Engineering Management Courses--MS Engineering Management
The engineering management courses offered by Gannon University cover graduate-level business topics as well as advanced engineering subjects. The online MS Engineering Management curriculum is a 36-hour program that delivers career flexibility for engineers looking to advance into management roles at engineering firms and manufacturing companies.
Course Descriptions
Required Courses – Business
GMBA 501 Financial Accounting (3 credits)
A study of basic accounting concepts, techniques, and systems with a focus on reporting, analysis, and interpretation of accounting data used for decision making.
GMBA 531 Management and Marketing Concepts (3 credits)
An overview of managing the modern organization, including a discussion of the functional areas of the organization, history of management thought, and the structure of organizations. Approximately half the course involves discussion of the elements of marketing management.
GMBA 561 Fundamentals of Financial Management (3 credits)
A survey of financial decision making, using ratio analysis, the time value of money, the cost of capital, and capital budgeting concepts. Considerable time is spent outlining the environmental (macro-finance) factors that affect financial decisions. Prerequisite: GMBA 501
GMBA 571 Economic Environment of the Firm (3 credits)
Selected topics in the economic theory of the business firm. A mathematical approach will cover those areas of both micro and macro economics which are critical to economic decision making at the management level.
Required Courses – Engineering
GENG 621 Reliability Engineering (3 credits)
Reliability modeling, prediction, testing, physics to failure, and reliability design techniques are studied. Hardware and software systems. Identification of weak link for reliability improvement. Quality system reliability using advanced testing methods.
GENG 622 Risk Management (3 credits)
Introduction to project risks management and engineering ethics for engineering decision making. Integrated models for technical, schedule, and cost risks. Management of cost-risk contributions. Identification and control of critical paths for project schedule. Implementation of integrated risk management with computer simulation methods.
GENG 623 Decision Making under Uncertainty (3 credits)
Introduction of general techniques for dealing systematically with uncertainty in engineering decision problems. Computer simulation models, sensitivity analysis, and subjective probability assessment for engineering judgment. Probabilistic design criteria, value of information, utility analysis with risk aversion, and trade-off under uncertainty are studied.
GENG 624 Project Management (3 credits)
The course will cover the skills necessary to manage large and small projects in terms of planning and controlling techniques, coordinating and directing techniques, and negotiating techniques. Roles and responsibilities of the project manager and tools and techniques used in managing projects will be discussed along with preparing project records and reports.
Elective Courses
GENV 544 Environmental Law and Regulations (3 credits)
The course introduces students to the major concepts of environmental law. Because environmental law is grounded in both federal and state statutes, the course will expose students to major components of statutory law at both levels, and will also explore the federal/state relationship using Pennsylvania as a model. Although a basic understanding of the American legal system and administrative law would be of great benefit, it is not a prerequisite to the course.
GENV 549 Industrial Safety (3 credits)
This course will provide students with practical knowledge and tools necessary to identify, evaluate and control safety hazards within the industrial workplace. Topics to be covered will include: OSHA regulations, injury surveillance, system safety analysis, electrical hazards, fire protection, machine hazards and chemical safety.
GMBA 641 Operations Management (3 credits)
The course is designed to introduce students to the principles of operations and supply chain management and their application in decision making. The topics covered include logistics, transportation, inventory management, warehousing, materials management, global supply, demand management, project management, e-commerce, finance, and network design.
Prerequisites: GMBA 521 and GMBA 525
GMBA 741 Advanced Operations Management (3 credits)
A comprehensive study of the literature of management science and operations research, discussing specific models and problems. Prerequisite: GMBA 641
To learn more about the Gannon University Master of Science in Engineering Management program, request more information from the university or speak with a representative at 877-497-5854.
