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An asterisk (*) following the four-digit number indicates the course is approved for graduate credit.
Graduate College
Engineering and Technology Management (ETM)
ETM 5110*
Seminar
1-6 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the master's program or consent of instructor. Guided study in a topic area selected to enhance a student's program.
ETM 5111*
Introduction to Strategy, Technology, and Integration
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. The first credit hour of a three-credit hour creative component requirement. The "big picture" of engineering and technology management, emphasizing the importance of strategy, technology, and integration, where timing of products and services are keys to market success.
ETM 5121*
Capstone to Strategy, Technology and Integration I
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. The first part of the capstone and the second credit hour of the creative component requirement. Proposal for a project to be completed for the ETM 5131 course. Substantive use of ETM course material, and a notable and relevant contribution to the student's organization. Participation in formal critique and discussion of other proposals.
ETM 5132*
Capstone to Strategy, Technology and Integration II
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. The second part of the capstone and the third and final credit hour of the creative component requirement. Presentation of student's project. Substantive use of ETM course material, and a notable and relevant contribution to the student's organization. Participation in formal critique and discussion of other projects.
ETM 5211*
Enterprise Integration
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Conceptualizing, designing and operating advanced manufacturing systems within an integrated enterprise-wide framework. Recent developments in computer and communication technologies and conceptual breakthroughs regarding the nature and behavior of integrated enterprises.
ETM 5221*
Application and Execution of Engineering Teaming
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Management and group issues inherent in the application and implementation of high performing work teams. The team's roles in improving organizational performance, along with the best practice procedures and techniques that increase team effectiveness.
ETM 5231*
Benchmarking
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Benchmarking as an effective approach to study and adopt or adapt methodologies representing best specific practices from any industry; or identify and assess performance based on equivalent and common measures, usually from those in the same or similar industries, including competitors.
ETM 5241*
Strategic Project Management
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Overview of traditional project management concepts and techniques (i.e., Gantt charts, PERT, CPT) along with several technical issues related to their effective use. Fundamental nature of the problems associated with several technical issues related to their effective use. Fundamental nature of the problems associated with effectively managing and coordination of multiple discrete projects within an overall systems integration initiative. A framework for addressing these problems.
ETM 5251*
Problem Solving and Decision-Making
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Patterns utilized by successful managers for decision making. Organizational skills, investigation through questioning and logic, decision-making among alternatives, and ensuring the success of decision. Analyzing problems and decisions, appraising situations, managing problems of human performance, and implementing processes.
ETM 5271*
Technology Forecasting and Assessment
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. A framework and analytical tools for developing technological foresight. Technology monitoring, forecasting and assessment in the context of a family of emerging technologies.
ETM 5282*
Comprehensive Planning
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Continuous and systematic process of thought about the future, resulting in a plan or specific course of action for communicating, coordinating, and controlling activities. Strategic, long-range, tactical, operational, contingency and performance planning.
ETM 5291*
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Design
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. A design technique for reducing risk and improving reliability of a system, design or process. Potential failures in any of these studied methodically during design. The concepts, tools and techniques applicable to any product or process.
ETM 5311*
Value Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ETM program or consent of instructor. The application of Value Engineering (also known as Value Analysis, Value Methodology) to improve customer value for a project, process, or product during or after engineering design. The development of VE, its objectives, definitions and methodologies, the use of the VE system, and its range of application. VE's use for improving performance reducing life cycle cost.
ETM 5321*
Understanding Variation I
Prerequisite(s): One college-level statistics course; admission to MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. The use of data analysis tools to understand variation in engineered processes and products. Understanding and applying, with the assistance of modern and widely available software, those analysis techniques used frequently by engineers and scientists to evaluate measurement systems, compare alternative approaches, analyze and interpret data from experiments, determine desirable sample sizes, and perform tolerancing and sensitivity analysis.
ETM 5331*
Understanding Variation II
Prerequisite(s): One college-level statistics course; admission to MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. The use of design and data analysis tools to understand contribution to total variation in engineered processes and products. Understanding and applying, with the assistance of modern and widely available software, those design and analysis techniques used frequently by engineers and scientists. Screening and modeling designs and response surfaces used to relate key input variables to key output variables. Statistical process control and process capability analysis used to assess performance.
