Using a discrete event simulation program in an engineering probability and statistics course

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Van Til, Robert ^a   Banachowski, Michael ^a   Wagner, Christian ^a   Sengupta, Sankar ^a   Hillberg, Patrick ^b  

^a Oakland University   (United States)

^b DASSAULT SYSTÈMES   (France)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; Probability; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION SOFTWARE; LABORATORY ASSIGNMENTS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS; PROBABILITY STATISTIC; RANDOM DATA; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; SIMULATION MODEL; SOPHOMORE-LEVEL; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; NUMBER THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77951476832     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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