Operations Research for the Military, Business, and Society

4/22

Your final presentation will take place on Capstone Day, Wednesday 4/30.

• 25 minutes per team = roughly 20 minutes for the presentation, 5 minutes for questions.
• Consult the schedule I sent you by email.
• Email me your presentation slides by Tuesday 4/29 at 22:00.

4/8

A draft of your project report is due on Thursday 4/17 at the end of class.

• Your report should contain the following sections:

  1. Introduction
  2. Data
  3. Model
  4. Results
  5. Conclusion
  6. References
  7. Disclosure of generative AI use

• One member of each team should email me their document as a PDF file.

  • In Google Docs: File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf)
• Your document should be as formatted using the Formatting Checklist linked under Resources below.
  • Refer also to the Example Report to see how your report should be formatted.

3/25

Your 12-week presentations will take place next week in class on Tuesday 4/1 and Thursday 4/3.

• 15 minutes per team.

• Your presentation should cover:

  1. Introduction – background and motivation, problem description and methodology
  2. Data – basic description, exploratory data analysis
  3. Model – description, assumptions
  4. (optional) Results – preliminary model outputs and interpretation

• All sections scheduled for the same period will meet together.

  • 4 teams will present on Tuesday (2 from this section, 2 from the other section).
  • 4 teams will present on Thursday.
• Due to time constraints, each team will have 2-3 minutes to take questions. This time around, the audience will not provide verbal feedback on the presentations.
• Email me your slides by 23:59 on the evening before your presentation.
• Include page (slide) numbers on your slides.

3/18

A draft of your project report is due on Thursday 3/27 at the beginning of your biweekly meeting.

• Your report should contain the following sections:

  1. Introduction
  2. Data
  3. Model
  4. Results – in outline form
  5. References

• One member of each team should email me their document as a PDF file.

  • In Google Docs: File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf)
• Your document should be as formatted using the Formatting Checklist linked under Resources below.
  • Refer also to the Example Report to see how your report should be formatted.

2/27

An abstract of your project for the Capstone Day program is due in class on Tuesday 3/4 at the end of the period.

• 70 words maximum.
• Suggested outline (3 sentences):
  1. The introduction tells the reader what is being decided or predicted by your study, and why the study is important.
  2. The model sentence states the operations research or statistical model used to analyze the decision or prediction problem.
  3. The data sentence describes the data used as input to the model and where they are obtained.
• One member of each team should email me their abstract directly in the body of the email.

2/25

A draft outline of your model section is due on Thursday 3/6 at the beginning of your biweekly meeting.

• One member of each team should email me their document as a PDF file.
  • In Google Docs: File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf)

2/17

A draft of (1) your introduction section and (2) your data section is due on Tuesday 2/25 at the beginning of class.

• One member of each team should email me their document as a PDF file.
  • In Google Docs: File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf)
• Your document should be as formatted using the Formatting Checklist linked under Resources below.
  • Refer also to the Example Report to see how your report should be formatted.

2/3

Your 6-week marking period grade will be based on (1) a draft of your introduction section, (2) a draft outline of your data section, and (3) your 6-week presentation.

2/3

Your 6-week presentations will take place next week in class on Tuesday 2/11 and Thursday 2/13.

• 10 minutes per team.
• Your presentation should cover:
  • Introduction - background and motivation, problem description and methodology
  • Data - basic description, exploratory data analysis (preliminary)
• All sections scheduled for the same period will meet together.
  • 4 teams will present on Tuesday (2 from this section, 2 from the other section).
  • 4 teams will present on Thursday.
• You will give your colleagues feedback on their presentations.
• Email me your slides by 23:59 on the evening before your presentation.
  • This way, I can preload the slides onto the classroom computer so that we can use the class time more efficiently.
• 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 in the 2nd bullet...")

1/27

A draft of (1) your introduction section and (2) an outline of your data section is due on Thursday 2/6 at the beginning of your biweekly meeting.

• One member of each team should email me their document as a PDF file.
  • In Google Docs: File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf)
• Your document should be as formatted using the Formatting Checklist linked under Resources below.
  • Refer also to the Example Report to see how your report should be formatted.

1/15

A draft outline of your introduction section is due on Thursday 1/23 at the beginning of your biweekly meeting.

• One member of each team should email me their draft outline as a PDF file.
  • In Google Docs: File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf)
• Please double-space your document.

1/15

Preparing for your biweekly meeting

• Open the Biweekly Meeting Agenda and Contract Template linked under Logistics below.
• Make a copy to somewhere on your Google Drive.
  • In Google Docs: File → Make a copy
• Complete the highlighted parts of the template:
  • Team name and meeting date
  • Agenda items
  • Tasks from previous biweekly contract
• Share your completed document with me on Google Docs before your scheduled biweekly meeting.
  • Please make sure I have permission to edit the document.

1/6

Welcome!