May 18, 2024  
2018-2019 Florida Tech Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Florida Tech Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.

 

Mechanical Engineering

  
  • MEE 5900 Mechanical Engineering Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Presents current research by university faculty, visiting speakers and graduate students. Required of all full-time mechanical engineering graduate students.
  
  • MEE 5997 Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Individual study under the direction of a member of the MAE graduate faculty.
  
  • MEE 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-6
    Individual work under the direction of a member of the mechanical engineering graduate faculty on a selected topic.
  
  • MEE 6810 Life-Critical Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Requires students to develop and evaluate a synthesis of life-critical systems (LCS) illustrated by space systems, aeronautics, nuclear energy systems and various emergency systems. Improves knowledge and skills of the differences between technology-centered and human-centered design of LCS.
  
  • MEE 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0-2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Accepted candidacy and approval by Office of Graduate Programs
  
  • MEE 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.

Meteorology

  
  • MET 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  
  • MET 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MET 0002   Corequisite: MET 0002  
  
  • MET 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: MET 0003   Corequisite: MET 0003  
  
  • MET 1999 Weather Briefing

    Credit Hours: 1
    Stimulates discussion about recent, current and future weather using various data sources, including satellites, surface observations, radar, model and upper air data. Underscores the importance of the human element in weather forecasting. Students must attend the weekly weather briefing and participate in a national weather forecasting contest.
    May be repeated for a maximum of three credits; content varies
  
  • MET 3401 Synoptic Meteorology 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Standard meteorological observational practice; data presentation; data analysis and display; data product transmission by facsimile and computer; and Internet connectivity; weather map discussions.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 3402 Synoptic Meteorology 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Basic analysis techniques, scalar and vector fields, thermodynamic diagrams, synoptic calculations, 4-dimensional atmospheric structure, weather map discussions.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: MET 3401  
  
  • MET 3403 Data Analysis in Meteorology and Geosciences

    Credit Hours: 4
    Covers different types of multidimensional large datasets (i.e., big data) from a variety of sources used to describe physical and dynamical processes of the weather and climate system. Emphasizes understanding and interpreting the data through basic programming, plotting and analysis. Lab requires use of various data and formats.
    (Q)
    Prerequisite: CSE 1100  or CSE 1502  or CSE 1503  
  
  • MET 4233 Remote Sensing for Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies geostationary (GOES) and low-Earth polar orbiting (NOAA) weather satellites and the sensors system. Presents operational atmospheric data and applications to numerical weather prediction. Also covers ground-based meteorological radar systems and applications.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  
  • MET 4305 Atmospheric Dynamics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies coordinate systems, balance of forces, equations of motion, continuity and energy, barotropic and baroclinic disturbances, geostrophy, atmospheric transport of energy.
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  and OCN 3430  
  
  • MET 4306 Atmospheric Dynamics 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies circulation and vorticity, scale analysis, friction and turbulence, sound, gravity and Rossby waves, instability, numerical weather prediction.
    Prerequisite: MET 4305  
  
  • MET 4310 Climatology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the distribution of weather elements globally, continental positioning, rain shields, hydrological cycle, meteorological databases, El Nino impacts on humans, global warming and the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
    (CC)
    Prerequisite: MTH 2401  and OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 4410 Mesoscale Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys conceptual models and analyzes techniques for mesoscale phenomena. Includes mesoscale convective complexes, severe storms, atmospheric instability, mesoscale gravity waves, squall lines, drylines, topographic effects, mesoscale clouds and precipitation processes, coastal showers, the sea breeze and other local phenomena.
    Prerequisite: OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 5001 Principles of Atmospheric Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the atmosphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, extratropical disturbances, cloud physics, storms, radiative transfer, global energy balance, atmospheric dynamics, the general circulation.
  
