Operations research and statistics
BI BM BN BR BEC
Dr Baikunth Nath/Associate Professor Philip Rayment
4.5 points * Full-year subject * 2 hours per week in first semester and 3 hours per week in second semester * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GAS1611, GAS1612 * Prohibitions: GAS2741 is creditable only to the Bachelor of Engineering degree
This subject is designed to provide students with a range of techniques for making considered decisions. Students will be required to demonstrate competence in a spectrum of procedures for quantitative analysis resource management problems, including the use of computer packages where appropriate.Section A -The nature of statistics: basic concepts of experimental design; collecting and organising data; use of the statistical package MINITAB; review of probability models and applications such as statistical quality control; sampling (random sampling, implications of the central limit theorem); control charts for process mean and process variability; estimation from random samples; point and interval estimation of means and differences between means; regression models (introduction to applications of simple linear regression). Section B - Operations research and areas of its potential applications in engineering: linear programming (problem formulation, solution through graphical procedure and simplex method, and use of available LP packages); decision making under risk (the value and quality of information); network models including shortest-route, maximum-flow, assignment and transportation problems; analysis of inventory control models; introduction to simulation process and simple applications.
Assessment
Assignments (3 x 5 hours): 40% * Examination (2 x 2 hours): 60%
Prescribed texts
Hogg R V and Ledolter J Engineering statistics 2nd edn, Macmillan, 1992
Ravindraw A and others Operations research principles and practice 2nd edn, Wiley, 1987