Part I Introductory Material

ISyE 7201 : Production and Service System Engineering Instructor : Spyros Reveliotis Spring 2015 Homework

Reading Guidelines The introductory material on stochastic processes was (primarily) extracted from Section 6.2 in your textbook. Also, Discrete-Time Markov Chains (DTMCs) are treated in your textbook in Section 7.2. But some of the material presented in class was also based on personal notes. Of course, a large part of the discussion on DTMCs had a reviewing role of the material on DTMCs that ...

The Introductory Essay: Richard Wright's Covert Challenging of Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism

Richard Wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children describes hidden forms of resistance against Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism. The essay entitled The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch relates Wright’s daily confrontations with Jim Crowism with a particular emphasis on his evasive actions, and his covert activities, such as silence, pla...

Games in the Classroom: Using Games

In the first article in this series, which appeared in the April!June 2009 issue of IEEE MultiMedia, we presented an overview of using games in the classroom, cited several examples of this approach, and linked the use of games with various cognitive models as they relate to computing education. Most of this work, and the general effectiveness of these approaches with regard to assessment activ...

Contents Preface ix I Introductory Material

Repackaging the Introductory IS Survey Course: An Information Technology Solution

Both instructors and students dread large introductory courses. IS introductory courses are no exception as they are often too large, the material too dry and the atmosphere too impersonal. This presentation describes a unique curriculum for delivering introductory IS survey courses that keep students interested and engaged while producing high-quality learning outcomes. In designing this curri...