Problem Solving, Communications& Innovation

Damian Gordon

Recommended Reading

We will take bits and pieces from a while range of books, articles etc

Don’t worry about buying anything for now Here are some of the books we will take bits from

Portfolio

For the continuous assessment aspect of this course I would like you all to get a notebook in which to record the exercises we do in class, and other bits and pieces

It has to last 12 weeks so try to get something sturdier thana refill pad

I will ask you to hand these up at the end of the semester for marking

Four Men Crossing a Bridge There are four men who would all like to cross a

rickety old bridge. (Perhaps it is more accurate to say that they'd like to get to the other side.) The old bridge will only support 2 men at a time, and it is night time, so every crossing must use the one flashlight that they all share. The four men each have different walking speeds; the fastest each of them can cross is 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5, minutes, and 10 minutes. If they pair up, since they must share the flashlight, they can only cross in the time that it would take the slower of the two. Given that the shortest time to get them all across is 17 minutes total, how should they all cross?

A B C DA D

A D

A

A B C

Four Men Crossing a Bridge

Dublin Traffic Exercise

Dublin traffic is terrible!

Come up with 3 ideas to help solve Dublin’s traffic problems 1st idea should be easy to implement within 1 to 2 months 2nd idea should be more long term Go wild for the 3rd idea!

Stephen’s Green West Clanbrassil St O’Connell Bridge Stephen’s Green East

QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS