Courses tagged with "Journalism" (136)
15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics uses case studies to investigate the macroeconomic environment in which firms operate. The first half of the course develops the basic tools of macroeconomic management: monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate policy. The class discusses recent emerging market and financial crises by examining their causes and considering how best to address them and prevent them from recurring in the future. The second half evaluates different strategies of economic development. Topics covered in the second half of this course include growth, the role of debt and foreign aid, and the reliance on natural resources.
Managers and engineers are constantly attempting to optimize, particularly in the design and operation of complex systems. This course is an application-oriented introduction to (systems) optimization. It seeks to:
- Motivate the use of optimization models to support managers and engineers in a wide variety of decision making situations;
- Show how several application domains (industries) use optimization;
- Introduce optimization modeling and solution techniques (including linear, non-linear, integer, and network optimization, and heuristic methods);
- Provide tools for interpreting and analyzing model-based solutions (sensitivity and post-optimality analysis, bounding techniques); and
- Develop the skills required to identify the opportunity and manage the implementation of an optimization-based decision support tool.