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Masters of MOT Courses
Note: All course additions or modifications must be approved by the program faculty and the Nile University curriculum committee. Students may substitute courses in topics previously taken in other programs with the permission of the program director.
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Courses Description
Fundamentals of Technology Management Engineering, science and management principles contributing to the development of a successful framework for managing technological resources within a country or an organization. Technology as the engine of wealth creation, technology life cycles, the process of technological innovation, competitiveness, strategizing, technology forecasting and planning, and socio-economic changes.
Strategic Management of Technology Technology and competitiveness at the macro-level of nations and the micro-level of corporations. The formulation of strategies and the integration of technology and business strategies. Case studies of corporate successes and failures. Group and individual projects are assigned.
Innovation Management Examining the problem of accelerating innovation within and across product families and the impact of such changes on cost, product quality and marketability. Factors affecting the success or failure of product innovations, enhancement, and incremental technical changes. The process of commercializing technology and the managerial skills and professional expertise needed to support strong development and commercialization efforts. Organizational changes needed to couple the R&D function to the sales and marketing functions are discussed.
Product Development Management Elements of manufacturing and service production systems. production control, coordination of material and information flow, techniques for the design and implementation of distribution and supply chain networks, and how they relate to manufacturing. Topic include inventory management, resource and capacity planning, material planning, forecasting and scheduling and plant location.
Knowledge Management Critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. The hierarchy of data, information, knowledge and technology The synergy of people, processes, and technology. Focus is on the management of change, uncertainty, and complexity. Organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacities and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings. Data Mining, Knowledge Portals, Knowledge Maps and Knowledge Networks.
Entrepreneurship The theory and practice of entrepreneurship and new venture creation. conversion of technological know-how and engineering theories into business enterprises connecting technology with markets, the role and characteristics of entrepreneurs, preparing a business plan, securing sources of capital, understanding the complexities of selecting a management team. Students will be developing their own ventures and critiqued and will be critiqued by a panel of venture capitalists and members of the business community.
Project/Program Management Techniques and tools of project management, use of network flow techniques including critical path management (CPM), planning systems concepts, time management, conflicts, cost and resource control and tradeoff analysis.
Technology Foresight & Forecasting Methods and tools of technological foresight and forecasting. Monitoring, scenarios, Delphi techniques, trend analysis, modeling.
Business & Strategic Management The objectives of the course are to improve the student’s ability to think strategically and to provide an intellectual framework for the student. The course focuses on relationships among the firm, its strategy, and its environment; why firms choose certain businesses; which business strategies are successful; and how firms can change in response to a dynamic environment. Models for strategic formulation, implementation, and control are developed that facilitate an integrated understanding of the functions of management. Readings and lectures illustrate strategic management theories and frameworks while case discussions, experiential exercises, and team projects provide opportunities for application.
Marketing This course offers a broad, non-specialist overview of some of the key corporate functional areas which impact on the management of technology. Among the topics covered are the descriptions of the financial, accounting, and marketing processes used by the technology-based firms to treat the costs/returns associated with R&D, product innovations and capital acquisition.
Production Systems and Supply Chain Management Elements of manufacturing and service production systems, production control, coordination of material and information flow, techniques for the design and implementation of distribution and supply chain networks, and how they relate to manufacturing. Topic include inventory management, resource and capacity planning, material planning, forecasting and scheduling and plant location.
Finance This course encompasses two different aspects of finance, which are presented in two separate parts. The first part deals with issues related to the operational needs of funds, and analyzes the characteristics of different investments in assets, qualities and interpellations of each of them, risks and costs, as well as investment policies in currency congruent with the product, the market and the environment. The different financial resources, their costs and timeframes are analyzed. Considerations of the currency flow and its risks are examined based on the operational need for funds and the working capital. In the second part, course examines the broad topic of investment analysis, using a systematic application of the techniques of current value and internal rate of return, the appropriate criteria for determining proper cash flows appropriate for each project and their variability in terms of the type of project in question. Finally, we will examine the implications that investment projects may have on other aspects of the company: organizational, economic, financial, remunerative, information to third parties.
Personnel/Human Resource Management Organizations must manage their human resource assets effectively to improve performance. Course topics include recruitment and selection of qualified employees, designing performance evaluation systems, implementing policies to satisfy legal and ethical standards and instituting training/development programs.
