Jonathan Eckstein's Operations Management Classes 33:623:386:06/08
This page is for my Spring 2004 classes.
Follow this link if you want to view Fall 2003 or earlier information.
Announcements (As of
August 26, 2008 10:11 AM)
The final exam is graded and I have assigned grades.
- My sections did worse than average on the final exam
- The mean score was 78.8, but my sections averaged only 76.0. By
historical standards, however, this is a good performance on a
comprehensive, challenging exam.
- Question 2 (staffing the call center) was hard; otherwise the scores
looked pretty good.
- To get your final exam grade, go to the
FAS
Gradebook System.
- To get your course letter grade, go to the
Rutgers
ACS Transcript Site (they should show up there by 6 AM, Wednesday, May
12)
If you want to meet with me to discuss your grade on the exam or for the course:
- Regular office hours are over for the semester; you must make an
appointment
- Due to busy travel plans, I regret that the earliest appointments I can
make would be for the week of May 24. I will be happy to meet with you
that week, or in June.
Homework solutions may be found at the bottom of this page.
(Now covering through homework assignment 11.)
Usual Office Hour Schedule
My office is in the J. H. Levin building, room 255. The following
is my usual schedule, but please look for exceptions in the "announcements"
section above:
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Tuesday 2:30-4:30 PM
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Thursday 2:30-4:30 PM
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I can meet with students at other times as well, but in that case you must make
an appointment
Handouts and Class Materials
Note: (CP xxx) means page xxx of the course pack.
- Wednesday, January 21: Overview, Introduction, and First Example
- Friday, January 23: Learning to use Solver (met in lab)
- Wednesday, January 28: Graphical solution method and geometry of
linear programming
- Friday, January 30: What is linearity? ...and, introducing
SUMPRODUCT (note: this class was taught by a TA, since I was required to
attend an important meeting in Newark)
- Wednesday, February 4: Process models and multi-stage production
- Friday, February 6: Common network constructs, "helper"
variables, doubly-subscripted variables
- Wednesday, February 11: Blending constraints (scheduled guest lecturer: Professor Shanno)
- Friday, February 13: Miscellaneous LP models (scheduled guest
lecturer: Professor Ruszczynski)
- Wednesday February 18: Building up bigger LP models
- Friday, February 20: Project scheduling
- Wednesday, February 25: Discuss midterm, introduction to integer programming --
knapsack and binary grid/assignment
- Friday, February 27: Binary variable grids, review for midterm
- Wednesday, March 3: First midterm exam
- Friday, March 5: Logic constraints, set covering, and set
partitioning
- Wednesday, March 10: Return exam, fixed charge problems
- Friday, March 12: More complicated IP models
- Wednesday, March 24: Start probability and simulation modeling
- Friday, March 26: More probability concepts, hands-on work with
YASAI (held in the lab).
- Wednesday, March 31: More probability concepts, and a problem with
multiple decision parameters
- Friday, April 2: More probability concepts including continuous
variables and the central
limit theorem
- Wednesday, April 7: Discuss midterm, more applications of continuous
variables
- Friday, April 9: Introducting multi-period simulation, review for
algebra portion of second midterm
- Wednesday, April 14: Second midterm exam
- Friday, April 16: Systems where things (or people) wait in line
- Wednesday, April 21: Return exams, review results of exam, sizing a
service facility
- Friday, April 23: A dynamic simulation where you keep track of ages
of things (this class should be shorter than usual)
- Wednesday, April 28: Discrete-event simulation, fill out SIRS forms
- Friday, April 30: Review for final exam
Homework Solutions
Most of these solutions are in PDF format. You can use
Acrobat Reader
software to view PDF files.
