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MSE401 Final Research III
MSE401 Final Research III
Written by:
Ibrahim Albawardi
Hassan Alanazi
Unmesh Sirvastava
Patrick Yomba
1. Introduction
industries on the market has increased the job demand for technology
engineering management.
In the previous years, the new majors have been attracting many
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recommendations (1 – 11).
official degree since the mid 1940s. The formation of the major started
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started the PhD program for the major in 1984. Nowadays, more than
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management (2).
Stanford University
University of Washington
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units. Elective courses are limited to 9 units if they are 400 levels. At
studies.
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Curriculum:
most of the classes are similar to the ones in CSUN except Software
other hand, they lack marketing classes, as a need for marketing classes
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or Spring)
Managers (Fall)
(Fall)
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5042)
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each part to complete the degree. The next part will discuss the core and
elective courses.
Accounting:
Technology:
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Information Systems:
Engineering Economy:
Enterprises:
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Quantitative Methods:
units of the previous courses. For that, students have the option to have
(6).
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because it gives the student the choice of building his or her own degree
follows.
Required Courses:
credits)
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area (7).
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Engineering manager
Engineering management
Engineering manufacturing
Business Analyst
Project Manager
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approval.
projects undertaken.
Engineering Guidelines.
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Regulatory.
members.
efficiently
desirable (8).
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improvement activities
applicable tools
programs
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system operations
initiatives (9)
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completion) (10)
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5. What is a JAD?
9. What are the issues you came across during the project?
10. How did you make sure that the requirements you gathered
from the users are exactly what they are looking for?
11. At the end of the project, was there any case when the user
might have come up and said this is not what I desired from the
system? (In other words, they expected more from the system.)
How did you handle that? Did you enhance the requirements and
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releases?
18. What is your main strength or what do you think that you
have accomplished in your last project with which you are most
proud of?
19. What were the risks involved in the project? How did you
3. Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and were able
4. Tell me about a time when you had to use your presentation skills
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students and faculty in CSUN. The size of the survey was 30 students. In
this the following survey, we analyzed the results after completing the
earned more than 20 units and less than 30 units. The rest of the
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important class was MSE 602 & 608B and the least important class was
following elective courses, select four that you think is more helpful in
MSE699A”
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majority of students. This indicates that this course is important for new
3 first
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The second elective class was MSE 618. It was ranked by majority
of the students and showed more demand in industry and job market.
4
second
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The third elective class was MSE 617, quality management course.
It was ranked by most of the students due to its demand to job market.
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third
2
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The fourth class was MSE 415, product design course. It was
ranked by most of the students. Also, MSE 617 and MSE 618 courses
were tied together and less ranked by students. Therefore, MSE 401,
MSE 415, MSE 617 and MSE 618 were most significant classes to
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Based on the survey 68% of the students answer positive and would
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industry. From the survey 100% answer yes, meaning the change
needed is urgent.
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good market their self in order to get a good job. From the survey 86%
more project to student than exams. That allow student to have more
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hand on the learning material. From our research we find out that
students are more focus to pass the exams than learning the material.
applying the learning material instead to be good exams taker. From the
survey 95% of the students believe that right way to evaluate student
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their faculty members. From our research students feels like the
department does not even pay attention on the faculty evaluation form
that the instructors pass around at the end of the semester. The
department take a close look at those forms at make sure that the
semester. From the survey 38% of the students rate their instructor
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we believed that all student goals is to have a job after graduation, and
the easiest place to get the job is through the school. The department
should make more careers fair and invite more company to be part of
judge the placement system poor, 38% fair, 10% good and 0% excellent.
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401 class, we learned that will make big change to student life and we
can also compare it to facebook. From the survey, 76% of the student
learning.
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available and mandatory to all students in their last years .We suggest
for example that the survey could be part of the MSE 697 class. This will
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5. Conclusion
are the main drawbacks found from the survey results. From a
done that are suitable for the collage in general, and the degree
in specific.
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6. Appendix
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Management Curriculum
Degree
The Master of Engineering (M.E.) degree in Engineering Management consists of 30 credit hours
– six core courses, four
electives, one of which can be a two-semester capstone project. The degree must be completed
within six years.
Elective Courses
Areas of excellence are developed through the electives selected.
Project Management (5030, 5031, 5032)
Research and Development (5900, 5300, 5400)
Engineering Entrepreneurship (5825, 5710, 5090, 5051, 5400)
Leadership (5050, 5080)
Performance Excellence in Technology Management (5040, 5041, 5042)
Quality Systems and Engineering (5040, 5042, 5900, 5043)
Operations and Logistics (5500)
Managing Applied Research (5900, 5042, 5610, 5620)
EMEN 5031 Software Project Management (Fall)
EMEN 5032 Advanced Topics in Project Management
(Spring)
EMEN 5041 Advanced Topics in Value Creation (Fall)
EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement (Fall)
EMEN 5043 Advanced Topics in Quality Systems / Engineering (Spring)
EMEN 5051 Technology Ventures & Leadership (Spring)
EMEN 5080 Ethical Decision-Making (Spring)
EMEN 5090 Technology Ventures and Marketing (Spring)
EMEN 5300 Management of R&D (Fall)
EMEN 5400 Principles of Product Management (Spring)
EMEN 5430 Software Product Management (Spring)
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One of the three electives can be a technically oriented graduate course from another program
within the University of
Colorado at Boulder.
Degree Completion
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Masters in Engineering Management is a joint ISE/business program that prepares students to lead
technology projects and manage technology companies. The degree is especially well suited for students
who have several years of work experience and are preparing to move into engineering management.
Engineering Management courses are offered at night and through Distance Education, so students can
enroll while continuing employment (Open to grads from all engineering and technical majors.)
Prerequisites:
Engineering Economy - Calculus I, II, III, IV – Linear Algebra – Differential Equations
Required Courses (At least one course from each of the 7 areas listed below): 21 Units
Accounting:
ACCT 509 Concepts of Financial and Management Accounting (4)
CE 502 Construction Accounting and Finance (3)
ISE 566 Financial Accounting Analysis for Engineering (3)
PPD 516 Financial Accounting in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors (4)
Technology:
ISE 545 Technology Development and Implementation (3)
ISE 555 Invention and Technology Development (3) (available beginning Spring 2004)
ISE 585 Strategic Management of Technology (3)
Information Systems:
IOM 535 Database Management (3)
ISE 582 Web Technology for Industrial Engineering (3)
ISE 583 Enterprise Wide Information Systems (3, available beginning Spring 2004)
Engineering Economy:
ISE 561 Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects (3)
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Enterprises:
ISE 507 Six-Sigma Quality Resources for Health Care
ISE 508 Health care Operations Improvement
ISE 517 The Modern Enterprise Systems (3)
ISE 527 Advanced Quality Control (3)
SAE 550 Engineering Management of Government-Funded Programs (3)
ISE 564 Performance Analysis (3)
SAE 551 Lean Operations (3)
Quantitative Methods:
ISE 513 Inventory Systems (3)
ISE 514 Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling (3)
ISE 525 Design of Experiments (3)
ISE 530 Introduction to Operations Research (3)
ISE 536 Linear Programming and Extensions (3)
ISE 538 Elements of Stochastic Processes (3)
ISE 580 Advanced Concepts in Computer Simulation (3)
TOTAL 30 units
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