Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
SOEL-0194
Organization's ID:
RRENG 82520
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
8 weeks (60 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Graduate 3 Engineering
Student must achieve a minimum of 80 percent for graduate credit.
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide an overview to engineers with an undergraduate engineering degree on the use of several Operations Research (OR) models involving allocating scarce resources efficiently to achieve important organizational objectives, formulating and assessing project plans to optimize the use of highly-constrained Army resources, and dealing with risk as a key element in decision making.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Formulate, solve, and analyze deterministic and probabilistic network techniques for project management including LP approaches for time/cost tradeoffs and risk assessment for the probability of project completion
  • Model, solve, and analyze probabilistic decision problems using decision trees incorporating expected value, sensitivity analysis, and value of additional information
  • Formulate, solve, and analyze linear programs (LP) and integer linear programs (ILP)

General Topics:

  • Linear and integer programming, networks techniques for project management scheduling, and decision analysis under conditions of risk
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises
Supplemental Materials