Engineering 5: Introduction to Engineering Practice
Class Materials
- Administrative Information
- Overview of the Information and Systems Engineering Program
- Diet Problem Spreadsheet
- Excel Sample File
- Excel Solver Sample File
Project Materials
Reference Texts
- Operations Research Models and Methods, P. Jensen — a fantastic on-line introduction to OR including Excel add-ins
Tutorials
Web Guides and Reference Sites
- What is Operations Research? — The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ over view of this career field
- INFORMS Web site — the professional society for Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS)
- INFORMS News Room — lots of information about OR/MS
- The INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection — an extensive collection of OR links
- INFORMS Student Union — INFORMS resources for students
- Interfaces — am INFORMS journal devoted to the practice of OR/MS
- The World of Operations Reearch and Management Science
- NEOS Guide — a good overview of optimization
- e-Optimization.com — a good collection of information about optimization
- Harvey Greenburg’s Courseware Page
- Mathematical Programming Glossary
- Guide to Optimization Software
- The Traveling Salesman Problem — a page devoted to the world’s best-known optimization problem
- Math World — an amazing on-line mathematics encyclopedia.
List of Pointers to More Sites
- Introduction to Optimization course at MIT — lots of good pointers to sites about optimization.
- OR/MS pointers at OpsResearch.com
- Yahoo’s Operations Research page
- John Mitchell’s optimization pointers
- Kevin Wayne’s OR/CS links
Case Studies and News Items
- OR/MS in the News
- Math Programming in Action
- Cap Gemini Enrst and Young Case Studies Database
- LINDO Model Library
- Application Showcase at e-optimization.com
- Facility location case study — referenced in lecture
- NEOS Case Studies — includes an interactive version of the Diet Problem
Java Applets and Interactive Cases
- The Interactive Warehouse
- The Remote Interactive Optimization Testbed (RIOT) Page
- NEOS Case Studies — includes an interactive version of the Diet Problem
- NEOS Java Graphical LP Solver
- List of Java Applets at the INFORMS Resources site
- LP exlorer — 2 dimensional linear programs
Timetabling Links
- Timetabling Software
- International Timetabling Competition
- A page about the timetabling process — contains a list of links to timetabling resources
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