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Master of Business Administration

Management of Engineering and Technology Specialization

This specialization focuses on issues relating to principles of productivity, quality management, improving productivity through technology, and environmental systems management. The final specialization project will assess competencies learned within the previous specialization courses.

Management of Engineering and Technology Specialization Courses

Listed are the courses unique to the specialization or concentration. Additional fundamental courses are also required for degree completion. Please see the full Course Catalog or contact an Enrollment Advisor by email admissions@ncu.edu or phone 866-776-0331 for detailed information.

Course Code	Name	Course Description
MET5000-8	Principles of Productivity	This course is designed to provide an overview of many factors that can affect productivity. The topics covered in the course are product design and operations, process design and choice of technology, management of quality, capacity, and scheduling management of production and inventory management systems.
MET5002-8	Applied Systems Theory	Systems engineering has been recognized as the process by which the orderly evolution of human-made systems can be achieved. The knowledge and tools needed for implementation of this process are discussed, including the system design process, system analysis and modeling, and the techniques of designing for operational feasibility. This course examines managerial systems concepts such as open/closed systems, equifinality, equilibrium, synergism, and cybernetics in order to understand and optimize organizational processes. An overview of system engineering management is presented.
MET5010-8	Quality Management	The successful implementation of total quality management practices is a requirement for all organizations to be successful. This Master’s level course introduces a systematic approach for implementing total quality management for an organization with a strong emphasis on the customer, including customer expectations for product quality. This course covers the topics of defining quality, the history of quality management, identifying and understanding the customer, and adopting process improvements to implement quality management.
MET5020-8	Management of Technology	This course is concerned with the impact of rapidly changing technology and the problems of managing these technological changes. The success of these ventures is even more dependent on timely and often courageous technological change decisions. The traditional concepts of operational and economic life of technologies must be used with caution. The real and impending impact of technological change is ever present as a factor and it must be continually managed for a firm to survive.
MET6010-8	Management of Engineering and Technology Research Project	This course requires the graduate Learner to complete a set of progressive exercises regarding a specific subject area of Management of Engineering and Technology that incorporates analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of research methods. The Learner will complete a signature exercise in order to demonstrate the ability to synthesize theoretical and conceptual knowledge, professional application, ethical implications, and fundamental areas of research methods and critiques in their chosen field of specialization. Evaluation of peer-reviewed journal articles will include case studies, research studies, real-world scenarios, reports, seminar proceedings, theories, practicum, postulates, and any other scholarly, peer-reviewed data that will complement the specific area of program emphasis.