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The second type of Masters' program would be for engineer-
in 6 andergraduates who wanted to solve health and hospital sys-
tems problems. The program would provide a strong emphasis in
operations research methodologies. In addition, students sbould
become familiar with cost accounting concepts, economic prin-
ciples and information systems. Graduates of this program would
be expected to perform a number of the following functions:
1. Solve linear programming and inventory problems;
2. forumulate and analyze stochastic models;
3. perform indepth statistical analyses (ANOVA and mul-
tiple regression);
4. design data collection studies;
5. program in a high level computer language (FORTRAN,
Pascal or PL-1);
6. design program evaluation;
7. conduct computer simulations;
8. write technical reports;
9. interact with decision makers and work as part of an
interdisciplinary team;
10. take unstructured problem, abstract it, formulate a
mathematical model, obtain solutions and implement the best,
acceptable solution;
11. conduct long range planning studies.
IV. Articles to Translate Into Spanish
As b¡oted, an extensive literature search was prepared prior
to the start of the conference. From this list, a total of 41
articles were recommended for translation. These are summarized