Syllabus

Financial principles, management of innovation, technical strategy, engineering project planning and control, human factors, sales and legal issues, and career planning. Case study method of instruction emphasizes participation in class discussion.

This course is a 12-unit subject. Each week, on the average, the course requires 3 hours of lecture or class discussion, 1 hour of group discussion, and 8 hours of study and preparation for the class discussion.

Course schedule: Refer to the attached Management in Engineering Course Schedule.
Textbook: A packet of readings and cases available from Graphic Arts Copy Center.

Your grade will be based on your overall attendance and performance in classes:

• A quiz
• Class attendance and 1-page write-up on each case
• Class participation
• A term group project

Approx. Breakdown (subject to minor changes):

• Quiz (30%)
  
  
• Cases (40%)
  • Attendance (20%)
  • Participation (40%)
  • Write-up / HW (40%)
    
    
• Project (30%)
  • Contents (50%)
  • Presentation (25%)
  • Team Effort (25%)