics and Representation Theory, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

    621, Computer Programming. General concepts of computer types and applications. Flow charting. Coding, instruction formats. Editing. Storage elements and buffers. Control and accuracy in digital computers. Input and output devices and their use, Number systems. Automatic programming and universal computer languages. Logic and Boolean Algebra. Heuristic programming. Elements of logical design.