• Handout #1: Course Policies
• Handout #2: Assignment 1
• Chapters 1 and 2
  • 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
    • A machine shop
    • An electrical manufacturer
• Assigned Exercises (due Sept. 2):
  • A brokerage firm
  • A brewery
  • A manufacturing company
• Assigned Reading (due Sept. 2): What Keeps a Bottom Line Healthy?

• Discussion of the exercise assigned on August 26
• Discussion of reading assigned on August 26
• Chapter 2, continued:
  • Solving a linear programming model
    • Beaver Creek Pottery Company
    • A farmer
    • Island Publishing
• Handout #3: Assignment 2

• Chapter 2, continued
• Solving a linear programming model with STORM software
• Slack and Surplus
  • Slack in a linear programming model: Beaver Creek Pottery Company
  • Surplus in a linear programming model: Fertilizing a field
  • Both slack and surplus in a linear programming model: Island Publishing
• Handout #4: Assignment 3
• Short PowerPoint demo (for students who have never used PowerPoint)

• Chapter 3
• Shadow Price
  • Handout #5
• Handout #6: Assignment 4

• Exam I

• 6:00, Owen Conference Center (3rd floor Owen)
  • How to Accelerate Your Career: Leadership Skills for Junior Managers
    Speaker: Scott Love (click here for info about the speaker)
    Click here for information about extra credit
• Chapter 8
• Integer Linear Programming
  • Total Integer Model
  • 0-1 Integer Model
  • Mixed Integer Model
• Handout #7: Assignment 5

• Chapter 3
• Sensitivity Analysis & Parametric Programming
  • Handout #5 (distributed in class on September 16)
  • Handout #8: Sensitivity Analysis and Parametric Programming Exercise

• Review of exercise on Handout #8
• The Simplex Method for maximization problems and with <= constraints
  • Chapter 5
  • Handout #9: The Simplex Method
  • Handout #11: Simplex Method (for maximization problems with <= constraints) Exercise (due Oct. 21)
• Handout #10: Assignment 6

• Chapter 5
• Exercise on Handout #11 due
• The Simplex Method for minimization problems and with >= constraints
  • Handout #12: Simplex Minimization Problem with >= Constraints (handout not available on the web)

October 28

• Exam II

• Assignment 6 presentations
• Chapter 7
• Transportation and Assignment models
• Handout #13: Assignment 7

• Chapter 10
• Project scheduling: PERT / CPM models
  • Handout #14: PERT/CPM exercise (handout not available on the web)
  • Handout #15: PERT/CPM with time estimates (handout not available on the web)
• Assignment 8 (final project due December 2)
  • No handout -- Assignment will be explained in class
  • Must be done in teams
  • 20 points
  • written memo and presentation
    • presentation time <= 10 minutes

• PERT / CPM, continued
• Chapter 9
• Network Flow Models
  • shortest route
  • minimal spanning
  • maximal flow
• Handout #16: Assignment 9

• Chapter 11
• Inventory Management
  • Carpet Discount Store (1)
  • Hayes Electronics
  • Carpet Discount Store (2)
  • SuperDuper U.
• "The Manager and Management Science"

• Final Project Presentations .. and pizza!

• Final Exam