Engineering Management

Engineering Management - Graduate Courses

EM 604 Concepts of Engineering and Quality Management (back to previous page)

Introduction to contemporary engineering menagement concepts as they appear in organizations. Review of the challenges faced by such organizations, and the various methodologies in use to meet these challenges. Review of the complex and dominant role that quality plays in creating excellent customer-supplier relationships. Discussion of quality goals and management strategies to achieve them.

EM 607 Decision Making Under Uncertainty (back to previous page)
Prerequisite:  Basic knowledge of differential calculus. Concepts of probability and applications of probability theory for dealing with uncertain situations in engineering and technology management. Topics include random variables, probability functions, expectations, discrete and continuous distributions, probability computation, summary measure, data presentation schemes and their applications in process control, forecasting, lead time estimation, queues and customer demand functions. Excel and other software will be used.

EM 609 Applied Statistics for Quality and Engineering Management (back to previous page)
Comprehensive survey of the many roles of statistics in TQM, quality assurance, simulation, experimentation, risk assessment, and performance evaluation. Topics include confidence intervals, statistical process control, analysis of variance, regression, and nonparametric methods and their applications in engineering management. Excel and other software will be used. Deming, Juran, Taguchi, and ASQ contributions are presented as engineering management resources.

EM 613 Organizational Change and Development (back to previous page)
The course is targeted towards managers and other change agents within organizations. Organizational Change fosters the development of competency in skills necessary during all phases of the planned change process--from diagnosis, to interventions, through evaluation. Organizational change issues are critically examined, and case studies, exercises, and assessments are utilized to better understand change from organizational, group, and individual levels.

EM 615 Applied Marketing for Engineers and Operations Managers (back to previous page)
An intensive study of modern marketing fundamentals in a diverse, global economy; a study of the decision-making problems encountered by marketing managers, using lectures and case studies.

EM 627 Value Engineering and Design (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EM 609 or equivalent. A framework for optimal design based on internal and external issues related to value-added criteria is provided. Topics to be covered include: function analysis and costing, the technology roadmap, and techniques involving customer-oriented product concepts in the areas of performance, maintenance/service, user friendliness, and quality. Case studies and real-world situations are presented.

EM 628 Six Sigma Quality Planning (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EM 609 or equivalent. Review of Six Sigma and its role in managing quality at all levels of an organization, including its relationship to lean initiatives.  Presentation of Six Sigma history, philosophy, tools, processes, and significant case studies.  Projects utilize the techniques to generate "hands-on" experience.

EM 630 Project Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EM 609 or equivalent. Review of CPM-PERT methodologies and use in managing complex engineering related projects. Analysis of bias in estimating and in forecast preparation. Strategies for achieving on-time task completion and minimizing critical chains.

EM 639 Achieving Optimal Operations (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: EM 609 and EM 604 or equivalent. Concepts of lean production, Japanese production systems, push vs. pull production systems, benchmarking and evaluation schemes, schedule management, overcoming bottlenecks, and performance and productivity improvement techniques applicable to service and manufacturing systems. Workforce issues (affairs) including union acceptance, productivity, and workforce education, training and compensation.

EM 641 Supply Chain Management (back to previous page)
Introduction to global supply chain management in support of manufacturing and technical services, with emphasis on procurement, use of web-based information technology, logistics, and integration with JIT scheduling at the customer level.
 
EM 673 Special Topics in Engineering Management (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: Permission of the program coordinator. Current topics relevant to engineering management but focusing on specific themes including but not limited to technology leadership & entrepreneurship, conflict management & negotiation techniques, safety organization and management, corporate law (contracts and patents), and environmental laws and regulations.

EM 681 Simulation Techniques and Appliation (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: EM 609 and EM 639 or equivalent. Review of the role of computer simulation in analyzing complex systems and operations.  Emphasis on problem formulation, model building, input and output data analysis, experimentation and evaluation of alternative designs/processes in complex systems/operations.  Case studies of successful implementations are reviewed together with guidelines for using state-of-the -art simulation software (ARENA currently in use) to solve system problems.

EM 690 Research Project (back to previous page)
Prerequisite: 15 graduate hours or premission of program coordinator. Independent study and research focused on a problem of interest in either a work environment or in a community or non-profit organization. Guided by a faculty advisor, a project report is written that describes the problem, outlines the scope of work and presents recommendations and solutions in a professional manner. An oral presentation is made to program colleagues, a capstone experience ending the program of study.