MIS 34060 Fall 2012 Porr

Kent State University             Tue 7:20 – 10:00 PM   originating from Kent room: BA 215 to

Ashtabula, Salem, and Lorain CC

Instructor:    Dean A. Porr, Ph.D.        Office: BA A426

Email: dporr@kent.edu                                  Phone: 330-372-1145

Office hrs: MW: 1:00 – 2:00 PM, TR 4:00 - 5:00PM, and by appointment.

Required Text:  Operations Management, 11th edition. By W. J. Stevenson, published by McGraw-Hill, 2012. Lower cost alternative: LSC M&IS 34060: Operations Management Selected Materials with Connect Plus PPK LL (Kent State University - COLW). 0077778766 / 9780077778767. Either 10^th ed 2009 or 11^th ed 2012.

Course Objectives: This is a survey course in production and operations management that covers the managerial concepts and the quantitative tools used in the design, planning operation and control of production systems.

Learning Outcomes: Students should develop an understanding of the strategic importance of operations and how operations can provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Students should be able to recognize and use the operational management concepts contained in the text and demonstrated in class. Changes to the syllabus will be announced in class and updated in Blackboard, but the student is ultimately responsible for keeping up to date with such changes.

Course Requirements and Grading:

a)      Examinations: There will be four open-book, open-note, scheduled tests and an optional comprehensive final exam. There will be no make-ups tests, students who miss a regularly scheduled test must take the final. If five exams are taken, the lowest score will be dropped. Each exam will count for 100 points.

b)      Homework: There will be 5 homework assignments, each comprising 10 points. Homework assignments may not be turned in late.

Grading: Of 450 possible points:

425 – 450                                A        

400 – 424                                A-                                                                                           

383 – 399                                B+                                                                              

367 – 382                    B                                                                                            

350 – 366                                B-                                                                                           

333 – 349                                C+

317 – 332                                C                                                                                

300 – 316                                C-                                                                               

275 – 299                    D+                                                                              

250 – 274                                D

0 – 249                        F 

Administrative policies apply to all students in this course:

a)   Academic Honesty: Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., test, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. In addition, it is considered cheating when one cooperates with someone in such misrepresentation. The use of intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the University’s policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

b)      The course withdrawal deadline for Fall Semester 2012 is November 4, 2012.

c)      University policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.kent.edu/sas for more information on registration procedures).

d)     Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools on Flashline) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until Sunday, September 9, 2012 to correct the error. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.