EMGT 6142. Quality and Manufacturing Management (3)
Provides an in-depth study of current issues and advances in quality manufacturing management. Topics include quality concepts, total quality management, statistical process control, continuous improvement, flexible manufacturing systems, technology evaluation and selection, and manufacturing strategy. The course covers various types of control charts: the most commonly used quality control techniques. Introduction to design of experiments, quality function deployment, and additional quality tools are also discussed.

EMGT 6901. Advanced Project Management (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Study of various aspects of project management including
project types and organizations, regulatory and liability issues, planning, budget, risk assessment, and conflict resolution. Exercises involve research into emerging management processes, use of computerized techniques, and application of management theories in team-based projects.

EMGT 6902. Legal Issues in Engineering Management (3)
Survey of legal issues surrounding engineering products and services, including warranty, liability, contracting, intellectual property, codes, and accepted practice. Legal principles, precedents, case studies, and research projects.

EMGT 6904. Product and Process Design (3)
Application of principles of creative problem solving to design of products and processes by multidisciplinary teams. Taking as the definition of design "the communication of a set of rational
decisions for accomplishing stated objectives within prescribed constraints," the teams produce
elements of designs for various products and services at points in the sequential stages of design. Teams make periodic reports and presentations to the class on design assignments.

EMGT 6905. Designed Experimentation (3)
Prerequisites: Statistics and consent of instructor. Design of quality into products and processes
using statistically designed experimentation (DOE), a systematic and efficient method of design
optimization for enhanced performance, quality, and cost. Emphasis on designing and conducting useful experiments rather than the basis in statistical theory. Includes robust parameter design and tolerance design techniques. Review and comparison of Taguchi methods with conventional designed experimentation. Extensive use of specialized computer software to design experiments and analyze results in team projects; screening experiments, and sequential response surface methods.

EMGT 6906. Processing Systems Simulation (3)
Prerequisite: Statistics. Principles and application of selecting, planning, and executing simulation projects for processing systems, and developing and experimenting with simulation models. Discrete event simulation is particularly powerful for modeling and experimenting with systems exhibiting interdependencies and variability - such as manufacturing and service systems. Students will learn simulation project management, modeling, and experimenting using commercial simulation software products.

EMGT 6910. Technological Decision-Making. (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. This course covers several techniques for engineering product
design, development and improvement. A variety of decision making techniques such as several
forecasting methods and quality function deployment are discussed specifically in the context of
systems engineering applications, based on engineering design philosophy of cross- functional
cooperation in order to create high quality products. Students will learn how to use these techniques for making effective engineering decisions in a technological environment.

EMGT 6912. Techniques and Intelligent Tools for Engineering Decision Support. (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. This course surveys and introduces techniques and automated tools to support complex engineering decision-making, as well as methods for evaluating and selecting appropriate tools. During the course we will review and introduce decision-making processes and techniques; traditional automated decision support tools such as CAD, FEA, CFD, and other conventional modeling and simulation tools; decision support tools based on soft-computing technologies such as knowledge based expert systems, fuzzy logic, artificial neural nets, and genetic algorithms; and methods to evaluate and select tools appropriate for specific applications. Students will be introduced to an overview of the underlying technologies used in the tools, learn the characteristics of applications appropriate for the tools, learn how to evaluate and select the decision support tools appropriate for an application, and demonstrate their understanding by preparing examples in applications.

EMGT 6915 Engineering Decision Analysis. (3)
Prerequisites: Integral and Differential Calculus, Statistics, Probability or Consent of Instructor. This course aims to provide some useful tools for analyzing difficult decisions and making the right choice. After introducing components and challenges of decision making, the course will proceed with the discussion of structuring decisions using decision trees and influence diagrams. Decision making under uncertainty will be emphasized including maximax, maximin, and minimax regret techniques. Modeling of different risk attitudes based on risk and return tradeoffs will be analyzed through utility theory. Finally, decisions under conflicting objectives and multiple criteria will be discussed along with some introduction to game theory.

EMGT 6920. Logistics Engineering and Management. (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. This course introduces logistics systems from a systems
engineering perspective. It starts from the design of effective and efficient systems with their
respective maintenance and support infrastructures to the coordination of the production and
distribution of systems and products for customer use at different stages of a final product’s life
cycle. The emphasis is on the design and implementation of effective and efficient logistics systems and supply chains. The course contents also include the current management issues in logistics systems implementation and supply chain operations.

EMGT 6930. Capital Cost Estimating. (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Provides in-depth study of cost management issues in a
technological business environment. It covers cost concepts including project evaluation techniques based on cost, capital planning and budgeting, investment evaluation under risk and uncertainty, rate of return methods, estimating for economic analyses, inflation effects, depreciation and income taxes, and capital investment decision analysis. Private and public sector cost issues are also discussed. The tools and techniques presented are useful for engineering, business, or management professionals of any organization. Students will learn how to use the course material for effective project management, budgeting, and decision making.

EMGT 6950. Engineering Systems Integration (3)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. This course is an introduction to the relevant issues and required techniques for successful systems design development, integration, management, and
implementation. Principles and methods for system life-cycle analysis, system planning and
management, and systems integration. Interfaces between the system, subsystems, the environment, and people. Students will learn the factors to control the total system development process designed to ensure a high quality and effective system.

EMGT 6955. Systems Reliability Engineering (3)
Prerequisites: Calculus and Statistics. Introduction of concepts and methods for the design, testing and estimation of component and system reliabilities. Topics include: reliability mathematics; analysis of reliability data; reliability prediction and modeling; reliability testing: maintainability and availability; failure mode and effects analysis and failure rates; reliability design and implementation; application of concurrent engineering and reliability methods to integrate reliability tests into the overall system development cycle to reduce overall life cycle costs.

EMGT 6980. Industrial and Technology Management Seminars (1)
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. A series of seminars covering current management issues,
challenges and practices in industrial, government, and business sectors of industry. May be repeated for credit. (All students in the Engineering Management MS Program are required to take this course for three semesters.)

EMGT 6985. Engineering Management Project (3)
Prerequisite: EMGT 6901 and two other program required EMGT courses. This course will offer a
hands-on real world industrial/business project. The emphasis will be on the design and implementation of effective methods on the development and/or improvement of products, processes, procedures, or systems. A 3-member project committee includes a faculty project advisor, the industrial project advisor, and a faculty member in the technical area has to be established before taking this project course. This project will be a capstone project for the students in the Engineering Management Master of Science Program.

EMGT 6090. Special Topics (1-6)
Directed study of current topics of special interest. May be repeated for credit.

EMGT 6890. Individual Study (1-6)
Individual investigation and exposition of results. May be repeated for credit.

EMGT 6990. Industrial Internship (1-3)
Prerequisite: Completion of nine hours of graduate coursework. Full- or part-time academic year internship in engineering complementary to the major course of studies and designed to allow theoretical and course-based practical learning to be applied in a supervised industrial experience. Each student’s program must be approved by their graduate program director. Requires a mid-term report and final report to be graded by the supervising faculty. (on demand) ** This course cannot be counted as a part of the program required credits.

EMGT 6991. Graduate Master Thesis Research (1-6)
Individual investigation culminating in the preparation and presentation of a thesis. May be repeated for credit.

EMGT 7999. Graduate Residence (1)
Required for continuing registration and enrollment while completing thesis or research project.

* For the on campus EMGT courses, each lecture course is offered through the combination of classroom lectures and discussions along with online lectures and discussions.

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