S.96-39
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Planning
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Faculty of Business Administration -
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Curriculum Revisions
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April 11, 1996
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Academic Planning on April 3, 1996
gives rise to the following motion:
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Motion:
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"that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.96 -39 / the following curriculum revisions in the
Faculty of Business Administration
New course:
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BUS 440-4 Simulation in Management Decision
Making
Management Science area - Change in Concentration requirements
Change in Core requirements
Acting under delegated authority of Senate, SCUS has approved the following request as
detailed in SCUS 95- 13:
Change in credit hours and vectors - BUS 473
Change in prerequisites - BUS 468-3
Deletion of BUS 360 as corequisite requirement for all BUS 400 courses
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SCUS 95 - 13
MEMORANDUM
August 10, 1995
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W. R. Heath, Secretary
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
FROM: ?
Robert Rogow, Undergraduate Program Director
Faculty of Business Administration
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Proposed Calendar changes
The Faculty of Business Administration requests consideration by SCUS
of the following proposed changes in the Business Administration section
of the 1996-1997 Calendar. Would you please include them in the agenda
for a Fall SCUS meeting?
Library approval and overlap approval from other Faculties have been
requested.
(A) Changes in the MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Area:
[1] New Course Proposal:
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BUS 440-4 SIMULATION IN MANAGEMENT DECISION
MAKING
Calendar Description:
Development and use of simulation models as an aid in making
complex managment decisions. Hands on use of business related
tools for computer simulation. Issues related to the design and
validation of simulation models, the assesssment of input data,
and the interpretation and use of simulation output. Prerequisites:
BUS 336, BUEC 333,60 credit hours.
Rationale:
The simulation of business systems has developed into one of the
most powerful and widely used tools availahe for the analysis of
management decisions. Further, recent developments in
computer software have made simulation accessible to the non-
specialist. At present our students receive only a very limited
exposure to simulation in BUS 336, with some additional material
being available in BUS 437 and BUS 462. In addition to forming
part of the Management Science concentration, we expect that this
course will be of substantial interest to students in related areas
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such as Management Information Systems, Finance, Marketing,
and Accountng.
Attached are a New Course Proposal form and a proposed course
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[2]
Change in credit hours and vectors:
BUS 473
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Change hours from 5 to 4.
Change vector from 3/2/0 to 3/1/0.
Rationale:
Two changes in recent years, the shift from individual to group
projects and the reduction of maximum class size to 35, have
permitted the effective teaching of the course material with one
fewer tutorial hour per week.
[3] Change in Concentration requirements:
FROM:
MATH 158-3
Calculus for the Social Sciences
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3364
i\Ianagenient Science
and three of:
ECON 331-5
Introduction to Mathematical Economics
BIJEC 433-5
Forecasting in Business and Economics
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437-3
Decision Analysis in Business
445-3
Analysis of Data for Management
473-5
Operations Management
TO:
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336-4
Management Science
4734
Operations Management
and two of:
BUEC 433-5
Forecasting in Business and Economics
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437-3
Decision Analysis in Business
440-4
Simulation in Managment Decision Making
445-3
Analysis of Data for Managment
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Management Support Systems
Rationale:
The development of new courses (for example, BUS 440
and BUS 462) that are more focussed on the professional
needs of management science practitioners has reduced the
need to ask students to take other courses (e.g. MATH 1.58
and ECON 331
) that, while desirable, are less central to work
in the field.The shift of BUS 473 from an optional to a
compulsory status reflects the growing importance of
Operations Management methods in current
manufacturing practice.
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Change in Core requirements:
FROM: "Students must complete the 300 division core courses before
their 90th credit hour unless prior permission of the
Faculty is obtained."
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"Students must complete BUS 360 before their 75th credit hour
and other 300 division core courses before their 90th credit
Rationale: hour uni€ss prior permission of the Faculty is obtained."
The Faculty has a strong preference that newly admitted majors
take BUS 360, Business Communications, as soon as possible,
because its hoped-for positive effect on written and oral business
communication skills will he useful in upper division
coursework. The mechanism previously chosen to ensure this
(making 360 a cc:equ.isite for all 400 division BUS courses) has
proved awkward to administer. Students not obliged to take 360
(earlier-than-Fall 1994 admits to the Faculty, joint majors, minors,
non-majors) have been unable to register for 400 division BUS
courses without being individually cleared to do so by Business
undergraduate advisers. Under the proposed "before 75 hours"
rule, such students would not be prevented from registerin
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for
400 division BUS courses.
I(C Change in Corequisite requirement:
Deletion of "Corequisite: BUS 360" from all BUS 400 courses is
requested, as explained in "(C)" above.
