MSCI308-06S2 (U) Semester Two 2006 (University Campus)

Cases in Management Science

This occurrence is not offered in 2006

14 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 10 July 2006
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2006
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 23 July 2006
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 8 October 2006

Description

Cases in operations research and operations management which illustrate problem definition and use of various management science techniques in practice. A capstone course for MSCI majors.

Course Description:
The aim of this case based course is to give students the experience of dealing with messy ill-defined problem situations, rather than the more structured problems covered in other MSCI papers, which lend themselves to one class of solution technique. The case studies draw on material and models covered in MSCI102, MSCI112, MSCI210, MSCI215 and MSCI221.  The course includes: project scoping, developing a project proposal, design of data collection, selection of modelling technique; some quantitative analysis using where appropriate: spreadsheets, a linear programming package and a statistical package; report writing, development of recommendations to bring about improvements, implementation issues. The classes are interactive. Students must be prepared to discuss, and sometimes present, aspects of the cases in class, and to work in small groups when required.

Relationship to Other Courses:
This course is a capstone course recommended for students majoring in Management Science. It integrates material covered in operations research and operations management taught under the MSCI subject code. It is extremely useful for students intending to continue their studies to Honours-400 level.  Its workload in terms of class preparation, review, assignments, readings, and test preparation is about 10 hours per week.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

MSCI218

Co-requisites

28 points 300 level MSCI

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Terri Green

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 25%
Project Proposal 30%
Test 45%

Notes

Grading:
It is departmental practice that all raw scores may be standardised, prior to assigning final course grades.  This usually implies that a standardised mark of 50 is a pass. You must achieve a weighted scaled average of over 45% in adjudicated work in order to be eligible to gain a passing grade (C or higher).

Departmental Academic Policies
If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator. The Department assumes that you have read this document.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $463.00

International fee $1,891.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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