2 pg case study - in Excel
🔶Please read and understand the following important instructions:
1. All work for case studies will be submitted as Excel workbooks. Please create different worksheets for each part. Label these sheets “Part a”, “Part b”, etc. If an answer requires other sheets (e.g., “Sensitivity Report”), rename them referring to the part of the problem to which it corresponds. Always include an “Introduction” sheet as the first worksheet (see below). 2.Make ample use of colors,geometricshapesandobjects,framedcellsandranges,TextBoxes, Comments, Word Art,ClipArt,backgrounds, etc., to enhance the presentation and appear- ance of your sheet. Don’t go overboard and risk losing clarity and legibility or having the sheet look gaudy
🔴Grading. Points are allotted according to the following scale:
Model. Maximum of 70 points. Presentation Maximum of 20 points. Use of Excel Features Maximum of 10 points.
🔹Model:
The model is the conceptual part of the problem. If it is a linear programming formulation, for example, the model criterion is applied to check whether the formulation is correct and whether it was entered and solved correctly in the Solver. Here, what matters is the right answer in all the parts of the case study.
🔹Presentation:
This measures how well the problem is presented for the reader to un- derstand. All variables should be defined using words. The formulation should be clear by just looking at the sheet where the data appears including aspects such as the constraints, objective function, sense of optimization, sense of inequalities, etc. This should be in addi- tion to having the algebraic formulation explicitly stated in a separate TextBox. The case studies usually involve interesting applications requiring ingenuity in the way the problem is formulated. Therefore, the formulation should be discussed in words in a separate TextBox. Feel free to make use of TextBoxes to discuss other issues that arise. Range names should
be clear and should be such that they appear in the Solver Window. Special cell comments should further elucidate more specific aspects of the problem. The optimal solution should be presented and described in words in its own TextBox.
🔹Excel Features:
This is the “cosmetic” part of the evaluation. The criterion is how well Excel features such as those described above enhance the appearance and utility of the presentation.