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
NEW COURSE
PROPOSAL
Calendar Information
Course Number:
BUS 440
Course Title:
Simulation in Management Decision Making
Credit Hours: 4
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Vector: 2/0/2
Course Description (for Calendar). Attach a course outline to this proposal.
Development and use of simulation models as an aid in making complex management decisions. Hands-on use of business
related tools for computer simulation. Issues related to the design and validation of simulation models, the assessment of
input data, and the interpretation and use of simulation output.
Prerequisite:
BUS 336, BUEC 333,60 credit hours
Corequisite:
None
Special Instructions:
None
Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved:
BUS 479-5 Business Strategies Simulation
Rationale for Introduction
of this Course
Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum; probable enrolment when offered?
Elective, Enrolment
20-35
The simulation of business systems has developed into one of the most powerful and widely used tools available for the
analysis of management decisions. Further, recent deve]opments in computer software have made simulation accessible to the
non-specialist. At present our students receive only a very limited exposure to simulation in BUS 336, with some additional
material being available in BUS 437 and BUS 462. In addition to forming part of the Management Science concentration, we
expect
Management
that this
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course will
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be of substantial interest to students in related areas such as Marketing, Finance, Accountin
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Scheduling and Registration Information
Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and the planned frequency of offering
thereafter.
97-1; Annually, (will offered in 96-1 as a Selected Topics course)
Which of your present CFL faculty have the expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by
sessional or limited term instructors?
Love, Warburton, Choo. Use of Sessional Instructors not anticipated.
Are there any proposed student fees associated with this course other than tuition fees?
Is this course considered a "duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate
course policy? Specify.
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Approvals
Undergraduate Pror
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Dean, FBA
Director, FBA
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
RESOURCES
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Course Number: BUS 440
Resource Implications:
Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been
committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied by a library
report a24 if appropriate, confinnation thatfunding arrangements have been addressed.
Provide details on how existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new
course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other courses
be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional course
offering.
BUS 479 dropped. A slight decrease in frequency of offering of other Management Science courses should accomodate the
once a year presentation of BUS 440.
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Does this course require specialized space or equipment not readily available in the department or
university, and if so, how will these resources be provided?
No.
Does this course require computing resources (e.g.: hardware, software, network wiring, use of
computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will be provided?
S2 000 worth of software required. The Facult
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of Business Administration has committed this amount. Computer lab space
requirements are moderate. They can and will be provided within the Faculty of Business Administration lab facilities.
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COURSE OUTLINE
BUS 440 SIMULATION
IN MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING
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This topic sequencing in this outline is based directly on the book, Simulation for Decision
Making , by Thesen and Travis. Because there will be considerable hands on training during
the course, a variety of simulation tools will be introduced and developed as the course
progresses. Using these tools, the students will complete a series of exercises and/or projects
based on the following set of real and imaginary cases:
From SIMVIEW'
Fast Food
Staffing Issues in Casinos
Modeling Police Units on Patrol
Repair and Installation of Electrical Equipment
An Agricultural Products Model: Railway Systems
Modeling a Bottling Plant
Same Day Photography and Printing
Real Cases with SFU Participation
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B. C. Biomedical
Spare Engine Inventory at CP Air
Financial Modeling Cases
Winston Salem Development
Some cases from the @RISK selection
1. Introduction
Simulation in management decision making
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Discrete event simulation
Drawbacks and pitfalls of simulation
Elements of simulation modeling
Modeling elementary random processes
Describing dynamic behavior
Commonly used modeling packages
Template packages
Spreadsheets
Simulation languages and animation
General- purpose programming languages
Interpreting simulation data
Performance of a single system
Comparing designs
Complicating Factors
2.
Review of Some Simple Analytic Models
Continuous and discrete probability distributions
Inventory models
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Waiting line models
3.
Some Simulation Techniques
Discrete event simulations by hand
Spreadsheet Simulations
Excel and @Risk
Visual Basic
Template based simulation
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be determined)
Simulation Modeling with TOOL X
(SIMVIEW and/or a simulation language to yet
Details of what will be covered.
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5. Modeling Input Processes
Defining variables and collecting data
Identifying a suitable distribution
Testing the fit of a distribution
goodness of fit tests
6. Working with a Single Model
Terminating simulations
forming confidence intervals
establishing confidence intervals of a given width
Steady State Simulations
Minimizing the initial bias
Gaining independence
Selecting a method and avoiding problems
• Comparing Performance to a Given Standard
Variance Reduction using Antithetic Random Variates
Verification and Validation
Preventing potential problems
Finding and correcting problems
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7. Comparing Alternative Systems
Comparing two alternatives
Mann-Whitney test, Student's West
Variance reduction using common random numbers
Selecting the correct technique
Comparing Several Alternatives
Using confidence intervals
One way analysis of variance (not covered in BUEC 333)
Factorial Designs (not covered in BUEC 333)
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