Mgmt 380
Class Schedule
Exam Dates:
Exam 1: September 26
Exam 2: November 7
Final Exam: December 5
See the exam policy on Handout #1.
August 22
- Handout #1:
Course
Policies
- What is Management Science (Operations Research): Why is it done?
When is it done? When and why was it conceived?
- Reading: What is
OR/MS?
- Vocabulary: decision variables, objective function, constraints,
optimal solution, etc.
- Handout #2:
Assignment 1
- Assigned exercise: "Constraints" for a party
August 29
- Exercise due
- Articles for Assignment #1 due
- Creating a linear programming model
September 5
September 12
- Assignment 2 due
- Reading due: What Keeps a Bottom
Line Healthy?
- You will need to complete the free registration in order to
download this article (see left side of screen)
- Solving a linear programming model with STORM
- Shadow Price
- Handout #4:
Assignment 3
September 19
- Assignment 3 due
- Slack and Surplus
- Reminder: Read the assigned reading for September 12th
- Exam question and answer time .. Come with your questions!
September 26
October 3
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Handout #5: Sensitivity Analysis & Parametric Analysis (this handout is not available on web)
- Handout #6:
Assignment 4
October 10: Happy Fall Break!
October 17
October 24
- Simplex, continued
- working with >= constraints (artificial variables)
- working with Zmin
- Handout #9: Simplex minimization problem (this
handout is not available on the web)
- Integer Linear Programming
October 31
- Assignment 5 due
- Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM
PERT/CPM examples (these handouts are not
available on the web)
- Handout #12:
Assignment 6
November 7
- Exercises due: Handouts #10 and #11
- PERT/CPM, continued
- Exam II
November 14
- Assignment 6 due
- PERT/CPM.. project crashing
- Assignment & Transportation Models
- Network Models
- Information for Assignment 7
- Work in teams of two or three
- 45 points
- Create a problem that makes use of two modeling techniques
- Present to the client in presentation and written form
- Presentation:
- Dress accordingly
- Time: no longer than 8 minutes
- Client may interrupt and ask questions during the presentation
- One team member should load slides before class so client does not
have to wait between presentations
- Prepare an appropriate written report for the client
- Food will be served!
November 21
November 28
- Assignment 7 presentations
December 5, 6:30pm