Iowa in the 21st Century must be a place where schools, businesses and universities work together to educate our citizenry in mathematics and science education. The Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership (IMSEP) has a program for doing just that: externships for secondary teachers of mathematics and science.
The benefits to teachers include the chance to modernize the curriculum and build in real-world lessons, build relationships with in-town partners, inspire students into mathematics and science fields, enjoy doing something different in the summer and earn two graduate credits. Please distribute the information below to your math teachers.
Description
Project Title: Daily Raw Lumber Grade Mix Optimization Tool
Project Background: The Pella Lumber Plant is the manufacturing facility that processes all of Pella’s inbound Raw Lumber. The goal of the plant is to maximize the fiber recovery of inbound material while meeting all internal customer orders in a timely manner. The plant also attempts to do this with the lowest inbound material cost and lowest labor cost to achieve the highest profit margin.
Pella also purchases lumber from 10-15 sawmills. Each of these sawmills operates differently and has a different log they process; hence each supplier’s raw lumber will yield differently. Each grade of lumber processes at different speeds and outputs through the plant.
Project Scope: Develop a tool that the plant can use daily to determine the optimal grade mix of lumber by supplier to run to match a given set of orders at the lowest possible cost. This tool could be created in excel or with other software. The tool would likely have to use some type of Linear Programming or Goal Programming function. How the data we have collected is utilized would also have to be determined, but at this point we envision the need to use some type of regression analysis to get the most of the data and the tool. Although we have developed some possible constraints – we will have to add some more constraints to make it more realistic.
Six weeks, $150 per day = $4,500. Two graduate credits.
Visit: http://www.iowamathscience.org/externships/
Questions: Jeff Weld, director: jeff.weld@uni.edu
Apply: http://www.iowamathscience.org/externships/Teacher_App.pdf
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