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Management of Technology
The Master in Management of Technology
Requirements
Program of Study
Course Descriptions
The Master in Management of Technology
The master program in Management of Technology at
BUonline U's focuses on integrating four key components
into a curriculum.
The Four Components are:
- Courses in state-of-the-art technology. Taken from a variety of engineering disciplines, technology courses,
with an emphasis on advanced and emerging technologies, make up approximately half of the curriculum.
- Business courses, the remaining half of the curriculum, cover vital aspects of successfully deploying modern
technology.
- Seminars given by key technology executives. These seminars explore the current state of practice in the management
of technology and the vision driving that practice.
- Extensive student interaction. Through interaction, students develop an ongoing business network, leadership
skills and the foundation for good teamwork.
The Master's in Management of Technology Program is dedicated to training engineers and scientists for leadership
in the management of technology-based organizations. Program includes a comprehensive set of management and technical
courses that teach how to apply management concepts in high technology industries.
Since this program is directed specifically to professionals, courses are only held on Saturday and Sunday
twice a month for nine months. Students who take courses one day each course weekend need to complete five courses
a year; students who take courses two days each course weekend need to complete ten courses.
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Requirements
A total of twenty (20) courses must be completed from the following categories:
REQUIRED COURSES (all 11 must be taken)
MTC5510 Systems
MTC5530 Accounting
MTC5531 Engineering Economics (Micro and Macro)
MTC5532 Finance
MTC5550 Management Information Systems
MTC5555 Organizational Behavior and Design
MTC5560 Management of Technology
MTC5580 Statistics
MTC6680 Marketing Strategies
MTC6690 Operations Management
MTC6693 Product Design and Development
TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVES (students must select at least 6)
MTC5500 Computer Visualization
MTC5520 Computational Mathematics
MTC6600 Software Engineering
MTC6605 Expert Systems and Neural Networks
MTC6615 Telecommunications-Introduction to Networking
MTC6616 Telecommunications-Advanced Networking
MTC6617 Telecommunications Industry: Competitive Strategy
MTC6625 Photonics
MTC6640 Microelectronics
MTC6665 Advanced Materials
MTC6672 Modern Biotechnology
MTC6695 Robotics and Automation
OTHER ELECTIVES (students must select at least 3)
MTC5502 Corporate Ethics
MTC5557 Strategic Management of Innovation
MTC5559 Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership
MTC5565 Intellectual Property
MTC5570 Technology and Public Policy
MTC6660 Environmental Management
MTC6675 Technology Entrepreneurship
MTC6676 Technology Entrepreneurship Project
MTC6685 Business Policy
MTC6686 Negotiations
MTC6697 Concurrent and Simultaneous Engineering
MTC6699 Logistics
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Program of Study
The Master in Management of Technology requires a minimum of 20 specially designed courses. Both technology and
business courses consist of 18 classroom hours. Three or four courses, plus seminars are planned for each term.
There are three terms per year: fall, spring and summer. Courses meet every second weekend (six program weekends/term)
and each course is taught for three hours per weekend. To meet degree requirements, students must complete a total
of 20 courses. Course content for courses taken at other schools or universities will be evaluated for purpose
of credit transfer. A maximum of 7 courses of the required 20 can receive transfer credits.
The course requirements are as follows:
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Type
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No of Courses
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| REQUIRED COURSES |
11
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| TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVES |
6
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| OTHER ELECTIVES |
3
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| Total |
20
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BUonline's Master's program is a two year program. The first year is dedicated to completing the required
courses, which exposes the student to a breadth of subjects and approaches, that provide fundamental business skills,
technological knowledge, and organizational perspectives. Students are required to complete the required courses
before taking courses in their technology courses.
During the second-year students build upon the foundation of the required courses by completing the technology
courses requirement
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Course Descriptions
MTC5500: Computer Visualization
This course introduces the student to the role of visualization as a tool and critical dimension in the interpretation
of scientific and engineering data. As computer modeling changes the way science is conducted by bringing high
performance simulation capabilities onto the investigator's desktop, quick, efficient, and effective data presentation
is an essential enhancement for model understanding and refinement.
