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Please Read This! It Contains Vital Information about the Course as well as All the Assignments, Homework and Grades!
PLEASE save the TREES and stay GREEN! Sustainable Green is the only option! Please DO NOT Print this syllabus. Use this web site to read it in this electronic format; it will be updated during the semester. Thank you!
Lean Six-sigma Sustainable Green Design and Manufacturing Project Management.
Lean and green project management continuously optimizes the performance of operations and improves existing business practices by focusing on balanced capacity, flexibility, eco-friendly sustainability, agility and continuous process or technology improvement.
Additionally, the lean project management philosophy addresses performance improvement by reducing every type of waste, including energy. This could be waste resulting from project delays, overproduction, idle time in the process, unnecessary transport, over-processing due to poor project design, inventory, defective parts, collaborating global supply chains, that don’t deliver, and many others.
Within the MIE context, we introduce analytical and computational lean six-sigma and sustainable green project management methods. Develop a systematic approach to the analysis and project design of green products, design reviews, and processes, and document on student created and knowledge-managed web pages. The analytical and computational methods taught in this course can be applied to a wide range of applications. International green project design and engineering management. Global green design review project management.
Green engineering project design and management examples in the USA, Europe and Asia. International project management communication skills. Graduate students with different engineering and/or science background will be able to apply the same theory, analytical methods, and computational tools taught in class, and then work on practical green project design and project management applications, use-cases and project assignments close to their own disciplines.
Having worked on complex projects in Mainland European, UK, USA, Japanese, and Chinese industry and academia, and having successfully completed over 300 major national and international projects myself during the past 25 plus years, I am keen to teach you sound principles, methods, tools and technologies, that will assure, that you will NOT be one of those project managers, who's project fails... I am pleased to state, that none of my professional projects have failed so far during the past 25 plus years.
High quality, sustainable green engineering project management is the next huge challenge for all of us! This course will help you to prepare for such challenges! As a result, as an engineering manager you'll lead this crucial change process!
by
Paul G. Ranky, PhD
Full Tenured Professor
Registered Chartered Professional Engineer
Member or former member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Audit Division and Lean Enterprise / Advanced Manufacturing Division
Also Member / former Member of PMI, ASQ, ASEE, IEEE, IEE, FEANI, SAE
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and the IS/ IT Program
NJIT, University Heights, NJ 07102 -1982
A NEW, and unique feature of this course: International Collaboration between us, and other university students! As part of an informal academic collaborative effort I set up with other universities in Hong Kong/China, Japan, United Kingdom and Europe, we provide here links to international Masters students' work. Please feel free to review, comment, and get involved.
This is an attempt to increase the global collaborative aspects of this course for the benefit of all students and faculty involved. (Please note, that the we interpret the terms 'design' and 'manufacturing' in a broad way, including systems, as well as the IT/IS side of the business.)
This course is a simultaneously analytical, as well as practical course loaded with useful knowledge, that you can turn into improvement opportunities in almost any factory, institution, or organization, or system. As much as possible, we all try to create a relaxed and happy learning environment in this class, and I try to teach you several new analytical methods and tools, that you can easily deploy in your REAL world, and prosper!My motto is: 'Happy Learning for REAL!'
About Experiential, Case-based, Problem-based Learning...
Please note, that in this course we follow novel experiential, case-based, problem-based learning methods.
"Experiential learning is learning through reflection on doing, which is often contrasted with rote or didactic learning. (Ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_learning)
Experiential learning focuses on the learning process for the individual (unlike experiential education, which focuses on the transactive process between teacher and learner). Thus, one makes discoveries and experiments with knowledge firsthand, instead of hearing or reading about others' experiences.
According to David Kolb, an American educational theorist, knowledge is continuously gained through both personal and environmental experiences. He states that in order to gain genuine knowledge from an experience, certain abilities are required:
- the learner must be willing to be actively involved in the experience;
- the learner must be able to reflect on the experience;
- the learner must possess and use analytical skills to conceptualize the experience; and
- the learner must possess decision making and problem solving skills in order to use the new ideas gained from the experience.
For the adult learner especially, experience becomes a "living textbook" to which they can refer. However, as John Dewey pointed out, experiential learning can often lead to "mis-educative experiences."
In other words, experiences do not automatically equate learning. The classic example of this is the lecture experience many students have in formal educational settings. While the content of the course might be "physics" the experiential learning becomes "I hate physics." Preferably, the student should have learned "I hate lectures." Experiential learning therefore can be problematic as generalizations or meanings may be misapplied.
Experiential learning can be a highly effective educational method. It engages the learner at a more personal level by addressing the needs and wants of the individual. Experiential learning requires qualities such as self-initiative and self-evaluation. For experiential learning to be truly effective, it should employ the whole learning wheel, from goal setting, to experimenting and observing, to reviewing, and finally action planning. This complete process allows one to learn new skills, new attitudes or even entirely new ways of thinking."
Contact Information...
Mailing Address: Paul G. Ranky, PhD
Full Tenured Professor
Registered Chartered Professional Engineer
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and also Professor of IT at NJIT
NJIT, University Heights, NJ 07102 -1982
You can email me at NJIT: ranky@njit.edu
Please use this and send again your email if you don't get an answer from me within 5 to 6 working days.
Tel at home (in case of an emergency only, 24 hrs, but preferably during normal hours, 8.00 am to 10.00 pm) you can call me at home: (201) 493 9561
Find out more about the Professor’s past and current research work and background at (don't miss some of my best diving and skiing pictures...): http://www.cimwareukandusa.com/aboutpgr.htm
Some examples with videos of our related new R&D work we have completed for the LSC (The Liberty Science Center in New Jersey). These are the web sites: http://njit-lsc.njit.edu/pauldesign.html and http://njit-lsc.njit.edu/paulrobot.html
Enjoy!
As an NJIT graduate distance learning, or in other words eLearning Student you are entitled to benefit of significant FREE computing resources, meaning hardware, software, as well as on-line email, web-site storage space, and related Internet and NJIT intranet server services. The steps below intend to help you on how to set up a web page for documenting your assignments for this course. Please read and follow each step.
Obviously if you already have a web page, either through work, or business, or otherwise, please feel free to use that, or the one you prefer. Note, that you can use any suitable web authoring software. NJIT has a few on free offer too.
These are the steps to follow (as provided by NJIT's IT and Computing Services):
Hopefully all works... I'd like to see your beautiful web pages with QUALITY green project management content!
As always,
Happy Learning for REAL,
Professor Paul G Ranky, PhD
P.S. One more important opportunity! The 21st Century Project Manager must be a professional information searcher, information and knowledge creator, as well as somebody who can reason over several different sets of information and then select the best possible solution path under constraints... not an easy task considering the number and types of constraints we all face... In order to help this process, as part of this course, as you prepare for your assignments, please visit NJIT's wast and advanced electronic library. See some of the typical information searches and how the results can be evaluated.
Contents (Green Project Management)
Totalling max. 110%, and you'll need min. 90% to get an 'A'
Narrative Description of the Course:
This course is proposed to be a new green lean six-sigma-focused live and/or distance learning (a.k.a. eLearning) MIE course taught at NJIT. The objective is to introduce sustainable green design and manufacturing project design and project management within the MIE context to students with any engineering and/or science background.
Due to complexity and risk involved, advanced manufacturing system design and implementation / operation calls for lean six-sigma project management principles and tools. Application of professional project management is not necessarily synonymous with application of six-sigma, nevertheless both disciplines do share many common goals and intent. Both seek to reduce project failures, prevent defects, control costs and schedules, and manage risk.
Generally speaking, professional project management attempts to achieve these goals by encouraging sound practices on a project-by-project basis, often through the mechanism of a project office that promulgates policy, provides templates and advice, promotes appropriate use of traditional tools such as critical path method, and perhaps performs periodic project reviews.
Lean six-sigma-focused advanced design and manufacturing project management, as a discipline, is different. It is typically oriented towards greening, waste and risk reduction, and solution of problems at root cause and prevention of their recurrence, as opposed to attempting to control potential causes of failure on a project-by-project basis. Lean six-sigma's set of tools are more broadly applicable, than those commonly applied within the discipline of professional project management. Recognizing that project management is itself a process, lean six-sigma is potentially applicable to its improvement. The course will be project-based, meaning, that each student will work on several analytically challenging, as well as real-world-linked green project design and management assignments.
A lean and green advanced design and manufacturing project management continuously optimizes the performance of operations and improves existing business practices by focusing on balanced capacity, flexibility, eco-friendly sustainability, agility and continuous process or technology improvement. Additionally, lean philosophy addresses performance improvement by reducing every type of waste. This could be waste resulting from overproduction, idle time in the process, unnecessary transport of material, over-processing of material due to poor tool or product design, inventory of more than the absolute minimum, unnecessary movement by employees during work or production of defective parts.
In terms of designing and managing a project with green sustainability in mind, we consider a state, or process that can be maintained over time, for a very long time as well as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological advanced design and manufacturing processes and functions, biological diversity, and productivity over time. Furthermore, the concept of meeting present design and manufacturing needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs is one of the foundations of the advanced manufacturing.
The six-sigma method is based on analytically established customer requirements, and green project management models. In the IE context, six-sigma, as a statistical method is specifically designed to reduce variation of any process, in this case focusing on project management process steps.
The course will be project-based, meaning, that each student will work on several analytically and computationally challenging, as well as real-world-linked assignments. The course is available in live, as well as in distance learning (DL, eLearning) modes, via the Internet, serving New Jersey’s and other rapidly growing USA and even international ‘greening’ needs.Having established a strong standards-based focus and foundation, and a clear understanding of interoperability issues, in the design component of the class we'll introduce real-world case studies, and exciting small-scale projects. By following our well-established, collaborative eLearning resources and methods, each student will be able to create his, or her own project.
Furthermore, they will develop competence and confidence in managing projects, based upon standards, by simultaneously focusing on specific customer requirements, functionality issues, engineering solutions, time, technology and budget constraints.
It is essential to understand that none of the methods using standards work in practice unless they are applied to all levels of the (preferably digital) enterprise, including the internal, as well as external networked customers and supply chains.
This broadly interpreted networked, digital enterprise truly reflects several interrelated systems. For simplicity, in this course when students develop their assignments with their own (virtual) companies collaborating with the eLearning Pack offered 4 companies, can focus on any of the following enterprise / business/ service project management tasks and systems:
The key is not lose focus: many students in this course get carried away (because they enjoy their freedom...) and forget, that their company must focus on green project management...
Based on the above, the key is to understand, that the way we live and work is changing rapidly. This is offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new thinking, the new methods and new tools that enable lean, flexible, contextually deep, agile, secure and simplified information exchange and collaboration via the web using standards.
In this course, we'll learn how to turn this new knowledge into a strategic advantage for all of your project management and information systems work.
Also, we should notice, that in a modern quality enterprise, project management and service information is communicated to distributed workforces and networks of contributing partners and customers. 'Enterprise 2.0' is the modern term established by leading quality-focused enterprises for the methods, tools, technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools. It provides business managers, project managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices.
Enterprise 2.0 makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity, lean-flexibility, and agility. (Note, that although SOA, or Service Oriented Architecture enterprise solutions can make this concept reality... SOA is not the focus of this course, nevertheless project management and web-standards can make SOA reality.)
Because via our web-based information systems engineering networks data and information feeds every important process step, the key attributes of Enterprise 1.0 (the old approach), versus Enterprise 2.0 (the new, web- standard focused, lean six-sigma approach) can be summarized as follows:
Having provided a strong analytical foundation, the students will become familiar with the following:
To summarize, the project management methods and tools we learn in this course effect the entire enterprise, or service organization, including humans and machines, their business systems, product design, process planning, manufacturing planning, the shop floor, packaging, maintenance, after sales service, the global supply chains, the marketing efforts, the financial services, and all others, for several life-cycles.
Please note, that you will need a multimedia computer (approx. 800 MHz, or preferably MUCH faster, with a link to the Internet and email, as well as a recent version (not older than yr. 1998) version of MS-Excel in your machine. Furthermore you'll need Apple's crossplatform Quicktime media player to enjoy the 3D objects we use.
Reading for a degree... A few words about 'reading for a degree'... for hundreds of years, academics and other professionals all over the world emphasized the importance of reading for a degree. Here is a short list of excellent resources that will help you to deepen your understanding in the subject area of this course.
