Title :
Teaching simulation to business students summary of 30 years’ experience
Author_Institution :
Stockholm Sch. of Econ., Stockholm
Abstract :
I summarize my experience from having taught simulation to over 7000 students for over 30 years; to undergraduate, graduate and Ph. D. business students, executives and high school students, in five countries. I discuss how my students differed from other simulation students and my general teaching goals. I answer the question of why Discrete Events Simulation is important at a business school. I present the five main types of course modules that I have taught. I finally discuss my choice of DES software, explaining why I have chosen to use a streamlined GUI based version of GPSS, WebGPSS.
Keywords :
computer science education; discrete event simulation; graphical user interfaces; GUI; WebGPSS; business students; course module; discrete events simulation software; teaching simulation; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Discrete event simulation; Education; Educational institutions; Engineering students; Graphical user interfaces; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2007 Winter
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2007.4419872
