21-292 Operations Research I

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Operations research offers a scientific approach to decision making, most commonly involving the allocation of scarce resources. This course develops some of the fundamental methods used. Linear programming: the simplex method and its linear algebra foundations, duality, post-optimality and sensitivity analysis; the transportation problem; the critical path method; non-linear programming methods. (Three 50 minute lectures, one 50 minute recitation)

Prerequisites: 21-122 and (21-241 or 21-240 or 21-242) and (21-228 or 15-251)

Offered: Spring 2027, Spring 2026

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