The management science and information technology department at Tech offers between 36 and 40 three-hour course sections each semester. Some of the courses are taught by graduate student instructors, whereas 20 of the course sections are taught by the 10 regular, tenured faculty in the department. Before the beginning of each year, the department head sends the faculty a questionnaire, asking them to rate their preference for each course using a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is "strongly preferred," 2 is "preferred but not as strongly as 1," 3 is "neutral," 4 is "prefer not to teach but not strongly," and 5 is "strongly prefer not to teach this course." The faculty have returned their preferences, as follows:

Course Faculty Member 3424 3434 3444 3454 4434 4444 4454 4464 Clayton Houck Huang Major Moore -UW - NUNAAU WU- - -WNAUU WU- - -WWAUU - OWN - ANNA- UNUSUAL--W NNUWAN-WNN WA-W-AWWA AAWWHENWN Ragsdale Rakes Rees Russell Sumichrast