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Offered by: School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Administrative Contact: OR&E undergraduate Major consultant, 202 Rhodes Hall, 255-5088
Eligibility: Students in all Majors except Operations Research and Engineering may participate in this minor.
Educational Objectives: Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) aims to provide rational bases for decision making by seeking to understand and model complex situations and to use this understanding to predict system behavior and improve system performance. This minor gives the student the opportunity to obtain a wide exposure to the core methodological tools for OR/MS, including mathematical programming, stochastic and statistical models, and simulation. The intent of this minor is that the student should obtain a broad knowledge of these fundamentals, rather than training the student in a particular application domain. In this way, the student can adjust the selection of the advanced courses in the minor, so as to pursue those areas, either methodological or application oriented, of greatest interest and relevance to the overall educational goals.
Requirements
At least six (6) courses (> 18 credits), chosen as follows:
I. Choose three courses from the following list
| ENGRD 270 | Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics |
| OR&IE 320 | Optimization I |
| OR&IE 321 | Optimization II |
| OR&IE 360 | Engineering Probability and Statistics II |
| OR&IE 361 | Introduction Engineering Stochastic Processes I |
| OR&IE 580 | Simulation Modeling and Analysis |
II. Any OR&IE courses at the 300 level or higher (including those in I)
Academic StandardsAt least C- in each course in the minor and a GPA > 2.0 in all courses in the minor.
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