Mathematical Tools for Engineering and Management

TU Berlin, Winter term 2011

News

A sample solution for Exercise Session 6 and a template for the homework on Exercise Sheet 7 in form of .amb-files can be donwloaded from this page. For using an .amb-file create an AIMMS project with the same name as the name of the .amb-file (without the suffix .amb), open the folder of the new project, and replace the .amb-file in the folder with the .amb file you have downloaded.

Schedule

Classes	Wed	10:15 - 11:45	PTZ 307	Dr. Rüdiger Stephan
Exercise session	Wed	12:15 - 13:45	PTZ 307	Dr. Rüdiger Stephan

Modern engineering and management requires the replacement of traditional trial and error approaches by formal methods. This teaching module addresses this issue. It teaches mathematical modelling and solution techniques, that lead to a clear understanding of the quantitative aspects of manufacturing processes and of their relations to resource and budget constraints, market forces, and technological innovation. Students shall be enabled to understand the main mathematical techniques employed in this area and to judge their appropriateness for particular instances in production engineering and management. After completion of this module, students are qualified to deal with complex quantitative decisions in a systematic way by exploitation of the appropriate decision support tools.

Lectures

Lecture	Date
Lecture 1	Oct 19
Lecture 2	Oct 26
Lecture 3	Nov 02
Lecture 4	Nov 09
Lecture 5	Nov 16
Lecture 6	Nov 23
Lecture 7	Nov 30
Lecture 8	Dec 07
Lecture 9	Dec 14
Lecture 10	Jan 04
Lecture 11	Jan 11
Lecture 12	Jan 18
Lecture 13	Jan 25
Lecture 14	Feb 01
Revision	Feb 08

Exercises

Exercise sheet	Date
Sheet 1	Oct 19
Sheet 2	Oct 26
Sheet 3	Nov 09
Sheet 4	Nov 16
Sheet 5	Nov 23	FAP.dat	DLP_Netherlands.dat
Sheet 6	Nov 30	Berlin.txt	BerlinLarge.txt	TSP_BranchCut.amb Sample solution
Sheet 7	Dec 07	dmst.txt		traveling.amb A template for the homework
Sheet 8	Dec 14	GloPE.txt
Sheet 9	Jan 04
Sheet 10	Jan 11
Sheet 11	Jan 18
Sheet 12	Jan 25
Sheet 13	Feb 01
	Feb 08	Bertsimas and Freund Section 9.6 Second case module	Supply Chain Management at Dellmar

Literature

Dimitris Bertsimas, Robert M. Freund, Data, Models, And Decisions: The Fundamentals Of Management Science, South-Western College Publishing, 2000