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| 7.6.11 OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT (OM) Head: Professor Michael D. Conerly, Office: 300 Alston Hall OM 420 Computer Simulation (same as OM 420). Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 310. Development and use of systems models for simulating administrative decision-making processes. OM 425 Effective Quality Management. Three hours. Prerequisites: Permission of student's advisor. Provide participants with a broad understanding of philosophies and methods used to enhance organizational effectiveness in a wide range of organizational settings. OM 491 Independent Study in Operations Management. Three hours. Students may earn degree credit for only one independent study course (491). OM 492 Internship. Three hours. Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and a GPA of 2.50 or higher. Students may earn degree credit for only one internship (492). Students are selected through a competitive process for assignments in approved business or public-sector organizations. The internship is administered through the C&BA Office of Student Services. OM 497 Special Topics. Three hours. OM 500 Linear and Network Optimization. Three hours. Prerequisite: MATH 121 or equivalent. Mathematical programming techniques in the decision-making process. Attention is given to the assumptions, development, and administrative implications of linear programming models and network models. OM 506 Operations Research for Decision Making. Three hours. Corequisite: Admission to the M.B.A. program and ST 509. Operations research concepts and applications in decision making. Emphasis is on problem formulation and interpretation of results using computer-based solution procedures. OM 516 Operations Management. Three hours. Prerequisite: ST 509. This course will address the important concepts and issues related to the design and management of business operations including manufacturing, distribution, logistics, transportation, and service operations. The course will demonstrate how certain quantitative methods can be applied to the analysis and solution of problems that arise in operations management. OM 517 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500 or OM 506. This course provides a framework and quantitative methods for designing, managing, and analyzing the supply chain operations needed to support a firm's business strategy. Students will study the structure of supply chain operations in terms of the following categories: facilities, information, inventory and transportation. Students will analyze the relationship between supply chain structure and performance through case studies and examples that require students to develop analytical models to support their conclusions. OM 522 Operations Scheduling Problems. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500 or OM 506. A broad investigation of a variety of scheduling activities in production, logistics or service environment are discussed. Typical topics include project scheduling, job-shop scheduling, routing related problems and manpower scheduling. OM 523 Inventory Management. Three hours. Prerequisite: ST 509 or ST 550 or ST 560. Control techniques for the large multi-term inventories frequently associated with manufacturing supply and wholesale-retail operations are studied. The limitations and usefulness of models in actual practice are discussed. Coverage includes reorder-point procedures, single-period problems, and dynamic situations. OM 524 Manufacturing Scheduling and Control Systems. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500 or OM 506 AND ST 509 or ST 550 or ST 560. An in-depth, analytical study of the systems used in manufacturing planning and control are covered. Alternative approaches used in practice (such as MRP and JIT) are studied. OM 525 Effective Quality Management. Three hours. Prerequisites: None. Provide participants with a broad understanding of philosophies and methods used to enhance organizational effectiveness in a wide range of organizational settings. OM 530 Linear Programming Models. Three hours. Prerequisite: MATH 255 or permission of the instructor. Theory and applications of linear programming models in decision making. Attention is given to primal and dual formulations, solution algorithms, sensitivity analysis, and special cases. OM 531 Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500. A survey of multiple-criteria decision-making concepts and methodologies used in business, including linear multi-objective programming, goal programming, compromise programming, and multidimensional risk and utility. OM 532 Integer Programming. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500 or equivalent. The theoretical foundations of integer programming are outlined. Applications to management science problem areas are discussed. Solution procedures are developed. OM 534 Nonlinear Programming. Three hours. Prerequisites: MATH 227 and MATH 255, or permission of the instructor. Convex sets and functions, optimality conditions, Lagrangian duality, constrained and unconstrained optimization techniques, penalty and barrier functions, and methods of feasible directions and applications. OM 536 Network Analysis and Dynamic Programming. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500. Spanning tree, shortest-route, maximum flow, assignment, and transportation and transshipment problems in business administration and their generalizations. Multistage problem solving, decomposition, and recursive equations for final state and initial-final state optimization. OM 540 Systems Simulation. Three hours. Prerequisites: ST 509 or ST 550 or ST 560. A study of the management applications of stochastic and deterministic mathematical and computer models in systems design and analysis. OM 542 Systems Simulation II. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 540. Methodology of systems simulation, including modeling, model inputs, simulation mechanics, output analysis, validation, and design of simulation experiments. OM 550 Production Management Methods. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 520. An analytical study of a specific production-management functional area's support systems and databases (such as forecasting, scheduling, or manufacturing decision making). The particular topic will vary from semester to semester; consult department for scheduled topic. OM 591 Independent Study in Operations Management. Three hours. OM 592 Internship in Operations Management. Three hours. OM 597 Special Topics in Operations Management. Variable credit. OM 598 Research in Operations Management. Variable credit. Open to students nearing completion of coursework for the master's degree. A supervised study and investigation of specific problems in management and operations management. OM 599 Thesis Research in Operations Management. Variable credit. OM 601 Stochastic Decisions Models. Three hours. Prerequisite: MATH 557. Probabilistic models in the decision-making process are discussed. Attention is given to the assumptions, development, and administrative implications of dynamic programming, queuing analysis, and decision analysis. OM 602 Integer and Nonlinear Optimization. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500. Advanced optimization models are introduced and discussed. Topics include integer programming models and nonlinear programming models, and solution techniques for these problems. OM 620 Production Management Models. Three hours. Prerequisite: OM 500. A quantitative study of models and procedures used in various decision problems addressed by production and operations managers is completed in this course. Mathematical modeling and optimization software packages are used in solving these models. OM 622 Theory of Production Scheduling. Three hours. Prerequisites: OM 522. A rigorous mathematical treatment of various scheduling models and techniques are covered. Topics include performance measures, complexity theory, single machine sequencing, flowshop scheduling, the job-shop problem, and priority dispatching. OM 623 Inventory Theory. Three hours. Prerequisites: OM 523, MATH 557, and ST 550 or ST 560. A rigorous, mathematical treatment of stochastic single- and multi-item inventory models is performed. A numerical analysis and software package is used to implement and analyze such models. OM 697 Special Topics. Variable credit. OM 698 Research in Operations Management. Three hours. Open to students nearing completion of coursework for the Ph.D. degree. A supervised study and investigation of specific problems in management and operations management. OM 699 Dissertation Research. Variable credit. Three-hour minimum. |
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