University of Isfahan

Teaching

Graduate and undergraduate courses covering optimisation, operations research, supply chain management and inventory control.

Graduate courses

6 courses
Graduate Combinatorial Optimization

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to algorithms
  2. Principles of designing algorithms
  3. Insertion sort, Bubble sort, Merge sort
  4. Introduction to time complexity
  5. P, NP, NP-complete, and NP-hard classes
  6. Graph colouring and vertex covering problems
  7. Minimum spanning tree
  8. Travelling salesman problem and single-machine scheduling
  9. Introduction to approximate solution methods
  10. Heuristic vs. meta-heuristic methods
  11. General framework of meta-heuristic algorithms
  12. Designing meta-heuristics from mathematical models
  13. Search-based meta-heuristics: SA, TS, VNS
  14. Population-based meta-heuristics: GA, PSO, ACO
  15. Evaluating meta-heuristic performance
  16. Parameter tuning in meta-heuristic algorithms
Graduate Supply Chain & Logistics Engineering

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to supply chain
  2. Introduction to supply chain management
  3. Ordering and distribution cycles
  4. Strategic planning in supply chain
  5. Supply chain operation reference model
  6. Production management in supply chain
  7. Inventory management in supply chain
  8. Transportation management in supply chain
  9. Demand management in supply chain
  10. The bullwhip effect and the solutions
  11. Importance of outsourcing in supply chain
  12. Information flow in supply chain and principles
  13. The role of e-commerce in supply chain
  14. Aggregate production planning in supply chain (I & II)
  15. Introduction to supply chain network design
Graduate Demand and Revenue Management

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to demand management
  2. Evolution of demand management over time
  3. Patterns of demand and their applications
  4. Information sharing for demand management
  5. Demand prioritisation
  6. Demand segmentation
  7. Demand forecasting and related methods
  8. Introduction to pricing and revenue management
  9. Goals and strategies in pricing
  10. Dynamic pricing
  11. Overbooking in pricing and revenue management
  12. Game theory and its application in pricing
  13. Price-based revenue management
  14. Quantity-based revenue management (I & II)
  15. Review of recent papers in demand and revenue management
Graduate Supply Chain Network Design

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to logistics and supply chain
  2. Planning in supply chain
  3. Integration management for logistics
  4. Role of planning in supply chain management
  5. Role of the network in supply chain management
  6. Strategic planning for the supply chain network
  7. Classification of supply chain network design models
  8. Basic models in supply chain network design (I & II)
  9. Multi-product and multi-period models
  10. Multi-objective models
  11. Cross-dock planning for the supply chain
  12. Applied optimisation techniques
Graduate Inventory Control and Management (I)

Syllabus

  1. Fundamental concepts of inventory control
  2. Characteristics of inventory systems
  3. Forecasting models
  4. EOQ model and its sensitivity analysis
  5. Multi-commodity EOQ model
  6. EPQ model and its analysis
  7. Multi-commodity EPQ model
  8. Inventory models with constraints
  9. Inventory models with discounts
  10. Models for sale and price changes
  11. FOI and FOS systems in probabilistic models
  12. Dynamic lot-sizing techniques
  13. ABC analysis and two-bin system
  14. Probabilistic models of inventory control
Graduate Inventory Control and Management (II)

Syllabus

  1. Aggregate resource planning
  2. Planning levels in production systems
  3. Production strategies
  4. Automated process planning
  5. Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
  6. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)
  7. Lot sizing in MRP systems
  8. Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP)
  9. EOQ with time value of money and inflation
  10. EOQ with time discount
  11. Stochastic models with budget constraints
  12. Multi-commodity EPQ with resource constraints

Undergraduate courses

4 courses
Undergraduate Engineering Economics

Syllabus

  1. Engineering costs and estimating
  2. Estimating models and cash flow diagrams
  3. Time value of money, equivalence, compound interest
  4. Uniform series and compound interest factor
  5. Arithmetic and geometric gradients
  6. Nominal and effective rates, continuous compounding
  7. Economic criteria, present-worth technique
  8. Rate of return, future-worth analysis, B/C ratio
  9. Sensitivity and break-even analysis
  10. Replacement analysis
  11. Estimation of future events, risk and expected value
  12. Money and markets
Undergraduate Facility Planning and Design

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to facilities planning
  2. Process design, flow process and flow diagrams
  3. Flow systems
  4. Activity relationships and space requirements
  5. Layout planning models and design algorithms
  6. Warehouse operations
  7. Quantitative facilities planning models
  8. Evaluating and selecting the facilities plan
Undergraduate Project Control and Planning

Syllabus

  1. Project management foundations
  2. WBS structure
  3. Designing the project network
  4. AON and AOA networks
  5. Project time management processes
  6. Duration estimating methods
  7. Critical Path Method
  8. Resource allocation and levelling
  9. Project cost management
  10. Precedence networks
  11. Scheduling in PERT networks
  12. GERT networks
Undergraduate Operations Research (I)

Syllabus

  1. Definitions and assumptions of linear programming
  2. Modelling linear programming problems
  3. Graphical method for solving LPs
  4. The Simplex method
  5. The big-M method
  6. Two-phase method for solving LPs
  7. Duality theory
  8. Sensitivity analysis of LPs
  9. Transportation problems and the simplex method
  10. Assignment problem and solution methods
  11. Network problems
  12. The revised simplex method