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Using MENTOR to teach systems thinking and OR methodology to first-year students in New Zealand

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Journal of the Operational Research Society

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MENTOR is a multi-media, interactive, educational package, developed as separate modules by OR teachers in the United Kingdom. In 1995, we contributed a module for teaching students how to approach MS/OR projects within a framework of systems thinking. We outline the philosophy underlying the module, highlight and demonstrate some of its distinct features, and report on our experience using it in a large first-year university course (600+ students each year).

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  1. University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    H Daellenbach & N W Petty

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Daellenbach, H., Petty, N. Using MENTOR to teach systems thinking and OR methodology to first-year students in New Zealand. J Oper Res Soc 51, 1359–1366 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601069

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