Subject: IIME

Term: Fall 2017

IIME 411: New Venture Finance (100/11180)

MW 12:45-02:00 PM Aug 28-Dec 08

Shane, S

IIME 411 is crossed-listed with ECON 312/ENTP 310 on M/W from 12-2:45 PM.

IIME 413: Strategic Intelligence for Technology Commercialization (100/11275)

S 08:00-11:00 AM Sep 09-Sep 09, S 08:00-04:00 PM Sep 16-Sep 16, S 08:00-04:00 PM Sep 30-Sep 30, S 08:00-04:00 PM Oct 14-Oct 14, S 08:00-04:00 PM Oct 28-Oct 28, S 08:00-04:00 PM Nov 11-Nov 11, S 08:00-11:00 AM Dec 02-Dec 02

Thiele, T

Managers do things right; leaders do the right things. This course unpacks a toolbox of strategic planning methodologies and uses workshops to investigate how each can help identify the right thing to do.

IIME 425: Understanding People and Change in Organizations (100/4218)

M 09:00-11:45 AM Aug 28-Dec 08

Stephens, J

This course is intended to help students assess events occurring in organizations from a behavioral and human resources perspective and to help them develop strategies for managing these events. The course applies knowledge from the fields of organizational behavior and human resource management to provide an understanding and the skills needed to be effective in organizations. The fields of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management are devoted to the study of how human beings act in organized settings and how organizations can affect human behavior through a variety of policies, practices, structures, and strategies. In today's environment, organizations are faced with high levels of international competition and an increasing pace of technological, market, and social changes. As an organizational member, you are expected to successfully operate within these increasingly complex demands as well as help create and guide change. The purpose of this course is to provide you with the framework and tools needed to analyze and operate in the changing organization. We will examine some of the features that characterize an emerging organizational form and contrast this to its traditional predecessor. The focus of the course will be on the skills you will need to operate in the "new" organization including skills for being a change agent working in entry level and early career managerial roles. Recommended preparation: Accredited Bachelor's in Engineering plus summer job experience.

IIME 430A: Product and Process Design, Development, and Delivery I (100/4219)

T 08:30-11:15 AM Aug 28-Dec 08

Nambisan, S; Drummond, C

An integrated approach to the teaching of the complex relationship of customer to designer and to manufacturer, this course will be team taught by faculty from WSOM and CSE, with participation of corporate representatives sponsoring projects for the teams. The course will be built on a series of projects, each emphasizing different aspects of the product/process design experience, selected to provide exposure to a wide variety of entrepreneurial activities. The project activities are expected to promote the development of realistic activities of cross-functional teams. Recommended preparation: Accredited Bachelor's in Engineering plus summer job experience.

IIME 440: Six Sigma and Quality Management (100/4220)

W 09:00-11:45 AM Aug 28-Dec 08

Kabirian, A

The Six Sigma process is the standard for quality improvement in organizations around the globe. In this course, we study the details of the five steps in the Six Sigma process: DEFINE, MEASURE, ANALYZE, IMPROVE, and CONTROL (DMAIC). We introduce the concept of sustainability into the criteria to use to evaluate proposed solutions during the Six Sigma process. Many tools, concepts, and processes that are often an integral part of Six Sigma projects in companies are included in the course content. They range from the very basic tools of quality (such as cause-and-effect diagrams for brainstorming) to complete processes (such as benchmarking, quality function deployment, failure mode and effects analysis-FMEA). Statistical concepts that are central to Six Sigma including statistical process control and introduction design of experiments are also included. Once the Six Sigma process and its various components are understood, we study quality management including quality control, quality planning, quality improvement, strategic quality management, and quality strategy. Students meeting the required standards of performance will earn a Green Belt Certification in Six Sigma and Quality Management from the Weatherhead School of Management.

IIME 450: Engineering Entrepreneurship (100/11069)

W 06:00-08:45 PM Aug 28-Dec 08

Kapadia, F

Entrepreneurship is an area of importance to business leaders, educators, politicians, and individual members of the society. It is a driver of economic development and wealth creation in organizational units ranging in size from the individual company to entire nations. Technology-based entrepreneurship is particularly important to economic development due to its impact on productivity (innovations in action) and its potential for exponential growth. This course will emphasize and explore a variety of issues related to innovation and entrepreneurship, demonstrating that there are not many "absolute truths," but there are numerous best practices. Successful students will conclude this course with new knowledge about opportunity analysis and insight on entrepreneurship & innovation, as well as having demonstrated measurable improvement in their critical thinking skills. This course is one-semester version of a course taught alternatively as a two-semester course. Recent growth in CWRU curricula centered on entrepreneurship and related subjects enables students to specialize in, say, wealth creation, leadership, and finance topics once included under the broader two-semester umbrella. The current Fall version of the course culminates with student projects and presentations on opportunity analysis.

IIME 470: Independent Projects (100/4380)

Drummond, C

This course is designed for students wishing to expand experiential learning opportunities at the interface of engineering and management. Preferred focus areas in entrepreneurship and opportunity assessment, product design and development, and manufacturing planning and management. Project ideas along with milestone, deliverables, and potential corporate clients need to be arranged in advance.

IIME 473: Fundamentals of Clinical Information Systems (100/4762)

T 06:00-09:00 PM Aug 28-Dec 08

Drummond, C

Cross-listed with EBME 473 and SYBB 421