Jonathan Eckstein's Operations Management Classes 33:623:386:01
This page is for my Fall 2009 class.
For limited-distribution materials such as
homework solutions, I am also using the Sakai
website for this class.
Announcements (As of
January 20, 2010 01:54 PM)
- It's over!
- Final exam grades are posted on Sakai.
- The class did very well on the final exam, with many scores in the
90's.
- The class average was 86.4, which is not quite as high as the second
midterm, but very respectable indeed.
- Question 2 (blending constraints and algebra) was the hardest, with an
average score of about 79%. The other questions were all similar
in difficulty, with average scores between 87% and 90%.
- Nobody got 100; the high score was 98.0
- Course grades have been submitted to the ACS
system and should be viewable after the next system refresh, which
should be around 6AM on December 24, 2009
- I observe a 1-2 week "cooling off" period between the posting of
final exam and course grades and any communication with students about
them. If you e-mail me concerning your grades, I will probably not
reply until January 2010. The only exceptions would be if a graduation
or dismissal occurs during the "cooling off" period.
- Regular office hours are now over for the semester. I will be
posting office hours for next semester shortly (probably Mondays and
Wednesdays).
Usual Office Hour Schedule
My office is in the J. H. Levin building, room 255. My usual office hour
schedule is as follows:
- Tuesday 2:30 - 4:30 PM
- Friday 2:30 - 4:00 PM
- Or other times by appointment.
I will depart from this schedule in special circumstances, as noted in the
announcements section above.
Handouts and Class Materials
Note: (CP xxx) means page xxx of the course pack.
- Wednesday, September 2: Overview, introduction, and first example
- Tuesday, September 8: Learning to use Solver
[in
lab]
Students with last names starting with A-L attend lab 3:20-4:00, last names
starting with M-Z attend lab 4:00-4:40
- Wednesday, September 9: The geometry of linear programs and
"graphical solution"
- Monday, September 14: Linearity, the diet Problem, and SUMPRODUCT
- Wednesday, September 15: Input-output process modeling
- Monday, September 21: Simple network-structured models -- multiple
periods and transportation
- Wednesday, September 23: Blending constraints
- Monday, September 28: Blending constraints combined with other
things both old and new
- Wednesday, September 30: Combining "blocks" of familiar models into
larger ones
- Monday, October 5: Project scheduling
- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to integer variables, review for
midterm
- Monday, October 12: First midterm exam
(proctored by Olga Myndyuk)
- Wednesday, October 14: "Grids" of binary variables
[substitute
instructor: Prof. Alizadeh]
- Monday, October 19: Set covering, set partitioning, and logic
constraints
- Wednesday, October 21: Results of first midterm, fixed charge and
disjunctive models
- Monday, October 26: More complicated integer programming models
- Wednesday, October 28: Introducing probability and simulation
- Monday, November 2: Binomial distributions, in-class YASAI exercise
[in lab]
Students with last names starting with A-L attend lab 3:20-4:00, last names
starting with M-Z attend lab 4:00-4:40
- Wednesday, November 4: More probability, Poisson distributions,
testing combinations of YASAI parameters
- Monday, November 9: More probability, continuous random variables,
and the 3-door example problem
- Wednesday, November 11: Sums and averages of random variables, and using
the central limit theorem in simulation
- Monday, November 16: Second midterm exam
- Wednesday, November 18: Introducing multi-period simulation, go over
results of second midterm
- Monday, November 23: Waiting in line
- No class Wednesday, November 25
- Monday, November 30: More multi-period simulation -- sizing a
service facility, begin discussion of final exam
- Wednesday, December 2: Dynamic simulation with age tracking, review
for final (time permitting)
[Substitute Instructor]
- Monday, December 7: Discrete-event simulation, exponential/geometric
distributions, review for final (time permitting) [Substitute Instructor]
- Wednesday, December 9: Review for final exam
[Substitute Instructor]
- This class is a review session, so no notes will be posted
- Tuesday, December 22: Final exam, 12PM-3PM
(in the regular classroom)
Homework Solutions
Unless otherwise noted, solutions are in Adobe PDF format, and can be viewed
with
Adobe Reader.
This semester, all homework solutions will be stored on Sakai,
requiring a login. The links below direct you to resources within Sakai.