Analytical Decision Making

Applied Mathematics for Business and Management

Target Audience

• Liberal Arts majors at the junior/senior level in the Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP)

Course Description

A hands-on course to introduce management students to basic statistics, regression analysis, queueing theory, advanced spreadsheet techniques and linear programming.

Course Features

• Team-taught by Daniel Maki (Mathematics) and Wayne Winston (Business), IU-Bloomington, since 1991

• Real problems, from businesses and government, are used to motivate the mathematical topics covered

• All mathematical topics taught in the course are used immediately in the projects

• Students work in teams using technology

• Students are required to document, explain, and defend their mathematical work.

Example Project

• Scheduling Bank Tellers

For Further Information, contact ...

• Dan Maki, Indiana University Bloomington Department of Mathematics
  e-mail maki@indiana.edu
• Wayne Winston, Indiana University Bloomington School of Business
  e-mail winston@indiana.edu