Please read more on the subject if you can. (I certainly try to offer you lots of useful resources.)
Useful web links for Project Management:
http://www.projectmanagementbooks.com/ a useful list of project management books. More here:
http://www.amazon.com/Project-Management-Theory-Practice-OReilly/dp/0596007868
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Project-Management-Knowledge-PMBOK/dp/1880410230
Also note, that the NJIT library has a large number of excellent project management books, nevertheless only very few of them combine lean six-sigma methods (i.e waste reduction, risk reduction, customer requirements focus, object-oriented process modeling, etc.), and therefore max. profit in project management terms... this is a novel aspect of this course.
Our Resource Library for you to explore, review, learn, and develop your own reasoning and knowledge.
Ranky Green Video demos: Ranky-Green-Video-Objects.html
Ranky Green Picture demos: Ranky-Green-Pic-Objects.html
Ranky Green Links: Ranky-GreenLinks-NJ.html
Please note, that what you find below is set of links to a collection of several hundred use-cases and resources developed and posted onto the web by some of Dr. Ranky's students during their studies between 2008 and 2009 at NJIT. They are all based on Dr. Ranky's electronic templates, simulation cases, spreadsheets, videos, eBooks, teaching material and other eLearning Resources created by Dr Ranky during the past 10 years. (Please note, that over 20000 cases have been created and posted by Dr. Ranky's students onto the open source web during the past 10 years.)
Also, pls. note, that none of these student managed and created cases are perfect; we are all trying to learn and impove, students as well as professors... it is a journey... BUT, they represent an excellent resource for you to learn the topics in this syllabus using the latest experiential learning methods (as discussed above).
Have Fun and thanks to class 2008 and 2009!
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Class 1: Introduction and overview of the course as well as the subject.
An Introduction and Overview of Project Management Challenges, Principles and Methods
What is a Project? ... Examples of Projects, and Some Challenges
The Traditional Versus the Systematic, TQM Approach to Project Management
The Key Characteristics of Modern, Quality-focused Project Management
Project Management Software Tools Offered in this eBook Publication
Our Problem Solving Method Applied to Project Management
The PRINCE 2 Project Management Method
The Various Attributes of a Project
The Dimensions of Project Management Quality and Opportunities for Innovation
Rules for Project Team Brainstorming
A Strategy on Working with Cases...
Prerequisites, Level and Audience
Major Project Management Review Questions and Team Project Ideas...
References and Further Reading
After this, spend some time thinking about your own project plans in this class. Try to think of this: how should I collaborate with the 4 companies, what kind of a project should I design and then manage, satisfying what requirements, following what process steps, using what standards, etc. What is my dream project and what is realistic to implement for this class?
Other important student activities (this is what you should do to get an 'A' in this class, and most importantly learn the subject):
Assignment 0: DL students submit this assignment by email/or better: web: Each DL student prepares a short executive summary describing the way your virtual company (i.e. the 5th company) will collaborate with 4 companies. I am keen to see how will they develop TOGETHER a new green project focusing on quality product, process, or service. More accurately: a project, that your company (i.e. the 5th company will design and manage in collaboration with the other 4 companies.)
This is also a good time to start to set up your own web page... you can use any server you like; NJIT offers you FREE web hosting. You might want to get a pro. service and pay for it, or try something FREE from the web. It is your choice, as long as it works...
Include your project Title, Author (Your Name and Your PHOTO, your Class code: xyz DL, Date, and the collaborative companies you have ( a MUST!). I will respond to this by email, comment and hopefully accept your plans. Note, that in this and other assignments in this course I give you a lot of freedom to innovate. This is why I do not specify every assignment step-by-step in every detail, and treat you as a problem solving machine in a K12 class... we passed that by now... I want you to learn to think, act and innovate better, and better all the way... because we must learn for REAL, else somebody else will...
