Use of computer simulation in Florida Atlantic University's MBA program

Abstract

The MBA program at Florida Atlantic University is a general program covering all the fundamental areas of business administration, viz: accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics, quantitative methods and information systems. Within this traditional framework, the Computer Systems department residing in the College of Business has incorporated in one of the two five (5) quarter credit required courses under its jurisdiction, "Information Systems" an extensive exercise in model construction and computer simulation using the Dynamo language and associated industrial dynamics concepts. Dynamo, a high level procedural language developed in the 1960's by Jay Forrester, Jack Pugh and associates of the Sloane School at MIT, has been successfully used for the past eight years in this course on large scale IBM and more recently Univac system available for the student use.