Problem Solving, Communications

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Problem Solving, Communications Innovation

• Damian Gordon

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Recommended Reading

• We will take bits and pieces from a while range
  of books, articles etc
• Dont worry about buying anything for now
• Here are some of the books we will take bits from

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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

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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?

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Four Men Crossing a Bridge
A B C D
A D
A D
A
A B C
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Dublin Traffic Exercise

• Dublin traffic is terrible!
• Come up with 3 ideas to help solve Dublins
  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!

Stephens Green West
Clanbrassil St
OConnell Bridge
Stephens Green East
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QUESTIONS

• QUESTIONS