Topics include coding, signaling, and transmission of information as well as related hardware, software, standards, and protocol issues. Focus on developing effective team facilitation skills in both traditional and electronic face to face meetings, as well as technologies to support virtual team work and communications. Students will acquire proficiency in writing and designing these documents by applying syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic theory and visual design principles to applied problems in document design, information access, and human information processing. This course is an introduction to quantitative modeling and decision making. Spreadsheet models useful in finance, production, and other business areas will be developed and analyzed.
Attention is given to both good modeling practices and applications to real-world problems.
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