May 05, 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.

 

Business

  
  • BUS 5113 Surveying New Technologies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces concepts and tools to assess the impact of new and forecasted technological changes in a global market. Emphasizes transformation of business models in response to emerging technologies. Identifies organizational and environmental factors that impact innovation. Covers how to evaluate potential technological failures and successes.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5602  
  
  • BUS 5114 Survey of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces how an entrepreneurial company manages and leads innovation and change. Focuses on identifying and creating innovative business opportunities through idea generation, business planning and new venture development tools. Includes feasibility and marketing studies, financial management and organizational structures. Uses case studies.
  
  • BUS 5115 New Product Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on new product development including the full project life cycle (processes, idea generation, design and development, prototyping, manufacturing, sales, support and disposal). Uses student teams in a cross-disciplinary, integrated approach to project development in a global market. Requires team project development and presentation.
  
  • BUS 5116 Technology Commercialization Experience 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops and refines the ability to find, evaluate and nurture technical ideas into commercially viable product concepts. Introduces a formal, team-based process for vetting and selecting a technology to be developed into a new venture proposal/business plan in BUS 5117 .
    Requirement(s): Successful completion of 18 semester credit hours of program. First of a two-course capstone sequence
  
  • BUS 5117 Technology Commercialization Experience 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues product and team project development started in BUS 5116 . Focuses on completion of the business proposal and the real-world launch of a new venture. Applied entrepreneurial knowledge from previous coursework. Requires written report and draft pitch for review by a panel of experts and business leaders; presenting to investors may follow.
    Requirement(s): Second of a two-course capstone sequence
    Prerequisite: BUS 5116  
  
  • BUS 5138 Business Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Aims primarily to increase student understanding of the concepts of moral philosophy and their relevance to decision-making. Provides an opportunity for students to apply this understanding in a wide variety of practical management settings. Makes extensive use of case analyses.
    Requirement(s): Prior completion of foundation requirements
  
  • BUS 5211 Procurement and Contract Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews in depth the federal acquisition process and introduces the basic concepts, policies and procedures incident to government contracting through the FAR and supplementing directives.
  
  • BUS 5213 Contract Changes, Terminations and Disputes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses case studies and lectures to provide an in-depth examination of the post-award management problems associated with contract administration. Covers contract changes, terminations and disputes, as well as other issues.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5211  
  
  • BUS 5214 Cost Principles, Effectiveness and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Financial and accounting overview of government acquisition policy and procedures.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5430  
  
  • BUS 5217 Contract and Subcontract Formulation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies in depth the pre-award phase of the federal acquisition process. Uses class discussions and case studies to examine management problems from the perspective of the contracting office, requisitioner, courts, Congress and the contractors.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5211  
  
  • BUS 5218 Contract Negotiations and Incentive Contracts

    Credit Hours: 3
    A seminar in which negotiation concepts and techniques are explored, analyzed, discussed and then placed into practice using mock negotiations. Examines all types of contracts.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5211  
  
  • BUS 5219 Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines globalization as it relates to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Analyzes policies and standards, and developing compliance programs and managing key stakeholders. Reviews trends in corporate citizenship, social enterprise and philanthropy. Offers innovative strategies for ethical leadership. Requires written CSR initiative report.
  
  • BUS 5220 Contract Management Research Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced research seminar devoted to study and research of topical government contract management issues.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5211  
  
  • BUS 5307 Managing Human Factors

    Credit Hours: 3
    Gives theoretical and practical experience with human-computer interactive system design concepts. Includes next-generation user interfaces, computer task analysis, human-computer design guidelines and history, usability engineering, and testing and enhancing Web design interaction.
  
  • BUS 5411 Statistical Methods for Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students learn to apply statistical methods to compare, examine and estimate the outcome of various management options. Includes statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, ANOVA, correlation analysis, sampling, time-series, decision theory and use of SPSS.
  
  • BUS 5412 Forensic Data Mining and Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the analysis process used by forensic accountants and internal auditors to examine data sets or metadata to identify patterns, anomalies and trends to answer business queries and provide predictive value for future events. 
  
  • BUS 5413 Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces data analytics and business intelligence. Provides insight into tools used to analyze complex business and accounting problems to find rational solutions. Includes cases of increasing complexity that emphasize problem description, definition and formulation. Emphasizes interpretation and implementation of results and practice.
  
  • BUS 5414 Advanced Internal Auditing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the principles of internal auditing through additional topics beyond foundational management of the internal audit function. Includes corporate governance, risk assessment and risk factor analysis, enterprise risk management, quantitative methods/tools in internal auditing, and value added activities.
  
  • BUS 5415 Advanced Cost and Managerial Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops an advanced and in-depth coverage of cost accounting and managerial accounting. Includes decision-making under uncertainty and risk, sensitivity analysis, strategic profitability analysis, cost allocation and resources, quality, and investment decisions and management control.
  
  • BUS 5421 Managerial Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides an understanding of the microeconomic forces that influence firm decision-making. Includes competitive markets and market failure, benefit-cost analysis, demand estimation and forecasting, decision-making under risk and uncertainty, production and cost estimation, and market structure analysis.
  
  • BUS 5426 Environmental and Resource Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the behavioral sources of environmental problems. Includes property rights, externalities, cost-benefit analysis, depletable and recyclable resources, pollution control, population growth, sustainable development, ecotourism and environmental justice.
  
  • BUS 5431 Managerial Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on internal reporting to managers for use in planning and control, in making nonroutine decisions and in formulating major plans and policies. Covers cost-volume-profit relationships, flexible budgets and standards, job order and process cost, and cost allocation and accumulation.
  
  • BUS 5432 Advanced Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the accounting major with intensive exposure to the subject of accounting for business combinations in a format designed to further the student’s ability to solve complex accounting problems involving worksheet techniques.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5433 Advanced Problems and Current Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Broadly exposes the accounting major to advanced subjects in accounting; furthers the student’s ability to analyze and present solutions to complex accounting problems, as well as interpret and apply theoretical issues; and develops the student’s communication and presentation skills.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5434 Advanced Auditing Theory and Application

    Credit Hours: 3
    Exposes the accounting major to the theory of auditing and development of audit programs; procedures for obtaining audit evidence; and auditor responsibilities under Securities and Exchange Commission requirements.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5435 Tax and Financial Accounting Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the various primary and secondary authorities available for answering questions in the area of tax and financial reporting. The main purpose is not to teach the respective rules in the areas of tax and financial reporting, but to teach students how to find authoritative answers to problems in these areas.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5436 Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Principles and procedures of accounting, financial reporting and budgeting for governmental and nonprofit entities. Includes general funds and special revenue funds, capital project funds, enterprise funds, fiduciary funds, and accounting for colleges and universities, healthcare entities and voluntary health and welfare organizations.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5437 Information Systems Auditing/Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Process of obtaining and evaluating internal audit evidence and communicating audit results. Includes method to assess organizational risks, controls and performance, and professional auditing standards and auditors’ ethical responsibilities.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5438 Fraud Examination

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews the nature of fraud (asset misappropriation, corruption and fraudulent statements), how it is committed and how it can be detected, investigated and prevented.
  
  • BUS 5439 Forensic Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides exposure to the investigation of accounting procedures and techniques used in litigation support. Includes financial reporting fraud, forensic accounting techniques, income reconstruction methods, testifying as an expert witness, evidence management, cybercrime and business valuations.
  
  • BUS 5440 Financial Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the concepts and tools of corporate financial management and financial planning, including capital budgeting, capital structure and net working capital. Considers the importance of ethics in financial decision-making.
  
  • BUS 5444 Finance Markets and Institutions

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents an analysis of financial institutions and the interrelationships among intermediaries in both money and capital markets. Considers the functions of the Federal Reserve and its effect on interest rates and financial markets. Focuses on commercial banks and other depository institutions, investment banks and mutual funds.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5421  and BUS 5440  
  
  • BUS 5446 Investment Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates the concepts, theories and techniques underlying the development of investment policies and strategies.
  
  • BUS 5447 Entrepreneurial Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores both the capital structure and financial needs of a start-up company. In addition, students gain an understanding of intellectual property, as well as the techniques used to value nonpublicly traded companies.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5440  
  
  • BUS 5448 Portfolio Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on understanding the theory and practice of combining financial assets into portfolios. Examines the importance of sector selection in asset allocation. Investigates the diversification of portfolios.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5446  
  
  • BUS 5450 Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents existing research, theories and models explaining how individual and group behavior and processes shape the internal dynamics of organizations. Provides the foundation to understand contemporary debates concerning alternative organizational designs and management practices.
  
  • BUS 5455 Personnel Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys personnel management practices and procedures, including wage and salary considerations, employee benefits and incentives, and labor-management relations. Emphasizes the individual within the organization and the development of the human resource.
  
  • BUS 5456 Employment Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines federal regulations governing the relationship between employees and employers, and emphasizes their respective rights and responsibilities. Includes discrimination, sexual harassment, affirmative action, privacy, terminating employees, compensation and benefit regulations, family leave, and safety and health.
  
  • BUS 5457 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the management of conflict in organizations at the level of the individual and the group. Provides a background in alternatives to litigation models including negotiation, mediation, peer-review systems and arbitration. Uses simulation exercises to develop the student’s skills in applying various forms of dispute resolution.
  
  • BUS 5458 Leadership Theory and Effective Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Teaches the leadership process and techniques used to train leaders by reading the literature, analyzing cases of corporate leadership and participation in experiential exercises that are used in leadership training. Also reinforces leadership skills of interpersonal interaction, written analysis and oral presentation.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5450  
  
  • BUS 5460 Management Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses policy and management issues surrounding information systems in today’s enterprises: strategic use, organizational impact, project management, human resource issues and other topics germane to understanding management information systems.
  
  • BUS 5461 Production and Operations Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers 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, quality control and project management. Uses live case analyses.
  
  • BUS 5462 Information Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers information security techniques from a managerial perspective. Includes network and host security, cryptography, authentication, security policies, intrusion detection and forensics, and related managerial responsibilities. Prepares the student for the Center for Immigration and National Security (CINCS) Level-1 examination.
  
  • BUS 5465 Managing Information

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores how organizations gather, represent, process and distribute information and knowledge to employees and customers. Includes knowledge management, knowledge workers productivity, data and process modeling and data mining. Examines major issues relating to information processing and its management at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
  
  • BUS 5466 Managing Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a foundation of critical issues in the design and implementation of business and information systems change. Focuses on the interdependence of information technologies and organizational characteristics by examining managing business redesign, IT leadership, managing projects and changes, and managing enterprise information systems.
  
  • BUS 5467 Managing Electronic Commerce

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the use of electronic commerce from business to consumer, business to business and intra-organizational perspectives to reflect the Internet and global communications networks that have emerged as powerful strategic assets, providing increased opportunity and uncertainty for business leaders.
  
  • BUS 5470 Marketing Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the tools and techniques of managing marketing activities as well as an analysis of the marketing process. Emphasizes decision-making, the refinement of skills needed to recognize and solve marketing problems, and effective communication of recommendations. Uses case analysis extensively.
  
  • BUS 5476 Strategic Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes strategic analysis of a firm’s activities from the marketer’s point of view. Gives attention to marketing strategy formulation, implementation and control. Assesses strategies for the functional areas of marketing (product, pricing, distribution and promotion) and their relevant application to e-commerce.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5470  
  
  • BUS 5480 Strategic Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    In-depth analysis of industries and competitors, and how to build and defend competitive advantages in forming a successful competitive strategy. Case analysis and management simulation convey the multifunctional nature of decision making at the top management level. Augmented by live-case analyses.
    Requirement(s): Must be taken in the final semester before graduation
  
  • BUS 5486 International Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Emphasizes economic, social, cultural, legal and environmental influences on the formulation and execution of the business policy of firms engaged in multinational business. Students explore the functions, problems and decision-making processes of multinational business organizations.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5440  
  
  • BUS 5487 New Venture Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students examine the critical elements of creating and nurturing new business ventures; screen and evaluate ideas in the formulation phase, identify sources of funds and determine means to obtain financing; select a start-up activity and prepare a business plan that represents the basis for forming a company.
  
