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The Teachers' Forum: Teaching Nonlinear Programming Using Cooperative Active Learning

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  • Leon Lasdon

    (MSIS Department, College of Business Administration, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712)

  • Judith S. Liebman

    (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

Abstract

In teaching nonlinear programming (NLP) to undergraduate and graduate students majoring in engineering or operations research, we have changed our instructional objectives, course content, and approaches to teaching because of recent dramatic improvements in optimization software and computer hardware. Our primary instructional innovation is to use cooperative active learning methods rather than a traditional lecture format.

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  • Leon Lasdon & Judith S. Liebman, 1998. "The Teachers' Forum: Teaching Nonlinear Programming Using Cooperative Active Learning," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 28(4), pages 119-132, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:28:y:1998:i:4:p:119-132
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.28.4.119
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    1. Leon S. Lasdon & John Plummer & Gang Yu, 1995. "Primal-Dual and Primal Interior Point Algorithms for General Nonlinear Programs," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 7(3), pages 321-332, August.
    2. Judith S. Liebman, 1998. "Teaching Operations Research: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 28(2), pages 104-110, April.
    3. Arne Stolbjerg Drud, 1994. "CONOPT—A Large-Scale GRG Code," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 6(2), pages 207-216, May.
    4. Jack W. Fellers, 1996. "People Skills: Using the Cooperative Learning Model to Teach Students “People Skills”," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 26(5), pages 42-49, October.
    5. Stuart Smith & Leon Lasdon, 1992. "Solving Large Sparse Nonlinear Programs Using GRG," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 4(1), pages 2-15, February.
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