The university of dayton operations management capstone course: Undergraduate student field consulting applies theory to practice

Interfaces

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 432-443

  Gorman, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Education; Field course work; Operations; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649808160     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1100.0530     Document Type: Article

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