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. Finding an Optimal Overbooking Strategy for Airlines by Klaus Weide, Michael McGowan, and Nina Patel
  2. Analysis of Games of Chance: the Probability of Winning in Roulette by Yuichira Kimura, Gabriel Villas, Kevin Hei Wan Chan
  3. Modeling Service Times. An Analysis of Service Times in the Restaurant Business by Anthony Babicz and Rajmonda Sulo
  4. Input Acquisition and Feedback Control of an Automotive Cruise Control System by Lisa M. Smith, Kevin Wong, and LaShun Roberts
  5. Stacking the Odds: Calculating the Profit Margins of the Illinois Lottery by Zhisan Malik and Kristopher Kubicki

Titles of the second project:

  1. To PhD. Or Not to PhD. by Anthony Babicz, Lisa Smith, and Rajmonda Sulo
  2. Accelerate to Possibilities by Kevin Hei Wan Chan, Yuichira Kimura, Gabriel Villas
  3. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Solar Water Heating System by Klaus Weide, Michael McGowan, and Nina Patel
  4. Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Organic Egg Industry by LaShun Roberts and Kevin Wong
  5. A Satellite Startup Company: Competition in Space by Kristopher Kubicki and Zhisan Malik

Titles of the third project:

  1. Cournot's Demand Curve by Lisa Marie Smith
  2. The Prisoner's Dilemma: Experimentation with Payoff Matrices and Conditions by Tony Babicz
  3. The Bertrand-Edgeworth Duopoly Model by Nina Patel
  4. The Importance of an Indirect Sensitivity by Kevin Hei Wan Chan
  5. The Greenshield Model and Analysis of Traffic Flow by Gabriel Villas
  6. Critical Thickness of Adobe Walls by Rajmonda Sulo
  7. Solving the Schroedinger Equation for Molecular Dynamics by Wavepacket Propagation by Klaus Weide
  8. Cross-Sectional Analysis of Heat Flow through an Uninsulated Pipe by Michael McGowan
  9. Music and Science by Yuichiro Kimura
  10. Traffic Flow by Kevin Wong
  11. Ordinary Differential Equations: Modeling Temperature Functions by Zishan Malik