An Introduction to Project Modeling and Planning

Offers a comprehensive introduction to project management, focusing on project planning and control, with an emphasis on mathematical modelingHighlights theoretical concepts and models with detailed explanations, application examples and case studies based on real life problemsIncludes exercises at the end of each chapter, as well as PowerPoint slides for in-class lectures or as a guide for self-study

Gündüz Ulusoy received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Robert College, Istanbul in 1970; MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1972, and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Virginia Tech in 1975. He served in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University in Istanbul as a faculty member (1976--1999) and as Head of Department (1985--1993). He also served as Vice President of Boğaziçi University (1992--1994). In 1983 he worked as a research fellow in the Operational Research Department at Lancaster University. He spent a year on -leave from Boğaziçi University at Arçelik Company in Istanbul. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (1993--1997) and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Marmara Research Center (1995--1997). He served on the Executive Board of the Turkish Quality Association (1998--2002) and chaired its Quality Award Committee (1998--2002). He is a founding member of the Science Foundation and the Turkish Informatics Foundation. In 1999 he joined the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University and established the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program there. He founded and became the Co--Coordinator of the Leaders for Industry Program (2001--2004). In 2003 he founded the TUSIAD--Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum and has served as its Director till 2008. He was presented several times with the Best Teaching Award at Boğaziçi University and Sabancı University. He was an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Operational Research, Chief Editor of the Turkish Journal of Operational Research, and served as the Guest Editor for Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Industry and Higher Education. He has published research articles in Interfaces, Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, and Computers & OR. His primary research areas are project and manufacturing scheduling, innovation and manufacturing/digitalization strategy development.

Öncü Hazır is currently working as an associate professor at Rennes School of Business. He received his BS degree in Industrial Engineering and MBA degree from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Business Administration in Bilkent University in 2008. His dissertation was on project scheduling. He worked as a post-doctorate researcher in Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne and as an associate professor at TED University. He participated in various research projects in project planning and control, machine scheduling, and assembly line balancing and published several papers in operations research and management journals.