Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the course the student
*Knows the most important systems of the production planning and optimization used in the process industries, their structure and operation principles;
*Knows the most important operation research areas and their typical problems;
*Is able to use linear programming: Simplex methods and its variants;
*Knows the methods for transportation, inventory and supply chain optimization;
*Knows dynamic programming, integer programming and nonlinear programming methods and their use;
*Knows most common scheduling methods and their use.

Credits: 5

Schedule: 14.09.2021 - 25.10.2021

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Teemu Ikonen, Iiro Harjunkoski

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

Email: iiro.harjunkoski@aalto.fi

Possible to arrange individual Teams meetings per request.

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  The aim of the course is to give knowledge about methods used in production planning and optimization of industrial processes. Applications of production control are also discussed.
  Assignments:
  Supply chain optimization (LP)
  Production scheduling (MILP)

• applies in this implementation

  Lectures

  • Introduction to the course, examples of optimization
    
  • Linear programming
  • Simplex method
    
  • Supply Chain Optimization
    
  • Dynamic programming
  • Integer Programming
    
  • Scheduling
    
  • Resource Task Networks (RTN)
  • Heuristics/Metaheuristics
  • Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP), Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP)
  • Open source modeling environments: JuMP, Pyomo
  • RECAP
    

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Lectures
  Exercises
  Assignments
  Independent study and exam

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Lectures
  Exercises
  Home assignments and independent study
  Exam

DETAILS

Study Material

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  To be announced later.

• applies in this implementation

  The supporting book "INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS RESEARCH" by FREDERICK S. HILLIER and GERALD J. LIEBERMAN is recommended as additional reading.
  

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

6 Clean Water and Sanitation

7 Affordable and Clean Energy

8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

12 Responsible Production and Consumption

13 Climate Action

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Period:

  2020-2021 Autumn I

  2021-2022 Autumn I

  Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=CHEM-E7151

  Registration for Courses: In the academic year 2021-2022, registration for courses will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi) instead of WebOodi.

  Sisu

• applies in this implementation

  In this course we will use the leading industrial modeling system GAMS for most of the exercises. It is important to get some hands-on experience.

  In addition to the lecture material, there are lots of tutorials available at their webpage.

  The link to online lectures is: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69814926423
  

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