Mgmt 380
Class Schedule
Exam Dates:
Exam 1: September 24
Exam 2: October 29
Final Exam: December 10
See the exam policy on Handout #1.
August 20
- 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 Management
Science?
- Vocabulary: decision variables, objective function, constraints,
optimal solution, etc.
- Handout #2:
Assignment 1
- Assigned exercise: "Constraints" for a party
August 27
- Due:
- Exercise and reading assigned on August 20
- Get a textbook reference
- Email article information for Assignment #1
- Use of Management Science at the Democratic Convention
- Creating a linear programming model
- Assigned exercise: A
manufacturing company
September 3
- Exercise due:
- Solving a linear programming model
- Handout #3:
Assignment 2
- Examples of memos shown
September 10
- Assignment 2 due
- Reading due: What Keeps a Bottom
Line Healthy?
- You may need to complete the free registration in order to
download this article
- Solving a linear programming model with STORM
- Shadow Price
- Handout #4:
Assignment 3
September 17
- Assignment 3 due
- Slack and Surplus
- Exam question and answer time .. Come with your questions!
- Handout #5:
Exercise
- Complete questions 1,2,3. (Questions 4 through 13 will be covered
after the exam, so save this handout.)
September 24
October 1
October 8
October 15
- Simplex, continued
- working with >= constraints (artificial variables)
- working with Zmin
- Handout #10: Simplex minimization problem (this
handout is not available on the web)
- Integer Linear Programming
October 22
- Assignment 5 due
- Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM
PERT/CPM examples (these handouts are not
available on the web)
- Handout #13: Assignment 6 (this handout is not
available on the web)
October 29
- Exercises due: Handouts #11 and #12
- PERT/CPM, continued
- Exam II
November 5
- Assignment 6 due
- PERT/CPM.. project crashing
- Assignment & Transportation Models
- Network Models
- Information for Assignment 7
- Work in teams of two
- 40 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
November 12
November 19
November 26
- No class: Thanksgiving holiday
December 3
- Presentations for Assignment 7
December 10
- Final Exam -- begins at 6:30 (until 9:00)