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 ISOM 1500

Decisions by the Number

[3 Credits]
  [Previous Course Code: ISOM150] The course helps students develop better analytical and decision making skills in approaching practical and important social and business issues. Students will derive solutions or conclusions that require critical thinking, creativity, quantitative analysis, and common sense. Cover topics in decision traps, quantitative decision models, statistical reasoning, computer tools, data-analysis techniques, etc. and, more importantly, how these decision analysis concepts and tools can be applied in a broad set of social and business problems.
 

Instructor:

Prof. Ronald LAU
 

Class Hours:

 Mon & Wed  0900-1020 - Rm. 3008

 

 

 

ISOM 2500

Business Statistics

[3 Credits]

 L1_L4
 L2-L3_L5
 L6-L7
 L8-L9
 L10

[Previous Course Code(s): ISOM111/SMT111] Collection, tabulation and presentation of numerical data; concepts of probability and probability distributions; sampling; statistical estimation and hypothesis testing; correlation and regression analysis.

Exclusions:

LIFS 3150, CIVL 2160, MATH 2411, MATH 3423, IELM 2510

 

Instructor:

Prof. Inchi HU, Prof. Anthony CHAN, Prof. Xuhu WAN, Prof. Yingying LI and Prof. Xinghua ZHENG.

 

Class Hours:

(L1) Mon & Wed    0900-1020 - RM. 2306
(L2) Tue & Thu      1200-1320 - Rm. 2306
(L3) Tue & Thu      1500-1620 - Rm. 2306
(L4) Wed & Fri      1630-1750 - Rm. 2407
(L5) Tue & Thu      1630-1750 - Rm. 2464
(L6) Tue & Thu      1500-1620 - LTK
(L7) Tue & Thu      1330-1450 - LTK
(L8) Wed & Fri      1630-1750 - Rm. 4620
(L9) Mon               1330-1450 - Rm. 2306
       Fri                 0900-1020 - Rm. 2464
(L10) Mon & Wed  1030-1150 - Rm. 2306

 

 

 

ISOM 2720

Introduction to Operations Management

[3 Credits]

 

[Previous Course Code(s): ISOM162/ISMT162] For non-SB&M students. This course covers basic concepts and practices in production and service operations at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. Topics include product and process design, location and layout decisions, material requirements, resource planning, scheduling, and quality control.

 

Exclusions:

ISOM2700, IEEM4100

 

Instructor:

Prof. Shu Ming NG

 

Class Hours:

Tue & Thu  1200-1320 - LTA

 

Textbook:

“Operations and Supply Management: The core”, by Jacobs & Chase; Latest edition; McGraw Hill.

 

 

 ISOM 3540

Introduction to Probability Models

[3 Credits]

 

[Previous Course Code(s): ISOM254/ISMT254] Probabilities, random variables, distribution functions, densities, expected values, conditional distributions and densities, conditional expectations, moment generating functions, Chebyshev's inequality, central limit theorem, and Poisson processes.

 

Exclusion:

MATH2421, MATH3425

 

Prerequisite:

ISOM2500 or MATH2411

 

Instructor:

Prof. Xinghua ZHENG

 

Class Hours:

(L1)  Mon 1330 - 1450 - Rm. 4503
        Fri   0900 - 1020 - Rm. 4503
(L2)  Wed & Fri  1630-1750 - Rm. 4504

 

 

 ISOM 3710

Management Science

[4 Credits]

 

[Previous Course Code(s): ISOM271/ISMT271] Introduction to scientific approaches to informed decision making and technical methods for managerial problem solving; spreadsheet modeling in Excel is used throughout; two important frames: constrained optimization and decisions under risk; emphases on model formulation and solution interpretation; applications to a wide variety of management situations.

 

Exclusion:

IEEM 3010

 

Instructor:

Prof. Shaohui ZHENG

 

Class Hours:

(L1) Tue & Thu 1200-1320 - Microsoft .Net Lab (Rm. 4116)
(L2) Tue & Thu 0900-1020 - Microsoft .Net Lab (Rm. 4116)

(T1) Mon 0930-1020 - Microsoft .Net Lab (Rm. 4116)
(T2) Mon 1200-1250 - Microsoft .Net Lab (Rm. 4116)

 

Textbook:

“Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications”, by Albright; Thomson Learning Incoporation.

   
 ISOM 3730

Quality and Process Management

[4 Credits]
  [Previous Course Code(s): ISOM263/ISMT263] Concepts and strategic importance of quality, organizational aspects, total quality control, quality and productivity improvement programs, quality costs and economics. Applications in industrial and service sectors. Second or third year standing preferred.
 

Exclusion:

IEEM3270
 

Instructor:

Prof. Ki Ling CHEUNG
 

Class Hours:

(L1) Tue & Thu 0900-1020 - Rm. 4006
(L2) Wed & Fri 1630-1750 - Rm. 4006

(T1) Fri 1800-1850 - Rm. 3007
(T2) Tue 1730-1825 - Rm. 3007

 

Textbook:

“Managing Quality Integrating the Supply Chain", by S. Thomas Foster; Fourth Edition; Pearson.
 
ISOM 4740

Enterprise Resource Management

[3 Credits]
  [Previous Course Code(s): ISOM364/ISMT364] Basic concepts and practices of enterprise resource management; popular enterprise resource planning software packages, such as SAP R/3 for discussing and building integrated business solutions. 
 

Prerequisite:

 ISOM 2700
 

Instructor:

Prof. Ronald LAU
 

Class Hours:

Mon & Wed 1030-1150 - Microsoft .Net Lab. ( Rm. 4116)
 

ISOM 4750

Business Project Management

[3 Credits]
  [Previous Course Code: ISOM365/ISMT365, ISMT369I] This course covers basic principles and practices of project management. Special emphases are on project planning, scheduling, and control while addressing both the technical and the social aspects of managing business projects.
 

Prerequisite:

 ISOM2700
 

Instructor:

Prof. Qing LI
 

Class Hours:

Wed & Fri 1630-1750 - Microsoft .Net Lab. ( Rm. 4116)
   

 ISOM 4810

OM Best Practices

[3 Credits]
  [Previous Course Code: ISOM369A] In this course, students shall study 12 applications in OM that have been judged by peers as being amongst the best in recent years. Students shall try to understand what the problem was, how it was addressed, how it worked out and attempt to learn what marked it as a success and how portable the practice can be. The principle purpose is to expose students to a wide range of good case histories in order to enhance their repertoire and experience in OM.
 

Prerequisite:

 ISOM2700
 

Instructor:

Prof. Qing LI
 

Class Hours:

Wed & Fri 1500-1620 - Rm. 2406
   

ISOM 4880

Operations Management Project

[3 Credits]

 

[Previous Course Code(s): ISOM388/ISOM369B] This course is offered to those students who are interested in applying what they have learned in other OM courses to solve real business problems for a sponsoring corporation. Recommendation and/or implementation of solutions will be made through the use of operations management concepts, techniques, and tools. Students will work as a group and be supervised by faculty members. Enrollment in this course requires the approval of course instructor.

 

Instructor:

Prof. Ronald LAU

 

Class Hours:

LA1