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Program Rationale In order to remain competitive in today's global economy, business and industry must continually improve the quality of the products and services they offer. Accomplishing this necessarily involves a simultaneous increase in the complexity of all design, experimentation, and production processes. Broadly speaking, as the size, difficulty, complexity, or structure of a problem grows, mathematical analysis assumes an ever increasing importance in its solution. In many industrial settings, the development and design processes routinely demand physical experiments that are either too costly or too involved to be considered viable alternatives. Mathematical and statistical modeling, computer and database simulation, and high performance scientific computing are some of the alternatives to these physical approaches. |
Companies desiring to use these alternative approaches to product development and design find, all too frequently, that their employees do not possess the requisite mathematical, computer, or communications skills to implement them. UIC's interdisciplinary MISI program combines mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information science to give program graduates these needed skills. As is explained below, UIC's MISI program places an equal emphasis on four overlapping skill sets, thus giving students the skills necessary to solve the problems typically encountered by today's workforce:
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