This course covers the basic principles and varied techniques for technical management. Topics include project management, planning and control, staffing, organization, team building techniques, leadership and various techniques required to run a program effectively and efficiently.

This course covers production planning, production system design, and production control. Topics include MRP, JIT, forecasting techniques, inventory control, shop floor control and scheduling. Software packages will be introduced through a simulated company environment.

This course covers models and techniques for various planning and operational problems in logistics and transportation systems. Topics include logistics operations, distribution planning, vehicle routing, crew scheduling, network design, traffic equilibrium, and fleet management.

The course covers the various concepts and principles of quality management especially with Six Sigma techniques. First, basic quality engineering methods and tools will be covered before we introduce the framework of Six Sigma. Six Sigma as a corporation reengineering tool for the simultaneous improvement of quality, cost, customer satisfaction and time to market will be discussed. Following this, different techniques and methodologies of Six Sigma implementation that include DMAIC, SPC, ISO 9000, Reliability, Concurrent Engineering, QFD, and Design of Experiments will be covered.

This course covers different aspects of product development management. Topics include innovation management, techniques for idea generation, QFD for incorporation of customers' needs in product design, and organizing and managing the development team. Projects and business plans will be assigned in the course.

An introduction to the design, development, and management of integrated global logistics supply chain systems. Emphasis on the impact of e-business on industrial enterprises, especially how global firms use e-business technologies to collaborate and become more effective and efficient, and how these technologies change the way in which goods and services flow through the supply chain.

Basic knowledge and design of IT will be covered. Popular enterprise resource planning software packages are used for discussing and building integrated business solutions.

The course has two parts. The first part focuses on statistical analysis and the second part focuses on system simulation. Topics covered in the first part include graphical presentations of data, commonly used distributions, estimation, linear regression and time series forecasting. Topics covered in the second part include basic concept of simulation, spreadsheet simulation with Microsoft Excel and @Risk, system simulation with Arena, and the analysis of simulation inputs and outputs.

The course has two parts. The first part focuses on applications of microeconomics to engineering and managerial decision making. Topics in this part include basic cash flow analysis of capital investment, net present value, rate of return, capital budgeting and cost accounting. The second part focuses on cost management for engineering enterprises. Topics in this part include basic concepts of uncertainty and risk, decision trees, cost measurement and cost hedging.

This course will expose students to the diversified service industries and equip them with knowledge and skills of improving productivity and quality of service firms. Students will learn the latest concepts, techniques, and methodologies in service system design, service level, quality of service, service product life cycle, measurements, design for serviceability, analysis, productivity in services, client satisfaction, training, and services logistics. They will also learn how to apply the knowledge to decision making in planning, organizing, and managing service operations.

The first half of the course provides students with a basic foundation and practical understanding of financial accounting. Focus is on the design, use and impact of financial information and accounting measures in organizational planning and control. The second half of the program is to apply and analyze accounting information in managerial decision making with the fundamental concepts of accrual accounting given in the first half.

The first part of the course covers managerial economics: understanding of economics and the application of economic analysis in the context of the needs of management and of managerial decision-making in today's changing environment. The second part of the module covers the basic concepts of finance. Topics include time value of money, valuation of securities, capital budgeting including computation of cash flows, NPV, IRR, portfolio theory and capital asset pricing models, and rudimentary concepts about options and futures contracts.

The first part of this course covers marketing management using the framework of the four P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place). Topics include marketing attractiveness analysis, consumer needs and wants, marketing research, advertising and sales promotion, retailing, pricing theory and going to market. The impact of the Internet on all aspects of marketing will also be examined. The second part will cover marketing and business policy from a strategic perspective. In particular, the focus will be on decision making in a competitive environment, with portfolios of multiple products or business units, with a long-term horizon, and in the face of environmental constraints.