BADM 1260 First-Year Global Experience

In today’s world of increased mobility, globally aware students have more choices for employment upon graduation and are immediately ready to contribute in global environments. They are aware of global issues and cultural differences, and their global mindset allows them to recognize good ideas from wherever they might come and new market/product opportunities wherever they might exist. This course is the first step toward the development of a global mindset. It provides a meaningful global experience to first-year business students through an in-depth perspective of a specific country or region outside the United States and a short academic trip to the region.

OPIM 7120 Metaheuristic Optimization

Faced with the challenge of solving hard optimization problems that abound in the real world, classical exact methods often encounter great difficulty.  Vitally important applications in business, engineering, economics and science cannot be tackled with any reasonable hope of success, within practical time horizons, by solution methods that were the predominant focus of academic research throughout several decades. This course explores the development and implementation of metaheuristic methodologies that have proven to be effective in solving a wide range of difficult optimization problems.