Master of Science in Engineering Management:

 

New ENMA Courses

 


The following are bulletin descriptions for modified and new ENMA courses.  Note: As therse courses come on line, some modification to existing course numbers and descriptions will be performed.

 

·         ENMA 278 – Lean Manufacturing Systems:  The course focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing high-performance cost-effective manufacturing systems.  Lean, mass, and craft production paradigms will be compared, with emphasis placed on the benefits and implementation of the lean principles of value stream, flow, pull, and waste.  Student teams will prepare, analyze, and propose optimized value streams for real-world manufacturing systems.

 

·         ENMA 279 – Engineering Six Sigma Design and Development:  This course focuses on designing and developing high-performance, high reliability technology-based products, processes, and services through the application of six-sigma principles, tools, and processes.  Student teams will apply six-sigma approaches to real-world projects in preparation for six-sigma green belt certification.

 

·         ENMA 281 – Engineering Project Management:  Applies collaboration tools such as MS Project to organize and direct global virtual teams developing technology-based products and services.  Focus is on optimizing projects under the triple constraints of time, resources, and quality.  Student projects will provide hands-on experience in applying tools and methods to balance multiple and varying constraints in a real-world environment.    Includes overview of financial statement analysis for engineers. 

 

·         ENMA 282 – Reliability, Failure Analysis, and Risk Assessment:  Provides current and perspective engineering managers with an overview of topics critical to providing products and services which meet cost and reliability requirements, including qualitative and quantitative models of reliability, failure, and risk for hardware, software, and large complex systems.  Student team projects provide an opportunity to apply these models to real-world systems.

 

·         ENMA 283 – Innovation and Technology:  Explores the use of technologies such as data mining, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and public resource computing to improve and accelerate innovation, entrepreneurship, and general human decision making processes.  This course provides current and perspective managers with an overview of how these technologies can be applied to generate better, faster, and cheaper products, processes, and decisions.  Student projects will apply these technologies to the development and/or improvement of real-world analysis and decision-making processes.

 

·         ENMA 286 – New Product and Process Portfolio Management:  Models technology-based product and process development lifecycles, including: valuation and prioritization of projects, pursuit of government contracts, outsourcing/offshoring criteria, and the challenges of R&D in a global environment.  Student teams will analyze and apply best practices from industry to the management of a portfolio of projects from sources such as the projects generated and executed by student teams in other ENMA courses.

 

·         ENMA 287 – Front-End Engineering Product Development:  Prepares students to fill the fuzzy front end of the new product/service pipeline with innovative and commercially-viable concepts.  Includes voice-of-the-customer and ideation processes and techniques.  Students facilitate “live” ideation sessions held with industry and university partners to generate a portfolio of innovative new product/process/service/technology opportunities.

 

·         ENMA 288 – System Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis:  Presents a range of qualitative and quantitative mapping, modeling, and analysis tools and processes that enable complete and concise specification, operating description, and performance and reliability assessment of complex products, processes, and services.  Student projects involve assessment of real-world industrial systems.  Approaches include process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, Monte-Carlo simulation, and TRIZ problem/solution modeling.

 

·         ENMA 290 – Management Issues in Engineering and Technology:  Presents topics of special interest to current and perspective engineering managers.  Facilitated by ENMA faculty, this course incorporates guest lectures by industry representatives.    Offered occasionally, course title varies, title and content announced prior to each offering.  Students may enroll more than once because subject matter changes.

 

·         ENMA 291 – Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: In this course, student teams integrate ENMA course learning and experience with ENMA course projects to generate a “technology commercialization prospectus” that describes a viable channel to market for a particular innovative technology-based product, process, or service.  Special topics include technology roadmapping and intellectual property generation in a global environment.

 

·         ENMA 294. Practicum for Research and Development in Engineering Management.  3 sem. hrs. Provides students enrolled in the M.S in engineering management program with significant educational and practical opportunities to participate in the practice of research and/or development in the area of engineering management as an integral part of the program curriculum. Students who plan to take this course must follow the Course Guideline available from the practicum director. At most six credits may be counted toward graduation. Offered every term. Prereq: 3.00 MU Q.P.A.; completed at least twenty one credits in MS-engineering management program.

 


A comparison of the current and new ENMA curriculum follows:

 

Current:                                                                                                  New:

Business Foundation (possible prereq.)

 

 

 

 

BUAD 201

Economics Foundations

 

 

 

BUAD 202

Accounting Foundations

 

 

 

BUAD 204

Statistics Foundations

 

 

 

BUAD 205

Information Technology Foundations

 

 

 

Business (select three)

 

 

 

 

BUAD 210

Managerial Economics

 

 

 

BUAD 220

Operations and Supply Chain Management

 

 

 

BUAD 230

Managerial Accounting

 

 

 

BUAD 240

Marketing Management

 

 

 

BUAD 250

Financial Management

 

 

 

BUAD 262

Organizational Behavior

 

 

 

Engineering (select four)

 

 

 

 

ENMA 281

Product and Process Development - Project Mgmt.

 

ENMA 278

Lean Manufacturing Systems

ENMA 282

Reliability and Design Failure Analysis

ENMA 279

Engineering Six-Sigma Design and Development

ENMA 283

Innovation and Technology

ENMA 281

Engineering Project Management

ENMA 284

Total Quality Engineering

ENMA 283

Innovation and Technology

ENMA 285

Value Engineering

ENMA 286

New Product and Process Portfolio Management

ENMA 290

Management Issues in Eng. and Technology

ENMA 287

Front-End Engineering Product Development

MEEN 148

Design of Engineering Experiments

ENMA 290

Management Issues in Engineering and Technology

Decision Support (select two)

 

 

 

BUAD 224

Quantitative Decision Modeling and Analysis

 

 

 

BUAD 249

Seminar in Marketing

 

 

 

ECON 201

Applied Econometrics I

 

ENMA 288

System Design, Modeling, and Analysis

MEEN 170

Optimization of Industrial Systems

 

ENMA 291

Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship

MEEN 171

Industrial Simulation

ENMA 294

Practicum for Res. & Dev.  in Engineering Management

 


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