This describes the particulars of the class ISyE 6202, Warehousing and Distribution. It is one of the core graduate courses for students of supply chain and logistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
We will meet twice a week for lecture and discussion: Tuesday and Thursday 1200-1330 in IC105.
Your grade will be based on the following, each of which will be equally weighted:
In addition, I may award a small amount of extra credit for insightful class participation, assigned homework, extraordinary performance on the project, etc.
The grading scale will be no stricter than this: A = 90% or higher; B = at least 80% but below 90%; C = at least 70% but below 80%; D = at least 50% but below 70%; F = below 50%.
There will be no make-up exams. If you miss any single exam, your other two exams will be averaged to compensate (so that each counts 37.5 percent). If you miss two or more exams, you will receive a grade of “Unsatisfactory” for the course.
All exams are cumulative. You may bring one 3-inch by 5-inch index card to each exam, with anything you like written on it. You may use both sides. (example).
If you think there has been a mistake in the grading of your exam, write a detailed defense plus what you think should be done to rectify the mistake. Staple this to the top of exam and return it to the Teaching Assistant within one week after graded exams have been returned.
Homework will be assigned occasionally but rarely collected. When it is collected, it may count as extra credit. In any case the homework problems in the textbook will be a source of exam questions and so it is recommended that you do them. The Teaching Assistant will be happy to give you hints on any homework problem, but he will not give out answers (other than to confirm your work).
The Teaching Assistant for August-December 2008 is Pisit Jarumaneeroj, whom you can reach at pjarumaneeroj3 at mail.gatech.edu, whose office hours will be Wednesdays 2:30-3:30PM, Thursdays 3:30-4:30PM, and Fridays 2:30-4:30PM at ISyE 334 (main building). See the TA first for help on homework, tests, or projects. Note that the TA is unusually popular immediately before exams so get your questions resolved early.
Professor John J. BARTHOLDI, III
Room 202 Groseclose Building, 404-894-3036,
John DOT Bartholdi AT GaTech.edu
www.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb
You must know or learn quickly: the standard tools of operations research, such as linear programming, basic probabilistic modelling, and so on; a general purpose programming language, preferably Java; a database and/or spreadsheet.
