Rick Hesse, DSc
For over 40 years I have taught applied modeling—at eight different universities, engineering and business schools, graduate and undergraduate levels. I have taught using paper and pencil for quick-and-dirty models, calculators, mainframe computers, and now PCs with spreadsheets. Generally, I have four goals for each class, and the fourth is:
Be able to actually identify problems at work and use appropriate statistical spreadsheet models after the course is over.[1]
I wish I had kept better track of the emails and stories from my students about how modeling has affected them over my eleven years here at Pepperdine, but here are a few of their stories:
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