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Dalal, Jyotirmoy – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2022
We present an exercise for teaching the transportation problem using a mix of spatial and randomly generated data. It illustrates the potential of using qualitative and quantitative data and is suitable for undergraduate or introductory business school courses on operations research (OR), logistics, and supply chain management. It poses two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Business Administration Education, Business Schools
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Wilson, Shellyanne – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2020
The Tangibles in Operations Strategy (TANGOS) exercise provides students with the direct experience of designing a firm's operations function. Specifically, students must engage in decision making with respect to the structural decision areas in a firm's operations strategy, by considering the firm's product strategy and span of control, process…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Design
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Streitwieser, Bernhard; Beecher, Bradley – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
Higher education institutions today are locked in fierce global competition. This is driven by many factors, but perhaps mostly by the highly public international rankings that exert tremendous pressures on institutional leaders. The importance that rankings have taken on recently (Yudkevich, Altbach, & Rumbley, 2016) critically affects the…
Descriptors: International Schools, Multicampus Colleges, Information Dissemination, Information Management
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Stefaniak, Jill E.; Tracey, Monica W. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
Design-thinking is an inductive and participatory process in which designers are required to manage constraints, generate solutions, and follow project timelines in order to complete project goals. The researchers used this exploration study to look at how designers in various disciplinary fields approach design projects. Designers were asked to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Instructional Design, Intellectual Disciplines
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Miranda, Joao; Nagy, Mariana – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
European cooperation is a relevant subject that contributes to building a competitive network of high education institutions. A case of teacher mobility on behalf of the Erasmus programme is presented: it considers some Operations Research topics and the development of the Lego on My Decision module. The module considers eight lecture hours in…
Descriptors: Operations Research, International Cooperation, Programming, Faculty Mobility
Kearsley, Greg – Performance and Instruction, 1986
This final article in a series on identification of cost/benefits data, formulation of models, and data collection discusses use of cost/benefits analysis results. The following issues are addressed: how to be prepared for study objections; how to increase understanding of your study; and viewing cost/benefit analysis as an iterative activity.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Decision Making, Models
Wollmer, Richard D. – 1976
The true state of the system described here is characterized by a probability vector. At each stage of the system an action must be chosen from a finite set of actions. Each possible action yields an expected reward, transforms the system to a new state in accordance with a Markov transition matrix, and yields an observable outcome. The problem of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making, Instructional Systems, Linear Programing
Sanders, Susan; And Others – 1978
This text provides educational administrators with a working knowledge of the problem-solving techniques of PERT (planning, evaluation, and review technique), Linear Programming, Queueing Theory, and Simulation. The text includes an introduction to decision-making and operations research, four chapters consisting of indepth explanations of each…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Decision Making
Bottomley, Wayne N. – 1978
A model for planning regarding college faculty is described. The USC Faculty Planning Model was developed by Robert Linnell and Paul Gray in 1974 at the University of Southern California as an interactive mathematical model to trace characteristics of faculty groups over time. Characteristics listed by the model include: faculty age distribution,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning