Operations Management

This course is designed to provide a business context for project management. It is a broad-based course encompassing the role of manufacturing in a market economy and the global marketplace and the process of providing a product or service. Students will briefly examine manufacturing from a macroeconomic perspective and identify the requirements and advantages of participating in the global economy. Opportunity will be provided to examine in more detail how goods and services are produced from an operations management perspective and how project management is used to achieve business objectives. Topics include quality, process strategies, plant layout, human resources, supply-chain management and sustainability. Emphasis will be placed on illustrating the interaction of operations management decisions at all levels of operations. This course is taught as a condensed format, classes occur twice a week for the first half of the semester. The course is finished by mid-term in the semester.