  • BUS 5488 Corporate Innovation and New Ventures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the discovery and identification of new business opportunities, the process of creation within the context of a mature company, the processes of growth through acquisition, and the absorption, discontinuance or spinning out of businesses.
  
  • BUS 5499 Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students must register with the director of industry/education programs in the College of Business at least two months before the start of the semester. Minimum requirements include formal written and oral presentations, weekly summary reports and a minimum of 120 hours working at a host employer’s location.
    Requirement(s): Associate dean approval
  
  • BUS 5601 Essentials of Business Development 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines necessary tools required to plan and run a successful business venture. Requires integration of concepts, methods and models from accounting, economics and marketing in forming a business plan for a product or service in a case study.
    Requirement(s): First of a two-course sequence
  
  • BUS 5602 Essentials of Business Development 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Builds on BUS 5601 . Examines and uses concepts, methods and models from the functional business areas of statistics, finance, management and law. Requires students to integrate each component into a complete business plan.
    Requirement(s): Second of a two-course sequence
    Prerequisite: BUS 5601  
  
  • BUS 5610 Database Management Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces basic concepts of database management. Examines database systems from organization and management perspectives. Includes concepts, tools and techniques used to design, implement and use a database system. Also includes database architecture, conceptual and relational data models, structured query language (SQL), administration, concurrent processing, and data warehousing and mining.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5460  
  
  • BUS 5611 Global Information Technology Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the basic concepts of information technology and globalization. Identifies ethical, social and cultural considerations in the global marketplace. Includes the complexities of information security and privacy, and the importance of data management and retrieval systems. Also includes enterprise solutions, government policies and regulations, and emerging technologies.
  
  • BUS 5612 Cross-Cultural Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on methods and practices of managing in different cultures. Examines sources of management conflict due to differences in attitude, value and behavior. Develops intercultural awareness and effectiveness in the context of global business and successful implementation of strategy. Also examines corporate and personal ethical behavior.
  
  • BUS 5613 Global Accounting and Financial Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on accounting and financial techniques and practices from an international perspective. Covers the impact of contexts (different countries, industries, markets and regulatory regimes) on accounting and finance. Also focuses on analytical approaches to accounting and finance data as it affects organizations and stakeholders.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5602  
  
  • BUS 5614 Global Business Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores business in the context of international competition. Examines the framework to formulate strategies in the global marketplace and international strategies and decisions based on sociocultural, political, economic, legal, technical and environmental similarities and differences.
    Requirement(s): Must be taken in the final semester before graduation
  
  • BUS 5618 Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the basic concepts of information technology and innovation from a strategic management perspective. Covers strategic management of high technology companies, emerging technologies in a global marketplace, and aligning product development and system design. Identifies the creation of new products and services, and how new ventures are exploited.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5460  and BUS 5610  
  
  • BUS 5621 Internet Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces electronic commerce distribution channels, Web-based marketing and promotion, and online marketing strategies for customer acquisition and retention. Includes business models used for Internet marketing, and techniques and methods for online market research and Internet marketing strategies based on the marketing mix.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5460  
  
  • BUS 5622 Integrated Marketing Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes communication strategies as an approach for implementing marketing decisions. Provides an understanding of traditional and new delivery modes in facilitating integrated marketing campaigns in changing social and technological environments. Examines the ethical, social and legal issues in marketing communication.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5460  
  
  • BUS 5623 Technologies of Internet Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers technologies used for Internet marketing strategies and business initiatives. Includes search engine optimization (SEO), Internet marketing tactics, social media, website usability and data analytics.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5621  
  
  • BUS 5629 Integrated Internet Strategies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses cases studies to integrate concepts, practices and technologies of Internet marketing. Demonstrates effective Internet marketing campaigns, building and promoting a Web presence, techniques for search engine optimization, and diagnostic and performance tracking using Web analytics. Focuses on the organizational perspective of global strategies.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5460  and BUS 5621  and BUS 5623  
  
  • BUS 5644 International Accounting and Reporting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides background in international accounting, reporting standards and business operations in a global environment. Includes international financial reporting standards (IFRS). Also includes a comparison of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and IFRS to develop and enhance critical thinking in financial accounting and reporting.
    Prerequisite: BUS 5431  
  
