Management
 
MGNT 5653 Financial Decision Making 3-0-3
Students are introduced to fundamental principles of accounting for economic events and the use of basic financial statements. The business finance component presents an overview of financial analysis, budgeting, asset management and financial strategy in business decision-making.
 
MGNT 5773 Managerial Decision Making 3-0-3
Introduces the application of probability and statistics to business decision making; including descriptive statistics, probability, normal distribution, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and simple linear regression. The production/operations topics include productivity, competitiveness, strategy, product and service design, process selection, capacity planning, facility layout, work system design, and location planning. This course also introduces the student to the study of human behavior in organizations. It explores management and organizational behavioral practices which lead to human resource development and organizational effectiveness.
 
MGNT 5873 Strategic Environment of Business 3-0-3
An overview of economic theory with an introduction to the impact of fiscal and monetary policies, and consumer and business decision-making. The marketing component explores buyer motivation, organizational and individual decision-making, changing buyer behavior, and market positioning and segmentation. The legal component introduces the fundamental legal and regulatory parameters that define, promote and limit business activities. Topics include constitutional law, torts, intellectual property, contracts, business organizations, employment law, agency law and antitrust law.
 
MGNT 6001 Management Communications 3-0-3
Effective communication skills are essential for managers in high technology environments. This course will emphasize skill building in writing, oral presentations, interpersonal communication, and research.
 
MGNT 6005 Managerial Economics 3-0-3
Prerequisite: MGNT 3505 or equivalent
Managerial economics focuses heavily on applied microeconomics issues. At its core is a value maximizing objective for the firm. Included in the course work will be traditional topics associated with microeconomics. Analysis of demand, production, cost, market structure, pricing and capital budgeting.
 
MGNT 6015 Technology and Innovation Management 3-0-3
Prerequisite: MGNT 3105 or equivalent
This course emphasizes innovation and creativity, and evaluation and analysis of new technology. The objective is to learn how to evaluate new technologies (either hard or soft) in order to be able to determinate whether or not to make a significant investments in them.
 
MGNT 6020 R&D Management 3-0-3
Prerequisite: MGNT 6015
A systematic examination of product innovations ranging from planning and research to development and commercialization or implementation of new product technology. Topics include pertinent business policy and strategic management issues, the process of innovation, concepts and interconnections between product and process creativity management, technology transfer, and relevant marketing issues. Students will analyze cases and do a project.
 
MGNT 6025 Managing Professionals 3-0-3
Prerequisite: MGNT 3105 or equivalent
This course examines the working relationship between management and professional employees in high technology organizations. Using management theory as a foundation, the course emphasizes experiential learning in order to develop effective leadership and team building skills which students can apply immediately. Learning methods include case studies, team exercises, role playing, individual and group presentation, experiential and group discussions.
 
MGNT 6030 Decision Making Techniques 3-0-3
This course provides a series of quantitative and analytical tools that will enable a student to make informed decisions about business problems. The focus will be on developing analytical models to characterize and solve management problems.
 
MGNT 6040 Current Readings in Management of Technology 3-0-3
This course will examine how technology impacts public issues. The content of the course will be based on the issues currently of concern and will range from ecology to health care to telecommunications.
 
MGNT 6050 Project Management 3-0-3
Prerequisites: MGNT 3105 or equivalent, MGNT 3505 or equivalent
A study of the project planning, organizing, control concepts and techniques. Coverage will include projects and specifications. Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), the Critical Path Method (CPM), the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Gantt charting, and time/resource management.
 
MGNT 6055 Total Quality Management 3-0-3
Prerequisite: MGNT 3105 or equivalent
The concepts of TQM will develop leadership and interpersonal skills along with an understanding of planning and customer satisfaction, in addition to process analysis. The discussion will focus on quality and how to use project teams, such as selecting a project and choosing team members. Topics will be covered concerning setting up meetings and guidelines for productive meetings. Team aspects and team building and activities will also be discussed.
 
MGNT 6060 Entrepreneurship 3-0-3
Prerequisites: MGNT 3105 or equivalent, MGNT 3125 or equivalent, MGNT 3135 or equivalent, MGNT 6005
This course addresses the management challenges associated with starting and successfully running a new venture. It provides students with an opportunity to apply the theories and tools that they have learned elsewhere in the curriculum to the venture creation process.
 
MGNT 6065 Issues in International Management 3-0-3
Prerequisites: MGNT 3105 or equivalent, MGNT 3125 or equivalent, MGNT 3135 or equivalent, MGNT 6005
This course deals with cultural, institutional, economic, and financial environments characteristic of international markets. It will focus on strategic and operational plans that managers must undertake in formulating international business activities.
 
MGNT 6070 Employment and Labor Relations 3-0-3
Prerequisite: MGNT 3105 or equivalent
This course will cover employment practices and employment law in unionized and non-unionized settings. The focus will be on decision making and administrative issues for managers.
 
MGNT 6090 Strategic Management 3-0-3
Prerequisites: MGNT 6001, MGNT core courses
Exposes the student to the process of strategic decision-making. Emphasis is placed on the use of SWOT analyses in development of the strategic plan and the determination of the long-term character of the enterprise. Cases will be analyzed, and classroom presentations will be made by distinguished industrial executives and leaders.
 
MGNT 7501-7503 Independent Research
variable credit-1 to 3 hours
Prerequisite: MGNT 3105 or equivalent
Course covers special topics of interest to the students. Course credit and topic are arranged between instructor and student.