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ETM 5311 Value Engineering Prerequisites: Admission to the ETM program or consent of instructor. Description: The application of Value Engineering (also known as Value Analysis, Value Methodology) to improve customer value for a project, process, or product during or after engineering design. The development of VE, its objectives, definitions and methodologies, the use of the VE system, and its range of application. VE's use for improving performance reducing life cycle cost. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5341 Leadership Strategies for Technical Professionals Prerequisites: Admission to the ETM program or consent of instructor. Description: Leadership strategies, principles, styles and dynamics that must be understood by technical professionals engaged in the creation of products, processes, and services in technology-based organizations. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5351 Planning Technical Projects Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: Techniques and tools for project definition, staffing, scheduling, resource allocation, and time estimation. Behavioral and quantitative dimensions of project management. Performance measures of project progress and completion. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5361 Managing Virtual Project Teams Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: The management and group issues inherent in the application and implementation of effective teamwork in virtual work- spaces. The appropriate use of virtual team issues and challenges associated with effective teamwork; virtual team structures, process, and technology facilitation skills; group dynamics; and team motivation. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

ETM 5391 New Product Introduction and Commercialization Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: Elements of the new product introduction (NPI) process and its impact or business strategy and planning. Organizational resources required for NPI and tools for determining commercial viability. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5411 Engineering Economic Analysis

Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: Quantitative evaluation of investment alternatives. Basis for comparison of alternatives, including present worth, annual worth, rate of return and payout period methods. Decision-making among capital constrained and unequal-life projects. Benefit-cost and cost effectiveness analysis. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5461 Intellectual Property Management

Prerequisites: Admission to MS in ETM program or consent of instructor. Description: Overview of intellectual property law and management of intellectual property. Exploration of ways to manage intellectual property from conception through production and licensing. Types of intellectual property and associated legal issues and management processes. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5471 Introduction to System Safety

Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: System safety as a discipline in research, development and acquisition of systems, sub-systems and components. The history and methodologies of mishap prevention including the development of system safety management and engineering processes. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5481 Sustainable Enterprise Strategies

Department/School: Engineering Technology ETM 5371 Ethics for Practicing Engineers

Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: The principles of sustainability in the context of industrial enterprises. The implications of sustainability in design of products, industrial systems and infrastructure. The importance of life cycle cost analysis as a key engineering economy tool. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Engineering Technology

Prerequisites: Admission to the MSETM program or consent of instructor. Description: A values-based approach to professional ethics and its application to the decision-making in a technology-intensive environment. Ethical concerns related to the expectations of stakeholders. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Engineering Technology