Postgraduate Courses

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Develop project management skills including planning and control.
• 2.
  Develop effective communication skills including how to hold effective meetings.
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  Develop people management skills including leadership, motivation techniques, conflict resolution techniques and persuasion.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define the role of Production/Operations Management in any organization.
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  Recognize the importance of effective production and operations strategy to an organization.
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  Identify key concepts and issues relevant to the production planning, and operations of manufacturing/service firms.
• 4.
  Describe how JIT and MRP systems are used in managing operations.
• 5.
  Apply mathematical forecasting techniques.
• 6.
  Develop quantitative and qualitative skills for the analysis of the operations problems.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Plan and schedule logistics operations in different modes.
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  Use mathematical models to optimize logistics operations.
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  Calculate and analyze traffic equilibrium.
• 4.
  Identify the challenges and opportunities in the logistics industry.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Apply basic quality engineering methods.
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  Use Six Sigma tools for the simultaneous improvement of quality, cost, customer satisfaction and time to market.
• 3.
  Implement Six Sigma using DMAIC methodologies.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Examine a variety of product-development related activities.
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  Analyze key development processes and managerial tasks.
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  Describe the user-centered design process for products and services.
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  Protect product ideas and designs.
• 5.
  Explore methods for systematic innovation.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Apply conceptual frameworks to identify the key supply chain issues in a global firm.
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  Use inventory control and techniques to efficiently manage inventory and reduce inventory-related costs.
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  Analyze uncertainty and risk faced with a real supply chain firm and know how to reduce uncertainty and manage risk.
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  Design supply chain contracts to align the interests of each party of the supply chain and improve the performance of the entire supply chain.
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  Identify the key issues which lead to effective partnering relationships and develop the outsourcing strategies for a firm.
• 6.
  Evaluate the effectiveness of supply chain management for a firm and propose solutions for improvement. 

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Compare the strategic values and limitations of enterprise systems.
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  Discuss the basic concepts and practices of process-oriented management in a global, competitive environment.
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  Define the skills and knowledge to successfully implement an enterprise system in organizations.
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  Identify the new development of ERP software and applications for facilitating e-business.
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  Demonstrate examples of business process integration through the use of ERP core applications and modules.
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  Identify the tangible benefits of enterprise integration for decision making using ERP in a simulated environment.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define elements of probability.
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  Analyze randomness by using general probability theory.
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  Identify a range of widely used special random variables.
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  Explain and apply limiting theorems in probability.
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  Describe and summarize data sets.
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  Describe distributions of sampling statistics.
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  Analyze data sets statistically by using parameter estimation, hypothesis testing and regression.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Make a trade-off between revenue and cost in engineering design.
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  Calculate and interpret the equivalence for a given cash flow.
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  Evaluate the economic merit of an engineering project.
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  Compare and make selections among multiple engineering projects.
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  Handle uncertainty and risk in engineering analysis.
• 6.
  Analyze and evaluate a real engineering project.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe and evaluate a broad range of activities in planning, organizing and controlling service operations.
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  Design, measure, and improve service quality, customer experience and satisfaction.
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  Discuss specific customer service problems and challenges in service operations.
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  Competently diagnose different operational issues in the service delivery process and service encounter.
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  Formulate and evaluate the function of the service operations management and use the case study approach to illustrate its contribution to the competitive service strategy.
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  Develop or advance a new service business concept or idea and its corresponding operations.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define how financial market works.
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  Describe basic principles of risk management.
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  Explain how financial engineering can be applied in reality.
• 4.
  Analyze simple real financial engineering problems qualitatively.
• 5.
  Solve certain real financial engineering problems quantitatively.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe and differentiate between the types of E-Commerce models.
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  Understand and implement web-based sessions and secure communications.
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  Collect information from the internet via crawling.
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  Implement basic analytical tools such as dimensionality reduction, regression, classification and clustering for E-Commerce applications.
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  Identify basics of visualizations for data processing and communication.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Develop team management, communication, and networking skills.
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  Stimulate new ideas, and solve complex problems.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify new trends in global enterprise management problems.
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  Apply basic engineering management techniques to analyze special topics occurred in current enterprise management.
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  Explore the cutting-edge technology and management ideas to stay abreast of changes of modern enterprise management. 

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identity a research or industrial problem related to engineering management.
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  Apply the knowledge learned through the program to analyze and solve the identified problem.
• 3.
  Apply project management skills to finish a project independently. 
• 4.
  Demonstrate effective communication skills with the supervisor and scientific writing skills in the thesis.