Calendar 2015

Class Calendar, Fall 2015:

Class #, date, topics covered, and syllabus assignments to be completed after attending this class (Syllabus link):

  1. 8/25 Course overview.
    Assignment 1
  2. 8/27 Forecasting, simple regression
    Assignment 2
  3. 9/1 Multiple regression, MLR, time-series forecasting
    Assignment 3
  4. 9/3 Time series, con’t; decision analysis.
    Assignments 4 and 5.
  5. 9/8 Decision trees
    Assignment 6
  6. 9/10 LP modeling
    Assignment 7
  7. 9/15 BLP, LP interpretation
    Assignment 8
  8. 9/17 LP interpretation, integer programming models
  9. 9/22 Integer programming model formulation, network optimization
    Assignment 9
  10. 9/24 Network flow models I
    Assignment 10
  11. 9/29 Network models II, aggregate scheduling
    Assignments 11 and 12
  12. 10/1 Exam 1: On campus in Caruth 147 (Vester Hughes Auditorium) Topics covered: regression, time series forecasting, decision analysis/trees, linear programming, BLP, integer programming modeling.
  13. 10/6 Sequencing and scheduling
    Assignment 13
  14. 10/8 Job-shop scheduling
    10/13 (Fall break, no class)
  15. 10/15 Facility design/layout, line-balancing
    Assignment 14
  16. 10/20 Line balancing, waiting lines
    Assignment 15
  17. 10/22 Queueing theory, simulation
    Assignment 16
  18. 10/27 Simulation 1
  19. 10/29 Simulation 2
    Assignment 17
  20. 11/3 Project Management 1
  21. 11/5  Exam 2
  22. 11/10 Project Management 2
    Assignment 19, 20
  23. 11/12 Inventory systems 1, independent demand
  24. 11/17 Inventory systems 2
    Assignment 21
  25. 11/19 MRP
    Assignment 22
  26. 11/24 Just-in-time
    Assignment 23 (optional readings)
    11/26 (Thanksgiving, no class)
  27. 12/1 Quality engineering, process improvement
    Assignment 25 (optional reading)
  28. 12/3 Statistical quality control
    Assignment 26

    12/11 Exam 3: (Final exam period) 11:30 a.m. - 12:55 p.m. On campus in Caruth 147 (Vester Hughes Auditorium) Topics: project management, inventory systems, MRP systems, just-in-time, statistical quality control
    1:00-2:25 p.m. Makeup exam. Topics: all covered this semester

     
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