  • BUS 5646 Advanced Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the procedures of accounting, financial reporting and budgeting for governmental nonprofit entities. Covers the theories behind standards set by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and its integrated accounting and financial reporting model and introduces research concepts used in governmental and nonprofit accounting.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
  
  • BUS 5650 Strategic Cost Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses case studies to analyze approaches to managerial accounting. Covers the application of decision and control models, planning and control under conditions of uncertainty, ethics and current issues in the development and practice of managerial accounting.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: BUS 5431  
  
  • BUS 5651 Healthcare Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes key contemporary issues in healthcare policy. Includes design and structure of the U.S. healthcare system, policy initiatives and the roles of government, the private sector, consumers and advocacy groups in setting policy agenda.
  
  • BUS 5653 Information Management in Healthcare

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses issues related to the management of information for healthcare practitioners and consumers. Provides insight and experience, and applications of information technology that improve the quality of healthcare communication and delivery, and facilitates healthcare research.
  
  • BUS 5654 Legal Aspects of Healthcare

    Credit Hours: 3
    Analyzes healthcare business entities and the regulations with which they must comply. Discusses individual right to access, and malpractice and its defense. Examines legal perspectives to starting a new healthcare business venture, and information necessary before entering into a joint healthcare venture.
  
  • BUS 5656 Consumer Behavior Strategies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the consumer decision-making process and its societal, environmental, group and economic determinants. Includes research, analysis and strategy development in consumer motivations, values, wants, needs and behavior.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: BUS 5470  
  
  • BUS 5657 Advanced Market Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the consumer decision-making processes and behavior through the application of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Includes problem identification, secondary research, data gathering, analysis, interpretation and report writing.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: BUS 5470
  
  • BUS 5658 Healthcare Planning and Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Discusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings. Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.
  
  • BUS 5661 Strategic Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the role of project management in a business or corporate environment. Teaches how to achieve project goals and objectives within set constraints such as time and budget.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
  
  • BUS 5662 Project Tools and Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers tools and techniques used to plan and control projects and accomplish business objectives. Emphasizes how to determine which tool or technique to use during different phases of the project life cycle. Uses project management software in exercises.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: BUS 5661  or MGT 5113 
  
  • BUS 5668 Cases in Applied Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers planning and managing a project from initiation and execution to closeout, using learned project management concepts. Provides hands-on experience in planning and managing through a student project. Gives insight through case studies and real-world analyses.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech  Online
    Prerequisite: BUS 5662
  
  • BUS 5669 Mastering Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the generally accepted project management practices in industry (such as construction, software, engineering and automotive). Emphasizes the process-based approach (inputs, tools and technology, and outputs). Includes the nine knowledge areas of project management.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
  
  • BUS 5840 Financial Management Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the three primary areas of concern to financial policy makers (capital budgeting, capital structure and working capital) and integrates this framework with a range of international financial concepts. Also explores the profound effect that foreign operations can have on financial statements.
  
  • BUS 5858 Leading in the Technology-Oriented Enterprise

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the leadership challenges inherent in managing a technology-oriented enterprise. Presents various leadership approaches and describes their application in managing innovation and technology. Also addresses the role of leadership in system design and development in integrated product teams.
  
  • BUS 5870 Global Marketing Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Emphasizes the global nature of marketing and the factors that shape it, including analysis of the multilateral environment in which firms operate, global marketing research and alternative strategies for market entry and development. Contemporary topics may include relationship marketing, sourcing strategy and business-to-business marketing.
  
