Discrete Event Simulation is explored as a tool to facilitate decision-making in engineering of processes. Students develop a project to simulate an operational process starting from its characterization and ending in an output analysis.

Software tools:

• Pyomo (Python)
• Simio
• CIW

Course periods: 2019-2021

Main contents

• Queueing theory
• Input analysis
• Mathematical modeling
• Computational modeling
• Output analysis
• Experiments