Webinar Offered for Those Interested in Courses with Excel and Tableau

Most organizations provide their employees the Microsoft Office Tools Suite with Excel. The M.S. in Operations Management (MSOM) program has included Excel as a foundational aspect of the program for the last seven years. In that time, Microsoft has increased Excel capabilities dramatically. Simultaneously, business intelligence analytics interest has increased, and Tableau has been created as a visualization platform to help users see and understand data for modern business intelligence. As a result, the M.S.O.M. Program has developed a new course to present the additional tools and visualization techniques available in Excel and Tableau.

In this webinar, an overview of the new Advanced Decision Support Tools and Visualization for Operations Managers course will be discussed, including topics about:

• Data tools
• Additional charts
• New data query techniques
• New analysis capabilities
• Templates and forms
• Dashboards

Prospective students, current students and faculty who are interested in learning about the additional tools and visualization techniques are invited to join the Lunch & Learn Webinar, "Tools & Visualization Techniques Available to Support the Operations Manager," at noon CST Wednesday, Feb. 16, presented by MSOM instructor Kirk Michealson. Register for the webinar.

The Department of Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering has two professional graduate degree programs: The Master of Science in Operations Management (M.S.O.M.) and the Master of Science in Engineering Management (M.S.E.M.). The M.S.O.M. program began in 1974 and is designed for professionals from a broad range of backgrounds, including business and government operations. Students learn how to create value to the production of goods and services while working with world-wide suppliers and customers. The M.S.E.M. program began in 2017 and prepares engineers to lead and manage teams, projects and organizations with technical workforces to meet strategic objectives. The programs also include graduate certificates in operations management, engineering management, project management, lean six sigma and homeland security to broaden student understanding of current skills needed by operations and engineering managers. All programs have a goal of "Learn It Today. Use It Tomorrow."