Date Pages              Topics                                        Assignment Due             Notes

8/26/99 59-87      Course Intro; Forecasting Review       —                  See web site
8/31 87-93          Seasonal Forecasting                          2.28                   —
9/2  94-99            Winter’s Method                               2.33                   —
9/7  99-108         Tracking Signals; Lost Sales               2.41, 2.49          —
9/9  121-139       Aggregate Planning Review                 H/O 1               on web site
9/14 139-151    Transportation & LP Techniques         3.14                   —
9/16 151-155   Other OR Techniques                           3.21                   —
9/21 155-157   Disaggregation                                       —                  Also see H/O 2
9/23 157-162   Global planning                                      —                      —
9/28 211-242   Deterministic EOQ/EPQ review             —                      —
9/30 242-256   Resource constrained, multi-product     4.31                    —
10/5 265-282   Newsboy problem                               4.40                     —
10/7 282-295   Stochastic demand                                5.9                      —
10/14     300-313   Multi-echelon systems                     5.20               Paper topic 1
10/19     —         Review and pick-up test 1                  —                  lab time to noon
10/21     333-368   MRP                                              —                 Test due 10:30
10/26     369-377   Kanban                                          —                      —
10/28     378-384   JIT, MRP/JIT                                6.37                   —
11/2 397-422   Scheduling                                            —                  Paper topic 2
11/4 428-440 Stochastic Scheduling                             —                       —
11/9 447-452 Assembly line balancing                          —                    Also see H/O 3
11/11     H/O 3          Stochastic Assembly lines          7.34                       —
11/16     501-539   CPM/Pert review                           —                      Draft 1 due
11/18     539-546   Resource constraints                       —                          —
11/23     546-553   Organizational issues                      8.25                   Return draft
11/30     788-808   Recent Advances                               —                      —
12/2 —         Library research                                        —                      —
12/7 —         Review and pick-up Final                            Paper due
12/11          Final Exam due at 4:30 p.m.  Lab time from 2:30-4:30

Grading will be approximately 90-80-70-60, never tighter.  Historically grades have been 35% A,
35% B, 20% C, and 10% D/F in my sections of this course.  The mid-term will count 80 points,
the final 100.  The paper will count 40 and homework will count 80–14 at 5 points each.  Late
work will, in general, not be accepted.

The paper should be 4-8 pages in length with references (in any proper engineering format) from
significant sources (IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Intl. Journal
of Production Research, Management Science, Operations Research, Intl. Journal of IE Applications
& Practice, etc.)  One inch margins and 1.5 spacing should be used.  As a minimum, introduce your
topic, develop a position, and reach a conclusion.  You are a senior engineer writing a position paper
for your chief engineer.

The above schedule and procedures are subject to change in the event of extenuating
circumstances.  Any student with difficulty in meeting these requirements should contact the
instructor as soon as possible for an attempt to resolve the difficulty.  This especially includes any
scheduled absences due to interviews or plant trips.  The student is expected to have met the
published pre-requisites for this course.  Any student who has not met these should immediately
contact their academic advisor.