2030 Course Syllabus Summer 2000

5/15 Lecture 1 (.doc file) Course Goals. Core concepts. Class procedures and policies. Grading. Honor code.

5/17 Lecture 2 Manufacturing vs. service. Why manufacturing matters (slides omitted). Video. Categories of manufacturing operations -- custom, jobshop, batch, flow line, continuous -- and the product/process matrix. Project 1a) assigned.

5/19 Lecture 3 Tour of ``Old I.E.'' Why IEs are hated. Frederick Taylor, his story of Schmidt. Time studies and meat machines.

5/22 Lecture 4 Fads and Trends in I.E. Process Flow Diagrams.

5/24 Lecture 5a Project management. Gantt charts. PERT/CPM.Lecture 5b

Lecture 5a slides in powerpoint

Lecture 5b slides in powerpoint

Lab this week: section. Process flow diagrams, Project 1 exercise on queue stability.

5/26 Lecture 6 Flow units, throughput, inventory, Little's Law.

Monday 5/29 HOLIDAY

5/31 Lecture 7 Decision Analysis (see pp. 241-246 of Models text). Project 2a) assigned.

Lab this week: Project 1a presentations.

6/2 Lecture 8 Decision Trees continued; PERT introduction ;

6/5 Lecture 9 Guest Lecturer: Dr. T. Govindaraj. Effective and ineffective visual display of information. Possible quiz.

6/7 Lecture 10 What is a model? Models that explain; models that predict. Data collection, AIDS needle study video. Quiz likely.

Lab this week: modeling the eye, Poisson processes, Geiger counters, explaining adjustments to light intensity

6/9 Lecture 11 Intro to system dynamics models: influence diagrams, positive and negative feedback.

2004: Single lecture on system dynamics, Easter Island, and sustainability. Also see Primer on sustainability by Carol Carmichael.

6/12 Lecture 12 System dynamics: delay, oscillation, natural systems. System archetypes, such as escalation, success to the successful , and tragedy of the commons.

6/14 Lecture 13 System dynamics: whales, Easter Island. Project 1b) assigned

Lab this week: See-saw, feedback loops with delay. Easter Island/Earth Island discussion; archetypes.

6/16 Lecture 14 Senior design presentations.

6/19 Lecture 15 Earth Island: Solutions. Environmental Solutions: Georgia Tech vision; Role of IEs, see Sustainability. The Natural Step. Natural capitalism (Lovins,Lovins,Hawken). References: "The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken; "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

6/21 Site Visit (lecture and lab):

  • General Motors Auto Assembly. Buffers, bottlenecks, simulation. Even birthdate (e.g. March 20 1989) meet 12:45PM Doraville plant. Visit starts at 1:00. Long sleeved shirts REQUIRED. Do not come in if you are not wearing long sleeves nor if are late.
  • UPS (odd birthdate).

    Attire: business casual or as noted. Reading: "Why and How to Take a Plant Tour," pages 14-23, Modeling text.

    6/23 Lecture 16 Introduction to simulation. Trials, steady state, startup, random number generators, variability.

    6/26 Lecture 17 Red Bead Game. Variability. A teaching tool.

    6/28 Lecture 18 Simulation II: basic concepts such as Future Event List; hand simulations. Project 2b) assigned.

    Lab this week: buffers in a flow line siM&Mulation.

    Project 2b (traffic simulation) asssigned.

    6/30 Lecture 19 Simulation III: more hand simulations; testing and validation.

    7/3 Lecture 20 Note: homework from the previous week will be due on Wednesday 7/5 rather than today, Monday 7/3. More simulation or Hewlett-Packard manufacturing Edelman video.

    Lab this week: work and help for simulation project 2b

    7/5 Lecture 21 Shortest path models.

    7/7 Lecture 22 Optimization models: basic concepts. Algorithm, model, tradeoffs between generality and solvability, optimal solution.

    Project 2b due. Project 2c (simulation validation) assigned. See also the end of Lecture 18

    7/10 Lecture 23 Network and Linear Programming formulation I.

    7/12 Lecture 24 Linear Programming formulation II. Project 2c) assigned.

    Vending machine mini-project (Project 4a) assigned.

    7/14 Lecture 25 Linear programming formulation III.

    7/17 Lecture 26 Integer programming formulation I.

    7/19 Lecture 27 The modeling process: Dr. Leon McGinnis, guest lecturer.

    7/21 Lecture 28 Integer Programming Modeling II.

    7/24 Dead week. Projects 2c and 4a due. No quizzes this week.

    Lecture 29: Integer Programming Modeling III.

    Lecture 30 7/26 Nonlinear programming models.

    Lab this week: traffic or vending project presentations.

    7/28 last day of classes Lecture 29 Course summary, review, insights.

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