Syllabus OR 5001, Fall Semester 2001

Syllabus Operations Research 5001, Fall Semester 2001

Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday (excluding Nov 22) in Q9 from 5 to 6:15 in the evening. Also, see the calendar for a complete list of the happenings in this class.
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday in S311 from 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Also by appointment. Appointments may be scheduled in person, by phone (674-7485), or via e-mail.
Text: Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms by Wayne Winston (3rd edition), Chapters 1-9.
Description: An applied treatment of modeling, analysis and solution of deterministic operations research problems. Topics include model formulation, linear programming, network flow and transportation problems and algorithms, integer programming and dynamic programming. (Prerequisite: At least one upper-level undergraduate math course.)
Homework Assignments: There will be 11 weekly homework assignments. They are available in class (and as PDF Files on the lecture's web page). Homeworks will be collected and selected problems will be graded. Instead of collection of homeworks, there may be a quiz during class on the homework material.
Midterm Exams: There will be 3 midterm exams during class. These exams will be announced and announcements will be posted on the calendar at least one week in advance.
Final Exam: The final exam is comprehensive and will be on Tuesday, Dec 11 from 6 to 8 in the evening.
Grading Policy: Each of the eleven homework assignments is worth 50 points, each of the three hour exams 80 points, and the final exam 210 points. Hence the emphasis on the final amount of points is weighted as follows:

Homework Exams Final
55 % 24 % 21 %
Altogether 1000 points are available. A personal password may be used to obtain the personal scores from the web page. Note that these scores as well as the estimated final grades are updated weekly. The final grade will be determined according to the following table:

F D C B A

- 599 600 - 699 700 - 799 800 - 899 900 -

Homework	Exams	Final
55 %	24 %	21 %

F	D	C	B	A
- 599	600 - 699	700 - 799	800 - 899	900 -