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MTC5502: Corporate Ethics
The purpose of this course is two-fold: The first objective is to enable the student to recognize ethical challenges
in the business environment with which he/she may be confronted as an employee, a manager, or a consumer. The second
objective is to encourage critical thinking about the factors within the work environment and society that contribute
to ethical dilemmas, thinking constructively about how these might be changed, and considering where the responsibility
for each change rests. Thus, emphasis is on both the recognition and resolution of ethical conflicts.
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MTC5510: Systems (Operations Research)
This course is designed to make the student an informed consumer of systems modeling approaches and quantitative
methods. Sufficient depth will be provided to allow students to understand new advances in systems thinking and
modeling.
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MTC5520: Computational Mathematics (Applied Mathematical Methods)
This course provides a background in selected fundamental deterministic mathematical concepts, combining old and
new applied mathematics to deal with emerging and existing technologies. Emphasis will be given to understanding
the fundamental underlying concepts of the topics. Applications to areas included in the required and elective
courses will provide a vehicle for learning.
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MTC5530: Accounting
This course provides engineering and technical managers with an introduction to accounting techniques, enabling
them to understand, critique, and direct project evaluation.
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MTC5531: Engineering Economics (Micro and Macro Economics)
This course provides engineering executives with an understanding of the economics of the firm.
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MTC5532: Finance
This course will cover the process of obtaining and allocating capital. Capital structure, cost of capital, tools
for allocating capital (discounted cash flow, economic value-added), measurements of financial performance, and
the integration of financial and business strategy are the major topics to be covered.
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MTC5550: Management Information Systems
This course is designed to give a manager sound insights about the strengths and limitations of management information
systems (MIS) and to provide the background for participating in the development and use of an effective MIS.
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MTC5555: Organizational Behavior And Design
The purpose of this course is to help the student understand basic issues in designing and managing organizations
that will motivate people to perform effectively. The course will examine theories of work motivation -- especially
for technical and professional personnel; methods of managerial influence and leadership styles; classic principles
and emerging dynamic guidelines for designing organizational structures; and approaches to organizational change.
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MTC5557: Strategic Management of Innovation
This course will cover the management of innovation by considering both organizational and strategic factors that
determine the successful outcomes of innovation. Innovation is not the same as technology, because we consider
innovation to comprise at least technological, marketing, and service/manufacturing aspects. Furthermore we are
only interested in viable innovations, i.e. product/service or process innovations that come with what economists
call "rents".
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MTC5559: Foundations of Leadership and Teamwork
Topics include valuing differences, understanding the dynamics of influence, using power with integrity, the art
of active listening, and maintaining balance between personal and professional life. The course, which is team
taught by three faculty members, involves considerable opportunities for feedback from faculty and peers; it uses
the classroom as a learning laboratory where in-class action is the basis for reflection and knowledge.
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MTC5560: Management of Technology
This course examines the technical and managerial challenges presented by emerging technologies. Particular consideration
is given to the forces affecting the nature and rate of technological innovation and the managerial options available
to both entrepreneurial and established organizations.
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MTC5565: Strategic Management of Intellectual Property
This course provides students with insight into the strategic management of intellectual property assets, with
special emphasis on internal protection and management of these assets. The course also emphasizes alignment of
intellectual property management with overall R&D strategy, the leverage of such properties to advance corporate
development through off-balance sheet structures, marketing partnerships and alliances, joint ventures, and "spin-outs"
of entrepreneurial ventures from the corporation. Though the course concentrates on research and general management
of intellectual property, it also covers legal elements of intellectual property transactions. Through a mix of
classroom lectures, readings, case analyses and projects, students will acquire a fundamental knowledge of how
to manage patents, copyrights and trademarks to optimize their intrinsic value, as well as to drive an operation
as a whole.
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MTC5570: Technology and Public Policy
This course will examine public policy issues that arise as a result of technological progress (e.g. nuclear power,
the environment, and industrial policy), and will examine public policies that cross the professional path of any
technologist (technology education, diversity, and scientific ethics). The goal is to gain insight into how technology
policy is shaped, and to understand the balance required to foster a sense of public good in an ever-expanding
technological economy. This course explores issues involving the role of technology in the economy and, more generally,
in society.
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MTC5580: Statistics
This course provides an introduction to statistics. It presents a concise picture of the fundamentals of the mathematical
theory of statistics and provides examples of how these ideas and results are applied in engineering practice.
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MTC6600: Software Engineering
This course provides insight into basic and illustrative aspects of how software is built, how it is used, and
how it is treated in commercial transactions. It will review the basics of the software life cycle: requirements
capture, specification, design, programming, verification/testing, and maintenance. Aspects of the software market
concerning software standards, contracts, and intellectual property will be discussed with reference to emerging
technology, commercial practice, and law. Other topics covered will include software problems ("bugs"
and difficulties in the capture of requirements), standards (especially for formal languages and quality assurance),
and contractual specifications (warranties and terms in commercial agreements).
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MTC6605: Expert Systems and Neural Networks
This course instructs students on the capabilities of current technology in knowledge-based expert systems, robotics,
natural language, and machine learning. At the completion of the course students will be able to recognize what
problems are appropriate for expert systems, and will be able to select an appropriate knowledge representation
and reasoning method. This requires familiarity with the basic approaches to knowledge representation and inference
such as rules, frames, and search, and the ability to use advanced programming tools ("expert system shells").
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MTC6615: Telecommunications-Introduction to Networking
This course is concerned with modern data networking technology. Topics include principles of data transmission
such as multiplexing, modulations, and modems; and local area networks, wide area networks, protocols, design and
performance.
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MTC6616: Telecommunications-Advanced Networking
This course is concerned with the telecommunications technology that we expect to see in the workplace over the
next five years. Topics include an overview of packet switching and LANs; LAN interconnection; Ethernet and IP
addressing; transport layer and application layer; modern circuit-switched networks and switches; wireless communication
and mobile cellular; narrowband ISDN; and ATM.
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MTC6617: Telecommunications Industry: Competitive Strategy
The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly with profound implications for the quality of everyday life
and the competitive position of firms in all industries. As yet, these implications are poorly understood by executives
whose businesses will be affected by change in telecommunications. The telecommunications industry is overwhelmed
by the degree of speed and change with which it must contend. This course is recommended for students interested
in strategic management in the telecommunications industries and for those with an interest in strategic issues
in high technology firms.
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MTC6625: Photonics
The photonics course provides a blend of fundamentals in the fast-moving area of photonics with their application
to communication systems, high-technology applications and devices, and selected aspects of optical signal processing.
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MTC6630: Economies in the World Economy
The changing role of certain economies in the world economy is considered from a technological/economic perspective.
What are the forces affecting the competitiveness of industry from a short and long run perspective? How does comparative
advantage evolve over the development process and how does it generate the product cycle? The last part of the
course will be concerned with policies for growth and competitiveness, macroeconomic policy, science and technology
policy, and industrial policies. An appraisal of the characteristics of the post-industrial economy serves to integrate
the diverse elements of the course.
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MTC6640: Microelectronics
The purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the field of modern microelectronic devices and
technology. It also covers the different design aspects that are involved in the realization of an integrated circuit.
The course outlines the different building blocks used in VLSI circuits. It will provide insight into the performance-determining
factors and limitations of state-of-the-art integrated circuits. The different design strategies and approaches
such as full-custom, semi-custom, and application specific circuits will be discussed from a point of view of performance,
price, and time-to-market considerations.
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MTC6660: Environmental Management
This course will provide an introduction and understanding of the history, science, technology, legal, regulatory,
and decision processes in environmental management. The course will examine elements of environmental management
including air, water. and land protection; environmental policies, laws, and programs; environmental assessment,
audits and mitigation; social and economic considerations as well as the role of government, the media, and the
public.
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MTC6665: Advanced Materials
Provides engineering managers with an understanding of the properties, technology, advantages, limitations, and
future development of advanced materials, thereby enabling them to critique and evaluate proposed applications
and markets. The four classes of advanced materials (Metallic Alloys and Compounds, Ceramics, Polymers, and Composites)
will be discussed.
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MTC6672: Advances In Biochemical Engineering And Biotechnology
This course will provide a brief biological background, which will assist the student in understanding some of
the jargon and the accomplishments that are taking place, leading to an understanding of the
bioprocess challenges
and providing the basis for evaluating some of the new commercial opportunities which will develop in this field.
