# BAN495 Business Analytics Modeling: Optimization and Simulation

College of Business and Criminal Justice Business Department

**Course Description:** This course builds decision-making skill through management-science modeling. Students frame business problems, express them mathematically, and implement solutions using spreadsheet-based optimization, decision analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation. Coverage includes linear and integer formulations, sensitivity and scenario analysis, risk models, and effective technical reporting. The course also introduces machine-learning model tuning at a conceptual level to compare when optimization, simulation, or ML/AI methods are appropriate. An integrated “E-City” case synthesizes methods into actionable recommendations.

**Credit Hours:** 3.00

**Prerequisites:** All of: [BAN485](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/BAN485 "View BAN485")

**Corequisites:** None

## Programs offering this course

- [Business Administration | Business Analytics Concentration](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/business-analytics-bachelor-degree)

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