Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Analysis and Management

Catalog description

ABSM 429 covers systems analysis and optimization techniques including an introduction to systems theory, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and management science for constrained decision-making. It includes concepts of linear programming, network models, integer and binary programming, and waiting line models. All topics are presented in the form of case studies that require the students to solve problems in realistic production and processing scenarios. ABSM students should take this course in the 7th semester (or the Fall semester of their 4th year) because it integrates knowledge and experiences acquired in prior ABSM, business, and agricultural science courses, and is critical for the capstone courses, ABSM 430W and 431W .