ETM 5341*
Leadership Strategies for Technical Professionals
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ETM program or consent of instructor. Leadership strategies, principles, styles and dynamics that must be understood by technical professionals engaged in the creation of products, processes, and services in technology-based organizations.
ETM 5351*
Planning Technical Projects
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Techniques and tools for project definition, staffing, scheduling, resource allocation, and time estimation. Behavioral and quantitative dimensions of project management. Performance measures of project progress and completion.
ETM 5361*
Managing Virtual Project Teams
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. The management and group issues inherent in the application and implementation of effective teamwork in virtual work- spaces. The appropriate use of virtual team issues and challenges associated with effective teamwork; virtual team structures, process, and technology facilitation skills; group dynamics; and team motivation.
ETM 5371*
Ethics for Practicing Engineers
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. A values-based approach to professional ethics and its application to the decision-making in a technology-intensive environment. Ethical concerns related to the expectations of stakeholders.
ETM 5381*
Design and Implementing Change in Technical Management
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Major issues, principles, and processes associated with successfully implementing change in technical workgroups and organizations. Case study examples of successful and not-so-successful implementation efforts highlight and demonstrate fundamental principles. Strategy and techniques to increase the probability of effective implementation and use.
ETM 5391*
New Product Introduction and Commercialization
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Elements of the new product introduction (NPI) process and its impact or business strategy and planning. Organizational resources required for NPI and tools for determining commercial viability.
ETM 5411*
Engineering Economic Analysis
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Quantitative evaluation of investment alternatives. Basis for comparison of alternatives, including present worth, annual worth, rate of return and payout period methods. Decision-making among capital constrained and unequal-life projects. Benefit-cost and cost effectiveness analysis.
ETM 5421*
Technology Organization and Structure
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. The structure and processes by which an engineering or technology organization applies and integrates functional expertise to achieve business objectives. The interplay between business strategy and structure, the utilization of technical personnel and resources, and comparison of various organizational design and management structures.
ETM 5431*
Managing Technical Functions
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Issues, concepts, theories, and insights of technical management. Unique characteristics of managing engineering and technical functions, the management process in technical settings, and individual- and group-level performance measurement and improvement.
ETM 5451*
Legal Side of Technical Personnel Management
Prerequisite(s): Admission to MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. The technical manager's role and legal issues involved in personnel decision-making so as to avoid legal problems and litigation. Hiring, discipline and discharge, discrimination, health and safety and right to privacy.
ETM 5461*
Intellectual Property Management
Prerequisite(s): Admission to MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Overview of intellectual property law and management of intellectual property. Exploration of ways to manage intellectual property from conception through production and licensing. Types of intellectual property and associated legal issues and management processes.
ETM 5471*
Introduction to System Safety
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. System safety as a discipline in research, development and acquisition of systems, sub-systems and components. The history and methodologies of mishap prevention including the development of system safety management and engineering processes.
ETM 5481*
Sustainable Enterprise Strategies
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. The principles of sustainability in the context of industrial enterprises. The implications of sustainability in design of products, industrial systems and infrastructure. The importance of life cycle cost analysis as a key engineering economy tool.
ETM 5913*
Six Sigma Tools I
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. This course provides an introduction to the six sigma body of knowledge as defined by the American Society of Quality (ASQ). Examines the foundations of six sigma and the statistical tools used in the initial stages of the DMAIC problem solving methodology.
ETM 5923*
Six Sigma Tools II
Prerequisite(s): 5913 and admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Provides detail on the "analyze, improve and control" portions of the DMAIC problem solving methodology in addition to quality function deployment (QFD) techniques, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and basic robust design processes, including noise strategies, tolerance design and process capability tools.
ETM 5933*
Lean Tools I
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Introduces lean thinking and tools for continuous improvement. Lean enterprise concepts. Identification of non-value-added elements. Implementation of 5S, TPM, set-up reduction and Value Stream Mapping (VSM).
ETM 5943*
Lean Sigma Implementation
Prerequisite(s): 5913, 5933 and admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Introduction to implementation skills necessary to successfully combine lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts into a small to mid-sized firm and manage continuous improvement efforts. Successfully combining leadership, organizational dynamics and customer expectation. Planning, deploying and monitoring.
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06/19/2009 1:27 PM
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