1. have a good understanding of the theory behind Simplex Method.
2. become familiar with phenomena such as degeneracy, cycling in Simplex Method.
3. understand optimality conditions for LPs, duality and primal/dual relationships.
4. be able to identify and implement decomposition approaches to solve large scale
problems.
5. become familiar with interior point methods for Linear Programming
6. acquire the skills to formulate and solve LPs using solvers.