The course combines small group meetings, lecture, clinical correlations, problem-based learning, and problem-solving sessions in providing an understanding of the relationship of human genetics to human health and disease. Close integration with biochemistry topics provides a better picture of how biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology contribute to normal human development and medicine. Lecture, 20 hours per week.
This course introduces students to the principles, tools and best practices of business intelligence and data visualization to enable the analysis of business data to improve decisions and performance. The course provides students with hands-on experience using appropriate software to create visual displays of quantitative data - in reports, graphs, charts, maps, stories and dashboards -- to facilitate communication of actionable insights for managerial decision-making.
This course is an advanced introduction to the complexities of managing production and inventory systems. An enterprise's success in today's highly-competitive, often-global business environment, depends on effectively managing its production activities and the related inventories at various production-process stages. Because such decisions are invariably tied to demand forecasts, the course begins with an examination of forecasting.
This course is an advanced treatment of two related concepts that are vital to the success of an enterprise; quality and productivity. As a key ingredient of competitive strategy, quality encompasses many attributes of a product or service - such as its design, its features, fit and finish, durability, safety, and customer treatment. In highly competitive settings, a firm that achieves and sustains high quality levels for its goods and/or services, while remaining at least as efficient as competitors in processes used to produce these outputs, tends to outperform its competitors.
Examines the analytical, decision making, and planning concepts and tools available to market/product/brand managers. Specific decisions to be addressed include: product policy formulation, the selection of product market strategies, new product development, product-line modifications and deletions, and organizational implications.
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of professional selling and sales management. In terms of professional selling, the course focuses on asking questions to understanding customer problems and developing solutions to these problems. Additional topics include prospecting, overcoming objections, and obtaining commitment. These concepts will be reinforced by extensive role playing of various real-life sales situations.
The purpose of the course is to broaden and apply the conceptual system of marketing to the marketing problems of service and nonprofit organizations. Concepts such as marketing mix, marketing segmentation, market positioning, channels of distribution and others will be applied to the problems of service and nonprofit organizations.
Principles of underground excavations designs related to metallic, coal and industrial mineral deposits including underground mine layouts, stability of the underground excavations, material handling and drainage control. Underground mine planning and scheduling, equipment selection, and cost estimation.
Evaluation and design of ground control plans for various mining conditions through the use of several computer programs with an emphasis placed on sedimentary tabular deposits. Variables including pillar stress, pillar strength, convergence, and others are investigated.
Study of packaging sysems which interconnect, support, power, cool, protect, and maintain electronic components. The course will address systems at the chip, board, and product levels. Topics include design, properties, materials, manufacture, and performance of various packaging systems. Laboratory will provide familiarity with design software and production equipment and processes.
