Engineering Management (ENM)
ENM 380E Topics in Management of People, Processes, Projects, and Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore engineering management processes and how these processes are used by administrators and managers. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the engineering management degree program.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Master's
Topic 1: Managing People and Organizations. Introduction to frameworks from the social sciences that are useful for understanding what effective leaders do when working with others. Engineering Management 380 (Topic 1) and 380E (Topic 1) may not both be counted.
Topic 2: Engineering Project Management. Explore methods for organizing, coordinating, and controlling resources to minimize risk and conflict, and to maintain budgets and schedules. Discuss the evaluation of competing alternatives, organization of a project, scheduling of tasks and resources, and the role of management. Engineering Management 380E (Topic 2) and 383 (Topic 1) may not both be counted.
ENM 380E.1 Managing People and Organizations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to frameworks from the social sciences that are useful for understanding what effective leaders do when working with others. Engineering Management 380 (Topic 1) and 380E (Topic 1) may not both be counted.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 380E.2 Engineering Project Management 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore methods for organizing, coordinating, and controlling resources to minimize risk and conflict, and to maintain budgets and schedules. Discuss the evaluation of competing alternatives, organization of a project, scheduling of tasks and resources, and the role of management. Engineering Management 380E (Topic 2) and 383 (Topic 1) may not both be counted.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 381E Topics in Business Foundations 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Survey important topics and foundational ideas in business, as applied within an engineering environment. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the engineering management degree program.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Master's
Topic 1: Marketing and Negotiation. Explore major marketing concepts and variables, their interrelationships, and their implications for policy making, problem solving, and strategy formulation. Examine the development of sophisticated strategies and tactics to pursue mutually beneficial solutions. Only one of the following may be counted: Engineering Management 380 (Topic 2), 380 (Topic 3), 380 (Topic 4), 381E (Topic 1).
Topic 2: Legal Issues and Technology Management. Examine legal considerations in the practice of engineering management. Explore management disciplines to create maximum value from technology. Engineering Management 381 (Topic 1) and 381E (Topic 2) may not both be counted.
Topic 3: Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers. Introduction to fundamental concepts in finance and accounting with application. Explore how to evaluate investment and financing opportunities in a corporation. Engineering Management 381E (Topic 3) and 384 may not both be counted.
ENM 381E.1 Marketing and Negotiation 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore major marketing concepts and variables, their interrelationships, and their implications for policy making, problem solving, and strategy formulation. Examine the development of sophisticated strategies and tactics to pursue mutually beneficial solutions. Only one of the following may be counted: Engineering Management 380 (Topic 2), 380 (Topic 3), 380 (Topic 4), 381E (Topic 1).
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 381E.2 Legal Issues and Technology Management 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine legal considerations in the practice of engineering management. Explore management disciplines to create maximum value from technology. Engineering Management 381 (Topic 1) and 381E (Topic 2) may not both be counted.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 381E.3 Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Introduction to fundamental concepts in finance and accounting with application. Explore how to evaluate investment and financing opportunities in a corporation. Engineering Management 381E (Topic 3) and 384 may not both be counted.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 382E Topics in Decision Making 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore methods to make high-quality decisions in an engineering environment. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the engineering management degree program.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Master's
Topic 1: Analytics for Engineering Managers. Explore theory and tools that allow the engineering manager to draw correct inferences from data and include those inferences in the decision-making process. Examine descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and statistics.
Topic 2: Strategic Decision and Risk Analysis. Explore tools and methods for making high-quality decisions in the face of uncertainty, applied within an engineering context. Learn how to frame and analyze major decisions and how to overcome the biases that can degrade these decisions. Engineering Management 382E (Topic 2) and 383 (Topic 2) may not both be counted.
Topic 3: Engineering Operations Management. Examine methods to improve the efficiency of an organization's operations. Explore management of production systems, inventory management, logistics, and supply-chain management.
ENM 382E.1 Analytics for Engineering Managers 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore theory and tools that allow the engineering manager to draw correct inferences from data and include those inferences in the decision-making process. Examine descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and statistics.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 382E.2 Strategic Decision and Risk Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore tools and methods for making high-quality decisions in the face of uncertainty, applied within an engineering context. Learn how to frame and analyze major decisions and how to overcome the biases that can degrade these decisions. Engineering Management 382E (Topic 2) and 383 (Topic 2) may not both be counted.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 382E.3 Engineering Operations Management 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine methods to improve the efficiency of an organization's operations. Explore management of production systems, inventory management, logistics, and supply-chain management.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 385C Projects in Engineering Management I 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
First course in a two-semester sequence that concludes with Engineering Management 385D. Independent project carried out under the supervision of an engineering management faculty member. Engineering Management 385C and 397P may not both be counted. Individual instruction.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the engineering management program.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
ENM 385D Projects in Engineering Management II 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Continuation of Engineering Management 385C or 397P. Independent project carried out under the supervision of an engineering management faculty member. Individual instruction.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and Engineering Management 385C or 397P.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the engineering management program.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral
ENM 185K, 285K, 385K Special Topics in Engineering Management 1-3 Hours
1,2,3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore special topics in engineering management. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 286 Marketing in an Engineering Environment 2 Hours
2 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore major marketing concepts and variables, their interrelationships, and their implications for policy making, problem solving, and strategy formulation. Two lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 187 Art and Science of Negotiations 1 Hour
1 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the development of sophisticated strategies and tactics to pursue mutually beneficial solutions. One lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 188 Legal Issues for Engineering Managers 1 Hour
1 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine legal considerations in the practice of engineering management. One lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 289 Management of Technology 2 Hours
2 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore management disciplines to create maximum value from technology. Two lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 390 Systems Engineering 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Utilize systems-thinking principles to organize how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 391 Lean Systems and Processes 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Master's
ENM 397K Engineering Management Seminar 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Current topics in engineering management. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and admission to the engineering management degree program.
Grading: Credit No Credit
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)
Academic Level: Doctoral
ENM 397P Projects in Engineering Management 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Independent project carried out under the supervision of an engineering management faculty member. Engineering Management 385C and 397P may not both be counted. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and admission to the engineering management degree program.
Grading: Letter Grade
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Doctoral