• DocumentCode
    2619188
  • Title

    Teaching simulation to business students summary of 30 years’ experience

  • Author

    Ståhl, Ingolf

  • Author_Institution
    Stockholm Sch. of Econ., Stockholm
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    9-12 Dec. 2007
  • Firstpage
    2327
  • Lastpage
    2335
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Simulation Conference, 2007 Winter
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1306-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1306-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSC.2007.4419872
  • Filename
    4419872