Identify different types of scheduling problems in the real world. The list could easily fill a page and take several minutes to developthe point being to get you thinking about the tremendous variety and prevalence of scheduling applications in existence, no matter in which industry they will eventually work. Examples to have handy in case of dead air include: factory (jobs on a machine, purchases and deliveries, workforce), university (assigning professors to classes, assigning rooms to classes, setting registration priorities), airlines (flights, connections, crews), hospitals (operating rooms, outpatient procedures, nurses), and the National Football League (games, referees)