Bachelor of Technology in Management Project Management Concentration

This course introduces students to the theories and applications of accounting, finance and financial management in organizations. The course provides students with the concepts and tools needed to analyze financial information, make managerial decisions, and evaluate the effectiveness of their decisions on the financial statements and the organization’s stakeholders. Topics covered in the course include financial statement analysis, the time value of money, working capital management, and break-even analysis. Students will learn how to prepare, interpret, and analyze financial statements.

Innovation, whether borne out of a vision or a necessity, is at the core of technological advancement. Knowing how to adapt to change and present creative and unique ideas gives individuals an invaluable edge. This course will dispel some of the myths commonly associated with innovation and the successful adoption of ideas. This course offers students an immersive environment designed to allow students to appreciate and evaluate innovative ideas; offer and receive peer feedback; test and improve presentation skills as one would do in a Ted-talk styled pitch.

Teams modelling teamwork of connection, communication, and collaboration are significant assets in the workplace today. This course focuses on improving the team dynamics and performance. The course will build on the knowledge and framework of effective teams and teamwork, including team player styles, collaborative intelligence styles, strategies, and best practices for becoming effective team members and leaders. Students will build and apply their knowledge of teams and themselves throughout the course.

Organizations, communities, and individuals are experiencing interconnected challenges in ecological, social, and economic systems. This course will build awareness of the forces driving these challenges, potential future pathways, and responses that build community resilience. A focus on regenerative principles applied to practical issues will be emphasized throughout.

The Capstone Project is a six-credit senior-level research course designed to allow participants to integrate and apply skills and knowledge gained from a number of previous courses of study taken in the BTech. These skills are used to complete an applied research or design project on a real-world challenge presented by an industry sponsor. Student teams are expected to meet with sponsors during mutually agreed upon times and are required to attend the Capstone Showcase.

The Capstone Project is a six-credit senior-level research course designed to allow participants to integrate and apply skills and knowledge gained from a number of previous courses of study taken in the BTech. These skills are used to complete an applied research or design project on a real-world challenge presented by an industry sponsor. Student teams are expected to meet with sponsors during mutually agreed upon times and are required to attend the Capstone Showcase.

This course consists of a structured, disciplined study of various forms of literature and media as a basis for evaluating and critiquing social, political, economic, and environmental issues and concepts and recognizing alternative ways of knowing. The writing component focuses on high-level writing skills including analytical, persuasive, and expressive forms of communication.

Ethics and Society supports degree requirements through its high-level focus on personal, social, business, environmental, and global ethics as it relates to individual responsibilities. Students prepare to face ethical dilemmas by developing a personal code of ethics based on extensive reading and consideration of the works of acknowledged experts.

Organizations today consider leadership as essential and a primary contributor to their success. The focus of this course is to define and develop the leader within you and learn how to lead others to success. This course will examine leadership styles competencies and best practices needed to influence, inspire, and motivate oneself and others in achieving the organization’s vision, goals, and strategies. Also, the course will analyze relationship styles, competencies, and best practices used to build meaningful productive relationships with others in the work and personal life environments.

This course supports degree requirements through systematic study of project management principles, performance domains (including models, methods, tools and techniques) and best practices for effective management of projects across the full value delivery landscape. This course focuses on outcomes and principles-based approaches to managing projects. Students will learn to evaluate the effectiveness of each project performance domain through outcome-focused measures; while being able to review, discuss, adapt and respond to changes with the whole system in mind.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage projects in fast-changing environments. Students will be able to apply agile philosophy/methodology in different industries/domains including, but not limited to, technology, product development/improvement, sales and marketing, manufacturing etc. The course will provide hands-on experience to apply the agile principles, methodologies, frameworks, techniques, and tools to manage the projects.

This course is a study of the Risk Management (RM) cycle and its relationship with project management. It provides a solid foundation about risk and the RM cycle, and a detailed understanding of tools and techniques used in RM processes. The course discusses and analyses the impact of risk management on different areas of projects including budgets, project scheduling, and quality. Key topics include soft issues in risk management, risk management planning, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control.

To compete effectively and deliver value to customers in a global marketplace, a high level of product and service quality is a prerequisite. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of quality management. Students will develop the ability to synthesize methodologies for quality assurance and assessment by focusing on various quality tools and techniques and the standardization of quality management systems.

This course will provide underlying theory and practical skills for the student in conducting applied research activities including methodological approaches, information collection and literacy, and writing and presentation. These skills will prepare the student for conducting the Capstone Research Project as well as future research activities in their career.

This course focuses on students’ abilities to analyse appropriate statistical methodologies when problem solving. Students will learn to collect, organize, interpret and present data in a meaningful way. Students will also learn to use software packages such as MS Excel and others when solving statistical problems. Topics in the course will include categorical and quantitative data, probability and probability distributions, sampling theory, population parameters, confidence intervals estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-squared tests, ANOVA, and correlation and regression analysis.

