North Dakota State University – Fargo
(701) 237-8011
1301 North University
Fargo, North Dakota 58105
Admissions: (701) 231-8643
www.ndsu.nodak.edu/
Courses:
Operations Management Study and application of concepts and
managerial techniques for manufacturing and service operations.
Includes production technology, facility location/layout, inventory
management, MRP, just-in-time manufacturing, and total quality
management.
Rural Logistics and Distribution Management Logistical systems
and concepts, distribution management, management of railroads
and motor carriers, and location of facilities.
Includes agribusiness and natural resource case studies.
Logistics and Transportation Management
Advanced transportation demand analysis, mathematical programming,
and transportation investments and decisions.
Rural Logistics and Distribution Management Transportation systems concepts and analysis, transport economics, freight technology and operations, transit, logistics and distribution. Includes rural and non-metropolitan case studies.
Rural and Non-Metropolitan Transportation Systems
Logistics Engineering and Management
Extends systems, methods, production, inventory, and facility
topics to integrated logistics support. Emphasis on reliability,
maintainability, tools, test equipment, spares, operating and
maintenance instructions, and training.
Statewide Transportation Planning 3
Introduction to transportation institutions, regulation and safety,
transportation finance, modal planning (for highways, railroads,
airports, and waterways), multimodal planning, and transportation
impact assessment.
Transportation Administration
Public organizational behavior and administration, fund accounting,
public budgeting, financial management, and strategic management
of transportation agencies. Includes transportation case studies.
Analytical Methods for Applied Economics
Study and application of operations research techniques and other
decision methods to problems in agriculture, transportation, and
resource management.
Transportation Engineering
Location, analysis, modeling, and design of multi-modal facilities
including highways, railways, airports, terminals, harbors, ports,
canals, waterways, pipelines, and conveyor systems.
Transportation Planning
Development and trends in travel demand forecasting; trip generation,
trip distribution, mode choice, traffic assignment; transportation
plans for modal, multi-modal, and paratransit alternatives; policy
formulation and analysis.
Operations Research
Techniques to optimize and analyze industrial operations. Use
of linear programming, transportation models, networks, integer
programming, goal programming, dynamic programming, and non-linear
programming.
Airport Planning and Design
System planning and demand forecasting; siting and configuration
of airports; aircraft characteristics; air traffic controls; standards
for geometric design, pavement design, earthwork, drainage, lighting,
and marking.
Railroad Planning and Design
Rail planning and location analysis, track/rail structure, track
layout and control system, locomotives and train resistance, track
safety standards and geometrics, terminal design.