You just completed your PhD in Industrial Engineering, have job offers from six different universities, and are faced with the problem of choosing the right university to work for. You have collected the necessary data about each university, as given in Table 4.9.

Acting as the new PhD, use the following methods to determine the criteria weights and the ranking of the universities. [Notes: (i) You will be maximizing criteria 1, 3, 4, and 5 and minimizing criteria 2 and 6. (ii) Scale the salaries by dividing by $10,000.]

a. Rating method

b. Borda method, using pairwise comparison of criteria Do you find any rank reversals?

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TABLE 4.9 Data for Exercise 4.11 University Criteria 1. 9-month salary (in $) 2. Average teaching load (hours/semester) 3. Geographic locationa 4. Summer support 5. Research supports 1 $94,000 9 2743 2 $93,000 8 3 Naw 6 4 3 $96,000 10 2 5 3 3 4 4 $97,500 12 281 10 6. Number of different preparations/year Scaled-where larger numbers represent more desirable outcomes. 5 5 $92,000 6 4 252 10 6 $90,000 11 1 @NAL 4 2 3