COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE MODELING WITH SPREADSHEETS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
END 4918 MANAGEMENT SCIENCE MODELING WITH SPREADSHEETS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Industrial Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FEHMI BURÇIN ÖZSOYDAN

Offered to

Industrial Engineering

Course Objective

With this course, it is aimed to develop the coding and MS Excel usage skills of the students and to achieve professional gains suitable for the Industry 4.0 era we are in, by introducing the DSS applications that DEU Industrial Engineering Department students may need in their professional lives, with MS Excel environment.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding decision support systems and their importance
2   Learning the use of MS Excel and the advantages it can provide in professional life
3   Gain the ability to solve and interpret various engineering problems with MS Excel Solver
4   Ability to record, edit and code problem-solving macros with Visual Basic Applications (VBA)
5   Ability to use MS Excel Solver autonomously and semi-autonomously via VBA
6   To be able to use Monte Carlo Simulation techniques with MS Excel and VBA.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to decision support systems: What is DSS, what are its uses
2 MS Excel presentation
3 MS Excel functions presentation and sample applications
4 Visual Basic programming language introduction and applications
5 Visual Basic programming language introduction and applications
6 Application and problem solving about MS Excel Solver
7 MS Excel Macro recording, editing and encoding (VBA) applications
8 MS Excel Macro recording, editing and encoding (VBA) applications
9 MS Excel Macro recording, editing and encoding (VBA) applications
10 Decision support system development and sample applications with MS Excel and VBA
11 Decision support system development and sample applications with MS Excel and VBA
12 Decision support system development and sample applications with MS Excel and VBA
13 Monte Carlo Simulation with MS Excel
14 Project presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Kapanoğlu, M., Saraç, T., Orhan, I., Karar destek sistemleri, Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, ISBN: 978-975-06-2077-5
2) Business Intelligence and Analytics Sysmtes for Decision Support, Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen, Efraim Turban, 10th Ed., Pearson, ISBN: 1-292-00920-9

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In-class applications, midterm, project and final

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm (%30) + Project (%20) + Final Exam(%50)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

In-class applications, midterm, project and final

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

burcin.ozsoydan@deu.edu.tr, Tel. +90-232-3017630

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing group assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.14
LO.2445
LO.345
LO.45
LO.545
LO.6445

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