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2018 Fall Course Outline DSME2030A
2018 Fall Course Outline DSME2030A
INSTRUCTOR
NAME Prof. GAO, Xiangyu
Office: Room 909, Cheng Yu Tung Building
Phone: 3943 7654
E-mail: xiangyu@cuhk.edu.hk
Office hours: By appointment
TEACHING ASSISTANCE
NAME Mr. ZHONG, zhiheng
Office: Room 951, Cheng Yu Tung Building
Phone: 9586 6975
E-mail: zhongzhiheng@baf.cuhk.edu.hk
Office hours: By appointment
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The objective of this course is to teach students on how the design, operation, and control of
production/operation systems can most effectively produce and/or deliver goods and services to
meet customers' needs. Such knowledge will help business major students to be familiar with
the problems and issues confronting operations managers in real business, and provide them
with language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues in order to gain competitive
advantage through operations.
This course will emphasize applications rather than theories. However, the underlying logic of
the concepts will be examined so that students will understand the principles upon which their
approach is based.
2. Understand the goals and objectives of Operations Management. We will discuss key
decisions and trade-offs involved in effectively managing manufacturing and service
operations.
3. Speak the language of Operations Management. You will become familiar with many
special terms and concepts common to OM.
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ASSESSMENT SCHEME
GRADE DISCRIPTOR
TEXTBOOK
Jacobs, and Chase, Operations and Supply Chain Management , 14th Global Edition,
Irwin/McGraw Hill, 2014.
REFERENCE BOOK
1. Chopra, and Meindl, Supply Chain Management, Prentice Hall, 4th Edition, 2009
Course Website
You can find it on the Blackboard.
Use your Student ID and CWEM password to logon the system. You should regularly check
the course website for the latest announcement. The lecture notes will be posted before each
class.
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CLASS PARTICIPATION
HOMEWORK
Please hand in each homework by the start of the class on the date it is due. Late assignment
will NOT be accepted.
MIDTERM AND FINAL TESTS
The midterm and final tests are closed-book and will test your understanding of operations
management concepts, and your ability to solve operations management problems using what
you learn from class. You can bring a one-page (one side, hand-written) A4 aid sheet. No
individual make-up tests will be offered in this course.
The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose
(e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall
be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submission. It is common and acceptable
to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is
problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained
prior to the submission of the piece of work.
Course Outline:
This is a tentative schedule subject to adjustment as the course progresses.
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Week Date Topic
2 Sep.13 Strategy
10 Nov. 8 No class
11 Nov. 15 No class