I hope you like the idea, because innovation is the ONLY future for us in a global economy... consider, that in India, or China large IT and IS projects are developed for typically for 1/100th of the cost in the USA... BUT is the quality of system design and experienced project management there? ... Are those folks mapping our culture an drequirements accurately?... What happens when we need changes and updates?... Are they using solid USA-led standards, and modern software tools, so that we know how to move on...? ... or are we going to have a permanent dependency being developed?... Consider other projects: are they green? How could you, as a green-focused project manager, make them green, or greener?
Well, the solution is to follow a FAIR and COLLABORATIVE approach based on QUALITY STANDARDS and PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT methods with a lean six-sigma focus. I hope you get my point. Also, I hope you agree...
To help you, these are the detailed steps you should take:
Typical Mistakes:
Classes 3 and 4: Study your resource library. Focus on project management challenges. For each case create your own 5 questions and answer them in 2-3 sentences each. Also focus on sustainable green issues in project management, meaning how could you assure a sustainable green approach to every process step in your project management framework?
Submit Assignment No. 1: After having submitted this assignment to me I’ll make comments on it that you suppose to consider and then rework your assignment by the end of the semester when you resubmit all your reworked assignments again. (Max. 20%)
Please follow this structure for your assignment:
Typical Mistakes: Why am I loosing grade points in this assignment?
Classes 5 and 6: Read the resource library cases, and follow through the enterprise green project management examples and designs in particular. As you design your project processes always think of this: what should be my major process steps for designing the project as specified in Assignment 0, in collaboration with the 4 companies in the eLearning Pack? I give you a very robust solution, nevertheless you should either customize that, or develop your own and customize that. I give you the freedom.
Submit Assignment No. 2: Your lean and green project management method and process model, in which you'll show your major process steps towards achieving your design goals (Max. 20%)
System and Process Modeling Methods, the Project Life Cycle, and Solutions for Project Management
The 21st Century Undoubtedly Will be the 'Knowledge Driven Century' with Increasingly Complex Projects
ISO Quality Management Principles 4 and 5: A Process and Systems Approach to Engineering Project Management
Benefits of Simultaneity in Project Management
Project Management Life Cycle Architectures, and Modeling Methods
How to Model Project Life Cycle Systems with CIMpgr?
CIMpgr is a Graphical Method for Modeling a System, Such as a Project Management Information System
Project Life Cycle System Model Examples in CIMpgr
Major Review Questions and Team Project Ideas for Engineering, Computing and Management Science/ Marketing Students
References and Further Reading
Having studied the resource library, please follow this structure for your assignment:
Typical Mistakes: Why am I loosing grade points in this assignment?
Classes 7 and 8: Your customer requirements analysis method and model, in which you will analyze and then show how you plan to achieve your project goals (note, that your customers here are your project sponsors) as outlined in Assignment 0 (Max. 20%)
Student Activities:
Your 3D eBook (label 7) in the eLearning Pack discusses this topic in Chapter 3. Please study this:
Green Project Requirements Analysis Modeling, Based on the QFD (Quality Function Deployment) Method, Using Our CORA (Component Oriented Requirements Analysis) Software Tool
Customer / Project Sponsor Requirements Analysis Modeling
Our Methodology and the Implemented and Validated CORA Tool
CORA is a Matrix-based Method, Similar to that of QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
Open Source Software
Major Review Questions and Team Project Ideas for Engineering, Computing and Management Science/ Marketing Students
References and Further Reading
Having done this, prepare your assignment as follows:
Submit Assignment No. 3: Your customer requirements analysis method and model, in which you will analyze and then show how you plan to achieve your green project goals, as outlined in Assignment 0 (Max. 20%)
When developing the CORA matrix try to put down all
Please note, that the best assignments show evidence, that the student has worked through the learning material provided in the eLearning Pack, therefore feel free to incorporate digital images, text and even video clips or 3D VR objects provided into your assignment; nevertheless never forget to credit the source of such objects in the bibliography.
Typical Mistakes: Why am I loosing grade points in this assignment?
Classes 9, 10 and 11: At this stage you have seen some real-world project design and project management challenges, what your requirements model suggests and process model supports, the plans you have outlined in Assignment 0, therefore you are ready to learn a lot more about green project management methods.
Having established a strong standards-based focus and foundation, in the design component of the class we'll introduce real-world case studies, and exciting project design and project management cases, to be developed by the students.
