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2013-14 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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MS 4060 - Marketing and Public Relations in Health Care 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course details the creation, design, and production of publicity and marketing for health-related organizations. Topics include strategies of effective public relations lobbying, fundraising, news management, market and audience research, needs assessment, role of stakeholders, and connecting to the community. Students will focus on specific strategies healthcare managers can use to advance a healthcare organization. (prereq: MS 280 )
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MS 4080 - Information Technology Systems in Health Care 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course is an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to concepts and applications of health information management in health care. Students explore the latest legislation affecting health data as well as the use of data warehousing, web technologies and database management systems in health information practice. It includes discussions of electronic medical records, health care settings, patient records, registers, legal aspects, coding and reimbursement.
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MS 4203 - Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration 2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to install, deploy and configure Microsoft Windows 7. Topics include installing Microsoft Windows 7, configuring applications, network connectivity, access to resources, mobile computing, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting. The course includes face-to-face class sessions, in-class and virtual labs. The course covers material in Microsoft’s official curriculum course #6292A (Installing and Configuring Windows 7 Client), and the associated certification exam #70-680 required for the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification. (prereq: one course in computer programming or computer networking; or equivalent professional experience)
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MS 4233 - Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Active Directory, and Network Infrastructure Administration 3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
This comprehensive course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to handle the day-to-day management of the Windows Server 2008 operating system, including Active Directory and Network Infrastructure administration. Topics covered include server administrator responsibilities such as Server 2008 installation, configuration of the DHCP, DNS, and RRAS roles, managing the network infrastructure, remote server management, file and print services, Active Directory Services configuration and management, security and backup. The course includes face-to-face class sessions as well as in-class and virtual labs. MS-4233 maps to the Microsoft certification exams #70-640, #70-642, #70-646 and the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Server Administrator certification. This course replaces MS-4212, MS-4222 and MS-4232. (prereq: MS 479 or networking experience equivalent)
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MS 4401 - Applied Operations Management: Lean Lead Certification 6 lecture hours 0 lab hours 6 credits
This 15-day certificate program offered by MSOE’s Business Excellence Consortium is designed to introduce tools and concepts of Lean Manufacturing/Operations. It prepares individuals to facilitate work team events and expects that participants apply the tools when possible in their work settings. Upon completion, participants will be able to define Lean, describe the principles of Lean identify and apply Lean tools, determine where and when Lean tools most effective, implement Lean in their organization.
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MS 4406 - Applied Operations Management: Six Sigma Advanced 6 lecture hours 0 lab hours 6 credits
This certificate program offered by MSOE’s Business Excellence Consortium includes six, daylong sessions on the Six Sigma Methodology and tools and how to apply them in operations. This program provides students with working knowledge of how to continuously make 10x improvements in productivity through the use of Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). Upon completion, students will know how to use and apply the methodology and tools to quickly impact business results.
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MS 4411 - Compensation System Design 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course examines various aspects of compensation involving the design and evaluation of jobs; the measurement and recognition of individual and/or group performance; designs to attract, maintain and motivate good people; as well as to protect, reward, and enhance work life and organizational results. (prereq: junior standing)
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MS 4544 - Financial Management Policies 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course provides students with a survey of current accounting and financial management trends. Special topics include, but are not limited to, internal control systems, long-range planning, accounting information systems, emerging technologies, internal and external auditing, tax strategy and international finance. This course serves as a capstone for the financial management concentration. (prereq: MS 457 , MS 459 )
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MS 4545 - Finance and Accounting 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course considers the perspective of financial accounting, operation and analysis in business and industry from the standpoint of professionals working at the middle or project level of a corporation. Background is presented in the following: elements of financial mechanics including time value, discounted cash flow and return on investment; financial statements, specifically income statements and balance sheets; financial concepts of depreciation, income taxes and cost of capital; and financial operations, in particular capital budgets. Practical applications also are provided relating to capital investment justification and new product evaluation. Consideration also is given to the specific operating controls used in business and how they relate to the day-to-day activities of the professional in marketing, production and engineering. (prereq: junior standing)
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MS 4599 - Managerial Finance 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course applies the concepts covered in previous finance and accounting courses. Topics covered include valuation and rates of return, cost of capital, relevant costs in decision making, capital budgeting, adjusting for taxes and risk, make vs. buy vs. lease decisions, segment reporting, internal transfer pricing, external pricing of products and services, and investment banking. Students are required to complete a term project analyzing the desirability of a major capital acquisition under different financing alternatives. (prereq: MS 358 )
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MS 4601 - International Marketing and Export Management 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
