Operations management is an ever-expanding discipline that provides core support to the development of organizations in many industries. The optimizations of many industrial and managerial planning can be performed thru the use of operations management tools. The learning of these tools is an essential part of managers and engineering leaders. This course shall introduce concepts and techniques to students on common operations management topics, including engineering design, production schedule, logistic planning, and management decisions. It begins with a systematic view on the subject, with the stress on demonstrating mathematical tools and computational works using various examples. After the course, the students are expected to learn the use of these tools and can formulate solution strategy on new problems they encountered.
