06-805 Special Topics: Disjunctive Programming

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Process systems engineers are often employed in positions pertaining to the design and operation of supply chain systems. This is enabled by the commonality of analytical techniques used for decisionmaking in both fields, as well as by the general trend to integrate systems through the fielding of an ever increasing level of automation. This Special Topics course will discuss various facets of engineering supply chains from the perspective of a process systems engineer, including how to quantify the environmental footprint of the supplychain and how to forecast operational uncertainty and incorporate this uncertainty into the decisionmaking process. The course will place emphasis on presenting popular classes of problems that arise in the context of supply chains and on discussing the associated models and optimization techniques used to address them. Both exact and metaheuristic algorithms will be utilized, while attention will be paid to efficient implementation.

Prerequisites: none listed

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