•      Text: Practical Management Science: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications ,  by Wayne L. Winston and S. Christian Albright
•      Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 6:10-7:30 pm
•      Place: Beck 219
•      Instructor: Adi Ben-Israel
•      E-mail: bisrael@rutcor.rutgers.edu


•      Office: 113 RUTCOR Building, Busch Campus
•      Telephone: 732-445-5631
•      Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 7:30-8:30 pm,  249 Levin Bldg (Tel: 732-445-3243), and by appointment


•      Course webpage:   ftp://rutcor.rutgers.edu/pub/bisrael/386.html
•      Syllabus
•      Home Work and Solutions
•      Handouts 

•     Attendance: Regular attendance is essential and will be informally monitored. In severe weather, you can monitor WCTC AM 1450 or Rutgers INFO  AM 530 for possible university closing information.
•     Questions: Are strongly 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 "J" common exam period (Wednesday, Dec 20, 4:00-7:00PM). Please figure out your final exam schedule NOW to avoid conflicts.  If there is any conflict involving this class, please notify me IMMEDIATELY. 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. There is no credit for late homework Your lowest assignment score will be dropped, so your semester homework grade will be based on your best 9 scores. Most homework problems will involve computer work.
•     Collaboration: 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.
•     Computer Lab:  All software needed for this course is installed in the computer lab in the Levin building basement.
•     Using non-lab computers:  Most computer homework for this class may be done at the general University cluster sites, which are open later than the Levin lab, and have newer, faster computers.  If  Solver does not appear on the Excel Tools menu, uou may have to use the Add-Ins dialog box (also accessible from the Tools menu) to enable it.  If it has Excel and the Solver add-in installed, you can also use your own computer instead of the lab machines. However, all software installation and compatibility problems are strictly your own responsibility.  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.
•     Solver Upgrade:  The textbook comes with an upgraded version of Solver, which should fix some minor but annoying bugs that we have encountered in  the past.  You are encouraged to try the upgraded solver on your own computer, if you have one.
•     Grading: No letter grades are assigned to individual assignments or exams, only numeric scores from 0 to 100. Your course grade will be based on your aggregate score, calculated by combining your scores on all written class work according to the following weights (the exact weights will be announced next week):
•           Midterm 1: 25%
•           Midterm 2: 25%
•           Final:          30%
•           Homework 20%  (excluding your worst score)
After getting the aggregate score, students are ranked and assigned letter grades based on rank. Do not make assumptions on your grade based on homework scores alone.