General Information
Operations Management
33:623:386:04
Spring
1999
- Attendance: Regular attendance is essential and
will be monitored. In severe weather, you
can monitor WCTC AM 1450 or Rutgers INFO AM 530 for possible
university closing information.
- Questions: Are encouraged during class and office
hours.
- Exams: There will be two in-class midterm exams and a
final. All exams will be closed book. For the midterms, you can
bring a one-page "cram sheet" in your own handwriting (both sides
of the paper are allowed). A two-page cram sheet (also in your own
handwriting, both sides of the paper allowed) is permitted for the
final. All sections of this course will have a common final exam,
given in the "M" common exam period (Friday, May 7, 4:00-7:00PM).
Please figure out your final exam schedule NOW to avoid
conflicts. The final distribution of letter grades will depend
on the section's final exam performance, as compared to other
sections. The final will be "cumulative", covering all topics in
the course.
- Homework: There will be about 10 homework assignments,
handed out on Thursday, and due the following Thursday, at
the beginning of class.
Late submissions of HW will be penalized at the rate of 20 points per day.
In particular, 20 points will be deducted from HW submitted at the end of
class on the date due.
Your lowest assignment score will be dropped,
so your semester homework grade will
be based on your best 9 (or so) scores.
Most homework problems will involve computer work.
- Collaboration and Cheating: You are allowed to
seek or give help to other students on homework
assignments. However, unless I instruct otherwise, you must
actually work through each problem yourself and hand in your own
work. Multiple students handing in copies of identical
computer printouts is not permitted. If you have worked with
others on an assignment, list them all on the first page of your
assignment. No collaboration of any kind is permitted on
exams. Violations of these policies will be considered
cheating and dealt with harshly.
- Using your own computer: If it has Excel and
the Solver add-in installed, you can use your own computer
instead of the lab machines. However, all software installation
and compatibility problems are strictly your own responsibility.
Late in the class, we will use the "@Risk"; Palisade has a
10-day trial
version of the software which can be downloaded free, and you
are also eligible to buy the software at a substantial discount.
If your computer uses a different operating system than the lab,
or a different version of Excel, it is your
responsibility to figure out the differences.
- Grading: No letter grades are assigned to individual
assignments or exams. Your course grade will be based on your
aggregate score, calculated by combining your scores on all
written class work.
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20% Midterm 1
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20% Midterm 2
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35% Final
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25% Homework (excluding your worst score)
I then rank students according to these aggregate scores,
and assign grades by class rank, with some subjective judgement
applied to borderline cases. Thus, all grades are "curved"
together at the end of the course. Homework scores in this class
have historically tended to be in the 90's and vary much less than
exam scores. In the past, getting an above-average grade (A or B+)
in the class requires doing at least 9 of the 10 homeworks and
getting a suitably above-average grade on at least two of the
exams. I reserve the right to make adjustments to the
weightings above. In particular, I might include an adjustment for
class participation.
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