A first introduction to probability and statistics. This course will provide background to understand and produce rigorous statistical analysis including estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis ...

This program is offered by the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS). It is the continuation of the previous concentration in Management Science and the program of Operations ...

Current Master of Engineering Management (MEM) student Rohit Salgaonkar looks back on his internship at AbbVie and explains why operations are so pivotal to an organization's success. The first time ...

“We don’t have a nice statistical model, but the principles of operations research are inherent in the decision making,” Sample says. For example, the company uses a measurement system to identify ...

Jan Albert Van Mieghem is the A. C. Buehler Professor and Professor of Operations at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in Business and MS in Electrical ...

Many things come to mind when you think of hospital operating rooms: surgical instruments, nurses and surgeons, to name a few. Not many individuals consider mathematics when discussing surgical ...

At the heart of operations research (OR) is the use of computer modelling and the simulation of business processes as a means of coming up with improvements in the way that things are done within an ...