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ManagementCredits
Curricular Practical Training: Co-Operative Experience is a zero-credit full-time practical training experience for one summer and an adjacent fall or spring term. Special rules apply to preserve full-time student status. Please contact an advisor in your program for complete information.
- Prerequisites:
- Permission of the Chairperson of the department; co-op contract; other prerequisites may also apply.
The course focuses on business problem-solving and technology connections to business practices. Students will be equipped with the tools to design, build, and deploy applications that could serve as building blocks that logically synthesize business functional areas. This newfound ability to apply business logic will equip students with the necessary skills to design and construct business applications that fulfill the needs of both businesses and their clientele. Furthermore, students will acquire a deeper understanding of management, finance, marketing, and accounting constructs, which will prove valuable in a broad range of careers. This is a course that builds real-world applicable business critical thinking skills while teaching the students the skill of business application creation.
- Prerequisites:
- MGMT 300
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In this hands-on course, students will apply their skills to real-world consulting projects with small businesses. Working in teams, students will identify key challenges, analyze causes, and develop innovative recommendations to drive growth for their client company. Students will learn problem-solving methodologies, sharpen their analytical and creative thinking, and hone their communication and collaboration abilities. Guided by an experienced entrepreneur, students will gain practical consulting experience and valuable professional insights. The course will culminate in teams pitching their solutions to the client. Students will leave with a toolkit of best practices and a network of relationships to launch business careers.
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Students learn how to hire the best talent available using sound professional methods. Students design and present legally defensible recruiting and screening techniques for jobs they have analyzed.
- Prerequisites:
- MGMT 340
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The focus of this course is operating an effective, efficient, legal and responsible system for compensating one's employees. Includes the workings of labor markets, analyzing jobs, finding the market value for jobs, designing a pay structure, appraising performance, setting individual pay, determining benefits, occupations requiring special pay programs.
- Prerequisites:
- MGMT 340
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This course focuses on startup and post-startup venture activities. Students who have achieved proof of concept with a venture idea will find this course helpful. Students will learn to evolve a business model concept into a sustainable, scalable venture in a variety of business sectors. Topics discussed include business operations, analysis, entrepreneurial finance, growth, and exit strategies. Students will also learn to present their venture ideas to interested stakeholders. The course will allow students to have the opportunity to engage with business professionals and entrepreneurs.
Students design and deliver training by assessing client needs, defining learning outcomes, choosing effective methods, training, and evaluating results.
Special topics as requested by students.
- Prerequisites:
- MGMT 230
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This course focuses on connecting students to real-world entrepreneurs so that students can analyze current entrepreneurial issues.
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This course is designed to prepare students to design and develop personal computer based information systems for management control and decision making using end-user software including spreadsheets and data base management systems. Students will design and develop several information systems as group projects.
- Prerequisites:
- MGMT 230, MGMT 300
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Students will develop skills needed to initiate, plan, execute, control and close projects. The course will cover theories, techniques, group activities, and use of computer tools like Microsoft Project for managing projects.
MGMT 481 is an integrative course for COB majors. Its emphasis is on understanding the role of a general manager, which should include an operations and international component.
- Prerequisites:
- FINA 362, MRKT 210, MGMT 230, MGMT 346
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Students learn how to apply moral principles to analyze ethical dilemmas in business. Students also learn how to argue for or against government regulation of business. Topics covered include bribery, anti-competitive business practices, pollution, product safety, marketing ethics, employee rights, sexual harassment, discrimination and affirmative action, conflicts of interest, and insider trading.
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The course provides a foundation for leadership development by offering theoretical background, practical information, and an opportunity for self-assessment that permits students to begin or continue the development of their leadership talent. The underlying theme upon which the course is based is that the ability to lead begins with reflection and self-awareness.
This capstone course examines how the strategic management of the human resources of an organization can enhance organizational success. The course investigates how to achieve strategic congruence between an organizations strategy and HR management. Topics covered include the interrelationships among the HR disciplines, ethics, sustainability, social responsibility, the role of the HR professional, managing workforce changes, achieving competitive advantage through HR, HR performance metrics, and organizational effectiveness.
- Prerequisites:
- MGMT 340
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Professionalism is a key factor for career success. Skills such as critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making are all essential to projecting a professional image. Key competencies contribute to desirable workplace behavior. Active-listening, communicating clearly, working well in teams, taking initiative, are examples to projecting a professional image.
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The student will demonstrate and apply knowledge for this capstone course (MGMT 492) and overall BBA program into the real-world project experience. Business skills and professional development will be challenged for the student to integrate relevant knowledge through the project-based learning experience. The final written and oral presentation of the project results will demonstrate the problem-solving and critical thinking context beyond the classroom.
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Supervised experience in agribusiness or food related organizations, industry, state, or federal institutions.
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Supervised experience in business, industry, state or federal institutions. P/N only.
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Supervised experience in business, industry, state or federal institutions. Grade only.
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Manufacturing EngineeringCredits
This course is designed to provide students new to the major an opportunity to explore issues relevant to the university, department, and career field. The goal is to provide an open forum for discussion about transitioning to college life, and to promote greater self-awareness, growth, and understanding as a scholar, individual, and global citizen. Over the course of the semester, the student will investigate college and department experiences holistically, which will allow them the ability to make informed decisions paving the way for a richer, fuller college career.
The course covers a process of developing and analyzing solid parametric models for mechanical applications. Course includes solving technical design problems based on real-world applications as well as creating technical documentation: working and assembly drawings.
Fundamentals of machine technology. Basics of welding and machining are discussed. Students learn to perform machining on a lathe, mill, and drill press along with MIG welding. Extra lab time is required.
- Prerequisites:
- MFE 142. Select One Course: CHEM 191, CHEM 201
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This course covers principles of statics, resultants of coplanar force systems, equilibrium of coplanar force systems, analysis of structures, friction, centroids and centers of gravity, and area moments of inertia. Each topic is covered with specific emphasis on systems common to automotive and manufacturing environments.
- Prerequisites:
- MATH 121, PHYS 221
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