Week by week
Seven Thursdays, one chapter each
One card per Thursday: chapter, morning test, bonus sheet, group project. A week’s page fills in after the Thursday before it. Dates and grading: Syllabus.
- Chapter
- Heizer Ch. 1
- Problem
- Your worst and best service: why did this “production” fail or work?
- Sentence
- Productivity is always a ratio, and the interesting question is what goes into the denominator.
- Morning
- speed-dating, productivity in words, Mia’s moving day by hand
- Afternoon
- the moving day as a Colab model; bonus sheet
- Exercises
- 14 Heizer problems and eight new ones
- Test
- none this week
- Bonus sheet
- counts toward T1
- Chapter
- Heizer Ch. 7 + S7
- Test
- T1 in the morning (Ch. 1), then a role play of six departments
- Bonus sheet
- moved to Week 3 (not written on 8 Oct); counts toward T2
- Group project
- team of 4–5 signed up on ILIAS (team tests and project); description
- Page
- open
- Chapter
- Heizer Ch. 6 + S6
- Test
- T2 in the morning (Ch. 7, S7, S5 + two Ch. 1 calculations)
- Bonus sheet
- counts toward T3
- Group project
- check cell (automatic data test) and animation template released
- Page
- opens after the Week 3 Thursday
- Chapter
- Heizer Ch. 4
- Test
- none
- Bonus sheet
- counts toward T3
- Group project
- checkpoint Wed 28 Oct, feedback on this Thursday
- Page
- opens after the Week 4 Thursday
- Chapter
- Heizer Ch. 11 + S11, Chopra Ch. 3
- Test
- T3 in the morning (Ch. 6, 4)
- Bonus sheet
- counts toward T4
- Group project
- last chance for the checkpoint Wed 4 Nov
- Page
- opens after the Week 5 Thursday
- Chapter
- Heizer Ch. 13
- Test
- T4 in the morning (Ch. 11, Chopra 3, 13)
- Bonus sheet
- practice only; no test follows
- Group project
- final submission Wed 11 Nov; poster session in the afternoon
- Page
- opens after the Week 6 Thursday