MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (MGS)

Dr. Edward R. Mansfield, Department Chair
Office: 300 Alston Hall

In addition to completing the specific prerequisites included in the descriptions of the following courses, all students seeking to enroll in 300- or 400-level courses in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration must have attained junior standing, which is defined for purposes of this policy as having earned 55 semester hours.

All C&BA students must, prior to seeking to enroll in any 300- or 400-level C&BA course, complete or be enrolled in the following prerequisites: EC 110 and EC 111; MATH 112 and MATH 121, or MATH 115 and MATH 125; CS 102; AC 210; ST 260; and LGS 200 (or their equivalents). Failure to fulfill all prerequisites prior to enrolling in a 300- or 400-level C&BA course will result in administrative disenrollment from that course.

MGS 310 Introduction to Management Science. Three hours.

Prerequisites: CS 102 and MATH 121.

Concepts of management science and their application in decision making. Topics include linear programming, transportation models, integer programming, dynamic programming, queueing theory, decision theory, and network methods.

MGS 400 Management Science I. Three hours.

Prerequisites: CS 102 and MATH 125.

Deterministic models in the decision-making process. Attention is given to the assumptions, development, and administrative implications of mathematical programming models and network models.

MGS 401 Management Science II. Three hours.

Prerequisite: MGS 400.

Probabilistic models in the decision-making process. Attention is given to the assumptions, development, and administrative implications of queueing, reliability, game theory, Markov, and decision models.

MGS 420 Computer Simulation (also IM 420). Three hours.

Prerequisite: CS 102.

Development and use of systems models to simulate administrative decision-making processes.

MGS 491 Independent Study in Management Science. Three hours.

Students may earn degree credit for only one independent study course (491).

MGS 492 Internship. Three hours.

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and a grade point average of 2.50 or higher. Students may earn degree credit for only one internship (492).

Students are selected through a competitive process for assignments in approved business or public-sector organizations. The internship is administered through the C&BA Office of Student Services.

MGS 497 Special Topics. Three hours.