This course exposes students to production planning and inventory control approaches in industrial and service systems. Production planning topics cover capacity and resources planning, production scheduling, manufacturing resource planning, Just-In-Time and lean manufacturing. Inventory control topics cover lot sizing policies, deterministic and stochastic inventory policies. The course involves a design project of a production and/or inventory system. [Offered: W] Prereq: MSCI 131; One of CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 316, ENVE 224, ME 202, MSCI 252, MTE 201, STAT 206, 231, 241, or SYDE 212. Antireq: MSCI 432
