The student should develop skills in critical thinking, conceptual modeling, problem analysis and the application of modeling skills to resolve engineering and management problems. The course topics include classification of systems, problem formulation, decision analysis, modeling techniques, experiment design, discrete event simulation, and evaluation of information. The Visual SLAM simulation language and the AweSim animation toolset are introduced and used to study the behavior of a variety of engineering and management problems.
Students are responsible for their own work.
Fla Tech policy on academic honesty is enforced. Cases and the course project can be team projects. Teams must declare the percentage of effort for each team member. Cases and the project are elegible for work in teams of up to two people. The paper review is done individually.