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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

The ‘Decision Modeling’ online course is a free online certification program offered for the professionals and students of engineering and management to get a conceptual understanding of the strategies and details of operations research that enables optimized decision making. This online training course is provided by the Swayam education portal with the ‘National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The classes are conducted online through videos, lectures, and other online resources for a period of eight weeks studying the course modules. The students are guided by the program instructor who is an academic and professional expert, Prof. Biswajit Mahanty, from the department of industrial and systems engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This elective course, classified under the management studies and operations domain is recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education.

The ‘Decision Modeling’ online certification program ensures students receive the course certificate and credit points at end of the course after completion of the assessments and exam.

The Highlights

Online course
Eight weeks
IIT faculty
AICTE approved
Elective program
Undergraduate and postgraduate level
Credit points
E-Certificate

Programme Offerings

Online Classes
Course Modules
videos
Weekly Assignments
End-term exam
Course credits
E-certificate
Books
references

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Kharagpur

The ‘Decision Modeling’ certification fee is about the exam registration fee for the certification exam as the course learning is offered free of charge.

Decision Modeling fee structure

Program Fee	Nil
Exam Registration fee	Rs 1000

Eligibility Criteria

The applicants of the ‘Decision Modeling’ certification by Swayam are required to have prior knowledge of fundamental probability, statistics, and operations research.

Certificate qualifying details

The ‘Decision Modeling’ certificate is given by Swayam and NPTEL to the students who have completed the curriculum, internal assessments, and final exam with the scores being 10/25(25%) and 30/75(75%) respectively with a total average of 40/100.

What you will learn

Decision making skillsBusiness Management

The ‘Decision Modeling’ certification syllabus is developed for students to improve their understanding of the concepts of decision modeling that helps with manufacturing and services operations. The students gain a better understanding of operations research and decision-making. By the end of this program, learners will know about the theories such as decision analysis, waiting for line or queuing models, simulation models, and network models.

Who it is for

Industrial EngineerResearch AssociateOperations Manager

The ‘Decision Modeling’ online certification program is targeted at undergraduate and postgraduate level students pursuing masters in business administration, economics, industrial engineering, operations management or operations research, and other relevant fields. The course is also for industry professionals such as operations managers, services and manufacturing managers, manufacturing engineers, industrial engineers, corporate planning managers, and research associates.

Admission Details

The students who wish to join the ‘Decision Modeling’ online certification program should register online as per the following steps,

Step1: Go to the course page using the link,

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_mg95/preview

Step 2: Find the ‘Register/Sign-In’ option.

Step 3: Fill in the course details.

Step 4: Join the course.

Application Details

The course registration for the ‘Decision Modeling’ online training course is done by entering the Swayam account details on the registration form if you have already registered or you can start the course by using Google, Microsoft, or Facebook IDs.

The Syllabus

Introduction to Decision modeling
Probability Concepts
Decision modeling for deterministic, uncertainty, and risk situations.

Bayes Theorem
Decision Making with and without Experimentation
Decision Trees

Elements of Queuing models
Queuing models based on the birth-and-death process

Priority-Discipline Queuing Models
Finite population models
Queuing cost models

Discrete-Event Simulation modeling
Random numbers and Random Variates
Input Modelling and Output analysis

Continuous Simulation
System Dynamics

Introduction to Graph theory
Tree and Spanning Tree
Maximal Flow algorithms

Maximal Flow algorithms (continued)
Shortest Path algorithms

Evaluation process

The students of this free online certification course should write the end-term proctored exam conducted at the allotted exam centers to receive the ‘Decision Modeling’ certificate.
The registration and payment are done online for the certification exam.
The qualifying percentage for the exam is 75% and the students are required to score at least 30/75.