Prerequisites: ACC 2304 or its equivalent
Primary focus is on accounting in manufacturing operations; cost concepts, classifications, and accounting for materials, labor, and overhead are covered; process costing, budgeting, standards costs, direct costing, and differential cost analysis are also included as topics.

This course provides an overview and introduction to the discipline of project management with an examination of the project management process and the project management life cycle. Students learn the operational framework of project management relating to the project lifecycle of project initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing in manufacturing or service organization. Course all explores quality assurance concepts and ethics. This course provides the basis for the more advanced development of project management skills in subsequent project management courses.

Course covers how to implement and use the earned value management process to establish a realistic project baseline and the strategies used to effectively monitor, measure and control cost and schedule. Topics include the purpose and management of a project baseline, the importance of organizing and defining the work to be accomplished, hot to apply effective methods for identifying, monitoring and resolving variance issues of project schedule and budgets, analyzing metrics to measure project success and how this data can be used to accurately forecast project results in calculating a range of estimates (Budget at Completion [BAC[; Estimate at Completion [EAC] and Variance at Completion [VAC]).

Course includes writing, negotiating and adhering to contracts, as well as legal and ethical considerations. Procurement, including writing, clarifying and communicating specifications is covered, with an emphasis on contract administration and dealing with subcontractors. Topics include the bidding and proposal process, types of bids (including RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, etc.) types of contracts (Cost Plus, Firm Fixed Price, Fixed Price Incentive, Time and material, etc), their respective purposes, and their potential impact on project risk, project contract negotiation and project profitability. Also included are subsequent changes in contracts and methods to resolve disputes are included.

Prerequisites: MGT 3323 and 3324 (each with a grade of C or better)
Course provides an introduction to the study concerned with the efficient and timely flow of materials, products, and information within and among organizations within a project. Operations management encompasses the planning, control and implementation of the processes used to transform inputs into finished goods and services. Supply chain management involves the integration of business process across organizations, from material sources and suppliers through manufacturing and processing for ultimate delivery of the product or service to the final customer.

Prerequisites: MGT 3334 and MGT 3336 (each with a grade of C or better)
Course covers quality assurance concepts and principles within the quality management framework in manufacturing or service organizations. Topics include how to develop performance measures, benchmarking, the contractual aspects of quality, statistical process control, process improvement, yield management, quality issues of incoming material control and quality audits.

Prerequisites: MGT 3324, 3334, 3336, 4312, and 4340 (each with a grade of C or better)
This capstone course will provide detailed, hands-on aspects related to the project management techniques that are used to manage projects. The student will learn the basic project management framework as well as the preparation of the basic project plan. Topics include critical path analysis, scheduling metrics, cost control, procurement and contracting, and schedule risk assessments (SRAs). Through exercises, students examine ways of identifying, evaluating and mitigating risk in project initiation, execution, and closure.