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ISE-2024: Probability Foundations for Industrial and Systems Engineers

Description: Introduction to the mathematical foundations of probability theory for industrial engineers. Understanding of probability as a model for real phenomena, with applications of probability in an industrial engineering context. Review of set theory, counting (permutations and combinations), definition of probability axioms, sample spaces, random variables, independence, probability distribution functions, probability mass or density functions, expectations, moment-generating functions, joint and conditional random vectors and distributions, and distributions of functions of random variables, central limit theorem.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: MATH-2204 or MATH-2204H

Required By: ISE-3414, STAT-4706

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 12

Average GPA: 3.27 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 34.61%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.76%

Toy Esra Buyuktahtakin202360.0%33.0%5.6%0.0%1.4%0.0%3.462
Michael R Taaffe202245.1%38.1%11.6%0.9%1.6%2.7%3.255
Yingyan Zeng202340.4%30.9%21.4%2.4%4.8%0.0%2.911
Staff Khodadadian202438.9%31.8%23.1%1.3%1.3%3.8%3.062
Tai Jung Chen202250.0%26.9%15.3%5.8%1.9%0.0%3.201
Ruochen Wang202481.8%14.5%3.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.771

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2021Summer I 2021Spring 2022Summer I 2022Spring 2023Summer I 2023Spring 2024Summer I 2024Term050% W