Spring Curriculum USA
Core Courses
Management of Technology
Development of technology policy and strategy. Management and implementation of new technologies. Technology sourcing, technology forecasting and life cycles, economic and financial analysis of technology. Innovation process and impact on organizations.
Project Management
Life cycle view of organizing and managing technical projects, including project selection, planning, and execution. Methods for managing and controlling project costs, schedules, and scope. Techniques for assessing project risk. Use of popular project management software tools. Application of project management tools and methods to product development, software, and process reengineering projects.
Innovation Management Project
The Innovation Management Project permits students to develop the competences required to support the innovation process in firms and organizations. Students work on real-world innovation projects with sponsor firms. Workshops and conferences are held to give students the complementary tools necessary to work on the project.
Elective Courses
Entrepreneurship
Commercialization strategies for prioritized technologies. Industry assessment. Core and complementary asset evaluation. Large company development processes. Corporate political processes for technology and product development. Product market, ownership strategies, customer requirements and technology capabilities. Business plan development and market acceptance. Practical application of technology management skills.
Technology, Competition, and the Law
Legal aspects of technology management. Examination of intellectual property law, mainly focused on software. Contract law for e-commerce as well as warranties and new product development. cyber law issues such as protection of privacy, freedom of expression, crime, and fraud.
Product Design and Development
Total product realization process, including customer needs analysis, product design and engineering, manufacturability assessment and marketing plan development. Definition of relevant market, design and engineering principles, financial considerations and manufacturing aspects of product development process. Application and integration of business, design and engineering methodologies, concepts and tools on actual product design and development project.
Business Relationship Management
This course focuses on strategically and successfully managing the multitude of business relationships that contemporary managers face. Technically-oriented managers such as engineers and scientists must interact with a variety of internal and external constituents; each interaction requires both universal and idiosyncratic business relationship skills.