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MTC6675: Technology Entrepreneurship
This course considers the multiple efforts required in taking a basic research finding and bringing a product based
upon that finding to the marketplace. Student teams develop a business plan in the form of a proposal for venture
capital, for a variety of potential technological innovations generally drawn from their own industries.
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MTC6676: Technology Entrepreneurship Project
This two-semester capstone course, conducted in collaboration with company sponsors, revolves around corporate-provided
projects that meet a high-level technology-business challenge. Chosen projects require the integration of course
principles learned throughout program. This capstone experience enables students to apply their course-based learning
to real situations. Students work in teams supervised by an experienced faculty member to confront a real challenge,
analyze realistic alternatives and develop management action strategies. The course focuses on the recognition
of technology and business opportunities, the assessment of global competitive market factors, return on investment,
and technological and market risk.
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MTC6680: Marketing Strategies
This course provides an introduction to marketing concepts, methods, and practices that are important to modern
enterprises. As a discipline, marketing is responsible for facilitating the exchange process. This is accomplished
through an understanding of the perceptions, preferences, and behaviors exhibited by customers and consumers. That
understanding is translated into a complete offering (product/service/features, price, advertising/promotion, and
distribution system) consistent with those customer needs, the firm's capabilities, and the competitive environment.
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MTC6685: Business Policy
This course introduces students to concepts of decision-making and strategic planning. It addresses managerial
decisions at both the formulation and implementation phases of strategic planning. Students will learn about the
planning process by integrating concepts from both traditional business disciplines and non-traditional ones. Since
managers usually make strategic decisions without possessing all the relevant information, we will focus on decision-making
under uncertainty.
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MTC6686: Negotiations
This course teaches the theory and processes of negotiation, the art and science of securing agreements between
two or more interdependent parties who are in conflict. Negotiations are studied in a variety of settings. The
course deals with understanding the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive
and cooperative situations. A basic premise of the course is that while a manager needs analytical skills to discover
optimal solutions to problems, a broad array of negotiation skills are needed for these solutions to be accepted
and implemented. The course enables participants to develop these skills experientially and to understand negotiation
in useful analytical frameworks. Considerable emphasis is placed on simulations, role-playing, and cases.
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MTC6690: Manufacturing (Operations Management)
Managers need to understand the impact of operational decisions on quality, cost, productivity, flexibility, and
responsiveness to market, and the impact on operations of decisions taken elsewhere in the firm. The course equips
the student with a detailed understanding of the design, control, and improvement of productive processes. It also
provides a conceptual framework and analytical tools for analyzing the tradeoffs associated with operational decisions.
While much of this course pertains to manufacturing operations, many of the underlying principles are equally applicable
to the service context.
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MTC6693: Product Design And Development
This course will provide competence with a set of tools and methodologies for product design and development and
will raise awareness of the role of multiple functions (e.g. marketing, engineering design, industrial design,
production) in creating a new product. Participants will apply the course material to a product development project.
Topics include: identifying customer needs, setting specifications, concept development, design for manufacturing,
and industrial design.
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MTC6695: Robotics and Automation
This course will acquaint students with the basics of modeling, controlling, and programming of robots. They will
be able to recognize what tasks can be automated using robots and they will become familiar with the state of the
art in robotics and automation, material-handling systems, and the component technologies.
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MTC6697: Concurrent & Simultaneous Engineering
This course will overview the key elements and activities that must be managed concurrently and simultaneously
by management in product development involving R & D, Product Engineering, Design (Industrial Design), Manufacturing,
and Marketing. Specific topics will include identifying markets for new technologies, producing for cost/feature/value
advantage, allocating development resources, and foundation design concepts (rules and tools).
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MTC6699: Logistics
The course will address modern thinking in integrating logistics with what are traditionally considered to be core
operations, such as manufacturing and marketing. These include demand and supply-chain management, just-in-time
inventories and manufacturing, and strategic links via co-maker skip and customer reach. Logistical design methods
of vehicle routing, facility location, and inventory control will be introduced. The role of modern information
systems technology for both tactical and operational control will be discussed. Several industry experts will participate
in teaching.
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