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ENMA 301. Engineering Management. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: 15 credits of engineering or engineering technology courses. Introduction to principles of management and organizational behavior as they apply to the engineering profession. Special emphasis on project management, team building, quality leadership, and the marketing of technology. Group exercises, case studies, extensive writing and speaking assignments. |
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ENMA 302. Engineering Economics. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: junior standing. Economic analysis of engineering alternatives. Valuation techniques, time value of money; cash flow analysis; cost estimation; taxes and depreciation; operations planning and control; project evaluation; accounting and budgeting tools. |
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Lecture 3 hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: junior standing. Foundations, principles, methods, and tools for effective design and management of projects in technology-based organizations. Project organization, life cycle, planning, scheduling, implementation, control and evaluation. Special emphasis on project leadership, problem solving in team-based projects, project failure analysis and advanced methods. Extensive use of case studies and applications to reinforce course concepts. Students design and complete a project from concept through completion including, proposal, and post project analysis. |
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ENMA 420/520. Statistical Concepts in Engineering Management. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: two semesters of College calculus. Introduction to concepts and tools in probability and statistics, with applications to engineering design, systems analysis, manufacturing, and quality management problems. |
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ENMA 421. Decisions Techniques in Engineering. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 208 or 304. A systematic approach to the formulation of problems, the generation and evaluation of alternatives, and the selection and implementation of courses of action, as applied to engineering, manufacturing, and management decisions. Concepts include goals and objectives; variables and relations; constraints and feasibility; uncertainty and risk; models and optimization; data and information; analysis and simulation. Case studies in decision analysis and simulation. Case studies in decision analysis, systems analysis, operations research, requiring oral presentations and written reports, emphasize concepts and tools. |
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ENMA 422/522. Global Engineering and Project Management. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. A study of the issues and complexities of engineering management within cultural diverse organizations operating as global enterprises. Topics covered include gender and cultural diversity within the engineering organization, engineering design as part of a virtual project team (geographically separated), and engineering design within a global organization. |
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ENMA 600. Cost Estimation and Financial Analysis. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Introduction to the monetary aspects of engineering projects, including accounting principles; financial reports and analysis; capital budgeting; cost estimation and control, inventory management; depreciation; investment decisions. |
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ENMA 601. Organizational Analysis. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 420/520 or equivalent. This course examines the human side of management through the application of behavioral science. Emphasis is placed on individual, group and organizational processes and dynamics for technical professionals. Topical areas include decision making, project teams, leadership; organizational skills, and conflict resolution. |
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ENMA 602. Systems Engineering Management. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Covers processes related to the ownership and operation of the engineering - economic systems (e.g. electric power system, chemical industries, transport infrastructures, banks, defence industry and activities, etc.), in their efforts to ensure the systems engineering design and operational purpose of such complex systems. All relevant decision makers, both at national and international levels, are made aware of the research findings and have the opportunity to access a full range of deliverables in relation to their |
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ENMA 603. Operations Research. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 208, 304 or equivalent. Introduction to optimization methods and deterministic models for decision making, linear, integer and non-linear programming; transportation, assignment, and inventory models; network techniques; sensitivity analysis. |
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Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENMA 600 or 9 hours of graduate credit. Design, evaluation, control, and organization of technical projects; scheduling, budgeting, planning, and monitoring practices; software tools; project information systems; proposal preparation; strategic issues; marketing of technology. A case study approach is utilized. |
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Lecture 1 hour; 1 credit. Prerequiste: Permission of instructor. A project-oriented course involving the application of engineering management, management science, and systems analysis tools to real world problems. |
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Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Basic legal concepts and procedures for understanding the implications of engineering management decisions. Major emphasis on contracts and liability. |
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ENMA 607. Stochastic Decision Methods. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 420/520 or equivalent; ENMA 603 is recommended. Introduction to decision analysis and stochastic models; risk and uncertainty in decision making; probabilistic inventory problems; queuing theory; Markow processes; dynamic programming; Monte Carlo simulation of dynamic systems. |
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ENMA 610. Optimization Models. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 603 or equivalent. Applications of linear and non-linear optimization techniques to a variety of managerial, operational, and logistics problems. Special emphasis on sensitivity analysis and duality; multi-criteria optimization; and search techniques. Case studies. Advanced course intended for students on the M.E. program in operations research and systems analysis. |
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ENMA 613. Logistics and Supply Chain Management Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 603 or equivalent. Management systems for distribution, materials handling, inventory control, transportation planning and facilities location and analysis. Special emphasis on logistic information systems and the development of logistics strategy. Includes case studies.. |
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ENMA 614. Quality Systems Design. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 420/520 or equivalent. Integrated analysis of the quality assurance function. Quality Deming's way. On-line quality engineering, scientific sampling, control charts, acceptance sampling; the quality cost concept and economic aspects of quality decisions. Emphasis on statistical process control. |
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ENMA 640. Integrated Systems Engineering I. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. This course examines the role of systems engineering and systems integration, processes, procedures, tools and operating environments. Topics include system development life cycles, risk management, configuration management, quality management, measurements and security. |
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ENMA 641. Integrated Systems Engineering II . Lecture 3 hours, 3 credits. This course provides further discussion of the role of systems engineering and integration in the development of complex systems of systems. Topics include system architecture development, requirements development and management, system and decision analysis, integrated schedule management and analysis, ensuring the system designed, developed and implemented in accordance with the baseline, systems integration, and verification and validation. |
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ENMA 660. System Architecture and Modeling. Lecutre 3 hours, 3 credits. Students will learn the essential aspects of the systems architecture paradigm through development and analysis of multiple architecture frameworks and enterprise engineering, such as IDEF0, TOGAF, DoDAF, and OPM. Emphasis is placed on systems modeling and enterprise engineering in support of system-of-systems challenges. The course will start with mathematical foundations (discrete mathematics and graphs) and will lead to an exemplifying system model using a professional software package. The course teaches the basics of system modeling required for successful engineering of systems as well as the use of M&S in support of this process. |
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ENMA 667. Cooperative Education. 1-3 credits. Available for pass/fail grading only. Student participation for credit based on academic relevance of the work experience, criteria, and avaluative procedures as formally determinded by the department and the Cooperative Education program prior to the semester in which the work experience is to to take place. |
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1-3 credits. Prerequisite: approval by department and Career Management. Academic requirements will be established by the department and will vary with the amount of credit desired. Allows students an opportunity to gain short duration career related experience. Student is usually already employed--this is an additional project in the organization. |
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ENMA 695/696. Topics in Engineering Management. Lecture 1-3 hours. Credit 1-3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. |
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1-3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of the program director. Research leading to a Master's thesis, coordinated by a faculty thesis advisor and a thesis committee. |