We developed a custom publishing text with Prentice-Hall. It includes portions from the following Prentice-Hall books:

Design Concepts for Engineers, Horenstein

Engineering Design, Horenstein

Operations Management by R.Russell and B. Taylor

Optimization in Operations Research, by Ronald Rardin: chapters 1,2.

Discrete-Event System Simulation, by J. Banks, J. Carson, B. Nelson, chapters 1,2, 3.

Introductory Management Science, by G. Eppen, F. Gould, C.Schmidt, J. Moore, L. Weatherford. Chapter 1 (intro to modeling); Chapter 2, sections 2.4--2.7 (spreadsheet and linear models); Chapter 10 (decision analysis).

Mathematical Modeling for Industry and Engineering, by Thomas Svobodny, ISBN 0-13-260894-4 , pp. 342--347.

Also included: ``Introduction to System Dynamics''; ``The philosophy of the system dynamics method''; ``primary and secondary control of accumulation'', by Willard Fey.

Excel add-on software for simulation and optimization

Material on application of nonlinear and integer optimization for cancer treatment, by Eva Lee.