LEADING AND MANAGING TECHNICAL TEAMS

EPD 618

Addresses strategies, models, and practices for leading and managing engineering organizations in a context directly relevant to practicing engineers. Engage in self-reflection about styles, beliefs, and past experiences with leadership and management. Course project of direct relevance to student's organization will integrate theory, models, case studies, and real-time experiences from student's workplace. Gain broad exposure to diverse approaches to leadership and management, and a deeper understanding of how to put what is being learned into effective action.

EPD 710

Build the foundations for developing, refining, and strengthening your effectiveness as a leader of engineering teams, projects, and organizations. Enhance your understanding of how to match your leadership style to a team's focus, organization, and culture. Grow your understanding of your strengths and weaknesses as a leader using proven assessment tools. Develop a plan for growing your leadership competency.

MHR 706

Examines team dynamics, highlights key factors that influence team effectiveness, develops skills in diagnosing opportunities and threats that face teams, and enhances teamwork expertise. The content is applicable to projects across specializations. For instance, teamwork skills are essential to project teams developing new products/services, working on business strategy, implementing process improvements, designing new financial investment instruments, and developing real estate. In any of these projects, employees would work as a team to accomplish their goals. The team's success or failure will depend, to a large extent, on how the team members work together.

EPD 612

Learn key principles and tools of project management applicable to a broad range of engineering projects. Covers techniques for project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and project tracking, as well as the interface between projects and the organizations within which they are executed.

EPD/GENBUS/MHR 783

Students will gain the knowledge and skills to continuously enhance their own team performance and productivity as well as the teams they are involved with. They will also be in a much better position to lead teams effectively.