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Technology Tracks for Graduate Students
The Technology Management Program gives a competitive edge to its graduates! Students who want to specialize in one of three relevant industries have a unique opportunity to engage with top ranked faculty and guest speakers. TMP offers three technology tracks for upper level undergraduates and graduate students in the following areas: Life Sciences / Health Care; Information Technology / Telecommunications; and Energy / Sustainability. The opportunity for TMP students to specialize in one of these critical industries is a distinguishing part of the program.
Each different industry Track is composed of courses which fall into three topic areas:
1. Industry and Competitive Analysis
2. Creating Market Opportunities through Design Solutions
3. Management & Organizational Challenges
Students are encouraged to take the courses in sequence from Topic 1 through 3. The Tracks are designed to give the TMP student insight into their chosen industry, its structure, and the role of technology in transforming that industry.
| Life Sciences / Healthcare |
TOPIC 1: Industry and Competitive Analysis |
TOPIC 2: Creating Market Opportunities through Design Solutions |
TOPIC 3: Management & Organizational Challenges |
ENGR 292A: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Healthcare
and Life Sciences (2 units) Provides key analysis and management models: competitive, market and industry analyses (Porter’s Five Forces Model and SWOT analysis tools). Focuses on Life Science and Biotech companies and their unique competitive, regulatory and standards-related issues. |
ENGR 292B: Designing Solutions for Healthcare and Life Science Opportunities (2 units) Identifies specific solutions for business opportunities in the healthcare industry considering technological and market feasibility. Interaction with healthcare professionals and industry executives. |
ENGR 292C: Critical Issues in Early Stage Healthcare and Life Sciences Companies (2 units) Explores key activities that take place in a U.S. biotech company through the process of drug discovery, development, and approval. Investigates how these impact management and organizational factors critical to the successful launch of a new product or idea. |
| Information Technology / Telecommunications |
TOPIC 1: Industry and Competitive Analysis |
TOPIC 2: Creating Market Opportunities through Design Solutions |
TOPIC 3: Management & Organizational Challenges |
ENGR 293A: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in IT and Telecom (2 units) Provides key analysis and management models: competitive, market and industry analyses (Porter’s Five Forces Model and SWOT analysis tools). Focuses on IT and Telecom companies and their unique competitive, regulatory and standards-related issues. |
ENGR 293B: Designing Solutions
for
IT and Telecom (2 units) Identification of specific solutions for business opportunities in the IT and Telecom industry considering technological and market feasibility. Interaction with university researchers (developers) and industry executives. |
ENGR 293C: Critical Issues in Early Stage IT and Telecom Companies (2 units) Investigates the development cycles and regulatory issues specific to IT and Telecom companies and how these impact management and organizational factors critical to the successful launch of a new product or idea. Overview of the industry and keys to formulating a disruptive technology-based strategy. |
| Energy / Sustainability |
TOPIC 1: Industry and Competitive Analysis |
TOPIC 2: Creating Market Opportunities through Design Solutions |
TOPIC 3: Management & Organizational Challenges |
ENGR 294A: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Energy and Sustainability (2 units) Provides key analysis and management models: competitive, market and industry analyses (Porter’s Five Forces Model and SWOT analysis tools). Focuses on Energy companies and their unique competitive, regulatory and standards-related issues.
GPMP - Any course below will
also satisfy the requirement:
ESM 274: Competitive Advantage Strategies For Environmental Innovation (Winter 4 units) Competitive forces that an organization launching environmental innovations considers in devising strategies for entrepreneurial success. Technology or product benefits to society and the firm, industry and competitor analysis, production processes and nature of input supplies, identification of target markets and consumer response.
ESM 288: Energy, Technology, and the Environment (4 units) Covers the main physical principles of energy conversion and the environmental impacts related to it. Also explores the balance between resource availability and demand, and the relationship between energy use and technology.
ESM 204: Economics of Environmental Management (4 units) Environmental regulation (incentives, command, and control), asymmetric information (cost revelation and auditing), regulatory incidence, dynamics and discounting, exhaustible and renewable resources, valuation, environmental macroeconomics, trade and the environment, and comparative regulatory analysis.
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ENGR 294B: Designing Solutions for Energy and Sustainability (2 units) Identification of specific solutions for business opportunities in the Energy industry considering technological and market feasibility. Interaction with university researchers (developers) and industry executives.
GPMP - Any course below will
also satisfy the requirement:
ECE ECE 594R: Engineering Design for the Developing World (Spring 2 units) The design, development, manufacturing and marketing of technology in developing world. Consideration of available infrastructure and resources; the local culture and technological needs regarding engineering design constraints.
MAT 288P: Materials & Devices for Alternative Energy (course description forthcoming)
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ENGR 294C: Critical Issues in Early Stage Energy and Sustainability (2 units) Investigates the development cycles and regulatory issues specific to Energy companies and how these impact management and organizational factors critical to the successful launch of a new product or idea.
GPMP - Any course below will
also satisfy the requirement:
ESM 210: Business and the Environment (Fall 4 units) Introduces students to business objectives and structure and discusses new business models and tools that incorporate principles of environmental management and corporate performance. It highlights corporate strategies that deliver value to shareholders while responding to environmental concerns.
ESM 281: Corporate Environmental Management (4 units) Prepares students to use creatively conceptual tools and management strategies to improve the environmental performance of firms. Corporate, societal, and political barriers to implementing these innovative strategies will be analyzed and methods for overcoming these constraints discussed.
ESM 289: Green Supply Chain Management (4 units) Course combines the theories of supply chain management and industrial ecology to explore the environmental and economic performances of production and consumption systems and develop and apply the evaluation methods and management tools necessary to green supply chains.
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