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Lawrence Tech’s dual degree program is distinctively designed to enhance the opportunities for personal and professional growth of tomorrow’s leaders.
Qualified students in the dual degree program will take core course work in both the College of Management’s MBA program and in the College of Engineering’s Engineering Management program. Upon completion of the course work in both programs, a student will be awarded two master’s degrees.
Course Name
Course #
Credits
This course examines the theory and practice involved in measuring, reporting and analyzing an organization’s financial information.
ACC5001T
1.5
Course not found.
ECN5011T
1.5
This course provides an introduction to financial concepts and principles for students not exposed to an introductory undergraduate course in finance. Topics include: financial institutions and markets, overview of investment analysis, time value of money, bond and equity valuation, principles of financial risk analysis, cost of capital, essentials of capital budgeting and financial statement performance.
MBA5051T
1.5
An introduction to the impact of the legal system on the business environment. Overview of key legal concepts including contract law, entity formation, employment law, corporations and intellectual property. Effects of landmark statutes and court decisions will be discussed.
MBA5061T
1.5
Total Credits:
6
Course Name
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Management accounting, or cost accounting, is a business process that helps senior leaders evaluate a company’s financial and profit potential. Cost accounting applies financial accounting methods; however, cost accounting reports are usually intended for top management. Department heads and segment managers generally focus on management accounting and reporting. The examines how accounting information is used for management decisions. Topics covered include variable costing, job-order costing, activity-based.
ACC6003
3
Global Business Economics is designed to prepare students for the business challenges of the 21st Century global economy by enhancing their awareness of the economic, demographic, political, legal, social and cultural changes that are occurring throughout the world as a result of globalization, and their understanding of the profound implications these changes have for effective global leadership and organizational success.
ECN6023
3
Overview of the finance function of the firm, financial analysis, planning and budgeting, and the impact of alternative capital structures on the firm. Emphasis on understanding and utilizing present value and future value concepts.
MBA6003
3
Analysis of corporate use of financial markets and decision-making, with emphasis on stock and bond valuations and returns. The course further demonstrates corporate decision-making in the areas of capital budgeting, corporate financial structure and dividend policy.
MBA6033
3
The course is designed to provide professionals and managers with a broad understanding of leadership concepts, theories, and skills necessary for practicing leadership in the global economy. The course focuses on a variety of techniques and applications for assessing leadership competencies and generating action plans for applying leadership skills. The course emphasizes the requirements for effective leadership in multi-cultural organizations and the development of personal leadership skills.
MBA6043
3
This course presents a graduate Classification framework for strategic marketing management. Topics include: adapting marketing to the new economy, marketing research: process and systems for decision making, consumer behavior, market segmentation, product strategy and new product planning & development, integrated marketing communications, pricing strategy, distribution strategy, marketing of services, global marketing, ethics and social responsibility. The course involves cases, lectures, teamwork, and group presentation. Students will adopt a new way of thinking about business known as “marketing orientation” and “value creation.”
MBA6053
3
Operations management is primarily responsible for creating values on business output by transforming the quantity, quality, forms, and place attributes of input variables. Supply chain is the network of all firms, resources, and operations involved in the creation and delivery of products, from raw materials from the suppliers to the manufacturers, and delivery to the end user.
Theoretical and quantitative concepts, models, methods, and strategies covered in the course for designing and managing manufacturing and service systems include: overview of operations & supply chain management, product & service design, manufacturing and service processes & analysis, six-sigma quality, statistical process control, strategic capacity planning, lean manufacturing, demand management & forecasting, facility layout, facility location, aggregate sales & operations planning, inventory management, materials requirement planning, operations scheduling, sustainable operations.
MBA6063
3
This course introduces students to the strategic and operational uses of information systems. The use of information systems is examined for achieving and maintaining competitive advantage, as well as managerial issues concerning the development, implementation, and management of enterprise information systems. Case studies address the impact of information systems on the organization, the challenges involved in managing technological change in organizations, and the impact of emerging technologies. Students will develop a socio-technical perspective on the use of information systems to solve real-world problems.