  • MET 5233 Atmospheric Remote Sensing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Nature of radiation, blackbody radiation laws, Maxwell’s equations, radar equation, radiative transfer equation, inversion techniques. Applications from surface, aircraft and spacecraft observations using Doppler, Lidar, visible, infrared and microwave systems to infer synoptic atmospheric properties.
    Prerequisite: PHY 2002  
  
  • MET 5305 Dynamic Meteorology 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Dynamics of atmosphere including coordinate systems, balance of forces, derivation of the equations of motion, continuity and energy; barotropic and baroclinic disturbances; geostrophy; and atmospheric transport of energy.
    Prerequisite: MTH 2201  and OCN 2407  
  
  • MET 5306 Dynamic Meteorology 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Dynamics of the atmosphere including theorems on circulation and vorticity; scale analysis; friction and turbulence; sound, gravity and Rossby waves; instability; numerical weather prediction.
    Prerequisite: MET 5305  
  
  • MET 5310 Numerical Weather Prediction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the physical and mathematical basis of numerical weather prediction; numerical methods and computational stabilities; modern operational and research forecast models. Includes a virtual laboratory with applications of simple-to-complex dynamical models and a team project.
    Prerequisite: MET 3402  and MET 4305  
  
  • MET 5320 Global Climate Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews the present state of climate change science. Addresses proxy reconstruction, uncertainty (feedbacks) and sensitivity, climate modeling, changing sea level and radiative forcing (natural and anthropogenic). Combines background material with relevant peer-reviewed literature. Includes research in an area of interest to the student.

Management

  
  • MGT 4011 Management Theory and Thought

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews contemporary management philosophies and theories. Focuses on managing enterprises in today’s rapidly changing global economy. Covers developing strategies, vision, planning, organization and controlling.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4017 Program Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses responsibility and authority of a program manager and the integration of program fluctuations in complex organizational structures. Discusses interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution within matrix organizations.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4070 Special Topic in Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    In-depth study in a specialized area of management in the public, private or government sector. Topic of study to be approved by the instructor.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4084 Materiel Acquisition Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the life cycle process involving the acquisition of materiel and material systems. Need requirements analysis, cost and schedule considerations, and procurement policies and procedures are studied.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4206 Contract Changes, Terminations and Disputes

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers identification and use of appropriate performance metrics when evaluating contractor performance. Involves assessment strategies and performance remedies to make price contract changes after award and handling of disputes.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4207 Materiel Acquisition Management

    Credit Hours: 1
    Develops professional skills for making business decisions and advising other acquisition team members to successfully meet customers’ needs.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4208 Procurement and Contract Management

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers use of the FAR and DFAR to develop effective market research and alternative acquisition strategies.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 4209 Contract and Subcontract Formulation

    Credit Hours: 1
    Covers the techniques and benefits of early industry involvement in shaping acquisition requirements. Involves basic procedures for acquisition of both commercial and noncommercial requirements.
    Requirement(s): To be used for military transfer credit only
  
  • MGT 5000 Financial Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies accounting concepts, the accounting model, measurement processes, financial statements, financial analysis, the accounting cycle, monetary and fixed assets, inventory, current and long-term liabilities, and equity structures of partnerships, proprietorships and corporations.
  
  • MGT 5001 Managerial Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on internal reporting to managers for use in planning and control, making nonroutine decisions and formulating major plans and policies. Includes cost-volume-profit relationships, flexible budgets and standards, job order and process cost, and cost allocation and accumulation.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5002 Corporate Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts and tools of corporate financial management including corporate financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, quantitative techniques and practices. Considers the importance of ethics and the international aspects in financial decision-making.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5003 Public Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts and methods of financial management in federal, state and local governments including the analysis of the theory and practice of public finance through taxation, debt instruments, intergovernmental funds and other revenue sources. Reviews financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and financial management practices.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5004 Commercial Enterprise in Space Capstone

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts, tools and techniques for evaluating research proposals and studies. Involves designing, conducting, evaluating and presenting oral and written research. Builds on quantitative and qualitative research methods through assignments. Serves as the capstone course for the program.
    Requirement(s): Recommended for the graduating semester
  
  • MGT 5005 National Security Issues in Space

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines U.S. national security issues of telecommunications, imaging and physical devices/satellites in space related to the commercialization of space. Considers the role of governments to provide security, and protect and safeguard national assets in space. Discusses the historical roles of the U.S. military and NASA in space vehicle launches.
  
  • MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies methods of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for managerial decision making. Includes data presentation, measures of central tendency, dispersion and skewness; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling methods and sampling distributions; and confidence interval estimation of parameters and tests of hypotheses.
  
  • MGT 5007 Intermediate Managerial Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies statistical theory to managerial problems, particularly methods of statistical inference for management decision-making. Includes F- and Chi-square distributions, nonparametric tests, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5008 Finance Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Discusses advanced topics in finance including current activity, and financial tools and strategy. Blends financial theory with current practices in finance.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  
  
  • MGT 5009 International Law and Treaties in Space

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines known and anticipated international laws and treaties governing access to and ownership of outer space. Explores international and cross-national issues relating to launch and maintenance of orbiting vehicles/stations and surface bases in space. Also explores issues relating to legal liabilities from accidents or incidents in outer space.
  
  • MGT 5010 Seminar in Research Methodology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews research methods in managerial disciplines. Includes nature and sources of secondary data, primary data collection techniques, design of research projects, sample selection, model building, etc. Requires a research proposal and presentation of a fully documented research report on the results of the study.
  
  • MGT 5011 Management Theory and Thought

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews classical and contemporary management philosophies and theories. Focuses on managing enterprises in a rapidly changing global economy. Includes developing strategic vision, planning, organizing, directing and controlling, social responsibility and international management.
  
  • MGT 5013 Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the contributions to management theory made by the behavioral sciences. Gives a better understanding of the human being and why he acts as he does. Studies individual and group behavior. Extensively uses current periodicals and case materials.
  
  • MGT 5014 Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies information systems design associated with business organizations. Includes development life cycles, requirements analysis, systems design and performance considerations. Views information systems as strategic tools to provide competitive advantage.
  
  • MGT 5015 Organizational Planning and Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the concepts, theory, research and operational problems of modern organizations. Includes classical and modern organizational theory, emphasizing the latter. Covers recent research findings and the theory of human relations in industry. Involves students in case studies.
  
  • MGT 5016 Employee Relations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes, synthesizes and evaluates the major federal and state laws that impinge on the modern work environment. Draws on new insights in the human resources management discipline to abstract, summarize and evaluate the impact of legislation and laws regulating the employee/employer relationship.
  
  • MGT 5017 Program Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses responsibility and authority of a program manager and the integration of program functions in complex organizational structures. Discusses interpersonal relationships within matrix organizations, as well as program conflict resolution and organizational priorities.
  
  • MGT 5018 Policy and Strategy for Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the formulation and implementation of competitive strategies, emphasizing the role of top management. Employs case analyses to expose the multifunctional nature of decision-making at the top management level.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  and MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5019 Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Approaches the marketing function from the point of view of the marketing manager. Examines the role of marketing in the firm, the economy and society. Introduces marketing concepts and operational approaches for marketing decision-making. Employs the case method to apply theory to the development of a marketing mix.
  
  • MGT 5020 Applied Management Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts, tools and techniques for evaluation of research proposals and studies. Involves designing, conducting, evaluating and presenting oral and written forms of research. Assignments build on quantitative and qualitative research methods.
    Requirement(s): Recommended for the graduating semester. May serve as the capstone for certain majors. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5021 Business Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies how to understand, analyze and effectively deal with issues such as jurisprudence, contracts, property, agency, partnerships, corporations, sales, commercial paper and secured transactions. Also studies aspects of the Uniform Commercial Code.
  
