Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• manufacturing planning and control including inventory management and material requirements planning
• optimisation of discrete problems
• heuristics and meta-heuristics
• relational databases and their usage

Skills

• formulate discrete optimisation problems
• chose the appropriate solution strategy to a number of discrete optimisation problems
• perform basic database operations

Competences

• understand the principles of inventory management
• understand differences in solutions strategies
• apply heuristics and meta-heuristic methods to solve complex problems
• understand the limitations, advantages and disadvantages of relational data structures

Type of instruction

Lectures with exercises, possibly mini projects with student presentations.

Extent and expected workload

This is a 5 ECTS course module and the work load is expected to be 150 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams