MAN 316  Operations Research
Spring 2011 - 2012
Dr.Ayşegül Taş
 

Class & Laboratory Meetings
Required Text and Materials
Course Description
Weekly Course Plan
Grading Policie

 

MAN 316 QUIZ and MIDTERM RESULTS

 

 



Class Meetings

Section 01 

09:40 - 11:30 on Monday   (Place: K103 )

10:40 - 12:30 on Wednesday    (Place: K 104 )

Section 02

09:40 - 11:30 on Thursday   (Place: KA 02)

09:40 - 11:30 on Friday    (Place: K 104)

 

 

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Required Text and Materials

a) Instructor's lecture notes
b) Text Book: Anderson, Sweeney, Williams; An Introduction to Management Science, Quantitative Approaches To Decision Making, 12th Ed., Thomson , 2008.

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Course Description

Network analysis, CPM and PERT, non-linear program, Kuhn-Tucker conditions, inventory management and control, dynamic programming, waiting lines, Markov processes, transition probabilities and matrices, absorbing chains, heuristics, simulation, future developments, and business applications.

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Weekly Course Plan

Week

Date

Lecture Topics

1

Feb 13 - 17

Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM

Feb 20 - 24

Project Scheduling with known activity times

3

Feb 27 - Mar 2

Project Scheduling with uncertain activity times

4

Mar 5 - 9

Integer Programming, The Branch-and-Bound Mehods.

5

Mar 12 - 16

The Branch-and-Bound Mehods for Solving Mixed Integer Programming Problems.

6

Mar 19 - 23

Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Model

7

Mar 26-30

Economic Production Lot Size Model

8

Apr 2 - 6

Decision making without Probabilities

9

Apr 9 - 13

Midterm

10

Apr 16 - 20

Decision Making with Probabilities

11

Apr 23 - 227

Risk Analysisi and Sensitivity Analysis

12

Apr 30 -May 4

Queuing Theory.

13

May 7 - 11

Simulation.

14

May 14 - 18

General Review.

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Grading Policies
The final grade for this course will be determined by the following percentages:

Attandence

5 %

Quiz(s)

20 %

Midterm

35 %

Final

40%

TOTAL

100

 

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Last updated: February 13, 2012