  • MGT 5022 Analytical Methods for Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the fundamental concepts in business mathematics. Includes linear systems, linear programming (graphical method), matrices and logarithms; and differential calculus and its applications.
    Requirement(s): Noncredit for graduate management programs except to meet foundation requirements
  
  • MGT 5023 Management and Administration of Contracts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Offers a comprehensive analysis of the procurement process and the resulting contractual relationships. Topics range from a history of procurement through considerations dealing with applicable laws, policies, regulations, methods of contracting, types of contracts and cost-pricing principles.
  
  • MGT 5024 Production and Operations Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the translation of product and service requirements into facilities, procedures and operating organizations. Includes product design, production alternatives, facilities location and layout, resource requirements planning and quality control.
  
  • MGT 5031 Seminar in International Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the problems of the senior executive in the management of the multinational firm. Examines executive decision making within the scope of international concerns relative to various economic, political and cultural environments.
  
  • MGT 5032 Personnel Management and Industrial Relations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents a survey of personnel management and industrial relations practices and procedures. Includes wage and salary considerations, employee benefits and incentives, and labor-management relations. Emphasizes the individual within the organization development of the human resource. Also includes the case-study method.
  
  • MGT 5033 Human Resources Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores issues surrounding the employment of human resources in various organizational settings using lectures/guided discussions and case studies. May include recruitment/selection, job analyses/evaluation, equal employment opportunity, training/development, compensation/benefits, appraisal, labor relations, health and safety, and separation/retirement.
  
  • MGT 5034 Law, Technology and Society

    Credit Hours: 3
    Critically examines the impact of technology on the legal system and social organization, origin and methodology of the common law. Provides a framework for analyzing social change caused by advancing technology. Analyzes legal concepts from the standpoint of societal reaction to technology. Uses the case study method.
  
  • MGT 5035 Public Administration and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the problems of administrative management in public agencies and presents methods and strategies to remedy administrative management problems. Uses case studies to apply principles of effective public administrative management.
  
  • MGT 5037 Global Economic Environment of Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the importance and impact of foreign trade for the world economies. Emphasizes balance of trade, technology transfer and service economies, and trade barriers, GATT, NAFTA, the World Bank and other issues related to global trade.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5149 Economics for Business  
  
  • MGT 5040 Public Program Policy and Evaluation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides techniques for evaluating public policies and programs. Discusses analytical and other methods in the context of federal, state and local government applications. Includes case studies to reinforce the practical application of evaluation techniques in public sector organizations. As program capstone, requires significant research activity.
  
  • MGT 5042 International Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses world environments and specific international business activities such as foreign investment and international marketing. Examines the decision-making process for going abroad, along with current issues in international business.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  and MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5043 Law and Politics of International Conflict Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the legal, political and policy issues involved in international intervention in conflict and its historical background. Explores legal doctrine, official policy and political practice in conflict intervention. Also covers prevention and post-conflict recovery. Includes themes that deal with the continuum from war to peace.
  
  • MGT 5044 Role of Foreign Relations and National Security Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses the interrelationship of international and U.S. constitutional law. Focuses on separation of powers; decision-making authority; international law as part of U.S. law; treaties and other international agreements; war power and terrorism; appropriations power; federalism; the role of the courts; and current national security issues.
  
  • MGT 5045 Information Systems for Complex Emergencies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses the use of information technology systems (ITS) and communications systems in a crisis operational environment. Includes legal and regulatory systems and interface with public safety/emergency agencies.
  
  • MGT 5046 Organizational Behavior in Humanitarian and Disaster Operations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the contribution to management theory made by the behavioral sciences. Studies human behavior of groups and individuals. Includes not-for-profit and volunteer personnel systems. Extensively uses current periodicals and case materials.
  
