Jonathan Eckstein's Operations Management Classes 33:623:386:04/05
This page is for my Spring 2005 classes.
Follow this link if you want to view Spring
2004 or earlier information.
Announcements (As of
November 03, 2005 04:43 PM)
- It's over!
- In terms of average and median score, this exam was pretty typical for a
final for this course: the mean was 74.7 and the median was 76.4. The
mean for my sections was 74.2, or about the same as the overall average.
- However, it appeared to be very hard to get over 90 on this exam; there
were a lot of people in the 80's.
- The grade distribution worked out that there were a lot of B+ grades and
fewer A's and B's than usual.
- I have posted course grades to the Rutgers administrative computing
system, and they should appear on the
Rutgers
ACS Transcript Site by 6 AM Thursday, May 12.
- Your final exam grades may be retrieved from the
FAS
Gradebook System. Your course grade is also there, as a "comment"
on the final exam grade.
- I impose a 1-week "cooling off" period for student grade inquiries.
I will not respond to requests for explanations of grades etc. until May 18.
- Click here for changes to the
final exam study guide on pages 295-296 of the course pack.
- There are no more office hours this semester, except by appointment
- Refer to the YASAI website to
download the software onto your own computers
- Solutions to all homework assignments may be found at the end of this web
page.
Usual Office Hour Schedule
My office is in the J. H. Levin building, room 255. Regular
office hours are:
- Monday 2:30 - 4:30 PM
- Thursday 2:30 - 4:30 PM
- Or other times by appointment.
Handouts and Class Materials
Note: (CP xxx) means page xxx of the course pack.
- Tuesday, January 18: (covered by substitute instructor) Overview, Introduction, and First Example
- Friday, January 21: Learning to use Solver [in
lab]
- Tuesday, January 25: The geometry of linear programming
- Friday, January 28: What is linearity, introducing SUMPRODUCT
- Tuesday, February 1: Process models
- Friday, February 4: Simple network structured models -- multiple periods
and transportation
- Tuesday, February 8: Blending constraints
- Friday, February 11: Miscellaneous LP modeling techniques and combining
previous techniques
- Tuesday, February 15: Combining previous techniques into more complicated
models
- Friday, February 18: Project scheduling
- Tuesday, February 22: Discuss format of first midterm, introduce
integer variables
- Friday, February 25: Grids of binary variables, work through some
review problems
- Tuesday, March 1: First Midterm Exam
- Friday, March 4: Set covering, set partitioning, and logic
constraints
- Tuesday, March 8: Results of first midterm, fixed charge and
disjunctive models
- Friday, March 11: More complicated integer programming models
- Week of March 14-18 -- Spring Break (enjoy!)
- Tuesday, March 22: Introducing probability and simulation
- Friday, March 25: Binomial distributions, in-class YASAI exercise
[in lab]
- Tuesday, March 29: Poisson distributions, testing combinations of
PARAMETERS
- Friday, April 1: Continuous variables, variance and standard
deviation, central limit theorem
- Tuesday, April 5: Start discussing midterm, miscellaneous models
with continuous random variables
- Friday, April 8: Introducing multi-period simulation, review for
algebra portion of second midterm
- Tuesday, April 12: Second Midterm Exam
- Friday, April 15: Waiting in line
- Tuesday, April 19: Return exams, review results of exam, sizing a
service facility
- Friday, April 22: Dynamic simulation with age tracking (this class
should be shorter than usual)
- Tuesday, April 26: Discrete-event simulation, exponential/geometric
distributions, fill out teacher evaluation forms
- Friday, April 29 (last class!): Review for final exam
Homework Solutions
Unless otherwise noted, solutions are in Adobe PDF format, and can be viewed
with
Adobe Reader.
