Engineering Management 1 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Programs • Engineering Management, Master of Engineering Management The part-time Engineering Management program prepares ethically (https://e-catalogue.jhu.edu/engineering/engineering-professionals/ grounded, technically competent professional leaders with the technical, engineering-management/engineering-management-master/) managerial, and leadership skills to produce innovative solutions to technical organizations’ challenges. While management courses Courses serve as the core of the program at Johns Hopkins Engineering for EN.595.660. Planning and Managing Projects. 3 Credits. Professionals, students work within specialty tracks that span various This course concentrates on the general methodology of managing engineering disciplines or within a technical leadership track. The tracks a technical project from concept to operational use, with emphasis provide for graduate-level work giving students a unique opportunity on the functions, roles, and responsibilities of the project manager. to mix their chosen track with engineering management perspectives. Topics include career aspects of project management; business factors For students pursuing a career in the systems acquisition, systems affecting the project and the manager; project organization, planning, development, or a production domain as a project manager, program execution, and communications; project life cycle; risk analysis; interface manager, or aspirations for general management, the Technical management; design review; design control assessment; reporting; and Leadership track is oriented for you. For the functional manager who reaction to critical problems. Students are formed into groups, presented wants to further develop a mix of management and technical skills, with a scenario that simulates the development of a high-technology the specialty tracks advance technical skills in your chosen area while system, and assigned to make decisions required of the project manager enhancing your ability to manage and supervise technical personnel. in the execution of the project. The project manager’s decisions must The curriculum provides a unique opportunity to build both technical then be effectively communicated (and perhaps defended) to a variety of and leaderships skills in order to contribute to a multi-disciplinary audiences (represented by other students and faculty) that include top engineering management team. Instructors are experienced technical management, the customer, functional management, and members of the leaders and executives who discuss real-world challenges in formats that project team. Course Note(s): The format for this course is either online are convenient for professionals working at the nation’s top engineering or a mixed online/live environment called Virtual Live. For the Virtual Live firms and R&D organizations. format, weekly lectures are provided either online or live (and recorded) Tracks offered: Applied Biomedical Engineering; Applied and on a predesignated day/time, with students/instructors joining in person Computational Mathematics; Applied Physics; Civil Engineering; or from any location via personal computer. Students can also choose Computer Science; Cybersecurity; Data Science; Electrical and to participate in person, in a classroom, at the predesignated day/time. Computer Engineering; Healthcare Systems Engineering; Information Contact the instructors for additional information. (Formerly 595.660 Systems Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical Introduction to Project Management.) Engineering; Structural Engineering; Space Systems Engineering; EN.595.662. Technical Organization Management. 3 Credits. Systems Engineering; and Technical Leadership. This course reviews the challenges of group management and personnel management in a technical organization. Students examine core Courses are offered primarily in the distant learning environment. A few functions of a technical group-level manager for planning, organizing, courses are available in person at the Applied Physics Laboratory. controlling, and leading. The course introduces topics relevant to technical group managers, including ethical leadership, team building, Engineering Management Program innovation environment, customer responsiveness, recruiting, hiring, Committee compensation, delegation, motivation, performance management, conflict management, and organizational learning. Students address Dr. Tim Galpin typical organization management situations and apply concepts to Program Chair address expectations and challenges for a group-level manager in a JHU Whiting School of Engineering technical organization. Rick Blank Prerequisite(s): EN.595.660 Planning & Managing Projects Program Manager EN.595.665. Strategic Communications in Technical Organizations. 3 JHU Whiting School of Engineering Credits. This course covers problems and instruction in human communications Ann Kedia within a technical organization. Topics include the nature of difficulties in Principal Professional Staff human communications (perception and cognition, semantics, individual JHU Applied Physics Laboratory differences in processing information, and listening), techniques for effective oral and written communications and presentations, problems Dan Regan in communication between supervisors and subordinates, assignment Director, Federal Healthcare Business Development of work, and reporting to management and sponsors. Students assume CACI International, Inc. roles in various interpersonal situations, meetings, discussions, and Dr. Pamela Sheff conflicts calling for a supervisor to write letters and memoranda; they Director, Master of Science in Engineering Management Program also deliver oral presentations and participate in group and one-on- JHU Whiting School of Engineering one discussions. This course also includes writing winning proposals and developing a technical strategy aligned with the organization’s business Stas Tarchalski strategy. Director, IBM (retired) Prerequisite(s): EN.595.660 Planning and Managing Projects 2 Engineering Management EN.595.676. Finance, Contracts, and Compliance for Technical EN.595.740. Assuring Success of Aerospace Programs. 3 Credits. Professionals. 3 Credits. Technical managers, systems engineers, lead engineers, and mission This course introduces the technical manager to all aspects of business assurance professionals will benefit from this course, which focuses management within an organization, ranging from tactical project on the leadership of system safety and mission assurance activities planning and control, and contract management to higher level corporate throughout the life cycle of a project to achieve mission success. This financial and legal topics. Students will be guided through weekly advanced course provides crucial lessons learned and proven best topics in the areas of planning a project, scheduling, tracking and practices that technical managers need to know to be successful. The the evaluation/assessment of a project. It will also cover contractual integrated application of mission assurance and systems engineering considerations for the technical manager. The course will move from principles and techniques is presented in the context of aerospace managerial business management to financial accounting topics such programs and is also applicable to other advanced technology research as direct and indirect costs, revenues, and profits; indices to financial and development programs. Students discuss critical risk-based decision position; use of financial reports; return on investment, net present making required from system concept definition and degree auditing value; internal rate of return; and financial management (including through design, procurement, manufacturing, integration and test, cash and funds flow statements). Finally, this course will also use launch, and mission operations. Experiences shared by senior aerospace the management approaches and practices above and apply them leaders and extensive case studies of actual mishaps explore quality to the world of contracting and legal analysis. Tactical contracting management topics relevant to aircraft, missiles, launch vehicles, principles, including acquisition planning, contract award, performance, satellites, and space vehicles. The course addresses contemporary and termination will be covered. Basic legal principles that a senior leadership themes, government policies, and aerospace industry trends technical leader will encounter in their career will also be presented. in mission assurance requirements, organizational structure, knowledge Course discussions cover corporations and partnerships, professional sharing and communication, independent review, audit, and assessment. liability, risk management, intellectual property negotiations, and ethics Mission assurance disciplines covered include risk management, are presented for students to recognize issues that are likely to arise in system safety, reliability engineering, software assurance, supply the engineering profession and introduces them to the complexities and chain management, parts and materials, configuration management, vagaries of the legal profession. requirements verification and validation, non-conformance, and anomaly Prerequisite(s): EN.595.660 Planning and Managing Projects tracking and trending.Course Note(s): This course is cross-listed with EN.595.701. Product and Supply Chain Management for Technical EN.675.740 Professionals. 3 Credits.