Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:

• identify and build transportation models.
• identify and build transshipment models.
• identify and build assignment models.
• identify and build network models.
• solve network problems using appropriate algorithms.
• identify and build integer programming models.
• identify and build nonlinear programming models.
• use branch and bound method and cutting plane algorithm to solve integer programming problems.
• solve unconstrained nonlinear programming models using appropriate methods.
• use Lagrange multipliers and Kuhn-Tucker conditions to solve constrained nonlinear programming models.
• use mathematical programming software to solve mathematical models.
• perform sensitivity/scenario analysis.
• select among alternative courses of actions.