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Jayant
Rajgopal
1039
Benedum Hall
Industrial
Engineering
University
of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh,
PA 15261
Tel.
+1 412 624 9840
Fax +1
412 624 9831
rajgopal@pitt.edu
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Please
be sure to check this page on a regular basis
for updated announcements relating to the
course.
 Date:
February 09, 2012
I have
posted HW5 on extensions to the Simplex
method, as well as solutions to HW4.
PRIOR ANNOUNCEMENTS
Date:
February 02, 2012
- Here
are the final project
groups (along with contact information)
based on the preferences
I received. For those I did not hear
from, I made the assignments. Please get to know your team
members and start brainstorming ideas for a
suitable project - take a look at
some of the project reports from past years
that I have placed on reserve in the
Engineering library. I would like a final
one-page proposal from each group before
spring break. That way you'll have over
a month to work on the actual project.
- I have posted HW4 (due next
Thursday); solutions to HW3 will be
available some time tomorrow.
Date:
January 26, 2012
- I have posted HW3 (due
next Thursday) and solutions to HW2 that you
handed in today.
- If you haven't already done
so, please let me know your groups for the
term project. Refer to my announcement
from Jan 12 for guidelines on what I want the
groups to look like. If I have not heard
from you by tomorrow (Friday) evening, I
will assign you to a suitable group - my goal
is for all groups to be fixed by next Monday
so that you can meet with your team members
and start kicking around some ideas for a
suitable project
Date:
January 23, 2012
On
HW2, let's hold off on the last two questions
(Problems 51-Silvco and 52-Recycling) until next
week - I think it's better for you to wait and
see more on formulations this week before
attempting to answer these. So the only
problems due on the 26th are 6, 17, 27 and 50 -
a little less work this week but a little more
next week! If you want you can certainly
work on the other two problems but you will only
be handing these in as part of HW3. I have
revised the file with the homework (hw2.pdf) to reflect this.
Date: January 19, 2012
- I have posted HW2, as well as
solutions to HW1. Please start early on
this one; you can definitely
expect it to take significantly more time than
the first assignment.
- I hope you have started to
form your project groups...
Date: January 12, 2012
- I have posted HW1 on simple
LP models; this is due at the beginning of
class a week from today (Jan 19).
- Please start thinking about
your project groups - you can form your own (3
to 4-person) groups, but I want each group to
be diverse in terms of backgrounds and
skills. So the rules are that each group
should have
- at least one, but definitely
no more
than two part-time working
professionals,
- one MBA/MSIE student or
student NOT majoring in IE (there are 8 or 9
such students, so we should be able to form
groups with one in each), and
- no more than one from the
same country of origin (with international students).
- I might wind up having to
make some exceptions, but I will enforce the
above guidelines to the extent possible;
remember that real-world O.R. project teams
typically have people from all sorts of
backgrounds and you have to be able to work
with people having diverse viewpoints!
- Start to talk with your
classmates and start getting to know each
other so that you can begin to form a
group. If you have trouble finding a
group, I will put you in one; however, I would
like you to do this on your own if at all
possible. I would like to have a list of
members for each group (along with e-mail
addresses) no later than Thursday, January 26
(two weeks from now). You can hand this
in to me in class or e-mail the list to me any
time between now and then.
- I will also place on reserve
in the library, copies of several project
reports from previous years so that you can
take a look at these.
Date: January 5, 2012
- I will update this page any
time I have an announcement that I would like
to make or when I have a document for you to
download off the web - typically, these will
be homework assignments and their solutions
which can be obtained from the homework assignments
page.
- Most documents will be made
available as pdf files.
- For a further discussion on
the introductory material on O.R. from the
first day's lecture, here is a relevant chapter that
appears in the 5th edition of Maynard's
Industrial Engineering Handbook - you may also
download a pdf version (or-intro.pdf).
- Also,
check out the Related
Links page for a number of interesting
OR related links on the web.
IMPORTANT:
The class notes are on-line in the Web Documents page.
I may add some more stuff as we go along and
if I do, I will let you know. Please print
these out and collate them as a notebook; bring
these notes with you to class each and every
class session
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