INT6043
3
Global Strategic Management is the capstone course in the MBA program. This course exposes the student to the many dimensions of strategic business planning and decision making in a fiercely competitive and rapidly changing global environment. The course covers the analysis of the external global environment; the creation of vision and mission statements that define the organization’s strategic direction, role in society and long-term objectives; the development of effective business strategies for creating sustainable competitive advantage and for responding to the opportunities and threats identified in the external environment; and the successful implementation of the organization’s strategies and achievement of its goals. The student will apply knowledge and skills learned from prior courses in leadership, economics, finance, marketing, management, and other disciplines to the development and implementation of an organization’s strategy. The student will learn numerous, unique strategic planning tools, concepts and techniques that are used to conduct the strategic management tasks. Students will understand how to think strategically and connect the disciplines of strategy and leadership to effectively assess, formulate, plan, and implement the strategic plan.
MBA6073
3
Total Credits:
27
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Course #
Credits
Diagnosis and assessment of productivity loss, setting up productivity measurement program, productivity improvement methods, tools utilized in enterprise productivity enhancement, the lean enterprise, case studies of assessing and improving productivity programs.
EME6583
3
The course will cover modern design tools and methods on the Six Sigma paradigm. Topics include tools and methods including process flow diagrams, cause and effect diagrams, gage R&R, organizational leadership, product development, system integration, critical parameter management, quality function deployment, concept generation, and strategy for organizing six sigma techniques in industry among many others. Provide useful tools to conceive new product requirements, design baseline functional performance, optimize design performance, and verify system capability.
EIE6673
3
The objective of this course is to provide graduate students with advanced knowledge in production planning and control. Topics will cover: inventory control, material requirement planning, manufacturing resource planning, the total quality organization, basic factory dynamics, variability basics, influence of variability on performance, 5s program/value steram mapping, shop floor control/one-piece flow, time workforce planning, supply chain management, capacity management and waste reduction techniques.
EMS6713
3
The need for supply chain management (SCM), Supply chain in the global environment, the consequences of SCM, the role of marketing in SCM, the dynamic role of sales function in SCM, improving supply chain sales forecasting, the evolution and growth of production in SMC, purchasing in SCM, the role of logistics in SCM, information systems in SMC, financials issues in SMC context, customer services in SCM, inter-functional coordination in SCM, measuring performance in SCM, “various case studies covering the latest research topics in SCM with particular applications in Automotive, Food Processing Industry and other Manufacturing Industries are discussed”.
EEM6753
3
Fundamentals of Quality Engineering, Fundamentals of Statistical Studies, Basic Probability and Statistics, Stabilizing and Improving a Process with Control Charts, Attribute, Variable & Out of Control Charts, Defining and Documenting a Process, Diagnosing a Process, Process Capability and Improvement Studies, Six Sigma applications, Process Mapping, Process Variability, Manufacturing Quality Assurance Systems, Quality Standards, ISO 9000:2000, ISO 14000, TS16949 Standards.
EEM6723
3
Global manufacturing and the new challenges. Manufacturing and engineering business systems and organizations. Management responsibilities and contributions to strategic planning. Management of resource in a manufacturing enterprise. Industrial relations and collective bargaining. Management of technology. How to reward achievers. Manufacturing organization for the future.
EEM6803
3
Role of technology in creating wealth, critical factors in managing technology, the new paradigms for management of technology, technology life cycles, technological innovation, competitiveness, business strategy and technology strategy, technological planning, acquisition and exploitation of technology, technology transfer, how America manages technology.
EEM7613
3
Total Credits:
21
This course is developed to provide students with fundamentals of lean manufacturing, lean production preparation, System assessment, process value-stream mapping, sources of waste, lean production processes, workplace organization – 5S, stability, just-in-time, one piece flow, pull systems, cellular manufacturing systems, quick change and set-up reduction methods, total productive maintenance, poka-yoke, mistake proofing, continuous improvement, visual management, employee involvement, cross functional teams, involving people in the change process, importance of culture and sustaining improvement and change.
EMS5513
3
Course not found.
