Undergraduate Programs

Operations Research

Operations Research (OR) builds quantitative models of complex operations and uses those models to facilitate decision making.

OR techniques are applied widely to organizations and activities, including manufacturing, transportation and distribution, the public sector, government, the military, and the health care industry.

Key concepts include probability, statistics, mathematical programming, decision analysis, and stochastic processes.

The curriculum consists of four full subjects from the following list, at least two full subjects of which must be taught in Course 15 (two six-unit subjects count as one elective)		Units
2.852	Manufacturing Systems Analysis	12
6.034	Artificial Intelligence	12
6.046	Design and Analysis of Algorithms	12
6.938	Engineering Risk-Benefit Analysis	12
14.12	Economic Applications of Game Theory	12
15.025	Game Theory for Strategic Advantage	9
15.034	Data Analysis for Management	9
15.062	Data Mining: Finding the Data and Models that Create Value	6
15.071	The Edge: Decision Methodologies for Managers	9
15.073	Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods	12
15.761	Introduction to Operations Management	9
15.762	Supply Chain Planning	6
15.763	Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design	6
15.770	Logistics Systems	12
15.871	Introduction to System Dynamics	6
15.872	System Dynamics II	6
15.875	Applications of System Dynamics	9
18.433	Combinatorial Optimization	12

Prof. James Orlin provides a list of additional OR electives and information about the concentration on his OR Concentration site.