This Specialization is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of business, management, and engineering seeking to learn optimization techniques and applications. Through four courses, we will cover mathematical programming, concepts of optimization algorithms, systematic ways to evaluate a solution, and mathematical foundations and theories. All of these will prepare you to formulate real-world optimization problems into rigorous mathematical programs and develop solutions for them.
The course are very good conduct, I have explore into the OR and get better understanding of how to create a problem and solved it using Excel Solver. I cannot wait to continous to another course.
The Course was done earlier, hence, there was no one to answer the forums or questions, otherwise a very good course to learn about applying Python.
Very thorough and challenging for Operations Research candidates! Gives a very good foundation of Lagrangean decomposition and Duality theory!
This is certainly one of the best introductory course on Operations Research with Computer Applications.
Great Experience and gained some knowledge about algorthims
Excellent intro into the vast world of optimization and operations research. Please make one on stochastic processes and programming next!
Excellent course. Excellent teacher. The information is easily accessible and fully organized.
I want the percentage that I was given when I completed this course
good course to dive in to mathematic theory and build up confidence without graduate knowledge.
Great introduction to linear programming, integer programming, and non-linear programming with real life examples.
Very involved and deatailed lectures for one of the complex topics in mathematics.
The course was perfectly carried out with real life scenarios which helps one understand how these methods can be carried out in a real life situation.
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This course is very helpful to understand the basics of operation research, after this course you will know where to apply linear, integer and non-linear programming.
I am new to this field of operations research and I really enjoyed this course, learned a lot. I never used math before this way, it was great fun! Thanks!
This is the best and most useful course I have taken in Cousera. Highly recommended.
Excellent content, almost optimal, unimprovable. An excellent professor, very knowledgeable, pedagogical, with very good communication skills.
I have a degree in BA and work as the Operations Manager at a big mall, and have found very useful the knowledge I have acquired with this course.
Looking forward to taking the other courses in the series.
5 stars because it is a 100% free course. It is not ethical to give it a less-than-perfect rating.
On the other hand, "Introduction to an Introduction of Operations Research Applications Using Excel" would be a more fitting title. There are also some obvious mistakes in the course material.
1.25X playback speed is recommended. The TA in this course is SUPER cute! You don't want to miss the lab sections.
The instructor explained everything in his slides in the most lucid manner possible. I specially liked the last quiz wherein instead of MCQs, we had to put in the exact correct answer only to score a 100%. This actually checks the knowledge of the student as well as gives them the confidence to solve future problems at ease, as per my surmise.
The course are very good conduct, I have explore into the OR and get better understanding of how to create a problem and solved it using Excel Solver. I cannot wait to continous to another course.
I enjoyed the way how the teacher explained the basic concepts of this course so softly and understandably. I recommend it to anyone who wants to have complete insight into operations research.
This course just opened my eyes to real value of mathematical operation in different business and now I am much more competent for jobs which need high knowledge of operational research.
good introduction course for the operation research field, with top-down approach learning. Start with practical application and go down to theory in this specialization.
Great instructor and really good material!
Would have liked if he had provided references for further reading (books).
Nice introductory course for Linear Programming with a variety of real life application examples.
great course for beginners, got new insights about how to formulate a model for practical issues
cute girl
The instructor is very boring. He just reads a sheet and there are no practical examples. It is an easy course, but the Forum is absolute in Zombie state, i.e. dead. Course part 2 is even worse. If you give the right answers it is rated "not right". Also in the part 2 of the course, the forum is dead and there is no discussion and no responses to questions etc. This course is a total waste of money.
It is one of the most comprehensive, well-organised, mathematical-oriented and a solid course in Mathematical Programming. It was very well organised unit by focusing on a lot of interesting cases in Operations Research covering topics in Linear, Integer and Nonlinear Programming with special case studies in Network Planning, Portfolio Management, Linear Regression and CRS-model.
This course is mostly designed on a compact and brief presentation of several example models in Operations Research as a basis for the second part of this **bootcamp** in Operations Research and Mathematical Programming. At the end of this course, professor presents a complete real life model providing the motivation as the strategic management approach until to write down the mathematical formulation.
Very well explained and well paced. For me personally, the assignments could've stood to be just a hair more challenging but nonetheless perfect for reinforcing the concepts. This is just the first of 3 courses by the same team after all, so it serves as a perfect foundation leading into what's to follow. Great balance between Mathematical concepts and how those concepts apply to the real world in very useful ways! And finally a course with consistent notation that's clearly laid out up front! :)
The topic in this course has been described in a very precise and understandable way. I have spent last few months to understand LP but could progress a little and lastly i found this course. Although i am a Master student of Logistics in Germany but i still found this course very essential and related to my academic studies as well as for future profession. Thanks to the Professor and TA for their student friendly orientation and turning such a difficult topic to a easier one!!
This course was incredible! As someone who wants to study OR in university, this provided a broad and comprehensive introduction to the subject, and it definitely helped me adjust to many new concepts. The teacher was always excited to explain the problems and examples, which made it easier to understand the lectures. The curriculum is well thought out and overall, this course is truly worth it!
Excellent course. It gives a great introduction to linear programming, (mixed) integer programming and non linear programming. The course explains very well which problems can be solved eachby method and how to write specifications for these type of programs. The assessment exercises are not trivial. To solve them you have to thorouglly understand the lecture content.
Excelente curso para quienes desean fortalecer sus conocimientos en modelos de optimización y toma de decisiones. El contenido está bien estructurado y es muy útil para estudiantes de carreras como Matemática o Ingeniería. En mi caso, como estudiante de Investigación Operativa en la UNMSM, me ha servido para conectar la teoría con aplicaciones reales.