Submit Assignment No. 4: The focus of this assignment is: Process Failure Risk Analysis, as part of your project management methods and tools. The idea here is, that you should pick the riskiest processes (based on your CIMpgr project process model) and then using our PFRA method, reduce the risk. This will make your project plan very robust and fail safe! This is based on our PFRA (Process Failure Risk Analysis) Method and Tool (Max. 20%)
Green Project / Process Failure Risk Analysis (PFRA); a Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) Method and Our Software Tool
An Introduction to a Process-related Failure Risk Analysis Method (PFRA)
The Methodology in More Detail
The Software Tool and an Example of Our Rule-based Approach for Dealing with Severity
What Happens to the Value the User Enters in the Spreadsheet?
Major Review Questions and Team Project Ideas for Engineering, Computing and Management Science/ Marketing Students
References and Further Reading
Having done this, please prepare your assignment as follows:
Title, Author (Name, Class, Date)
Statement on who has done the work EACH individual, and this is true for all assignments, must submit an assignment by himself/ herself!
Contents
Introduction and Objectives of the Project
A brief description of the methodologies applied
The Main Body of the project:
Typical Mistakes: Why am I loosing grade points in this assignment?
The assignment's administrative section is missing, and/or incomplete...
The above outline is NOT followed
The risk analysis models / solutions are copied from the samples offered; Sorry, you must innovate and create your OWN project risk analysis designs, and models.
The PFRA spreadsheet template is not filled in properly.
The analysis of the results is missing or very thin...
The collaborative companies are not included properly. Sorry, you MUST collaborate!
You did not address the learned project risk analysis methods.
The results obtained from the PFRA spreadsheet is not analyzed and discussed.
Classes 12, 13, 14 and 15: Your green project design project using lean, six-sigma methods: final integration and validation / test. In this assignment you should be able to integrate everything you have learned in this class. As you can see, you have started to work on this assignment as of day one... the difference is, that at this stage all should nicely fit together, just as it is in a professionally designed automobile, or computer of house, or bridge, or hospital or university...
In this final assignment, I / we would like to celebrate with you and enjoy your amazing project designs / project management results!
Submit Assignment No. 5: Your project management final integration and validation / test project (Max. 30%)
An interesting fact: I'd like to mention here, that at a recent Project Management competition in the USA project designs were judged based on the following criteria:
1. Innovation in design. Explain why you feel your project is an innovative design.
2. Customer satisfaction What steps did you take to satisfy the customer on this project?
3. Ability to meet schedules. How did you ensure that the schedules were all met on the project?
4. Cost-efficient strategies.†What strategies did you employ to meet your budget or improve cost efficiency on the project?
5. Community improvement. How does this project improve the community in which it is based?
I find these criteria to be very relevant and similar to what we are trying to achieve in this course... I hope you agree.
Typical Mistakes: Why am I loosing grade points in this assignment?
11.59 pm, Last Day of the Semester = ABSOLUTELY THE LAST DAY TO SUBMIT any new or reworked assignments! All submissions MUST be electronic = by email / web.
Schedule and due dates: As above. The total course duration is equivalent to 15 live week, 3 hour graduate class sessions. Students will be required to complete each assignment. Assignments totaling 110% max.
Grade "A" for this class requires min. 90% total. Note, that we don't have a Midterm or a Final exam, because of the integrated nature, the practical computational requirements, and the research contents of the customized assignments, BUT you must complete Assignments 0, 1 and 2 by Midterm time, or in DL mode by around half time (see above) if you want to get an 'A', and the rest by the end-of-semester deadline (see above) at a high quality. Thank you for helping me to be able to help you!
GRADING POLICIES: Letter grades will be assigned according to the following total score attained in the class. Individual exams and assignments will not be curved, but the final grade may be adjusted.
IMPORTANT ground rules on improving assignments during semester, and after end the end of semester, after having received your grade:
One more time, the NJIT Grade Scale:
90-100 = A
85-89 = B+
80-84 = B
75-79 = C+
70-74 = C
60-69 = D
0-59 = F
It is over! Congratulations!
PLEASE save the TREES! Please DO NOT Print this syllabus. Use this web site to read it in this electronic format; it will be updated during the semester. Thank you!