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The Autumn 2009 program is no longer accepting applications
Next program starts: Autumn 2010
Details will be posted in Spring
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Course Descriptions
Program Structure
The GISE Certificate Program consists of 15 graduate-level credits. Autumn and Winter Quarter courses focus on integrated lectures encompassing systems engineering, project management and finance/economics. Spring Quarter emphasizes an extensive team design project. Seminar sessions on related topics will occur throughout the lecture and project elements.
Autumn Course
Global Integrated Systems Engineering (IND E 595)
Schedule: Thursdays, 3:30-8:00 p.m., Oct. 1-Dec. 10, 2009; $3,475; 5 credits.
Instructor: Christina Mastrangelo.
A two-day session to introduce the program will be held September 25-26, 2009. Attendance at this session is not required, but strongly suggested.
Systems Engineering Topics
- Top-down problem solving
- Decision analysis
- Systems engineering methodologies
- Systems analysis
- Requirements analysis
- Functional modeling
Project Management Topics
- Project initiation and selection
- Project planning and scheduling
- Spreadsheet models and tools
- Risk management
- Cash flows and costs
- Critical chain
- Monitoring and control
Economics/Finance Topics
- Time value of money
- NPV and IRR
- Pricing
- Sources of risk
- Elements of cost
- Risk adjusted discount rates
- Competitive business environment
- Business profitability and margins
Winter Course
Global Integrated Systems Engineering (IND E 595)
Schedule: Thursdays, 3:30-8:00 p.m., Jan. 7-March 11, 2010; $3,475; 5 credits.
Instructor: Christina Mastrangelo.
A continuation of the Global Integrated Systems Engineering Autumn course and seminar. As part of the integrated lectures, a seminar series called 'Developing the Global Perspective' will be held. To succeed in a global and interconnected world, GISE students need international knowledge and cross-cultural communication skills.
Cross-cultural communication skills: Students need to understand how different cultures communicate so that effective working relationships can be established and how negotiation may be properly approached.
International knowledge: Students need to understand the effect that globalization is having on an enterprise with respect to organizational structure, international partners, virtual employees, outsourced projects, management skills, etc.
Global Perspective Seminar Topics
- Cross-cultural communication (4 sessions)
- International team building
- Managing outsourced projects
- Organizational change in the global environment
- Managing virtual teams
Spring Course
The Design Project
Schedule: Thursdays, April 1-June 3, 2010; $3,475; 5 credits
Instructor: Christina Mastrangelo.
A two-day project initiation session will be held April 1-2, 2010, and attendance is required.
The program concludes with a comprehensive team-based design effort involving a large-scale system of significance. This project provides a culminating experience through which students bring together the systems analysis and design, project management, and financial modeling skills they have learned in the fall and winter quarters and apply them to a real-world problem using real data and presenting their results to an evaluation panel comprised of practitioners, academics, and client representatives. During the spring quarter, the teams will meet in person for two days for project introduction, problem formulation, and team development. On the last day, the teams will make a final presentation to the client. In between, the teams will set their own schedules, but will come together, in person or virtually, every other class period for enrichment topics and project reviews. The technology and infrastructure is in place to offer the project portion of this program at a distance.
Due to the intense nature of this program, students commit to participate in the entire program. Partial participation is not allowed. All fees are subject to change.