The focus of this course is on the economic, political and cultural differences among nations as they influence marketing. Students will explore global marketing opportunities for organizations, laws and practices; develop abilities to identify and evaluate opportunities abroad; gain skills in gathering information and drawing conclusions; and be expected to develop an export marketing plan. (prereq: MS 327 )
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MS 4650 - Branding and Brand Management 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course will provide an overview of branding and brand management with an emphasis on how to foster growth within companies. Specifically, brands will be considered assets that need to be developed and nurtured to fulfill the organization’s financial goals. While the value of brands has been informally acknowledged for many years, brand management frameworks are relatively new. Students will use various frameworks and tools to examine how to assess a brand’s value and how to leverage this value in various brand decisions. (prereq: MS 361 and junior standing)
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MS 4781 - Cisco Certified Network Associate 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course offers a practical approach to Internet-working principles with an emphasis on Cisco Systems CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) techniques and procedures. Bandwidth expanding devices such a switches and routers are discussed and observed firsthand. Wide area network technologies including T1/T3, Fractional T1, Frame Relay and Dialup are investigated from a performance perspective. Students gain significant hands-on familiarity with Cisco Internet-working devices including bridges, switches and routers. Students gain experience in labs designing and configuring routers and switches to overcome limitations in communication and compatibility. This course is designed for students familiar with networking technologies, multiple protocols and network administration. (prereq: MS 419 or MS 479 )
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MS 4795 - CompTia Security+ 2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
The CompTia Security+ vendor-neutral certification exam is the worldwide standard of competency for the foundation-level security practitioner. Companies that have contributed to the development of the Security+ Certification include IBM, Microsoft, Verisign, the FBI and the US Secret Service. This lab-based course covers general security topics such as access control and virus attacks, basics of cryptography, communication security for remote access, email, wireless networks, operational and organizational security, and infrastructure security. (prereq: MS 479 )
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MS 4801 - Project Management 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course is designed to expose students to the realities of project management through lecture, discussion and participation in a project meeting. It addresses the topics of people in projects, project teams and management styles, as well as the tools used to plan, track and control the outcome such as budgets, Gantt charts, work break down structures, critical path management and project wrap-ups. (prereq: junior standing)
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MS 4831 - Advanced Database Management and SQL 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course covers topics in the advanced study of database systems, including: transaction management, performance enhancement, distributed databases, security models, the Web as a presentation layer to data, XML as a standard language for data exchange, data warehouses and data mining are explored in this course. The course examines basic Structured Query Language (SQL) concepts, including an overview of Microsoft SQL Server, review of tables, stored procedures, views, and functions, basic/intermediate-level SQL query syntax, and discussion of SQL query performance. Students will develop simple SQL applications that require parameters and utilize variables and temporary tables. (prereq: MS 483 )
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MS 4951 - German Practicum 9 lecture hours 0 lab hours 9 credits
This course is required at the end of the formal studies in the exchange program with Fachhochschule Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany. The practicum and its oral defense is the culmination of the degree work, when students must complete an extensive project/internship that entails a mixture of theory and application. The intent is for students to create an interesting and challenging project that can provide high value for an organization, where the outcome is a thesis and implementation of recommendations. Projects are typically at firms with international operations. (coreq: MS 4953 and consent of instructor)
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MS 4953 - German Colloquium 3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course is required at the end of the formal studies in the exchange program with Fachhochschule Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany. It is the complement of the German Practicum experience. Students are required to have an oral defense of their thesis, and at the discretion of the review committee, a defense of their academic studies. (coreq: MS 4951 )
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MS 4970 - Practicum in Entrepreneurship 0 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
This course provides a structure from which a student engages in an entrepreneurial experience or project. Under the direction of a faculty advisor, the student is expected to develop a business plan and engage in plan execution. The business plan must feature innovation, new/improved product, new/improved service, or new/improved business process. Market viability, economic analysis, and financial impacts are expected to be demonstrated in course deliverables. (prereq: junior standing, consent of department chair)
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MS 4975 - Business Management Solutions Project 0 lecture hours 10 lab hours 3 credits
The project-based course integrates the concepts covered in the BM or IB curricula. In this course, students work under the direction of a faculty advisor to manage a business project, including the design and implementation of an appropriate solution to an identified problem. The project may include a practicum experience. Students are expected to document and present the results of their project experience. (prereq: junior standing, consent of department chair)
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MS 4977 - Management Information Systems Project 0 lecture hours 10 lab hours 3 credits
The project-based course integrates the concepts covered in the MIS curriculum. In this course, students work under the direction of a faculty advisor to manage an information systems project, including the design and implementation of an appropriate solution to an identified problem. The project may include a practicum experience. Students are expected to document and present the results of their project experience. (prereq: junior standing, consent of department chair)
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