COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Marine Transportation Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SERIM PAKER

Offered to

Marine Transportation Engineering

Course Objective

This course is for students who are new to the topics of Operations Research. The course emphasizes the application of Operations Research for solving business problems. The students are expected to develop problem modeling and solving skills and to learn how to make intelligent business decisions from the optimization point of view. Game theory, decision analysis, network models, queueing systems, markov chains, non-linear programming, multi-criteria decision making and goal programming topics will be discussed to make the students capable of developing mathematical models concerning these topics and using special solution methods to find the best solutions to these models.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Winston W.L. (2004). Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, 4th edition, Brooks/Cole, CENGAGE Learning
Hillier F.S., Lieberman G.J. (2005). Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw-Hill Inc.
Taha H.A. (2003). Operations Research: An Introduction, Pearson Education Inc.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature review , Presentation and discussion , Case studies

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Knowledge about operation research at undergraduate level, having skills and competencies, research, analysis, interpretation, verbal and written expression skills and competencies will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Serim Paker
serim.paker@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Ilan edilecektir.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes