Biotechnical Engineering : 4720

35340 Quantitative Management Practice Assessment 3 (worth 30% of the final result for the subject) SCENARIO Your Operations Research consulting firm is to undertake a study of Case “Biotechnical Engineering” p576-7 of Winston and Albright. ASSIGNMENT TASKS • Examine and present the problem, formulate it and describe how the problem could be solved. • Answer the seven questions posed. ASSESSMENT ELEMENTS • Assignment Cover sheet. • Copy of problem, formulation and description of the solution approach. • Answers to the seven questions (including a print-out of any input files used for software, eg spreadsheet). MARKING SCALE • Presentation /2 • Problem description /2 • Mathematical model /4 • Solution /2 • Answers to questions /10 Total /20 marks Word count : 2000