  • MGT 5047 New Venture Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the new venture development process, including all the steps in the process, the behaviors and characteristics of entrepreneurs, creating the business concept, the business plan, financing and growth management.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  and MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5048 Marketing Analysis and Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes advanced analysis of current marketing opportunities and problems stemming from the changing social, economic and political environments. Entails preparation of detailed marketing programs for all or part of an organization’s marketing effort, consistent with its financial and managerial resources.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5049 International Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies formulation of marketing strategies and techniques within the framework of the world marketplace. Examines and adapts fundamental marketing concepts to various economic, cultural, political, legal and business environments.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5000 Financial Accounting  and MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5050 Advanced International Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the environment of international marketing and the need for organization marketing on a global basis to investigate the various economic, social, political, cultural and legal dimensions of marketing concepts. Includes emerging issues that create new problems and opportunities for international marketing managers.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5051 Logistics Chain Management in Humanitarian and Disaster Relief

    Credit Hours: 3
    Combines lectures and class discussion on assigned topics and case analyses. Includes the role of logistics chain management in the economy and organizations; inventory; global logistics; effective organizing; packaging and purchasing; and materials flow and handling. Also includes the implementation of logistics chain management strategy.
  
  • MGT 5052 Planning and Modeling for Emergency Operations and Disaster Relief

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies case analysis and modeling tools to a disaster and emergency assistance environment. Discusses systems analysis and constructs computer models. Includes system classification, problem formulation, decision/risk analysis, modeling techniques, discrete event simulation and evaluation of information. Requires a design project.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5053 Project and Program Risk Mitigation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes a systematic approach to risk management from project initiation through planning, implementation, control and closeout. Discusses various techniques and models for qualitative/quantitative risk assessment and risk management in such areas as post-scheduling and outputs.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  and MGT 5017 Program Management  
  
  • MGT 5060 Management of Assets

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes determination of requirements for management of major and secondary items. Reviews the needs and techniques for accurate asset reporting and analysis of demand data for customers’ requirements. Emphasizes problems related to unstable items and management methods required to integrate asset acquisition and management into the life cycle program.
  
  • MGT 5061 Systems and Logistics Support Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses the management of evolving systems. Emphasizes planning and support requirements of the system during its life cycle. Includes maintenance planning, physical distribution, manpower requirements, facilities and equipment needs, documentation, systems integration and other support requirements.
  
  • MGT 5062 Logistics Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes logistics as a science and provides a comparative analysis of different policy considerations. Reviews the role of logistics in organizational policy and problems, and future trends in logistics. Involves a significant research paper or challenging capstone project designed to demonstrate mastery over the complete curriculum.
  
  • MGT 5063 Inventory Control and Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes management techniques and methods related to the life cycle management of material. Addresses material management systems and concepts of standardization, modernization, material reserve, cataloguing, pro-ordering, storage and distribution.
  
  • MGT 5064 Cost and Economic Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers cost effectiveness, trade-off analysis, system effectiveness model structure, criteria for evaluation of alternative systems, principles of cost accounting and cost estimating for system life cycle. Includes basic math for cost-effective analysis, computer tools for economic modeling and risk assessment.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5065 Supply Chain Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Combines lectures, class discussions on assigned topics and case analyses. Includes the role of SCM in the economy and organizations; customer service; SCM information systems; inventory management; managing materials flow and handling; transportation; warehousing; computerization and packaging issues; purchasing; global logistics; organizing for effective SCM; methods to control SCM performance; and implementing SCM strategy.
  
  • MGT 5066 Systems Analysis and Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies case analysis and modeling tools to a business environment. Discusses systems analysis and constructs computer models. Includes system classification, problem formulation, decision/risk analysis, modeling techniques, discrete event simulation and evaluation of information. Requires a design project.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5067 System Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes systems science and general system theory; strategic concepts and process management; systematic decision-making and technical disciplines; and communications theory.
  
