ENMA 701/801 Analysis of Complex Organizational Systems.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 601 or equivalent. This course examines organizations as complex systems. The student will develop an understanding of select systems models. The models will be applied as tools for assessment, management and design of organizational systems. Modules will include: Multiple Complex Systems Theory and Models; Organizational Systems Mapping; Systems Assessment and Audit; Gap/Variance Analysis; System Design or Redesign: Organization Change. The student will be required to develop visual representations of system mappings.

ENMA 703/803 Optimization Methods.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 603 or equivalent. Covers advanced methods in Operations Research and Optimization. Focus will be on developing models and their applications in different domains including manufacturing and
service. Modern optimization tools will be used to implement models for case studies, projects and research papers. The knowledge of programming and spreadsheets is expected. Contact instructor for more details.

Spring 2012 Syllabus

ENMA 704/804 Design of Project Management Systems.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 604 or equivalent. Application of a complex systems perspective to design, operation, analysis, and evaluation of project management systems; examination of project failure modes and project management system design alternatives; intervention and modeling of project systems; project-based organizations; strategic project integration; critical appraisal of the current state of project management knowledge and research directions.

ENMA 707/807.  Project Management for Modeling and Simulation.

Lecture 3 hours: 3 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 505 or equilvalent. Design, evaluation, selection, control, and organization of modeling and simulation projects; scheduling, budgeting, and monitoring practices; software engineering practices for modeling and simulation; verification and validation.

ENMA 709/809.  Statistical Aspects of Discrete Event Simulation.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENMA 603 and 607, or ENMA 610 and 611. Approaches to computer simulation models, with special emphasis on discrete event simulation. Model building; data integration; model verification and validation; applications to engineering and management problems.

ENMA 714/814.  Crisis Project Management.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Graduate level research colloquium examining the existing and potential role of project management approaches and analysis procedures in the handling of crisis related activities. Emphasis will be placed on the management of organizational level processes and activities related to crisis preparation, handling and recover. Case studies, problems and reports.

ENMA 715/815.  Systems Analysis.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENMA 420/520 and Permission of the instructor. The course is designed to provide and understanding of the interdisciplinary aspects of systems development, operation, and support. The course focuses on the application of scientific and engineering efforts to transform an operational need into a defined system configuration through the interactive process of design, test, and evaluation.

ENMA 721/821.  Research Methods in Engineering Management.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Methods used in Engineering Management research. Emphasis on problem formulation, proposal preparation, oral presentation, data analysis, experimentation and accepted canons of research for engineering and science.

ENMA 717/817.  Cost Engineering.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 420/520, 600, or equivalent. Introduction to parametric cost modeling techniques and methodologies; generation and application of statistical relationships between life cycle costs and measurable attributes of complex systems; sources of supporting data; quality function deployment. Special emphasis on cost in life cycle design; cost risk analysis; and design optimization methods. Case studies and a semester project.

ENMA 723/823.  Enterprise System Dynamics.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. The use of system dynamics modeling and simulation in various enterpise application areas. Topics include system dynamics perspective and process, tools for systems thinking, the dynamics of growth, tools for modeling dynamic systems, model instability and oscillation, and model testing.

ENMA 724/824.  Risk Analysis.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Approaches to the management of risk; probability assessment methods; risk modeling; use of software packages; extensions of decision analysis, including stochastic dominance and multi-attribute methods; applications of project management, scheduling, and cost estimation.

ENMA 727/827.  Engineering Management and Technology.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Introduction to management of technology with a focus in technology transfer, and organizational coordination including theories, models, and strategies. A project is required.

ENMA 728/828.  Socio-technical Systems Design.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 601. An examination of organizations as socio-technical systems, including socio-technical approaches to design and management. Principle of participative design and decision making; quality of work life; semi-autonomous work groups; organizational ecology; collective resources approaches to planning.

ENMA 743/843.  Reliability and Maintainability.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENMA 520 or equivalent. Introduction to the theory and practice of reliability engineering, maintainability and availability. Reliability evaluation models and techniques; failure data collection and analysis; reliability testing and modeling; maintained systems; mechanized system reliability. A project is required.

ENMA 750/850. Systems of Systems Design.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 641. Requirements capture and resolution, architecture development, and analysis of the results. Topics include software tools for capturing requirements, how to write quality requirements, architecture frameworks and their comparisons, software systems for requirements capture and control, configuration management of requirements baselines. A project is required.

ENMA 751/851. Systems of Systems Integration.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 641. Baseline control during integration, verification and validation. Topics include scheduling, baseline control, integration testing prior to delivery, verification testing, validation testing, final delivery review. A project is required.

ENMA 763/863.  Robust Engineering Design.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENMA 520 or equivalent. Study of robust design approach based on "Taguchi Methods." Off-line quality engineering and design of experiments methods; introduction to response surface methods. The course is design to enable engineers and engineering managers from all disciplines to recognize potential applications, formulate problems, plan experiments, and analyze data. Case studies. A project is required.

ENMA 771/871.  Knowledge and Organizational Factors in Technology Management.

Lecture 3 hours: 3 credits. An inquiry into relationships between knowledge and innovation processes affecting technology management in organizations. Development of framework for knowledge diffusion. A project is required.

ENMA 795/895.  Topic in Engineering Management

Lecture 1-3 hours; 1-3 credits. Prerequisite: premission of instructor.

ENMA 888. Ph.D. Seminar

Seminar 2 hours: 1 credit. Discussion of research projects, topics, and problems of Engineering Management faculty, researchers, and students. A weekly exchange of ideas and issues between faculty and Ph.D. students focused on doctoral research.

ENMA 899. Dissertation Research.

1-9 credits. Prerequisite: permission of the program director.

 IT 620. Information Systems Analysis and Design.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Introduction to the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from an information systems project prospective. Emphasis is placed on the planning and analysis functions performed during information systems project work. Tools and techniques include: Data flow diagrams, Entity relationship diagrams, Computer aided systems engineering (case), and the Project repository. These tools will be employed to create process and data-driven versions of these models.

ECE 505 Discrete Event Simulation.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in probability and statistics; computer literacy. An introduction to the fundamentals of discrete event simulation. Topics include an introduction to discrete event simulation methodology, development of simulation models, construction of simulation software, simulation verification and validation, and the design of simulation experiments. Important statistical concepts and techniques, including selection of input probability distributions, generation of random variates, output data analysis, and variance reduction techniques, are developed and applied. A simulation language is introduced and applied to representative problem areas

ECE 605 Systems Modeling.

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 307U and one course on probability or statistics. The course introduces methods for using high level hardware description language such as VHDL and/or Verilog for the design of digital architecture. Topics include top-down design approaches, virtual prototyping, design abstractions, hardware modeling techniques, algorithmic and register level design, synthesis methods, and application decomposition issues. Final design project is required.

MSIM795 Principles of Combat Modeling and Simulation
Syllabus

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: Knowledge of M&;S Techniques as taught in MSIM601 or comparable. The course introduces the principles of applied M&;S for the security domain. The first unit gives an overview, the second introduces the modeling principles (what to model), the third introduces the simulation principles (how to simulated, including examples of combat simulation systems and federated systems), and the fourth deals with interoperability and interoperation challenges (integration into as system of systems). This course is web-based.