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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY (MOT)

5013 Global Foundations of Management Technology
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Admission to M.S. MOT program and consent of instructor. This course includes an overview of the contemporary business context: leadership of change, legal issues, science and technology policy, and global economic transformation. Elements of decision support systems are introduced, including accounting, finance, and information systems. Strategic paradigms of management of technology are used to integrate the content and give voice to emerging perspectives.

5023 Technological Foundations of Management of Technology
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Admission to M.S. MOT program and consent of instructor. This course examines the activities used to transform viable products and processes. Consideration is given to “green design” within a system’s context. Design is used as the rubric to integrate the activities. (Same as EGR 5633. Credit cannot be earned for both MOT 5023 and EGR 5633.)

5053 Building Enterprise Equity
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: MKT 5023 or consent of instructor. An analysis of the role of technology and innovation in modern business practice. Emphasis is on managing technological change to develop business opportunities and competitive advantage. The concepts and tools covered aim to make the task of innovation and product portfolio management more understandable and controllable.

5163 Management of Technology
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Examines a broad range of topics and issues involved in the management of technology, including the international research and development environment and infrastructure; government, industry, and university roles in technology development; managing the research and development function; technology forecasting and assessment; and new product development.

5173 Technology Transfer: The Theory and Practice of Knowledge Utilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Technology transfer or diffusion may be defined as the utilization or application of knowledge. The course examines the organizational, behavioral, and communication challenges involved in transferring technology from the research laboratory to the marketplace.

5183 Design of Experiments for Technology Managers
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. An applied approach to design of experiments in engineering and scientific settings. Randomized block designs, factorials, two- and three-level factorial and fractional factorial designs, nested and split-plot designs, response surface methods, and robust design methods are studied. Computer statistical packages, including JMP, are used. A project and presentation based on designing an industrial experiment is required.

5203 Strategic Management of Technology
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Development of a conceptual framework for strategy, its definition, elements, and relationships to the basic functions of management of technology. Considers the impact of technology and environmental forces on strategic management of the organization. (Credit cannot be earned for both MOT 5203 and IS 6813.)

5213 Organizational Systems for Management of Technology
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Focuses on organizational systems commonly found in modern organizations dealing with technology, innovation, and creativity. Considers alternative organizing concepts, interfacing and integrating considerations, and decision- making and control systems.

5223 Management of Professional Personnel
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. The study of behavior in professional and technical organizations. Focuses on the characteristics of professional and technical personnel, status and role systems within the professional organization, and communication and conflict within and among professional groups.

5233 Advanced Topics in Project Management
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: MOT 5243 or consent of instructor. An advanced course that examines contemporary issues in project management. Includes topics such as, the value of project management, organizational project management maturity, project selection models, enterprise project management, and project office implementation. Synthesis and evaluation are emphasized. A basic understanding of project management is required.

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5243 Essentials of Project and Program Management
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. This course addresses concepts and techniques for the management of business and technology projects. Includes topics such as, the project life cycle, project planning, project scheduling, project cost estimating, project risk analysis, project control techniques, earned value management, project organizations and functions, project manager responsibilities, and team building.

5253 Starting the High-Tech Firm
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. A review of the steps and processes involved in starting a technology-based economic endeavor. The focus is built around the steps of identifying a problem area, identifying potential technological solutions to the identified need, and developing a proposed business entity to commercialize the technology solution.

6923 Directed Research in Management of Technology
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the Graduate Advisor and the faculty advisor/director. A directed research course to prepare students for MOT 6933 Management of Technology Capstone. The course emphasizes the understanding of scientific research problem solving, including research problems in management of technology, the design and methodology of research solutions to those problems, and the relations between problem and design. Presentation of assigned project is required.

6933 Management of Technology Capstone
3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the Graduate Advisor and the faculty advisor/director. Research and preparation of an in-depth study of a complex problem in management of technology. Credit is awarded upon completion of the project, thesis, conference paper, or publishable article. The grade report for this class is either “CR” (satisfactory participation) or “NC” (unsatisfactory participation).

6943 Management of Technology Internship
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing, 15 semester credit hours of graduate work, and consent of instructor. Internship must be approved in advance by the Internship Coordinator and the student’s Graduate Advisor of Record. Supervised full- or part-time off-campus work experience and training in management of technology. Individual conferences and written reports are required.

6951-3 Independent Study
1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission in writing (form available) of the instructor and the student’s Graduate Advisor of Record. Independent reading, research, discussion, and/or writing under the direction of a faculty member. For students needing specialized work not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to the Master’s degree.

6961 Comprehensive Examination
1 hour credit. Prerequisite: Approval of the appropriate graduate program committee to take the Comprehensive Examination. Independent study course for the purpose of taking the Comprehensive Examination. May be repeated as many times as approved by the Graduate Program Committee. Enrollment is required each term in which the Comprehensive Examination is taken if no other courses are being taken that term. The grade report for the course is either “CR” (satisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination) or “NC” (unsatisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination).

6971-3 Special Problems
(1-0, 2-0, 3-0) 1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. An organized course offering the opportunity for specialized study not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. Special Problems courses may be repeated for credit when the topics vary, but no more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to a Master’s degree.

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