The Conductor's Dilemma — Leading Skilled Professionals
A four-round, advanced leadership simulation set inside the Orchestre Symphonique de la Loire (OSL), a publicly funded professional orchestra in…
About this simulation
An experimental, visual-first lab simulation adapted from the JoVE 'Introduction to Light Microscopy' video. Across five stages the learner builds the optical train, sets magnification, focuses without crashing the objective, dials Koehler illumination, and reaches the diffraction limit on real specimens (onion epidermis, blood smear, plant cell, bacteria, diatom).
A live eyepiece viewport renders the specimen and blurs or resolves its finest detail in real time, teaching the core lesson: magnification is cheap, resolution is everything.
What participants learn
After the session, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish magnification from resolution and identify when additional magnification can no longer add detail
- Calculate diffraction-limited resolution as d = λ / 2·NA and select an objective whose numerical aperture is sufficient for a stated feature spacing
- Apply Köhler illumination by matching the condenser aperture to the objective in use and setting the field diaphragm to the edge of the field, and explain the contrast cost of doing neither
- Execute a damage-aware focusing routine, relating working distance to magnification and to the risk of crashing the objective into the slide
- Diagnose a poor image by naming its limiting factor, whether focus, illumination, numerical aperture or empty magnification, rather than by reflex
Prerequisites
- Comfort substituting values into a one-line formula; no optics background
Who it is for
An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 5 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.