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SFSU Sections 3 & 4
DS 412 Spring 2016
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DS 412 – 3 & 4 Operations Management
Syllabus
Instructor Dr. Leyla Ozsen
Contact Info Office: BUS 307
Office Hours: M 9-10 am and 12-2 pm, F 12-1 pm @ BUS 307
Email: [email protected] (it may take 1-2 business days for a response)
Course Web Page
Required Materials
• Operations Management 11 th Edition by William J. Stevenson
• A calculator
Course Objectives
Students will develop a fundamental understanding of how production and service
systems are designed and managed. A solid understanding of the course material will
enable the students to apply the concepts not only to real life business situations but
also in their everyday lives.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES & COURSE POLICIES
1. Website: Students can access most of the course material on ,
e.g., the syllabus, the course notes, quizzes, homework solutions, etc. Make sure to
provide a valid e-mail address on “iLearn” – I will use it to send e-mail notices to the
entire class. It is your responsibility to check your SFSU emails as well as
information posted on iLearn .
2. E-mail correspondence: If you would like to receive a response to your e-mail,
always include your name and your section number. Observe grammatical rules
while composing your e-mails.
3. Class Attendance & Participation: Although attendance will not be taken, students
are clearly responsible for all the materials covered in class as well as the
announcements made in class. If you choose to attend the class, you are expected
to be respectful and should be prepared to participate actively. If you don’t show up
for the first lecture of the Spring 2016 semester, you will be automatically dropped,
allowing those unregistered students who attended the first lecture to be added .
4. Readings: There will be weekly readings from the textbook. Some material
discussed in class will not be in the text; likewise some material in the readings will
not be discussed in class.