MgS 8140 Spring 2010

MgS 8140 Management Science

Monday 4:30-7:00 324 Aderhold Spring 2010 Click here for Syllabus

Schedule
Dr. Thomas Whalen

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		Read before class!	Whalen & Churchill Textbook 2010 Edition: p 1-27 p 28-49 p 50-73 Problems p. 74-81
1	Jan 11	1-12	The Management Science process A Very Simple Resource Allocatio n Problem Sensitivity Analysis	Widgets/Gadgets Basic Widgets/Gadgets Graph Gray Box Diagram
	Jan 18		Martin Luther King Holiday
2	Jan 25	11-12	"Allowable" Increases and Decreases Overtime and expansion at Widgetrs&Gadgets	Juicy Probklems
3	Feb 1	13-27	Simple Resource Allocation: Beau Jarble Dimensional Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis Supplementary Variables	Beau Jarble Spreadsheet w/ Graph Jarble w/ Cost Accounting Jarble w/Supplementary Variables	Turn in Homework 1: Seasick memo
4	Feb 8	28-38	Resource allocation: multiple products Multiple Products with Supplementary Variables	Hardcase	In-class "lab:" Hammersham
5	Feb 15	39-41 Cases	Preliminary Project Presentations: NO NUMBERS Financial Allocation; Formulation Issues Proportionality Constraints	Neighborly Loans	Turn in Homework 2: Hammersham printout
6	Feb 22	42-45	Shift Coverage Assignment Problems: Intro to Matrices	Scheduling Waiters Yödelheim Ministry of Transport Assigning Salesmen Child Placement	In-class "lab:" Crashcar Enterprises (problem 2)
7	Mar 1	1-49	In-Class Midterm

March 8: Spring Break

8	Mar 15	46-49	Linear Transportation Models Trans-Shipment with limited capacity routes Trans-Shipment w/ limited capacity warehouses	Transportation Problems Georgia Crackers Toxic Waste Cleanup	Turn in Homework 3: Crashcar. printout In-class "lab:" Yups R Us (problem 8)
9	Mar 22	50-55	Simple Blending: Total Cost, 1 Blend, 2 Inputs, s.t. underlying qual. Cost/gallon, 1 Blend, 2 Inputs, s.t. underlying qual Contribution, 1 Blend, 3 Inputs, s.t.ingred. %	Eggs vs Oatmeal Bad Boyz Breakfast Snako Oil: one product	Turn in Homework 4: Yups R Us
10	Mar 29	56-69	Multiple Blending: Contribution, 2 Blends, 3 Inputs, s.t. ingred. %, Blending labor	Snako Oil: two products Home Theaters
11	Apr 5	69-73 77	Multi-Period Inventory Single & Multi-Period Finance	6-month Ecowagen EcoWagen prob 6 Capital Budgeting	Turn in Homework 5: Snako memo
12	Apr 12	75	Production, Inventory, Finance all together!	FollyGlass Questions	Turn in Homework 6: Simplified Sna ko
13	Apr 19		Goal Programming	Widgets and Gadgets Advertising Media
14	Apr 26		Portfolios by Quadratic Programming Ticket Price: Quadratic & Binary Programming	Portfolios Ticket price
15	May 3		Final Project Presentations Summary and Review Q&A on final and project	Preview of Final
Monday May 10			Final Exam Due, Project Due

Project and final must be turned in ON PAPER in the Managerial Sciences office on the 10th floor of 35 Broad Street no later than 5PM Monday May 10
Alternatively, you may fax the final and project to 1-626-605-2586 (Note this is not an Atlanta area number) or email a pdf version, but all electronic submissions must be sent no later than 11:59 PM Friday May 7.
Email submissions in Eacel or Word form will not be accepted, ONLY pdf.
However, in addition to printing out your project spreadsheets, please also email them to

. Please try hard to send them in Classic Excel format (.xls suffix) rather than Excel 2007 format (.xlsx suffix). Excel 2007 can easily produce classic Excel files.