Courses Handbook 2008

303148 (v.1) WASM Operations Research 232


Area: WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     303135 (v.1) WASM Mathematics 131 or any previous version
    OR
    305686 (v.2) WASM Technical Mathematics 131 or any previous version
    OR
    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
AND
    303142 (v.1) WASM Mathematics 132 or any previous version
    OR
    305688 (v.1) WASM Technical Mathematics 132 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
Syllabus: Review maxima and minima of several variables. Lagrange multipliers. Linear programming: graphical and computer solutions, duality, the transport problem, the classical production problem in economics, shadow prices and the simplex method. Network flows and combinatorics: maximal flow is the minimum cut. Dynamic programming. Critical path analysis and PERT. Simulation modelling. Problem solving using spreadsheets.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 020300 Information Systems (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2008 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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