• Handout #1: Course Policies

• Chapter 1
• What is Management Science (Operations Research): Why is it done? When is it done? When and why was it conceived?
• Vocabulary: decision variables, objective function, constraints, optimal solution, etc.
• Creating a linear programming model
• Machine Shop
• Handout #2: Assignment 1

• Snow Day!

• Chapter 2
• Linear Programming
  • Creating a linear programming model, continued
  • Class Exercises
    • An electrical manufacturer
    • A brewery
    • Island Publishing
    • Assigned as take-home exercises:
      • Blair & Rosen, Inc.
      • A manufacturing company

• Chapter 2, continued
• Review two take-home exercises (from January 28)
• Solving a linear programming model
  • Beaver Creek Pottery Company
  • A farmer
• Handout #3: Assignment 2

• Finish the "A farmer" exercise (graph assigned, due today)
• Graph the Island Publishing exercise (linear programming model created in class on Jan. 28)
• Reading due: What Keeps a Bottom Line Healthy?

• Assignment 2 due
• Handout #4: Assignment 3
• Using STORM software to solve linear programming models
• Slack, Surplus, Shadow Price

• Chapter 3
• Handout #5: Sensitivity Analysis & Parametric Analysis

• Assignment 3 due
• Sensitivity Analysis & Parametric Analysis, continued
• Exercise: Handout #6, (Answers to Handout #6)

• Exam 1

• Chapter 8: Integer Linear Programming
• Class Exercises:
  • A Total Integer Model
  • A 0-1 Integer Model
  • A Mixed Integer Model
• Handout #7: Assignment 4

• Chapter 5: Simplex
• Handout #8: The Simplex Method (for maximization problems)

• Chapter 5: Simplex, continued
• Handout #8, continued

• Assignment 4 due
• Chapter 5: Simplex, continued
• Handout #9: Simplex (for minimization problems) -- this handout is not available on the web

• "Special Cases"
• Handout #10: Assignment 5

March 18

• Chapter 7: Transportation Models

• Assignment 5 due
• Chapter 7: Assignment Models
• Handout #11: Assignment 6

• Chapter 9: Network Models

• Review: Bring your questions!

• Exam 2

• Chapter 10: Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM

• No class (Dr. Manns is attending a research workshop)

• Snow!

• Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM, continued
• Handout #12: Another PERT/CPM example (this handout is not available on the web)
• Handout #13: And yet another PERT/CPM example (this handout is not available on the web)
• Assignment 7 explained:
  • Complete #18 in text page 471 (copies available upon request)
    • Due: April 24
    • 20 points
    • Same requirements as all other assignments (such as: include an executive summary, may work in a team of 2, etc. etc. etc.)

• PERT/CPM, continued

• PERT/CPM, continued
  • Project crashing

• Chapter 11: Inventory Management
  • The basic EOQ model
• Assignment #8 explained:
  • details will be given in class
  • must be done in teams of 2
  • 25 points
  • written and presentation in class (presentation time <= 10 minutes)
  • DUE: May 6 or 8 (due dates will be picked out of a "hat" in class today)

• Inventory Management, continued
  • Carpet Discount (exercise 1)

• Inventory Management, continued
  • The EOQ model with noninstantaneous receipt
  • Carpet Discount (exercise 2)

• Final project (assignment #8) presentations

• Final project presentations, continued

• Final Exam