Operations research

As an aspiring Industrial Engineer one field that is of particular interest to me as an individual is Operations Research (OR). Operations Research is the application of scientific principles to business management, which provides a quantitative basis for complex decision-making. I’ll introduce why I chose this particular field and how a conversation on ethics is warranted through explanation of the extent of OR methodologies and the impact of the decisions made by these researchers. Think of OR as a highly technical consulting niche, which deals with discovering optimal solutions using specific tools. Consultants in this field run into a variety of ethical issues. Constantly moving from project to project, each problem they encounter is…

Start, even as simply as writing an essay, but a good one, it requires a start and it requires the writer to start with his or her magic pen to let the article flow. Operation research is my new start. In the field of operation research, optimization attracts me with its unique beauty. Nonlinear optimization, linear optimization, integer optimization, decision diagram all these fields of study start letting me know what I’m good at and what I will devote my life in. Starting a PhD in operation…

Operation Barbarossa On June 22 1941 Russian troops heard rumbling in the distance within a few hours millions of Russian troops were on the run the biggest operation in World War 2 had just been launched.These words paint a clear picture of Operation Barbarossa. According to Historian Sid Moody theses words are as true as could be. Moody states that the lives lost were completely unnecessary to the Operation causing millions of deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Operation Barbarossa is…

On June 22,1941 Germany launched an attack on the Soviet Union called operation Barbarossa. It was called Barbarossa in honer of German ruler Fredrick I. Fredrick I had orchestrated a ruthless attack on the Slavic (The Defeat of Hitler). The reason why Germany wanted to seize Soviet union for its prime land for long-term German settlement. Germany was at its strongest at its time with hundred fifty divisions, and three thousand tanks (Williamson Murray). Hitler then ordered a blitzkrieg but…

Operation Torch: This operation was led by the United States and the United Kingdom against the French North Africa. They specifically wanted to get the French held territories in Algeria and Morocco. They called it Operation Torch due to the long arguments between the American and British planners when they were making the plans for the operation. The arguments were setteld after the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt intervened in the situation. This Operation was very…

World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945, and the United States didn’t enter until 1941. Operation Overlord began in June of 1944 and lasted until August of the same year. On the first day alone over 130,000 allied troops had been landed on the shores of Normandy. The American general, Dwight Eisenhower was the commanding officer over Operation Overlord, he gave the order to begin the mission on June 5th. On his command 5,000 ships full of men and equipment disembarked for the beaches of Normandy.…

1941 marked the beginning of Operation Barbarossa; the largest military operation in history. Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. This paper will analyze the extent to which Operation Barbarossa was unsuccessful. The assessment will only focus on Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia between the years of 1941-1942. Operation Barbarossa had many key components and was an intricate invasion which was carried out with extreme precision. There were…

On June 22, 1941 Adolf Hitler started operation Barbarossa, a plan to invade the Soviet Union, and sent over 3 million german soldiers, 150 divisions and 3,000 tanks to ensure the Soviet Union would be taken. Operation Barbarossa is considered one of the most bloody battles in history with over 775,000 casualties on Germany’s side and 800,000 Soviets killed. The reason Hitler wanted so many units in the Soviet Union was because that Operation Barbarossa was a critical point in WW2. Operation…

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy which launched the allied invasion of Western Europe and subsequently lead to the liberation of France, after enduring five years of German oppression, and aided in ending the Nazi Reich. The initial planning was discussed at the third Trident conference, a strategic meeting between the United States and United Kingdom delegated by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, in May of 1943. Overlord consisted of joint American,…

After the devastating defeat at Pear Harbor in 1941, Allied forces were struck with the reality of the rising threat of the Axis powers’ conquest of Europe in World War II. The Allied powers which consisted primarily of the United States, Great Britain, and France foresaw the dangers of the growing Axis power control and sought to retaliate in order to cease their expansion. The Axis powers, primarily consisting of Germany and Japan were seen as pivotal threats, so allied forces decided it was…