INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES

EPD 619

Learn to develop vision, culture, and practices that value and drive innovation within engineering and technical organizations. Grow your ability to build an enterprise that values, pursues, and delivers innovative technical services and products.

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.

INTEREGR 413

Provides a comparative examination and analysis of global trends and regional variations for engineering concepts, standards and practices. Using organizational case studies, the course will describe and analyze multi-national engineering operations and summarize best practices and caveats.

INTLBUS 766

Focuses on the acquisition of knowledge and the development of skills over a broad range of issues related to global management. The overall goal is to improve global competence by discussing: why organizations "go global;" global business venture options; the impact of foreign business activities on host countries; how to conduct a "CAGE" analysis; how to identify and mitigate global risks; issues related to CSR and corruption for foreign business activity; the role of labor codes; ways to manage a global work force; the role of "global cadres;" and the roles and management of expatriates. Country/region knowledge explored will encompass Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe.

EPD 611

Addresses principles and practices of interpreting financial information and performing engineering-related economic analyses. Focuses on the practical use of economic information for decision-making.