Focus on Optimization and Operation Research for Efficient Decision Making

Efficient decision making based on quantitative results is essential for success in business and management. Operations Research (also known as “Management Sciences” or “Analytics”) is a discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. Project planning, network optimization, facility location, routing, supply chain management, scheduling, among others, are real problems tackled by Operation Research. Industrial sectors that benefit from Operation Research range from airlines (scheduling, tariff policy), to hospitals (scheduling), to electric utilities (production, trading) and logistics (route scheduling).

Travelling salesman problem solution

Traffic simulation system

Students interested in focusing on Optimization and Operation Research should select 45 ECTS from this list:

Continuous Optimization	5 ECTS	Spanish	MESIO UPC-UB
Optimization in Energy Systems and Markets	5 ECTS	Spanish	MESIO UPC-UB
Stochastic Optimization	5 ECTS	English	MESIO UPC-UB
Large Scale Optimization	5 ECTS	English	MESIO UPC-UB
Integer and Combinatorial Optimization*	5 ECTS	Spanish	MESIO UPC-UB
Statistical Data Protection*	5 ECTS	English	MESIO UPC-UB
Graph Theory*	7.5 ECTS	English	MAMME
Combinatorics*	7.5 ECTS	English	MAMME
Mathematical Models in Biology	7.5 ECTS	English	MAMME
Numerical Methods for Dynamical Systems	7.5 ECTS	English	MAMME
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations	7.5 ECTS	English	MAMME

Recall that a minimum of 3 MAMME courses (22.5 ECTS) is mandatory.

(*) These courses are proposed to students willing to get a deeper focus on discrete and combinatorial optimization.