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ME558: Discrete Design Optimization

 

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Schedule

Date Topic Reading paper presentaiton Dues
09/03 Course overview    
09/05 Engineering examples Note 1    
09/10 Sets, etc. Note 2    
09/12 Optimization models Note 2    
09/17 Graphs Note 2   PS 1
09/19 LP and Simplex overview Note 3    Team members (email GSI by midnight)
09/24 Cutting plane algorithm Note 3   PS 2
09/26 Cutting plane algorithm Note 3    
10/01 Branch and bound algorithm Note 3   Project proposal
10/03 Branch and bound algorithm Note 3    
10/08 Local search Note 5   PS 3
10/10 Simmulated annealing Note 5 team 2  
10/15 no class -- fall study break    
10/17 Genetic algorithm Note 5 team 3

 
10/22 Genetic algorithm Note 5   PS 4
10/24 BFS and DFS Note 4 team 4  
10/29 Shortest path algorithms Note 4   PS 7
10/31 Shortest path algorithms Note 4 team 5  
11/05 Minimum spanning tree algorithm Note 4   Progress report
11/07 Assembly sequence generation algorithm team 1  
11/12 State of the art team 7  
11/14 No class -- project work day      
11/19 No class -- project work day      
11/21 No class -- project work day     PS 5 (place in wall file at 2454GGB)
11/26 No class -- project work day      
11/28 No class -- thanksgiving      
12/03 Project presentation     PS 6
12/05 No class -- project work day      
12/10 No class -- project work day     Final report