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Course Title
MLI21C617
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
6 cr
Instructor
Dr. Bruno Silvestre
Contact Information
Email: bruno_silvestre@hotmail.com
Office: 203, office tel. +358-50-4361164
Office Hours
13:00-14.0 (Mon to Thu) or by appointment (please send me an email)
Required Reading
Operations Management by Slack et al, published by Pearson, 6th or 7th edition
Please always bring to class the following items:
- the textbook
- a calculator
- a ruler
- pencil and eraser
Course Schedule
Note1: Chapter and page numbers are given for 7th edition of the adopted textbook.
Note2: Class will be split in two groups: Group 1 and Group 2. The groups will have
different activities on April 12 and April 14. One group will visit the operations of a local
company while the other will work on other activities to be defined by the Instructor.
Session 1 (Mon. April 4)
N/A
-Introductions, course overview, and general
administrative issues
-Introduction to Operations Management (Ch. 1)
Deduction due to an unexcused absence on
first day of the course: 5 points (on a 100-point
scale) will be deducted from the students final
raw score before converting it to the final grade.
Session 2 (Tue. April 5)
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapters 1, 2 and 4
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapter 18
-Read Chapter 20 (pages 645-656)
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapters 10 and 11
-Test 1
Session 6 (Mon. April 11)
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapter 12
Schedule:
Group 1:
Operations Visit - OC-System facility
Group 1:
Departing from School (dont be late
bus driver cannot wait)
Group 2:
Work on activities to be defined by the Instructor
in class
Group 2:
Meet the Instructor at 1:00pm in our
classroom
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapter 14
Schedule:
Group 1:
Work on activities to be defined by the Instructor
in class
Group 1:
Meet the Instructor at 1:00pm in our
classroom
Group 2:
Operations Visit - Alhstrom Glassfibre facility
Group 2:
Departing from School (dont be late
bus driver cannot wait)
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapters 15 and 17
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapter 3
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapter 16 (Note we shall cover
Precedence networks only)
Pre-Work:
-Read Chapters 6 and 13
-Test 2
Session 15 (Fri. April 22)
-Group Presentation
Aalto University
School of Business, Mikkeli Campus
Grading
Course Requirements and Values
Participation / Professionalism (individual)
In-Class Activities / Mini-Cases (group)
Test 1 (individual)
Test 2 (individual)
Group Presentation
Weighting (%) or
maximum points
10%
20%
20%
30%
20%
Total
100%
Final grade
(official scale)
5
4
3
2
1
0
ECTS GUIDELINES
This course is a 6 ECTS unit course, following the ECTS (European Credit Transfer
System) guidelines of Aalto University School of Business. The number of hours the
average student is expected to work in the course is 160 (including in-class and out-ofclass work).
ECTS Student Workload
Number of Hours
Classroom contact hours
45
40
Exam preparation
25
25
22
115
160
CODES OF CONDUCT
Academic excellence and high achievement levels are only possible in an environment
where the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity are maintained. Students
are expected to abide by the Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity, other relevant
codes and regulations, as well as the canons of ethical conduct within the disciplines of
business and management education. (See Aalto Mikkeli Study Guide for information on
Aalto University codes of conduct.)
Faculty Profile
Dr. Bruno Silvestre is an Associate Professor and the Chancellors Research Chair in
Sustainable Supply Chains and Innovation Management in the Faculty of Business and
Economics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He has been teaching Operations
Management, Innovation Management and Supply Chain Management since 2003. Prior
to joining the University of Winnipeg, Dr. Silvestre worked as a Research Associate at the
University of Sussex in Brighton (UK), and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver
(Canada). He also lectured for some top US, Asian, European and South American
Business and Engineering Schools.
Dr. Silvestre has more than 12 years of managerial experience in the industry. More
recently, he worked as a New Business Development Executive at ELETROBRAS, a
major Brazilian energy company. Prior to that, Dr. Silvestre worked for the German
company B.Braun Melsungen and a research park coordinating a number of technologybased start-up projects. His research interests are associated with the management of
operations, supply chain and innovation. His research has been published in some of the
leading management journals in Europe and North America, which has been currently
cited over 2,100 times by his peers (Google Scholar, April 2016).
Additional Information
Operations Management is all about getting the product or service to the customer on
time. If you dont, you lose the order, the customer, your job, etc. On-time delivery of work
is therefore critical.
Work up to 4 hours later than the agreed deadline will lose 10 points from the grade for
that piece of work. Work more than 4 hours late will be reviewed for learning points but will
receive ZERO credit towards your final course grade.