Contact: Thomas Stidsen, DTU Management Engineering, mail: thst@man.dtu.dk
Operations Research (OR) concerns the use of scientific, often mathematical, methods for planning problems. Originally invented by the military during the second world, it has since spread to large companies and government organisations and been applied there with great success. During the last 20-30 years many advanced types of software has been developed based on OR methods.
OR has been applied in wide range of different industries, e.g. production, transport, telecommunication, shipping, healthcare and education. Today it would eg. be impossible to run a competitive airline without using OR to optimize the use of resources.
A good Operations Researcher have good skills in mathematics, in particular discrete mathematics. Programming experience is a very valuable skill for an Operations Researcher. Because Linear Programming (LP) is the foundation for most of the OR
methods, a good understanding of LP is absolutely essential.
Recommended Courses:
General competence courses:
02610 Optimization and Datafitting
02443 Stochastic simulation
Technological Specialization courses:
42113 Networks and Integer Programming
42111 Static and Dynamic Optimization
42112 Mathematical Programming using Optimization Software
42132 Large Scale Optimization using Decomposition
42133 Optimization using metaheuristics
Elective courses:
42122 The Set Partitioning Optimization Model and its Application in Practical Scheduling Problems
42134 Advanced topics in Operations Research
02110 Algorithms and Data Structures 2
Programming courses