  • BUS 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  
  • BUS 5990 Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Offers master’s-level independent research or directed study under the direction of a member of the College of Business graduate faculty. May require deliverables such as a comprehensive paper.
    Requirement(s): Program chair approval
  
  • BUS 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Students must register with the director of industry/education programs at least two months before the start of the semester. Minimum requirements include formal written and oral presentations, weekly summary reports and a minimum of 120 hours working at a host employer’s location.
    Requirement(s): Associate dean approval

Chemical Engineering

  
  • CHE 0002 Final Program Examination

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

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

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: CHE 0003   Corequisite: CHE 0003  
  
  • CHE 1091 Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces science/engineering freshmen interested in careers in nanoscience research/nanotechnology to techniques of nanomaterial fabrication by thin film deposition and chemical synthesis, and sample characterization techniques like atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101  
  
  • CHE 1101 Introduction to Chemical Engineering 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Introduces the chemical engineering profession. Discusses the role of an engineer as a problem solver dealing with multiple constraints. Covers process flowsheets, and piping and instrumentation diagrams in Microsoft® PowerPoint.®
    (CL)
    Majors in Chemical Engineering (7033)
  
  • CHE 1102 Introduction to Chemical Engineering 2

    Credit Hours: 1
    Applies the skills learned in CHE 1101  to a design problem presented in oral and written form. Presents statistics, plotting and spreadsheeting in Microsoft® Excel, ® and curve fitting using Oakdale Engineering DataFit.
    (CL)
    Majors in Chemical Engineering (7033)
  
  • CHE 2101 Chemical Process Principles 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering; application of physical and chemical principles to solutions of elementary engineering problems; steady- and unsteady-state material and energy balances; heats of formation, reaction and mixing; equilibrium process models.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101 , and (MTH 1001  or MTH 1010 )
  
  • CHE 2102 Chemical Process Principles 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering; application of physical and chemical principles to solutions of elementary engineering problems; steady- and unsteady-state material and energy balances; heats of formation, reaction and mixing; equilibrium process models.
    Prerequisite: CHE 2101  and CHM 1102 , and (MTH 1002  or MTH 1020 ) Corequisite: CHM 1102  
  
  • CHE 3091 Nanotechnology Lab 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes self-assembly synthesis, microscopic/spectroscopic characterization, functional evaluation, and aggregation of nanoparticles, nanotubes, coating and nanocomposites; biocompatibility, hydrophobicity, photoluminescence, catalysis, magnetic and chemical sensing, and self-diagnosing structural applications.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: (BME 3260  or CHE 3260  or CHM 2002 ), and (CHE 1091  or CHM 1091  or PHY 1091 )
  
  • CHE 3101 Transport Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes models for molecular-level transport mechanisms; bulk transport of momentum; pipe flow and pipeline design and optimization; rheologic behavior and viscometry; compressible flow; pressure and flow measurement; flow through fixed and fluidized beds; two-phase flow; pumping; boundary-layer theory.
    Prerequisite: CHE 2102  and MTH 2201   Corequisite: MTH 2201  
  
  • CHE 3103 Heat Transfer Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Theory and applications of heat transfer; conduction, convection, radiation, condensation and evaporation; heat transfer in reaction vessels; humidification and water cooling; thermowell and heat exchanger design and optimization.
    Prerequisite: CHE 3101  and MTH 2201  
  
  • CHE 3104 Mass Transfer Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes fundamental principles and applications of mass transfer and separation processes; diffusion and stagnant-layer approximation; two-film theory and surface renewal; flash and batch differential distillation; continuous binary and multicomponent rectification; and batch fractionation.
    Prerequisite: CHE 3101  and CHE 3110  and MTH 2201   Corequisite: CHE 3110  
  
  • CHE 3110 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the thermodynamics of chemical solutions and reactions. Includes ideal and non-ideal solutions, phase equilibria, single- and two-phase reaction equilibria.
    Prerequisite: CHE 2102  
  
  • CHE 3115 Chemical Engineering Processes Lab 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Includes experimental demonstration of theory covered in CHE 3101  and CHE 3103 .
    Prerequisite: CHE 3101  and CHE 3103  
  
  • CHE 3170 Introduction to Environmental Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the field of environmental engineering that emphasizes the interrelationships among air, water and land pollution and the effect of ecological, economic and sociological constraints on the solution of environmental problems.
    Minimum student level - junior
  
  • CHE 3260 Materials Science and Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the relationships between materials processing, composition and structure, properties and performance. Includes electrical, mechanical and chemical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers, electronic materials and composites, as well as coating and protection materials.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101 , and (MTH 1002  or MTH 1020 ), and PHY 1001   Corequisite: MTH 1002  or MTH 1020  
 

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