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MSCI 334Operations Planning and Inventory Control

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Winter 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W20
  2. W21
  3. W22
  4. F22
  5. W23
  6. F23
  7. W24

Ran in 7 terms, Winter 2020 to Winter 2024.

This course exposes students to production planning and inventory control approaches in industrial and service systems. Production planning topics cover capacity and resources planning, production scheduling, manufacturing resource planning, just-in-time and lean manufacturing. Inventory control topics cover lot sizing policies, deterministic and stochastic inventory policies. The course involves a design project of a production and/or inventory system. [Offered: W]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: MSCI 131; One of CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 306, 307, ENVE 224, ME 202, MSCI 252, 253, MTE 201, STAT 206, 231, 241, SYDE 212. Antireq: MSCI 432

In today’s calendar

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention MSCI 334, January 2021 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2023

What are your core courses? 8 points, 11 comments

“Basically title - What are several courses that you think really define your program? Any thoughts on them, and how they went? Looking forward to the discussion (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ\:･ﾟ✧”

u/1000Ditto: “Might as well take a stab at my own discussion post: MSCI 342 (SWE | CS247 equiv) MSCI 253 (Stats 2 | STAT 231+STAT 332 equiv) MSCI 431 (Stochastics| STAT 333 equiv) MSCI 332 (opti despair) MSCI 334/434 (operations, inventory control, scm)”

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Winter 2021

Admissions / High School Megathread (Fall 2020) 316 points, 7,386 comments

“I think we lost track of the old one somewhere, and this is to also help reset the expiry date (these threads archive after six months) Engineering Admissions Blog: https://theroadtoengineering.com/ …”

u/Kbreadman: “\++I applied to management engineering because I love the idea of streamlining processes + working with data and using it to solve problems or draw conclusions, etc. …”

[deleted]: “… Looks like a mix to me of mechanical engineering (MODs, Thermo, Mechanics, Material Science), software (MSCI 101, 240, 245, 342), and more vague systems-y stuff (MSCI 211,331,334?). …”

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