Management of Technology  

MOT 898 - Advanced Topics
Credits: 3.00
Explores several emerging technologies and studies their potential impact on the economy. Examines how the focus increasingly shifts from the specfic aspects and features of the technologies to the management of such technologies as they progress from research laboratories to market.

MOT 931 - Accounting and Finance for Technical Managers
Credits: 3.00
For technical managers who are charged with directing, planning, and controlling operations and/or major projects and making a variety of management decisions. Students learn how to extract vital information from the accounting system and how to make financial decisions within the organization. Special fee.

MOT 932 - Marketing Fundamentals
Credits: 2.00
Provides an understanding of basic marketing concepts, tools, and techniques and their application to the marketing of new technology based products and services. The role of marketing in new product development and its role in the strategic planning of the firm are also discussed.

MOT 933 - Information Systems Management
Credits: 2.00
Provides an understanding of the importance of information systems in today's organizations and focuses on the role of information systems as enabling technology in business operations and processes.

MOT 934 - Management of Technology
Credits: 3.00
This introductory course provides the foundation for preparing students to manage in a turbulent, high technology environment. The course is taught from a practical, applied perspective using current readings and case studies. Special fee.

MOT 935 - Operations and Quantitative Decision Making
Credits: 3.00
An introduction to the concepts and analytic methods useful in understanding the management of a firm's operations (both manufacturing and service). Topics include: process flows, inventory management, capacity planning, facilities location, total quality management, human resource management, and technology management and operations strategy.

MOT 936 - Leadership, Management and Team Skills Development
Credits: 3.00
Provides students with the skills necessary for leading upwards (managing superiors) as well as laterally (e.g., in project teams) and downwards (subordinates). Students will learn how to manage and facilitate group processes in a way that evokes leadership behaviors on the part of all team members.

MOT 937 - Market Research for Emerging Technologies
Credits: 3.00
A survey of quantitative and qualitative market research techniques and their application to product development, market opportunity assessments, and the marketing of new technology based products. Concepts and models for technological forecasting and competitive intelligence are also introduced.

MOT 938 - Organizational Change and Transformation
Credits: 3.00
Approaches, strategies, and theories of change and transformation are examined with an emphasis on their relationship to organizational effectiveness and development. Designed to develop students' analytic, diagnostic, and management skills pertaining to both planned and unplanned change and transformation during all stages of the organizational life cycle.

MOT 939 - Management of Enterprise Systems
Credits: 3.00
Provides an understanding of the facilitating techniques used to integrate the functions of operations, marketing, sales, customer service, and accounting and finance into business processes. Intranet ports, data warehousing, data mining, and knowledge management also discussed.

MOT 941 - Product Development and Commercialization
Credits: 3.00
Provides an understanding of the concepts and principles involved in the new high-tech product development process, and an understanding of the financial and marketing strategies necessary to introduce successful new high-tech products.

MOT 942 - Project Management
Credits: 3.00
Focuses on both the science of project management and the art of managing projects, and provides a comprehensive, integrative understanding of the project management process.

MOT 943 - Financial Planning for Technology Managers
Credits: 3.00
Focuses on the timing and magnitude of financial investments required to support technical projects and formulating a convincing strategic and financial justification to obtain the necessary support and resources.

MOT 944 - Manufacturing Technologies
Credits: 3.00
Focuses on developing a strategic understanding of alternative manufacturing processes, their respective strengths and weaknesses, and the systems support needed to manage these processes. Selected topics in Total Quality Management (TQM), Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), and Concurrent Engineering (CCE) are introduced.

MOT 945 - Supply Chain Management
Credits: 3.00
Focuses on the managerial aspects of Supply Chain Management (SCM) within the context of an SCM strategy. The emphasis is on development of an understanding of concepts, methodologies, techniques and enabling technologies, which can be effectively applied to the design, analysis, and management of supply chains.

MOT 946 - Strategic Management of Technology
Credits: 3.00
Examines how strategic leaders transform and position their organizations to exploit technological change for competitive advantage. Provides an understanding of the issues surrounding the formulation and implementation of technology based strategies, and the framework for managing in a technology-based economy.

MOT 947 - Intellectual Property, Ethics and Public Policy Issues
Credits: 3.00
A three-month module course exploring several topics of importance to the management of technology. Three categories are explored: intellectual property, ethics, and public policy.

MOT 993 - Integrated Field Project
Credits: 3.00
In-depth industry field project carried out with a member company of the Corporate Roundtable. The project is of sufficient scope to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate a mastery of the competencies required in the program.