Operations Management - Ecuador
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Syllabus quick links: Course Objectives, Texts, Supplemental Material, Basis of Grade |
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| 1. | Course Information | |||
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Days & Times: Location: Credits: Prerequisites: Instructor: Email: Phone: Website Office: Office Hours: |
10 days, 8:30AM-12:00PM Ecuador 3 hours STBE337 (Statistics) Dr. Richard Jerz Rick@rjerz.com 563.333.6183 www.rjerz.com/sau 408 Ambrose Hall See link. Others by appointment |
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| 2. | Catalog Description | |||
| This course is an introduction to the concepts and methods for planning, routing, scheduling, and controlling operations in both manufacturing and service industries. Topics include the concept of competitiveness, use of technology, process measurement, quality, forecasting, waiting lines, human resources issues, project management, supply chain management, just-in-time (JIT) systems, planning, scheduling, and inventory systems. | ||||
| 3. | Course Objectives and Format | |||
| There are three objectives of this course: | ||||
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Format: Each day will include lectures and student discussions. Eight tours are planned that include both manufacturing and service industries. The tours will be used to illustrate operations management topic in action, and to compare various operations management topics between Ecuador and the United States. Additional information can be found here. |
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| 4. | Texts | |||
| Operations Management Flexible Version Package, 8th Ed., Jay Heizer and Barry Render, Prentice Hall, 2007, ISBN 0132209292. Lecture notes will be provided and there is no need to take these books to Ecuador. (There are two books in this bundle.) | ||||
| 5. | Supplemental Readings and Resources | |||
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You will need Blackboard:
https://blackboard.sau.edu/. See
the Information Technology (IT) department if you need a login id
and password.
Here is IT's
Quick Start guide. We will be using Microsoft Excel. This is available on CEIDEI lab computers. You should consider having a flashdrive with you.
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| 6. | Basis of Grade | |||
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Attendance and
Lectures: Tours & Papers: |
50% 50% |
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| A:93-100, B+: 87-92, B:80-86, C+: 77-79, C:70-76, D:60-69, F:0-59 | ||||
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Attendance and lectures: Attendance is required.
You are expected to review the lecture materials prior to
class. Tours and papers: Attendance is required for each tour. After the tour, you should write a paper (up to one page) describing what you saw, what aspects of operations management topics were observed, and how the organizations operations compare to similar organization in the United States. |
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http://www.rjerz.com/sau/STBE333/Podcasts/(to be announced) .xml