  • MGT 5068 System Engineering Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes system technical management concepts and methods as applied to the management of system engineering activities. Covers the general principles and requirements of system engineering and application of system management techniques to manage multidiscipline technical teams engaged in development programs.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5067 System Management  
  
  • MGT 5069 Advanced Techniques in Supply Chain Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers advanced theory and practice of supply chain management including operational and logistics support. Provides an understanding of strategy, organizational structure and new technologies in SCM. Includes the Internet and its effect on SCM, and the concepts and tools used in SCM. Examines requirements, specifications, planning, program design, and maintenance and quality assurance of SCM systems.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5065 Supply Chain Management  
  
  • MGT 5070 Special Topics in Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Independent study with a faculty member in some area of business in greater depth than is normally possible in a regular class. Requires a comprehensive term paper.
  
  • MGT 5071 Decision Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the normative and empirical dimensions of judgment analysis. Introduces the use of management science techniques and mathematical modeling as a methodology for understanding and facilitating the decision-making process.
    Prerequisite: MGT 5006  
  
  • MGT 5072 Cultural Competency in the Workplace

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers staff and leadership development to effectively understand the complex issues related to workplace diversity.
  
  • MGT 5073 Current Topics in Telemedicine, Mobile Health and eHealth

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the rapid advance of computer and media technology, and its effect on the healthcare industry. Includes health communication, telemedicine, mobile health and ehealth.
  
  • MGT 5074 Current Topics in Health Disparities, Health Services Delivery and Public Health Promotion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores gaps in health outcomes associated with race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexuality, nationality and migration status. Considers the role of social, environmental, institutional and cultural factors in impacting chronic disease. Includes infectious disease and health promotion.
  
  • MGT 5075 Managerial Epidemiology in Public and Population Health

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a comprehensive introduction to epidemiology. Examines epidemiology concepts and tools as they relate to the improvement of decisions about the management of health services. Presents and reinforces basic principles with healthcare management applications and case studies.
  
  • MGT 5076 Research in Healthcare Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores how action research places community engagement and outreach at the center. Includes improving approaches that lead to upgrades in healthcare practices and activities. Draws on working experiences, researching and engaging with those using a collaborative, participatory approach. Serves as the capstone for the healthcare management program.
  
  • MGT 5077 Human Resources in Healthcare Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the management of human resources. Focuses on healthcare service environments. Includes recruitment, selection and retention practices, and performance evaluation. Also includes employee training and development, compensation and benefits, promotion, job design and analysis, and legal issues affecting the healthcare workplace.
  
  • MGT 5078 Special Topics in Healthcare

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes advanced special topics in healthcare management. Contents may vary depending on the needs and interest of faculty and students.
  
  • MGT 5079 Traffic Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the various means of directing, controlling and supervising functions involved in furnishing transportation services and facilities. Examines in detail service support to the customer and the principles and problems involved.
  
  • MGT 5080 Strategic Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the practical tools of strategy, planning and implementation at business and corporate levels. Covers the primary challenges of projects (scope, time, budget). Provides fundamental techniques and principles. Follows national standards for successful Project Management Professional® (PMP) certification.
  
  • MGT 5081 Project Tools and Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers tools and techniques used in project management. Emphasizes how to determine the appropriate tool or technique to use during the different phases of a project life cycle. Provides understanding of theory and the strategic roles of the different tools and techniques available.
  
  • MGT 5082 Cases in Applied Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers planning and managing a project. Uses learned project management concepts. Provides hands-on experience in planning and managing a student project. Gives insight through case studies and real-world analyses. Examines methodology and the importance of a formal process. Includes Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).
  
  • MGT 5083 Global Supply Chain Management and International Logistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on global business. Covers managing raw materials and finished products, developing transportation and logistics strategies, and merging transportation policies with production and marketing plans. Also covers global supply chain analysis and planning to link marketplace, distribution, manufacturing, assembly and procurement activities.
  
  • MGT 5084 Materiel Acquisition Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the life cycle process of acquisition of materiel and materiel systems. Examines systems management and its application from acquisition to termination. Studies need requirements, cost and schedule considerations and procurement procedures.
    Requirement(s): May serve as the capstone for certain majors
 

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