SA475B - Operations Research for the Military, Business, and Society

Announcements

2/2

Your 6-week presentations will take place in class on Thursday 2/12.

10 minutes per team.
Your presentation should cover:
- Introduction: background and motivation, problem description and methodology
- Data: basic description, exploratory data analysis (preliminary)
You and I will give your colleagues feedback on their presentations.
Share your slides with me by Thursday 2/12 at 0800.
Include page (slide) numbers on your slides.
- This way, your colleagues and I can easily provide feedback on your presentations (e.g., "On slide 7, you had a typo...")

1/22

A draft of (1) your introduction section and (2) outline of your data section is due on Thursday 2/5 at 0800.

One member of each team should email me the draft as a PDF file.
Your document should be formatted using the Formatting Checklist linked under Resources below.
- Refer also to the Example Report to see how your report should be formatted.

1/12

A draft of your introduction section is due on Thursday 1/22 at 0800.

One member of each team should email me the draft as a PDF file.
Your document should be formatted using the Formatting Checklist linked under Resources below.
- Refer also to the Example Report to see how your report should be formatted.

Date	Class
2/10	Exploratory data analysis Work on 6-week presentation
2/5	Biweekly meetings
2/3	Presenting: 10 tips for OR talks Exploratory data analysis
1/29	Writing: the data section Exploratory data analysis
1/22	Biweekly meetings
1/20	Getting started: refining project objective, identifying relevant OR techniques, gathering data
1/15	Preparing for a biweekly meeting Writing exercise Getting started: refining project objective, identifying relevant OR techniques, gathering data
1/13	Project and team assignments Course policy and course overview Writing: overview, the introduction section Getting started: refining project objective, identifying relevant OR techniques, gathering data