Interactive Excel based Gantt Chart Schedule Builder

Interactive Excel based Gantt Chart Schedule BuilderAbstractMany scheduling dispatching rules are intuitive and processes which people utilize in everyday life. As an example, when faced with a variety of tasks due at different times one oftenimplements the earliest due date scheduling rule: the next task worked on is the one with theearliest due date. Other common scheduling dispatching rules have the nice property of beingeasy to understand, thereby enabling the ability to devise the rule by oneself when given theopportunity to experiment via trial and error. This paper presents an Interactive Excel basedGantt Chart Schedule Builder which enables students to experiment with building schedules fordifferent single and parallel machine problem instances. Instead of explicitly telling studentsthese common scheduling rules, the Schedule Builder enables students to discover the rules ontheir own. Herein, we describe the functionality of the Schedule Builder , assess its effectivenessvia the student perception metric, and provide supplemental teaching materials enabling the useof the Schedule Builder in a wide variety of classroom : Gantt Chart , Scheduling, Excel , Discovery IntroductionMany of the state of the art scheduling rules and heuristics, often called dispatching rules, are conceptsadopted by people in every day life.

Interactive Excel based Gantt Chart Schedule Builder Abstract Many scheduling dispatching rules are intuitive and processes which people utilize in every

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