Engineering Management Courses

EM 510 Engineering Management Fundamentals

(3 cr).  Fundamental principles of engineering management addressing management theory applied to the engineering environment; management processes and techniques; attitudes that facilitate the leadership role of the engineering manager in an engineering organization; team-taught by business and engineering faculty.  Prereq: perm.

ACCT 582 Enterprise Accounting

(3 cr).  Not for accounting majors.  Carries no credit toward master's degree in accounting.  Design and use of cost management systems to support decision making and influence behavior; includes the economies of costs to processes, products, and customers; activity-based cost management; cost estimation; performance measurement; capital budgeting; and project budget statements.  May involve evening exams.  Prereq: Acct 202 or 205, and Engr 360 or BUS 301.


BUS 413/504 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

(3 cr) Micro oriented treatment of areas including leadership style, effective organizational behavior, team work, communication, group process, decision making, motivation, and conflict resolution.

STAT 401  Statistical Analysis

(3 cr).  Concepts and methods of statistical research including multiple regression, contingency tables and chi-square, experimental design, analysis of variance, multiple comparisons, and analysis of covariance.  Prereq: Stat 251, 271 or 301.


BUS 456/504 Quality Management

(3 cr). Same as Stat 456. Principles of total quality management, with emphasis on problem solving techniques to continually improve processes; customer-driven quality, management and employee participation, statistical process control, product/process design, and process capability. May include evening exams. May involve field trips. Prereq: Stat 251 or 271 or 301.

(3 cr). Principles of management as they relate to the design and development of new products and the improvement of existing products; focus on interrelationships between marketing, engineering, and manufacturing functions; topics include strategic implications of design, marketing strategy as it relates to product design, product life cycles, understanding customer needs, translating customer information into product specifications, use of quality management principles in design, time-to-market compression in product development, concurrent engineering, design for manufacturing, and implications of ISO 9000 on design. May involve evening exams and/or field trips. Prereq: undergraduate degree in engineering or perm.

(3 cr). Process of providing solutions to identified consumer needs; characteristics of individuals who succeed; sources of venture ideas; evaluating and developing ideas; business plans; franchising.

(3 cr). Modern project engineering techniques for planning, scheduling, and controlling typical engineering and construction projects; linear programming and other optimization techniques as applied to resource allocation; microcomputer applications are emphasized and appropriate software used throughout the course. Prereq: Stat 251, 301, or equiv, and senior standing or perm.

 (3 cr). Designed to acquaint engineering management students with the legal process in general and the role of the judiciary in issues encountered by engineering managers. The course is intended to prepare professionals and managers for legal problems and potential liabilities they may encounter in their work as managers. Course employs the Socratic process to explore business organizations, employment law, contract law and other related topics.

(3 cr) Principles of lean manufacturing are applied in a systematic way for identifying and eliminating non-value activities (waste) introduction processes. Students learn how to identify the value stream in a company and techniques for engineering continuous improvement. These techniques are learned through a series of workshops, lectures, readings, and on-site industrial projects. Three hours of lec and six hours of outside work a week. Prereq: ME 410.

ME/EM 587 Quality Engineering

(3 cr). Same as EM 587. Designing quality into products and processes through designed experiments; Taguchi techniques and other quality topics of Six Sigma. Prereq: Stat 301. (Fall, alt/yrs)

Stat 504/ME 404 Six Sigma Innovation

Stat 504 (s) Special Topics (cr arr). Prereq: perm.

(3 cr). An introduction to the theory, process, and application of Design for Six Sigma. Topics include DFSS methodology, QFD, axiomatic design, TRIZ, and failure analysis. Prereq: ME 424 and Stat 301, or grad standing and perm. (Fall, alt/yrs)

ME 577 Design for Manufacture and Assembly

(3 cr). Techniques to design for ease of production of components that form a product and the assembly of those components; techniques for design for other life-cycle issues such as design for service and design for the environment. Additional assignments reqd for grad cr. Coreq: ME 424 or equiv.

EM 599 Non-Thesis Master's Research

(cr arr)  Research not directly related to a thesis or dissertation.  Prereq: perm.