EEM5623
3
Receiving/usage/storage/disposal/transportation and recycling of hazardous materials, that are used in a variety of industries such as, automotive, steel, fabricating, construction, paint, manufacturing, plastic and petroleum. Effects of temperature and pressure changes on hazardous materials are explored. New methods of waste minimization source control technology and quality assurance applications in handling the materials are explored in accordance with Federal EPA laws and standards.
EEM6143
3
Relationship between product engineering and manufacturing engineering. Casting processes, bulk deformation processes, sheet metal processes, joining & welding processes, single-cutting-edge operations, multi-cutting-edge operations, random-cutting, edge operations, non-traditional machining, design for fabricability, the factory of the future.
EMS6203*
3
Must have a B.S.M.E or graduate standing with approval of MAE program director. Manufacturing processes for metals, polymers, automotive manufacturing and assembly, including major sub-assemblies, engine, transmissions, stampings, body construction, paint systems, trim, electrical, powertrain, chassis. The need for new organizations and business processes, such as concurrent engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, introduction to robotics, etc. A semester field trip to a vehicle assembly plant is included.
EME6343
3
Quality policies and objectives, management of quality, new product quality, production of quality. Statistical process quality control. Computers and SPQC. Methods for process improvements, preventive maintenance. Quality measure and controls in several manufacturing industries.
EMS6403*
3
Monetary analysis providing methods of determining how to best invest a limited supply of money and time. Engineering cost analysis, financial analysis, depreciation and tax considerations, decision making under uncertainty, produce or buy, supplier cost evaluation, and new technology justification.
EMS6603
3
This course provides advanced knowledge of optimization techniques with applications in manufacturing and services. The course will focus on advanced formulation techniques to expand applications of linear programming to large-scale models, integer and combinatorial optimization, data mining techniques, search techniques including heuristics, nonlinear programming, and non-cooperative game theory.
EIE6653
3
This course provides applied knowledge of stochastic models to solve uncertain (stochastic) service operations and production systems. The concepts of random variables, stochastic processes, and random fields will be introduced. Methodologies covered include discrete and continuous time Markov processes, Poisson processes, Brownian motion, stochastic approximation including Kalman filtering and random search techniques. Applications relate to design and analysis of problems, inventory control, queuing systems, scheduling systems, services operations, game theory and decision analysis. Applications of stochastic processes will be demonstrated through student seminars.
EIE6663*
3
Criteria for manufacturing systems selection.Characteristics of manufacturing systems. High volume production systems. Detroit-type automation, analysis of automated flow lines, assembly system and line balancing, automated assembly systems. Numerical control production systems. Adaptive control. Industrial robots: technology programming and applications. Material handling and storage systems. Flexible manufacturing systems. Automated inspection. Factory of the future.
EMS6703
3
This course is developed to provide graduate students with advanced knowledge of the following: Managing the Engineering Function, Characteristics of engineering managers, and their decisions in engineering environment, Effective planning of managing engineering functions, Managing complex engineering systems, Managing diversity in multicultural organization, Operations management, Project management, Resources management, Total quality management, Quality management systems, time management and value management.
EEM6723
3
Concept of Value, Value Methodology Job Plan, Value Engineering Metrics, Working with Suppliers, Functional Analysis System Techniques, Value Analysis Tear Down, Managing Multiple Value Projects, Value Leadership and Future of Value Engineering.
EEM6743
3
The course provides students with advance knowledge and theory of current innovative methods of product design and development. Topics include axiomatic design, one-FR design, multi-FR design, design of systems, Axiomatic design of manufacturing systems, Axiomatic design of materials-processing techniques, product design, product complexity, design for safety, product liability and case studies.
EMS6823
3
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor In-depth study of particular civil engineering topic. Normally a written report is required.
EME6993
3
This course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills, tools, and techniques to effectively manage a major project on time, within budget and with successful results. The course focuses on planning and control over the life of the project with an emphasis on Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices and real life scenarios. The course will cover project lifecycle planning, PERT and CPM, computer based project control tools, resource loading, scheduling, costing, and decision making in the project environment.
MBA7063
3
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