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Minor in Operations Research and Management Science
Offered by: School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Administrative Contact: OR&E undergraduate Major consultant, 203 Rhodes Hall, 255.5088
Eligibility
Students in all Majors except Operations Research and Engineering and Information Science, Systems and Technology 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:
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: Monte Carlo Simulation
OR&IE 581: Discrete-Event Simulation
Any OR&IE courses at the 300 level or higher (including those above)
Academic Standards
At least a grade of C– in each course in the Minor and a GPA ≥2.0 in all courses in the Minor.
Note
A student may receive credit for at most one Minor offered by the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering.
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