ObjectivesAfter completing this course students should:
• have learned how basic techniques in operations research are applied in industry;
• understand how to turn an industrial problem into a mathematical formulation;
• know how to solve important mathematical optimisation problems arising in industrial framework;
• have gained the ability to pursue further studies in related areas;
• understand the basic principles of the construction of time series models;
• be able to analyse the properties of the models and produce predictions based on them; and
• be familiar with the most commonly used models and be able to apply the models in various situations.
Academic titleMaster of Science (Management Science)
Course descriptionCourse structure (all subjects are 12.5 points each, total points: 200)
Discipline Core (62.5 points)
Students must take:
o Mathematics of Risk (this subject will not be offered until semester 1, 2010), plus
o 620-616 Optimisation for Industry, plus
o 600-655 Business Forecasting, plus
o Cases in Business Modelling (this subject will not be offered until semester 2, 2010), plus
o Scheduling and Optimisation (this subject will not be offered until semester 1, 2010).
Discipline Elective (37.5 points)
Students must take 3 of the following subjects:
o 325-679 Supply Chain Management, and/or
o 325-695 Project Management, and/or
o 615-657 Enterprise Systems, and/or
o 615-691 Decision Support using ICT, and/or
o 615-644 Data Warehousing, and/or
o 433-679 Evolutionary and Neural Computation
Project Module (12.5 points)
o 600-611 Industry Project (this subject will not be available until semester 2, 2010)
Professional Tools Module (87.5 points)
Professional Tools Core (87.5 points)
Students must take:
2 Business Tools Units
o 600-614 Business Tools: Money, People and Projects, plus
o Business Tools: The Market Environment (this subject will not be offered until semester 1, 2010), plus
3 Science Tools Units
o 600-617 Systems Modelling and Simulation, plus
o 600-615 Thinking and Reasoning with Data, plus
o 600-618 Ethics and Responsibility in Science, plus
2 Communication Tools Units
o 600-619 Science and Communication, plus
o 600-616 Science in Context