MSTM 440 Marketing Strategy

This course provides engineering and technology professional with marketing capabilities, to move technical products from production to the marketplace.  The focus is on target markets identification, creation of competitive advantage, marketing strategies, and the global institutional structure. Topics include segmentation and target marketing, technical product strategy, implementation and control, global expansion strategies, organizing and managing global operations, customer and competitor analysis, creating sustainable competitive advantage, and twenty-first century marketing.  Case studies are used as laboratory experiments.

MSTM 417 Operations Management

This course focuses on strategic management process and activities associated with inputs/outputs transformation system that create a result of value. Topics covered include: process planning and design, Six Sigma for process and quality improvement, capacity and location planning, global competitiveness, implementing strategy in a single industry, strategy across industries and countries, functional level strategy, corporate level strategy, and inventory/lean management. Case studies are used as reinforcement.

MSTM 447 Engineering Technology Management

Engineering and technology managers must function effectively and be able to transfer technologies into marketable products, services, and processes that add value to the enterprise. They should be social architects who understand the culture and value system of the enterprise, and can relate socially as well as technically.  As a result, this course include topics such as: challenges of managing engineering and technology, organizing engineering and technology enterprise, managing people and organizations, measuring and controlling the work, project evaluation and selection, leading engineering and technology teams, managing R&D, developing new business, planning and forecasting, managing product operations, achieving effectiveness, and globalization  and managerial opportunities.

MSTM 400 Organization Behavior

This course is the study and application of knowledge about how people as individuals and as groups act within organizations. Topics covered include: fundamentals of organizational behavior, motivation and reward systems, leadership and change, organizations and their effects, behavior in the organization, and cases.

MSTM 420 Business Law

Business law course presents topics include:  critical legal thinking and the U.S. constitution, ethics and social responsibility of business, judicial and alternative dispute resolution, negligence and strict liability, intellectual property rights and internet law, criminal law and business crimes, international law and dispute resolution, nature and classification of contracts, agreement and consideration, capacity and legality, defenses to the enforcements of contracts, third-party rights and discharge of contracts, formation of sales and lease contract, sore proprietorships and franchises, antitrust law, environmental protection, and cases.

MSTM 487 Network Design

This course provides information on designing and maintaining medium to large enterprise networks. Topics covered include: analyzing business goals and constraints, analyzing technical goals and constaints, characterizing the existing internetwork, network traffic, designing a network topology, selecting bridging/switching and routing protocols, developing network security and network management strategies, selecting technologies and devices, testing network design, optimizing network design, and documenting network design.

MSTM 468 Strategic Management

The strategic management course is focused on vision, mission, strategic objectives, and analysis of the internal and external environment of the organization. Topics include: creating competitive advantages, assessing the environment of the firm, recognizing the intellectual assets, creating and sustaining competitive advantages, creating value through diversification, creating value in global markets, E-business strategies, effective leadership, and implementing strategies.

MSTM 473 Communications and Networking

The communications and networking course focuses on Local Area Networks (LAN). It include topics such as network infrastructure, network architectures, network hardware, protocols, network operating systems, network design, remote access and wireless networking, local area network management, and network security.

MSTM 489 Data Communications and Management

The data communications and management course include topics such as
network components, standards, open systems interconnection (ISO), international organization for standardization (OSI), backbone networks, wireless local area networks, metropolitan and wide area networks, internet, network security, network design, and network management.