OM302: Foundations of Operations Management introduces the elements associated with the design and operation of a product or service organization and the integration of these elements within the overall corporate strategy. Contemporary issues covered include operations in global markets, designing and controlling the service process and planning for operations.

Spring 2011 Tuesdays 3:00 - 4:50 pm, Markstein Hall 125, CRN 20109
Instructor: Jim Hamerly email, photo, schedule, more about Jim, Facebook page
office: Markstein Hall 422e

Prerequisites: A working projector. A good professor. Good students, willing to work. Positive attitude, good sense of humor. Willingness to follow the Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Experience making spaghetti dinners will help, but is not a prerequisite. Read what other students have said about this course here and here.

Miscellaneous Items of General Interest Below:
Don't know how to cook pasta, and can't wait for this class? Here's some help to get you started. Buon Appetito!

Learn more about spaghetti, not to be confused with spaghetti code , make sure you understand al dente.

Definition: Out-saucing: the use of canned, powdered, or frozen sauce.

Breaking News: A question that has plagued us all for many years, and finally, an answer! Why does dry spaghetti usually break into more than two pieces when you bend it? Pasta-eaters and scientists alike have been puzzled by the physics of breaking spaghetti. Even Nobel Laureate and Physicist Richard Feynman pondered this difficult question. Now, life as we know it, as well as the cooking of pasta dinners, may continue with this fundamental research problem now solved.

Old News:Learn how to grow your own spaghetti: Bumper Spaghetti Harvest in southern Switzerland.

And Rumor: Contrary to popularly held misconceptions, Dr. Hamerly is not a Pastafarian.

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