Accounting The course conveys sufficient knowledge for the adequate interpretation, analysis, and use of the information furnished by financial accounting. The first part of the course will focus on generating the basic accounting statements (balance sheet, profit and loss account and financial statement) and their articulation, bearing in mind the particular characteristics of commercial, industrial and service companies. During the second part of the course more specialized accounting issues will be examined, including alternative presentations of the accounting statements, and we will examine the accounting criteria or policies implicit in them. Finally the discussion will focus on the possibilities and limitations of financial information as a tool to help analyze, diagnose and solve business problems.
MIS/Information technology This course covers the identification and development of information technology plans for projects supporting the organization’s business objectives, and all activities required in the initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing phases of the project’s lifecycle. It is intended to provide the body of knowledge, and best practices, necessary for a new consultant, business analyst or project manager to successfully perform his/her responsibilities in a wide variety of IT enterprise projects.
Research Methods & Statistics This course aims to familiarize the students with research methodology. Statistical theory, tools and methods required for business systems analysis and improvement. Topics include descriptive methods, probability theory, random variables and their distributions, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, statistical modeling and regression, as well as design of experiments.
Systems Engineering Introductory course to systems engineering for graduate students that offers traditional design processes to accommodate specific requirements and capabilities. The content of the course follows typical system design life cycle. It correlates the different disciplines required to deploy and sustain a system for missions in information technology, information processing and electronics domains. Topics include system architecture, hardware and software components, requirement allocation, performance budgeting and integration and test.
Software Design and Quality Assurance This course focuses on critical aspects of the software lifecycle that have significant influence on the overall quality of the software system including techniques and approaches to software design, quantitative measurement and assessment of the system during implementation, testing, and maintenance, and the role of verification and validation in assuring software quality.
Computer & Network Architecture Computer structure, processors, memories, input/output devices, and interfaces. Computer system instruction set design and implementation, including memory hierarchies and pipelining. Structure and components of computer networks; functions and services; packet switching; layered architectures; protocols used in local area networks and satellite networks; routing, congestion control.
Pivotal and Emerging Technologies Discussion of new and emerging technologies and the process by which these technologies were developed and are evolving over time. The impact of these technologies on competitiveness of industry and economic growth with national and international implications.
Technical/Engineering Specialty Course to be selected from approved courses in other engineering or technical specialization within the University. Permission of the student's program director is required.
National/Public Policy Framework The framework of developing public policies in support of technological and economic development. Local, regional, national and international considerations in the formulation of public policies.
Business Law The Public Corporation: Legal Perspectives reviews the laws governing the formation, operation, regulation, and governance of the public corporation with the objective of providing the graduate student a sophisticated examination of the legal and social aspects of managing the money of others. Further, the course examines the rules and regulations governing the raising of capital from the public through the sale of securities for the development of and investment in a private enterprise. Intellectual property rights laws, ethical considerations and issues arising from globalization. International legal framework, transactional legal issues in finance, marketing, management and distribution.
Economics The core concepts of economics: the allocation of scarce resources by the laws of supply and demand. The use of the market place as the principle organizing and distribution tool of the economy is stressed. Externalities, market failure and pollution of the environment are treated as needed corrections to be done by public sector regulation – taxation and legislation. The principal forms of firm organization and dissolution of the firm are discussed. Applications of the laws of supply and demand are made to forecasting demand and analyzing cost structure, the entry and exit of firms and the valuation of the firm.
Problem Solving & Decision Making This course aims to familiarize the student with Management Science tools for business systems analysis and improvement. The coverage includes linear and integer programming models, project management, simulation, queuing theory and decision analysis. Some widely used software will be illustrated through examples and case studies derived from business applications.
Risk Analysis The analysis of risk from a system and business points of view. Systems safety analysis methodologies, hazard recognition, evaluation and control, fault trees and reliability concepts. Cost of accidents, legal and moral issues. Accident prevention and risk avoidance techniques.
Environmental Management The problems associated with industrial development and sustainability. Environmental hazards and their impact on health and safety. Environmental management programs, ISO 14000 and international standards.
Legal and Ethical Implications of Business Decision Making The course includes an introduction to legal and governmental regulatory systems, as well as a review of constitutional considerations for businesses. Morality and ethics are defined and distinguished. Applied philosophy is then introduced, to give the student a foundation upon which to analyze the ethical dimensions of common business questions. The relationship between the letter and the spirit of the law is examined. Specific business topics and their legal and ethical aspects are then addressed. This includes, but is not limited to, discussion of the following areas: consumer relationships; business organizations; the balancing of corporate vs. individual power (employee rights and responsibilities, employment discrimination); and the emerging ethic of a global economy.
Quality Management Principles and practices of quality control in industry. Engineering and administrative aspects of quality control programs, process control, and sampling. Concepts of Total Quality Management and reliability engineering.
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