Management Concentration
All MSEM students will participate in a cohort program, where all students in an entering class will take the same five management courses together. The Center for Leadership Education has constructed a five-course program tailored to the needs of future engineering managers. For the Fall 2009 entering class, all MSEM students will be required to enroll in the following courses (descriptions can be found below):
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665.611 Finance and Accounting (Fall 09) |
In addition, all MSEM students are required to attend the MSEM Seminar course while enrolled in the program. This will meet once per week, unless canceled or replaced by another activity, and features talks from engineering managers. The management concentration advisor reserves the right to substitute a different management course for one of those above at his/her discretion under unusual circumstances. The Engineering Management program reserves the right to change the list of eligible courses at its discretion.
Finance and Accounting
The course includes a review of financial accounting with an emphasis on the managerial implications of financial statements and their application to financial analysis. Course material will also encompass cost accumulation, cost allocation, product costing, and variance analysis, and their impact on financial forecasting and capital budgeting. Students will also explore valuation techniques for new technologies.
Leps (Fall)
Marketing Communications and Strategy
This course is designed to introduce students to key marketing, communications, and strategic issues surrounding the process of bringing new products to the marketplace. Through cases, readings, discussion and hands-on team projects, students develop a flexible approach to thinking about marketing problems, maximizing resources and creating strategic solutions. Written and oral work focuses on communicating effectively with target audiences using integrated media and developing interpersonal skills essential for managers, including presenting to a hostile audience, running meetings, listening, and contributing to group decision-making.
Sheff (Fall)
Business Law and Intellectual Property
Business Law and Intellectual Property introduces participants to the fundamental aspects of law associated with developing and bringing new products to the marketplace. Arranged in modules and taught largely through the case method, the course features the following topics: creating and forming businesses; contracts; intellectual property; principal-agent relations; and product liability. Not only will participants learn the principles associated with each topic, but also they will master the questions and concerns to use when working with legal counsel on these issues in the future.
Franceshini (Spring)
Management and Leadership
Management and Leadership is a case, experiential and research based course intended to introduce participants to issues and solutions related to growing and managing businesses with an emphasis on entrepreneurial enterprises. The course focuses on managerial decision-making and organization building through topics that include planning and managing strategic change; finding competitive advantage; making informed decisions; dealing with uncertainty; negotiating collaborative settlements; managing/leading projects, teams and professionals; networking and forming strategic alliances; valuing differences; creating and maintaining organizational cultures; and devising performance measures. Additionally, participants master aspects of management communication as they address course content.
Rice (Spring)
Venture Planning
Venture Planning requires participants to work in groups to address, design and plan a business solution for an engineering problem with social implications. More specifically, students will work on cross-disciplinary teams to determine the commercial viability of a new technology. They must select a problem amenable to an engineering solution, investigate the problem, research the issues and potential, develop a design for the technology, investigate the competitive advantage, and create and present a business plan for the idea. Course content will address many of the issues that will be encountered during the process of bringing an idea to fruition.
Aronhime (Spring)
Fall 2009 Seminar Series
September 14, 2009
Eric Rice, Faculty/Lecturer, Center for Leadership Education
Resume Prep
September 21, 2009
Eric Rice, Center for Leadership Education
September 28, 2009
No speaker; Yom Kippur
October 5, 2009
Chris Parker, Founder, APL Applied Imagery
October 13, 2009
Center for Leadership Staff
The Idea Workshop
October 19, 2009
Ed Addison, Entrepreneur/Author/Lecturer
October 26, 2009
Kevin Callahan, MapMyFitness
November 2, 2009
Center for Leadership Staff
Prep for Mock Interviews
November 9, 2009
Mark Presnell, Director, JHU Career Center
Mock Interviews
November 17, 2009
Center for Leadership Staff
The Idea Workshop
November 23, 2009
TBA
December 1, 2009
Center for Leadership Staff
The Idea Workshop
December 7, 2009
Raj Singh, Chairman and CEO, Telcom Ventures, LLC
"Individuals who are able to combine a specific engineering or technology-related background with additional understanding and appreciation of such critical concepts as marketing strategy, finance, organizational development, and communications will better position themselves for leadership opportunities among high technology employers."
- James Pitts, Corporate Vice President and President, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
