Courses given by the Department of Engineering Management
| Course Code | Course Name | METU Credit | Contact (h/w) | Lab (h/w) | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EM501 | MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AND ENGINEERING ECONOMICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentBasics of financial accounting; preparation of financial documents. Inventory valuation and depreciation methods. Definition of costs; costing techniques. Economic analysis for engineering and managerial decision making. Interest and time value of money. Economic Equivalence; methods for evaluating alternatives. Economic analysis in public sector. Inflation and its impacts. | |||||
| EM502 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentCapacity and technology selection, facility location, plant organization (layout), material handling systems, plant management. Structure of service producing systems. Basic design and operational concepts in service and process selection, capacity planning, facility planning, work design, aggregate service planning, scheduling, service quality and information systems. | |||||
| EM503 | SYSTEMS AND ORGANISATIONS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFocus on foundations of management, covering the essential concepts in management like planning, organizing, leading and controlling with a strong practical orientation. A systemic approach to organizational structures considering environmental hierarchy around contemporary organizations and modern-day constraints like environmental concerns. Study of change phenomenon in organizations as a result of environmental and internal forces. Analysis and design of information systems as meshed with organizational design. Basic information concepts, data processing technology and its applications. Information systems development methodology in terms of systems analysis, design and implementation. Use of decision support systems and expert systems. | |||||
| EM505 | DECISION MODELS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to methodology of deterministic decision models. Kuhn-Tucker conditions of optimality. Linear programming using simplex method. Duality theory. The dual simplex method and post optimality analysis. Parametric linear programming. The transportation algorithm. Transshipment and assignment problems. Integer programming models and an introduction to enumerative algorithms. | |||||
| EM506 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentPrinciples of project management. Representation of project operations: project breakdown, network representation and terminology, network data. Network planning with respect to costs and durations: critical path analysis, linear time cost trade-off analysis. Resource-constrained network planning, resource scheduling, resource leveling. Financial planning and cost control in project systems. Prerequisite: EM 505 | |||||
| EM516 | LOGISTICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroducing Logistics Systems. Logistics Network Design. Distribution Strategies. Transportation Operations and Management. Order Management. Inventory Management (coordinated replenishments, multi-echelon systems). | |||||
| EM517 | BUSINESS ECONOMICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentA review of quantitative microeconomics theory covering demand, production and market structures. A selection of medium to long term issues such as competition and pricing. Concepts of equilibrium and welfare. Modern topics in industrial economics such as the transaction cost and property rights approaches and government regulation. | |||||
| EM520 | MANAGEMENT INFO.&DECISION SUPPORT SYST. | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIndividual and organizational decision making. Normative and behavioral models of decision making. Utility functions. Basic concepts of DSS. Data collection, database management, modeling support user interface design issues. EIS, ES, intelligent DSS. Integration of MSS. Basics of modeling, model building blocks. Implementation issues. Prerequisite: EM 503 | |||||
| EM521 | APPLIED STATISTICS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentBasic concepts of probability and statistics, computer aided exploration and analysis of data, and empirical model building for engineering management. Descriptive statistics, random sampling, probability distribution fitting, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression analysis. | |||||
| EM522 | DATA MINING FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to date mining.Date mining process. Selecting and preparing data.Knowledge representation. Data mining techniques and evaluating the models.Key methods in business decision-making context. Case studies. | |||||
| EM523 | MONTE CARLO SIMULATION FOR OPERATIONS ANALYSIS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to Monte Carlo simulation. Principles of simulation modeling. The design and analysis of simulation models. Performing Monte Carlo simulations via Excel spreadsheet models. Use of simulation as a decision tool. Monte Carlo simulation applications in the areas of production and service systems. Statistical analysis of simulation input and output data. Case studies. | |||||
| EM532 | FINANCE FOR ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentFundamental concepts of financial management; objectives, tasks and decisions made by financial managers. Asset valuation, market efficiency, risk and return analysis, bond and stock valuation, asset pricing models. Prerequisite: EM 501 | |||||
| EM534 | SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentDecision making and information management issues in supply chains with emphasis on integrating procurement, operations, and logistics stages, from raw material to customer demand. | |||||
| EM590 | SEMINAR | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 10.0 |
Course ContentThis seminar is designed to promote research interest in various areas of EM. Masters students must register and fulfill departmental requirements of the seminar. | |||||
| EM599 | TERM PROJECT | 0 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 20.0 |
Course ContentA term project on engineering management topics carried out under the supervision of a project advisor. Project topics are announced by the department at the beginning of each semester. Students are required to submit a written report at the end of the semester. | |||||
| EM726 | TOPICS IN EM: PROBABILISTIC DECISION MODELS | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentIntroduction to probability; Markov chains and applications, decision making under uncertainty with applications; reliability of a system with components; lifetime distributions. | |||||
| EM727 | INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT | 1 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.0 |
Course ContentScience, History of engineering, Scientific management movement, Engineering ethics, Systems approach, Manufacturing and service systems, Decision making problems. | |||||
| EM728 | APPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT | 1 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.0 |
Course ContentResearch topics in Engineering Management. Decision making problems and their solutions in manufacturing and service systems. | |||||
| EM729 | SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | 3 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 8.0 |
Course ContentLinks the environmental performance of a company with business decisions and profitability. Major environmental issues (global warming, pollution, health risks and etc.) facing businesses and society at large. Changing business philosophy (e.g.,3BL). Tradeoff or synergy between environmental and business performance. Environmentally-driven business decisions related with regulations, marketing, social responsibility, and profitability. Carbon footprinting. Green supply chain management. Design for environment. Servitization. Closed-loop supply chains. | |||||