Management Concepts and Applications

Sharpen the skills you need to execute the four functions of management (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) in the workplace. This course introduces the activities involved in strategic management and how to use performance metrics to measure results. Learn how to evaluate an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and how to conduct competitive analysis. Readings and assignments cover manager roles and job responsibilities, leadership models, staffing, and managing change.

Business Leadership

Explore research findings about leadership, leadership practice, and leadership skill development, evaluate leadership behaviors and personal attributes of leaders, and prepare case studies of leaders in organizations. This course balances theory with real-world applications for a practical, skill-building approach to leadership. Topics include: empowerment of followers, teamwork, diversity in the workforce, rewards, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and ethics and corporate social responsibility.

Financial Accounting

Do you know how to read a financial statement of a publicly traded company? Does your job require you to report whether you’re above or below the budget for the year? Do your company’s assets cover their expenses and liabilities? In this course, you learn how to manage budgets, read financial statements, and use accounting principles and processes to make business decisions in real-world settings. Gain experience recording common business transactions for service and merchandising proprietorships, preparing basic journal entries for transactions that affect the balance sheet. Topics include financial statement analysis, accounting information systems, operating decisions, financing, ratio analysis of business performance, and internal control features for cash and accounts/notes receivables transactions.

Introduction to Computers

Increase your knowledge of computer hardware, application software, operating systems, networking, and the World Wide Web. Course material covers topics in information privacy and security, database management, and ethical and legal issues in information technology. Learn how to create documents in Microsoft Word, calculate formulas in Excel spreadsheets, create Access databases, and produce narrated PowerPoint presentations. Become familiar with the business uses of websites, online software services, and social media platforms.

Project Management

Learn the methodologies, tools, and processes used by successful project managers to define, plan, execute, and manage projects. Coursework teaches you how to identify project requirements and develop a project plan that specifies project scope, project features, project staffing, and project deliverables. Study the system development life cycle (SDLC) and project life cycle (PLC), and enhance your budget, scheduling, timeline management, cost and risk analysis, and stakeholder communication skills. Topics include program evaluation review technique (PERT) and the critical path method.

Technology Management Core

Technology and Society

Students consider the causes and impact of technological change and evaluate the implications of technology on society.

Economic Analysis for Technologists

Learn to apply economics and decision theory when evaluating engineering alternatives in planning, developing, constructing, and managing engineering projects.

Introduction to Energy Utilization

Explore how economic, political, environmental, and social implications have affected technological advancements related to energy.

Integrated Technology Assessment

In this end-of-program capstone course of the Bachelor of Professional Studies in Technology Management curriculum, you develop an online portfolio that allows you to reflect on past academic and professional experiences. Working with your faculty mentor, you will compose learning statements, compile appropriate evidence, and create an integrated technology management assessment report. These actions are aimed at helping to prepare you to interview for careers within the industry.