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Undergraduate

  • OPT Production Game Assignment

    Your assignment is to schedule a small job-shop with the objective to maximize your cash after two weeks. You start with $1500 and you must pay a fixed operating cost of $2500 at the end of each week. There are no loans available and you go out of business if you run out of cash.

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  • Contracts and Procurement

    Problem set on forecasting from the course D-Lab: Supply Chains.

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  • Inventory Models

    Problem set on forecasting from the course D-Lab: Supply Chains.

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  • Process Analysis

    Problem set on forecasting from the course D-Lab: Supply Chains.

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  • Forecasting

    Problem set on forecasting from the course D-Lab: Supply Chains.

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  • From Cancer Cells to String Theory: Communicating Complex Material

    After completing the readings for this session, please write what you think did and did not work about the communication used.

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  • Science in the Blogosphere

    Identify a science blog of your choice from the Discover Magazine “stable” of blogs available at: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/, follow it for at least three days during the week preceding this class, and write a short critical review of it. What is the blog trying to do, and how well is it doing it? Come to class prepared to give a short (2 minute) review of your chosen blog.

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  • Critiquing Science on Display

    Please tour the public galleries on display in the lobbies of the Broad Institute and the Koch Institute, which face one another across Main Street on the MIT campus. Then write brief notes (2–3 pages) that critically compare and contrast the approaches to exhibiting science of these two galleries.

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  • Workshop: Writing Science and Writing Science (cont.)

    Revise your one-page written piece to include the elements you recently learned.

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  • Telling a Tale, Painting a Picture: Writing About Science Using Special Techniques

    Come to class with a first draft of a one-page description of a phenomenon in science for a public audience, a one-page essay on a topic related to science, or a one-page letter to the editor responding to a recent op-ed on a topic in science or technology.

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