sd graduate education

[Bob L Eberlein]

>From John Sterman (jsterman@mit.edu)

At the MIT Sloan School of Management one can pursue a Ph.D. in system
dynamics; Sloan also offers an MBA degree (Masters of Science in
Management). Though this is a professional degree (2 years), and
involves taking certain required courses in management, one can also
take system dynamics courses and get involved in the research and
teaching activities of the SD group here. Anyone in any MIT program (in
the engineering, science, humanities, or other schools of MIT) can also
take the SD courses, and many do. Likewise, students at Harvard and
Wellesley can cross-register into any MIT courses; we get a number of
such students in the SD classes here.

John Sterman
jsterman@mit.edu

["Frank Maier"]

At Mannheim University, the Chair of Business Administration, Industry and Operations
Management (Prof. Peter Milling) offers several courses on system dynamics for
graduate MbA students. Although we do not offer a master in system
dynamics, SD is part of our curriculum. Our curriculum also considers courses
in strategic management, manufacturing policy and operations
management, and management of technology. Regarding sd, the students have to attend
for 2 semesters fundamental courses (basics of SD and Vensim) and advanced courses
(developing and discussing sd based models to support decision making in
industry as well as sd based management games and management flight
simulators).

In our PhD programs roughly 60% of our students are using the system dynamics
methodology (especially Vensim based models) for their PhD dissertations.


Frank Maier
Industrieseminar der Universitaet Mannheim
Schloss S 215
D-68131 Mannheim
Germany

Phone: +49 (621) 292 - 3157
Fax: +49 (621) 292 - 5259