We will have three projects during the semester.

Good proposals for the projects are in the exercises of the textbook. Many of these projects elaborate on the materials discussed in class. The deliverable of each project consists of a technical report and a presentation in class by one of the team members. The last project must be solved individually.

Titles of the first project:

  1. How fast am I going? by John Zientek and Emily Stoddard
  2. Designing an overbooking strategy using Taguchi Quality Control by Kristopher Kubicki, Lionel Aluka, and Jean-Baptiste M. Jean-Jacques
  3. Improving Customer Service through the use of Statistical Reasoning by LaShonda C. Gennings and Chevonne C. Williams
  4. An Implementation of Matched Filter by Guang Zhu and Jianhong Zhou
  5. Maximizing Employee Productivity per Hour by Anakany Alvarez and Brian James Flores
  6. Finding the Optimal: Choosing between Traditional and Self Checkout by Zishan Malik and Kristopher Kubicki

Titles of the second project:

  1. An Analysis on Solar Heating System Investment by Guang Zhu and Jianhong Zhou
  2. Revamping the Illinois Power grid. A cost benefit analysis of Generation III and Clean Coal power production in Illinois by Zishan Malik and Kristopher Kubicki
  3. Temperature vs Sine by John Zientek and Emily Stoddard
  4. Report on Interior Point Method by Lionel Aluka and Jean-Baptiste M. Jean-Jacques
  5. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Improving Student Education by LaShonda C. Gennings and Chevonne C. Williams
  6. Study Beyond Bachelor's by Anakany Alvarez and Brian James Flores

Titles of the third project:

  1. How well does the logistics equation model population growth? by Lionel Aluka
  2. Price Wars by Anakany Alvarez
  3. Iterative Prisoner's Dilemma by Kristopher Kubicki
  4. Modeling rush hour traffic by Zishan Malik
  5. Fun with Fourier series by Emily Stoddard
  6. Classical approaches to control design by Jean-Baptiste M. Jean-Jacques
  7. Geothermal Heat Pumps by Brian James Flores
  8. Closed loop system to improve elementary school education by LaShonda C. Gennings
  9. Solving ill-conditioned systems: Maple vs. MATLAB by Chevonne C. Williams
  10. Cournot model of duopolistic competition by Jianhong Zhou
  11. Solving retaining wall problem with B-spline approximation by Guang Zhu
  12. Heat loss thru pipes in your house by John Zientek