Courses

EMGT 5033. Introduction to Engineering Management. 3 Hours.

Provides foundation knowledge of engineering management. Introduces quantitative skills required to lead a diverse, technical workforce, analyze financial data, lead technical projects, develop alternative solutions and communicate complex concepts. Apply decision and risk tools. Introduces basic engineering management principles.Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the Master of Science in Engineering Management Program, or Engineering Management Graduate Sponsored Certificate or MicroCertificate Program, be a Non-Degree Seeking Graduate Student or have departmental consent. (Typically offered: Irregular)

EMGT 5053. Tradeoff Analytics for Engineering Management. 3 Hours.

Explore the use of trade-off analytics as a tool to assist with infrastructure development and preservation efforts, with integrated examples investigating maritime and multimodal infrastructure. Learn sound methodology to identify stakeholders, stakeholder objectives, and measures of performance for infrastructure improvement programs. Apply descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive data, models, and analytics to evaluate current infrastructure status and identify potential improvements. Develop and implement an ExcelTM based decision support tool to provide trade-off analytics insights and assess best value-per-dollar infrastructure decisions. Prerequisite: EMGT 5033 or instructor consent or department consent. (Typically offered: Fall, Spring and Summer)

EMGT 514V. Special Topics in Engineering Management. 1-3 Hour.

Consideration of current engineering management topics not covered in other courses. May be repeated for up to 6 hours of degree credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and must be admitted to the Master of Science in Engineering Management Program, or the Project Management Graduate Certificate Program, or be a Non-Degree Seeking Graduate Student, or have departmental consent. (Typically offered: Fall, Spring and Summer) May be repeated for up to 6 hours of degree credit.

EMGT 5443. Decision Models. 3 Hours.

Focus on quantitative decision models for technical and managerial problems for private and public organizations. Topics include shareholder value, stakeholder value, Value-Focused Thinking, axioms of decision analysis, decision making challenges, decision traps, cognitive biases, decision processes, decision framing, influence diagrams, value hierarchy structuring, designing creative alternatives, single objective models, multiobjective additive value model, swing weights, sensitivity analysis, portfolio decision models with binary linear programming, probability elicitation, Bayes Theorem, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, expected value, dominance (deterministic and stochastic), tornado diagrams, value of information, risk preference, utility models, expected utility, and communicating analysis insights. Prerequisite: EMGT 5033 or INEG 2314, and must be admitted to the Master of Science in Engineering Management Program, Engineering Management Certificate Programs, be a Non-Degree Seeking Graduate Student, or have departmental consent. (Typically offered: Irregular)
This course is cross-listed with INEG 5443, OMGT 5443.

EMGT 5463. Economic Decision Making. 3 Hours.

Principles of economic analysis with emphasis upon discounted cash flow criteria for decision-making. Comparison of criteria such as rate of return, annual cost, and present worth for the evaluation of investment alternatives. Required course (may be substituted by OMGT 5123). Prerequisite: EMGT 5033, and must be admitted to the Master of Science in Engineering Management Program, Engineering Management Graduate Certificate Programs, be a Non-Degree Seeking Graduate Student, or have departmental consent. (Typically offered: Irregular)
This course is cross-listed with OMGT 5463.

EMGT 5603. Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering. 3 Hours.

This course introduces systems thinking models for holistic framing of design decision opportunity, best practices for eliciting value schemes, crafting an objective hierarchy and measures, creative system level alternatives, modeling and simulation approaches to assess system level alternatives, and describe effectively synthesizing data so relationships can be effectively communicated and decisions made. (Typically offered: Fall, Spring and Summer)

EMGT 5703. Probability and Statistics for Engineering Management. 3 Hours.

This course introduces students to advanced quantitative techniques employed in the graphical and statistical interpretation and analysis of data, using appropriate statistical software tools. Students will learn how to implement effective descriptive techniques, how to use probability to characterize uncertainty, how to write and test statistically valid hypotheses, and how to use forecasting models to help solve engineering management problems. Applies engineering management specific case studies to support EMGT courses in an engineering management context. Applies non-parametric, advanced variable transformation for regression individually and in team environments to simulate engineering management tasks and work environment. Pre- or corequisite: Must be admitted to EMGT, OMGT (with department consent), MSE or department consent. (Typically offered: Fall, Spring and Summer)

EMGT 5773. Engineering Risk Analysis. 3 Hours.

Students will learn and apply tools to analyze, assess, and manage risk for engineering organizations. Course work includes methods to identify risks, create and apply risk models, assess risk, evaluate and communicate risk management options. Case studies are used to understand risk analysis challenges in systems development in complex organizations. Prerequisite: EMGT 5033, EMGT 5703 and must be admitted to the Master of Science in Engineering Management or have departmental consent. (Typically offered: Irregular)

EMGT 5783. Project Management. 3 Hours.

An introduction to the Critical Path Method and Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Covers project planning and control methods; activity sequencing; time-cost trade-offs; allocation of manpower and equipment resources; scheduling activities and computer systems for PERT/CPM with emphasis on MS project. Case studies include topical issues combining methodologies and project management soft skills, such as conflict management, negotiation, presentations to stakeholders, and team building. Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the Master of Science in Engineering Management Program, Graduate Certificate Program, be a Non-Degree Seeking Graduate Student, or have departmental consent. (Typically offered: Irregular)
This course is cross-listed with OMGT 5783.