Managers use accounting information to help achieve organizational goals. Students will learn how to prepare accounting information and how it can be used for planning, directing, controlling and decision-making purposes.

Innovation strategic management promotes the future sustainability of organizations. Strategic innovation creates a competitive advantage by improving their response time to market demand and enabling them to deliver greater employee and customer experience and increased revenue. In this course, students will build on the knowledge of innovative strategic management and its strategies and processes used to take innovative ideas from their inception to implementation to sustainability. Throughout the course, students will build knowledge in how to determine, develop, implement, and evaluate the necessary innovation strategies, and processes needed to lead and manage different types of innovative changes, intrapreneurship, change readiness and resistance to change. The course will also examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility with strategic innovation management strategies, processes, and practices.

Organizations depend on various business systems, functions and processes to deliver services and goods. Students will learn about activities that transform inputs into outputs as organizations create goods and services that add value to customers. The course develops an awareness of forecasting, capacity planning, constraints, scheduling, inventory, and other operational management opportunities.

The formation of strategy and its implementation helps organizations define the resources and capabilities required to compete in an ever changing environment. Students in this course will examine the latest developments in strategic theory and apply these theories to cases to identify an organization’s strategic issues and solve problems using analytical tools and techniques.

Using the principles of adult education as a foundation, this course will enable the student to develop, execute, and evaluate training experiences specifically designed for the workplace. Everything from large-group training to ongoing personal mentorship will be explored. The concept of life-long learning will be promoted as a motivator for both staff compliance with mandated education as well as personal and professional development.

Mindfulness at Work equips students with tools to thrive in times of rapid change. This practical course provides mindfulness lessons that facilitate adaptive problem-solving and creativity required to deal with today’s complex issues. Skills training includes active listening, reflective speaking, attention training, emotional regulation, self-mastery, empathy, and more. Students will build the resilience and leadership skills valued by employers.

Energy access is fundamental to the functioning of society, providing energy services such as heating, cooling, and transportation. Energy is also required to produce fertilizers, purify materials, enable communications, and power computation. These energy applications have improved the lives of billions of people. Over the millennia, humans have unlocked energy sources with greater potential, often with profound negative impacts on the global environment, potentially endangering civilization itself. Can humanity transition to lower-impact energy techniques (such as solar, wind, and energy efficiency) fast enough to avoid the worst impacts of climate change? This course will examine global energy use, the stages of energy development, and historical trends during energy transitions. Academic discussion and independent research will be used to enhance student learning.

This course provides underlying theory and practical skills in complex data visualization including design fundamentals, visual representation methods and techniques, data acquisition and formatting, and image creation and illustration. The skills will prepare the student for generating clear and concise images using programming tools as well as off-the-shelf applications. Students will not require previous programming knowledge but will be introduced to elements of programming in the course. Presenting data to both business and technically oriented audiences will also be emphasized.

Sustainability is one of the most dynamic and important topics of our time. This course takes a systemic approach to design for social, ecological, and economic evolution with a focus on regenerative development. Design and analysis concepts will focus on ways of thinking from a living systems perspective.

This course provides an overview of the purpose and role of Management Information Systems (MIS) within a business context. More specifically, the business processes supported within standard Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems will be examined. Some of the business processes that will be covered include Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Financials, Human Resources, and Production Management. Through an examination of these standard business processes, we will also come to an understanding of how a company can optimize these processes and gain a competitive advantage. An ERP system (SAP) will be used in some labs.

Students in baccalaureate degrees can engage in an instructor-guided, independent learning experience. In consultation with an assigned instructor, students carry out independent studies on special projects related to and involving the management of technology in the business, industrial, or social sector. The students, in consultation with their faculty mentor, will also be responsible for investigating, developing, and implementing a learning contract, a project proposal, and an assessment plan. The terms and conditions of this contract are determined for each student or group of students based on consultation with the instructor and permission of the Program Chair.

There is a need for leaders capable of envisioning and launching initiatives that are sustainable over the long term. Interconnected ecological, social, economic, and technological threats to sustainability will be explored with a focus on designing and implementing meaningful initiatives in these domains. Students will also develop a personal action plan to become agents of sustainable change.

Understanding and navigating differences remains an essential skill in a variety of diverse environments, from workplaces to community organizations. In this class, students will analyze the systems that shape power and privilege, their own positionality, and their capacity for change-making. Potential subjects of discussion include colonization, intersectionality, and globalization.

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) examines the biological, economic, and social impacts that are commonly associated with development activities and the means used to predict, evaluate, and mitigate impacts in human and natural environments. This course is designed to give students a thorough grounding in the theory and practices associated with an EIA including assessment of the environmental impacts of development projects, plans, and policies within the context of the regulatory decision-making process.

Organizations are looking for ways to reduce waste while increasing positive customer experiences. Students will explore key concepts, tools and techniques to reduce delays, defects and deviations in business processes. Effective processes that translate to positive customer experience while recognizing the influence of the organizational system and the relationship between Lean and Six Sigma will be discussed.