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OM Syllabi: St. Petersberg College, Rollins College, President University, Goldey-Beacom College

We are pleased to share the OM syllabi of four additional colleges that are teaching from our text this month. To see the 27 schools previously posted, just click on the OM Syllabi link in the right hand column.

St. Petersberg College, Dr. Wende Huehn-Brown, MAN 3504.Wende’s course provides a good model of blended learning, with 80% of the course completely on-line. She uses MyOMLab for assignments.

Rollins College, Dr. Michele Boulanger, INB 365. Many months ago, we posted my MBA syllabus at Rollins. Here is Michele’s undergrad class, which is taught in the International Business Dept., and includes 20 international mini cases. She also uses MyOMLab.

President University (Indonesia), Suresh Kumar. Suresh teaches the course at this new university, in English, using our OM 10/e. (The text, by the way, has been translated into Indonesian, and is available in  Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, European, and Indian versions).

Goldey-Beacom College, Dr. Robert Donnelly, MGT 481. Bob’s very interesting  post on this blog (Dec.2, 2011) details how he treats simulation in his course.

Guest Post: Teaching Simulation at Goldey-Beacom College

Today’s Guest Post, by Dr. Robert Donnelly, Professor of Management at Goldey-Beacom College, in Delaware, describes how he teaches simulation (Module F). Bob is the author of a new Business Statistics text appearing in 2012, published by Prentice-Hall.

Simulation is one of my favorite topics in the OM course here at Goldey-Beacom College. Students seem interested in learning how many relatable applications involve simulation. I use the video sports games as an example. I also show them Strat-O-Matic baseball cards which is a dice game based on actual player performance from the previous season.

I like to schedule this topic at the end of the semester because it allows me to revisit the EOQ and waiting line problems that I cover earlier in the course. I present simulation as an alternative approach when the assumptions for the EOQ and waiting line models don’t hold true. Then I apply simulation to the overbooking problem with airlines and hotels. As consumers, most students don’t realize the benefits to overbooking until they work through a simulation model.

I also demonstrate Extend, which is simulation modeling software. I set up the queuing model with this software in class (Problem F.8) and simulate 40,000 customers and compare these results with what we found doing it on the board. I show them an Excel file that simulates the inventory problem from the Render-Stair  Managerial Decision Modeling book (Chapter 10) and compare that to what we did in Module F. We wrap up the topic by talking about two actual business examples where the simulation model resulted in significant savings for the companies.

I like this topic because it catches the students’ attention and, for the most part, they do well solving these types of problems on  exams.