Scm 372
SCM 372 – SYLLABUS
MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND CONTROL – Section 4
SPRING SEMESTER 2015
Course Instructor:
Office:
Office Telephone:
Office Hours:
Email:
Professor Sriram (Sri) Narayanan – Call me Dr. Sri.
N357 Business College Complex (BCC)
(517) 432-6432
Tuesday 3.00 PM – 5.00 PM and by appointment
Replacement office hours will be announced in class if there are any cancellations narayanan@broad.msu.edu
Course Times and Place:
Tuesday and Thursday 5:00 PM - 6:20 PM (N124 BCC)
Course Material:
Assigned readings, cases and PowerPoint presentation slides are available on the course Desire2Learn website.
Recommended Text:
Operations Management, an Integrated Text, fourth edition by R.
Dan Reid and Nada R. Sanders.
There is no required text …show more content…
Please do not miss your exam date. Any make up exam will be significantly harder than the original one to ensure fairness to the students who take the exam on time.
I hold review sessions before every exam. The materials will be provided in advance.
RESEARCH REPORT/FIELD VISIT
The objective of the research report/field visit is to allow you to develop deeper understanding about a specific topic in operations, or operations in a specific firm. Suggested topics will be listed on D2L. You may choose a topic that you are interested in and is not in the suggested list after consulting with the instructor. Any research should be rigorously done. Once the topic is chosen, changes are not allowed. No two groups may have the same topic.
An alternative is to visit a specific company, a firm that is pre-approved with the instructor. In this case, the report must justify the choice of the company, articulate key areas of strength in its operations, discuss example implementations of operations ideas within the firm and must offer insightful critique of the operations. Specific examples that are directly related to course content are likely to be more …show more content…
These evaluations will come from peer feedback and instructor evaluation combined, with instructor’s evaluation being the overriding factor if needed. In this regard, the instructor can request a meeting with all individuals of a group and ask questions that are intended to assess your contribution to the report/field visit that you will choose to undertake to complete the course. If the instructor requests, all students must be present at a common time for the meeting.
PRACTICE PROBLEMS
You will be assigned additional PRACTICE PROBLEMS during the course of the semester to help you prepare for the tests. The practice problems will typically provide problem sets that will set the stage for the kind of problems you may encounter in exams. Please spend time understanding the practice problems and working on them on your own.
ATTENDANCE
Attendance will be taken in every class. You are allowed to miss a maximum of three classes throughout the semester without losing any attendance grades. These three classes should cover cases of interviews and potential personal emergencies. After missing three classes, I will cut grades in proportion of number of missing classes. I do NOT entertain any excuse for missing the class. If you are
MANUFACTURING PLANNING AND CONTROL – Section 4
SPRING SEMESTER 2015
Course Instructor:
Office:
Office Telephone:
Office Hours:
Email:
Professor Sriram (Sri) Narayanan – Call me Dr. Sri.
N357 Business College Complex (BCC)
(517) 432-6432
Tuesday 3.00 PM – 5.00 PM and by appointment
Replacement office hours will be announced in class if there are any cancellations narayanan@broad.msu.edu
Course Times and Place:
Tuesday and Thursday 5:00 PM - 6:20 PM (N124 BCC)
Course Material:
Assigned readings, cases and PowerPoint presentation slides are available on the course Desire2Learn website.
Recommended Text:
Operations Management, an Integrated Text, fourth edition by R.
Dan Reid and Nada R. Sanders.
There is no required text …show more content…
Please do not miss your exam date. Any make up exam will be significantly harder than the original one to ensure fairness to the students who take the exam on time.
I hold review sessions before every exam. The materials will be provided in advance.
RESEARCH REPORT/FIELD VISIT
The objective of the research report/field visit is to allow you to develop deeper understanding about a specific topic in operations, or operations in a specific firm. Suggested topics will be listed on D2L. You may choose a topic that you are interested in and is not in the suggested list after consulting with the instructor. Any research should be rigorously done. Once the topic is chosen, changes are not allowed. No two groups may have the same topic.
An alternative is to visit a specific company, a firm that is pre-approved with the instructor. In this case, the report must justify the choice of the company, articulate key areas of strength in its operations, discuss example implementations of operations ideas within the firm and must offer insightful critique of the operations. Specific examples that are directly related to course content are likely to be more …show more content…
These evaluations will come from peer feedback and instructor evaluation combined, with instructor’s evaluation being the overriding factor if needed. In this regard, the instructor can request a meeting with all individuals of a group and ask questions that are intended to assess your contribution to the report/field visit that you will choose to undertake to complete the course. If the instructor requests, all students must be present at a common time for the meeting.
PRACTICE PROBLEMS
You will be assigned additional PRACTICE PROBLEMS during the course of the semester to help you prepare for the tests. The practice problems will typically provide problem sets that will set the stage for the kind of problems you may encounter in exams. Please spend time understanding the practice problems and working on them on your own.
ATTENDANCE
Attendance will be taken in every class. You are allowed to miss a maximum of three classes throughout the semester without losing any attendance grades. These three classes should cover cases of interviews and potential personal emergencies. After missing three classes, I will cut grades in proportion of number of missing classes. I do NOT entertain any excuse for missing the class. If you are