A methodology to optimize foundation seminar assignments

K A Willoughby () and C J Zappe
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K A Willoughby: Health Quality Council
C J Zappe: College of Arts and Sciences, Bucknell University

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2006, vol. 57, issue 8, 950-956

Abstract: Abstract First-year students entering the College of Arts & Sciences at Bucknell University (USA) are required to enroll in a first-year experience course called a foundation seminar during their first semester. A few months before arriving at Bucknell, students submit a prioritized list of foundation seminars of interest to them, given course descriptions of all available foundation seminar sections. Then, based on capacity and scheduling constraints, each student is assigned to a particular seminar. Currently, this assignment of students to specific seminars is carried out using both manual and heuristic methods. We propose to apply an optimization methodology to this interesting real-world problem in an attempt to determine assignments that better satisfy the highest preferences of entering first-year students.

Keywords: linear programming; methodology; optimization; practice of OR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602070

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