An introduction to the concepts of quality control and reliability. The role of MIL and ANSI standards in reliability and quality programs is also considered. This course is designed to be the capstone of the master's degree in Operations Research. The focus is on model development and implementation involved in the practice of operations research and management science. A key activity is the completion of a major applied group project.
Work includes project proposal, planning, completion, documentation, and presentation.
Application of analytic reasoning and skills to practical problems in decision making. Topics include problem structure, and analysis and solution implementation, emphasizing contemporary approaches to decision analytic techniques. Numerical methods have been developed to solve mathematical problems that lack explicit closed-form solutions or have solutions that are not amenable to computer calculations. Examples include solving differential equations or computing probabilities. This course discusses numerical methods for such problems as regression, analysis of variance, nonlinear equations, differential and difference equations, and nonlinear optimization.