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Course Syllabus (ABET EC - 2000)

1405-203: Engineering Management

1 Course number and name 1405-203: Engineering Management

2 Credits and contact hours 2 credit hours, 3 hours per week
3 Instructor’s or course Dr. Yehya Mesalam
coordinator’s name

4 Text book, title, author, and Managing Engineering and Technology, Lucy C. Morse &
year Daniel L. Babcock, 2014, Pearson

a. Other supplemental materials: NA.

5 Specific course information
a. Brief description of the The course is designed to introduce students to today's
content of the course management, organizational structures, the roles of engineers
(catalog description) in management of organizations; control of technical
organizations regarding to planning, forecasting, decision-
making, and motivation aspects, application of project
management planning/scheduling tools, and planning
production activities

b. Prerequisites or co- requisites NA

c. Required, elective, or Required

selected elective course in
the program

6 Specific goals for the course

a. specific outcomes of Upon completing the course, students will have the ability to:
instruction 1. Discuss the nature of today's management: Definitions;
functions; roles; skills; levels.
2. Analyze different types of organizational structures and
its characteristics.
3. Use quantitative tools/techniques of decision-making.
4. Differentiate between production planning activities.
5. Recognize the importance of project management tools.

b. Explicitly indicate (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and

which of the student engineering
outcomes listed in (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet
Criterion 3 or any other desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic,
outcomes are addressed environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,
by the course. manufacturability, and sustainability.
(e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering
problems
(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues
(k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern
engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
7 Brief list of topics to be 1. Introduction to Engineering & Management
covered 2. Historical Development of Engineering Management
3. Function of Management
4. Planning and Forecasting
5. Decision Making
6. Organization
7. Planning Production Activities
8. Project Management
 2. Course information

• Instructor:
o Name: Dr. Yehya Mesalam
o Email: Yehya.Mesalam@nbu.edu.sa
o Phone: 5890
o Office:T012 (new Campus)
• Lecture Hours (schedule)
o Monday: 14.00 – 16.30

• Office Hours (schedule)

o Monday:10:00 – 12:00
o Thursday: 12:00 – 14:00
• All classes meet at the room F 088
• NBU expects students to act in a professional manner and they have to maintain highest
standards of honesty and integrity.
• No late homework will be accepted after deadline Attendance will be checked at the
beginning of each class period.
• Student missing 10 % of class contact will have first warning, 20 % of class contact will
have second warning and more than 25% they will be deprived automatically from the
course.
• Grade Distribution

Midterm Exam 30
Quizzes 10
Report 10
Homework & Participation 10
Final Exam 40
Linking Course Learning Outcomes to Student Outcomes

CLO 1:
Discuss the nature of today's management: Definitions; functions; roles; skills; levels.

CLO 2:
Analyze different types of organizational structures and its characteristics.

CLO 3:
Use quantitative tools/techniques of decision-making.

CLO 4:
Differentiate between production planning activities
.
CLO 5:
Recognize the importance of project management tools.