Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

ISE 4140 - Introduction to Operations Research


Introduction to basic methods of operations research, modeling methods, linear programming, simplex method, transportation and assignment models, and integer programming.

Requisites: (ISE 1200 or ISE 1100) and MATH 3200
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to apply basic branch-and-bound method on small problems.
  • Students will be able to apply the Simplex method.
  • Students will be able to describe heuristic search methods.
  • Students will be able to distinguish between linear and nonlinear relations in various problems.
  • Students will be able to formulate a mathematical programming problem with objective function, constraints and decision variables.


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