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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Operations Management is a senior-level business core course. This course provides a comprehensive survey of production and service operations-management, topics and functions. Topics include methods and work measurement, materials management, plant location and layout, production planning and control, maintenance, quality control, "Total Quality", Japanese management styles, "Systems Approach" and decision tools such as PERT, linear programming, queuing theory, sampling and simulation. Service delivery applications and activities are also highlighted.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
The prerequisites for Operations Management are: B122 Introduction to Information Systems, B123 Principles of Management, L132 Introduction to Calculus or L141 Calculus I; a pre- or co-requisite is: B152 Statistics II or M141 Probability and Statistics.
It is your responsibility to make certain that you have successfully completed these courses. If at any time during the semester it is learned that you have not successfully completed the prerequisites, you will be dropped from the course and receive neither credit nor a tuition refund.
COURSE OBJECTIVES & EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
Students will understand the basic concepts of operations management and the various models and quantitative techniques used in operations management.
COURSE POLICIES:
Please refer to the policies page for minimum expected standards and behavior in all classes.
COURSE OUTLINE:
