Engineering Management Minor
The Industrial Engineering and Management Science (IEMS) Department is offering an Engineering Management minor which will provide an understanding of basic engineering management principles for MS students at the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.
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The minor consists of taking 2 required courses and 1 elective chosen from the list below.
* See table below for 2009-2010 course offerings.
** Note: All MEM courses are offered in the evening from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
Required Courses:
IEMS 407 – Quantitative Methods for Decision Making
* A calculus-based statistics course is a prerequisite
Offered Winter Quarter in Evanston (Wednesdays) and Spring Quarter in Bensenville (Wednesdays)
Provides an understanding of how various business situations are modeled and optimized effectively using mathematical modeling and quantitative techniques. Examples of the techniques covered in this course are time-series analysis, regression, optimization (linear, nonlinear and discrete), probabilistic modeling, decision analysis, and simulation. Application areas include forecasting, finance, operations, production and logistics. You will learn, through examples, cases, and use of software.
IEMS 402 – Engineering Management
Offered Spring Quarter (Thursdays)
This course provides students with a business laboratory environment. During the course, students will learn about the business disciplines of finance, accounting and marketing and how they are related by creating a comprehensive business plan. Students accomplish the course objectives by managing their own companies using the state-of-the-art computer simulation.
Electives (choose one):
IEMS 426 – Project Management
Offered Fall Quarter (Tuesdays)
The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the field of Project Management as applied to software projects with a particular focus in the area of project estimation, planning, performance management and analysis. The course philosophy is that software development is a particularly challenging problem in industry today and that there is a need for better estimation and planning methodology.
IEMS 415 – Computer Simulation for Risk and Operations Analysis
* A calculus-based statistics course is a prerequisite
Offered Fall Quarter (Thursdays)
Hands-on course on computer simulation of business, manufacturing and service systems that are subject to uncertainty or risk. Spreadsheet simulation and discrete-event simulation will be covered. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to develop complex simulation models, design the simulation experiment to be run on the model, and analyze and interpret the results.
IEMS 427 – Operations Analysis
*previous or concurrent registration in IEMS 407 or equivalent is required
Offered Winter Quarter (Thursdays)
Basic principles for analyzing operations. Topics include analysis of inventory control policies; the differences between MRP and JIT and how they impacted American manufacturing; fundamental relationships between cycle time, work-in-process (WIP), throughput, and variability; and the differences between Push and Pull manufacturing environments.
IEMS 486 – Logistics and Service Operations Management
*prerequisite – IEMS 407 or equivalent
Offered Spring Quarter (Tuesdays)
Supply chain management has become increasingly important in recent years and critical for achieving a competitive advantage. At the same time, much of the US economy has transitioned from manufacturing to services. This course will examine state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing key issues in supply chain management and service operations. Problem areas to be examined include: location analysis, inventory management, vehicle routing, personnel scheduling and management, call center analysis, multi-objective analysis, scenario planning and reliability analysis. Emphasis will be given to recent real world examples and applications as well as the development of modeling skills. Extensive use will be made of EXCEL as a modeling environment.
| Fall 2009 |
Winter 2010 |
Spring 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 415 - Computer Simulation for Risk and Operations Analysis Nelson Thursday Ford Bldg Evanston Syllabus |
407 - Quantitative Methods for Decision Making Wednesday Evanston Syllabus |
407 - Quantitative Methods for Decision Making Wednesday Bensenville Syllabus |
| 426 - Project Management Werwath Tuesday M146 Evanston Syllabus |
427 - Operations Analysis Watson Thursday Evanston Syllabus |
402 - Engineering Management Lefebvre Thursday Evanston Syllabus |
| 486 - Logistics and Service Operations Management Smilowitz Tuesday Evanston Syllabus |
