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This course provides a broad view of entrepreneurship. Topics include the business plan, raising money for a new venture, assessing the riskiness of new businesses and the unique management challenges of startups.

Social entrepreneurship involves using the skills and strategies of business to innovatively and sustainably solve social, environmental, and economic problems. As a result, this course will help students identify and create business opportunities that have positive social impacts.

Modeling, analysis and optimization of the logistics involved in production and delivery of goods and services. Topics include facility location, routing and transportation, inventory management, and supply chain strategies.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of managing engineering and technical projects. Covered topics align with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK?) developed by the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI) and include the five (5) major project management process groups: initiation, project planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. A particular focus of this course will be equipping the student with the important nontechnical skills (i.e. soft skills) needed in leading projects and project teams.

This course is designed to familiarize graduate students with necessary skills to conduct engineering research, including its design, methods, and analyses. It will introduce and cover the following topics: identifying and selecting research questions, objectives, and hypotheses; conducting a literature review; selecting the appropriate research methods; analyzing the results using statistics in the R statistical environment; and writing a research plan or report. Students will also learn about the ethics of conducting engineering research.

The course will provide an introduction to the systematic design, fabrication, testing and documentation process that is required for the commercial development of medical devices, suitable for eventual regulatory approval. The course will dissect how manufacturing, mechanical design and clinical considerations contribute to medical device development. We will focus on devices used for image guided cancer therapy, where 2 devices will be examined over course of the semester.

Innovation in materials, IT, manufacturing and intelligent techniques is propelling the revolution of manufacturing industry. The integration of the innovative materials and artificial intelligent (AI) and sensing techniques in manufacturing processes, called Industry 4.0, is bringing lower cost and higher quality products to our life and changing our life.

Kinetics and Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Newton's laws, work-energy and impulse-momentum principles, laws of linear and angular momentum, conservation of momentum, planar motion of rigid bodies, and introduction to vibration of single-degree-of-freedom systems.

Stochastic models including discrete time Markov chains, continuous time Markov processes, Markov decision processes, queuing theory, dynamic programming and their application to manufacturing and service sector engineering processes.