Enterprise courses are designed to support your Enterprise Team work and also to help you look forward to your professional goals and endeavours. Below are brief course descriptions; additional information, including prerequisites, scheduling, and course offerings are available on the Student Records & Registration site.
ENG 2950 - Enterprise Orientation-Fall An orientation for students to their specific enterprise. Covers enterprise specific topics but should include organizational structure; past, present, and future projects and their results; an evaluation of learning and personality preferences; and exploring the MTU challenge course. Credits: 1.0
ENG 2960 - Enterprise Project Work I Interdisciplinary teams work as part of an engineering enterprise to address real-world engineering design projects or problems. Second- year students are responsible for achieving some prescribed objectives and performing critical analysis of data. Credits: 1.0
ENG 2961 - Teaming in the Enterprise Develops group problem-solving skills. Stresses interpersonal skills and skill assessment, communication, group process and teamwork, and action planning. Uses active, hands-on learning. Credits: 2.0
ENG 2962 - Communication Contexts An introduction to the demands of technical and professional communication in workplace settings, through analyzing project design team experiences. Credits: 1.0
ENG 2963 - Practical Electronic Circuit Design and Fabrication This is a hands-on laboratory course that focuses on practical implementation of electronic circuits, especially for students enrolled in the Enterprise Program. Topics include grounding, wiring, analog/digital circuits, power supplies, EMC, board layout/fab/test, soldering, safety and instrumentation. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3401/EC 3401 - Economic Decision Analysis I For students who want to take EC3400 in modules. Covers techniques for effective decision making related to the time value of money. Covers interest-rate calculations, loan repayments, and basic decision tools for comparing alternatives (present and annual worth, rate-of-return, etc.). Taught in the first five weeks of EC3400. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3402/EC 3402 - Economic Decision Analysis II For students who want to take EC3400 in modules. Deepens coverage of principles and techniques for making effective decisions by introducing benefit and cost estimation, depreciation and taxation, and project evaluation. Taught during the second five weeks of EC3400. Credits: 1.0 Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0) Semesters Offered: Fall Spring Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman Sophomore Prerequisites: (EC 3401(C) or ENG 3401(C)) and UN 2002
ENG 3403/EC 3403 - Economic Decision Analysis III For students who want to take EC3400 in modules. Provides an understanding of the setting in which effective decisions are made. Covers business organization, financial statements, risk and uncertainty, project and business financing, and capital budgeting. Taught during the third five weeks of EC3400. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3950 - Enterprise Project Work II Interdisciplinary teams work as part of an engineering enterprise to address real-world engineering design projects or problems. Third-year students will practice designing approaches to solve problems and develop procedures to achieve specified project objectives. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3954 - Enterprise Market Principles Fundamental principles of marketing in a lecture format augmented by a simulation played in small groups. The course is completed in two day-long Saturday sessions separated by one week. Examines marketing in the six stages of product life cycle (opportunity identification, product development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline). Credits: 1.0
ENG 3955 - Conceptual Design and Creative Problem Solving Students gain an understanding of the creative problem-solving process through application to a team design project. This module should be taken prior to students undertaking a major team project in their engineering enterprise or as E-teams (NCIIA). Credits: 1.0
ENG 3956 - Industrial Health and Safety Instruction of health and safety in engineering practice. Integrates the study of health and safety regulations, risks, and potential for improvement. Also covers the tremendous financial, ethical, and public relations implications of disregarding this critical aspect of engineering. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3957 - Product/Process Development I Course provides an overview of the major activities involved in developing a product or service which will satisfy the customer. Introduces major engineering tools used for team-based integrated product/process development (IPPD) such as project management, benchmarking, quality function deployment, process flow charting, cost analysis, and failure modes and effects analysis. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3958 - Ethics in Engineering Design and Implementation The focus of this course is on ethical considerations in the engineering design and implementation process. Basic ethical analysis tools will be explored through various exercises. Students will analyze and present life engineering ethics case studies. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3960 - Enterprise Project Work III Interdisciplinary teams work as part of an engineering enterprise to address real-world engineering design projects or problems. Third-year students practice designing approaches to solve problems and develop procedures to achieve specified project objectives. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3961 - Enterprise Strategic Leadership This 1-credit module focuses on exploring research findings about leadership, the practice of leadership, and providing skill assessment and development opportunities. Topics include leadership traits, behaviors, theories, and leadership of change. Combines a variety of teaching methods, including self-assessment, cases, discussion, experiential exercises, role-playing, videotaping. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3962 - Communication Strategies Drawing on the broad understanding of workplace communication developed in ENG2962, students will learn and practice strategies for effective oral and written communications in technical and professional settings. Emphasis is on audience adaptation of technical information and on achieving clearly specified purposes. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3963 - Enterprise Entrepreneurship This course emphasizes the financial, marketing, and technological challenges faced by entrepreneurs. The course will help the student learn how to establish a business plan and assess opportunistic risk for new business ventures. Alternative product and/or process innovations can be evaluated and implemented. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3964 - Project Management Project definition, developing a work breakdown structure, responsibility assignment and milestone development. Covers techniques for project scheduling and practical application of Gannt and PERT/CPM charts; resource management and application of critical chain method; project budgeting and cost estimation; project monitoring, control, evaluation, and termination; and project teams, their structure, and interactions. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3965 - Material Flow in an Industrial Society Introduction to material flow, recycling, and pollution. Covers regulation of material flow and pollution; flow diagrams for specific industries, i.e., paper mill, power plant, steel, aluminum, cement, fertilizer; global warming components of basic industries; interdependence on basic industrial material flow from each other; and development of regional/national material flow diagrams. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3966 - Design for Manufacturing This course supplements courses that address "design for function." Products "designed for manufacturing" are lower cost, higher quality, and have a shorter time to market. The course describes how the capabilities and limitations of common manufacturing processes translate into qualitative design guidelines. Topics include design for casting, forging, sheet metal forming, machining, plastics and assembly. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3967 - Product/Process Development II This course provides an overview of the major activities involved in developing a product or service which will satisfy the customer. The course introduces major engineering tools used for team-based integrated product/process development (IPPD) such as cost-effective development of manufacturing processes including lean manufacturing, statistical process control, design of experiments, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing and poka-yoke (mistake proofing). Credits: 1.0
ENG 3968 - Manufacturing Processes and Simulation The focus of this course is on manufacturing techniques used in engineering practice. Covers an overview of classical manufacturing processes and the modeling of these processes by use of simulation software. Mass production assembly line systems as well as highly variable hand assembly systems and queuing theory will be discussed. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3969 - Project Phases of Design and Implementation The focus of this course is on the various project phases associated with the manufacture or construction of engineering design solutions. Roles, relationships and duties of various parties and their changing activities will be explored from an overall perspective of the management of the project. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3970 - Enterprise Special Topics For the development of new, junior-level instructional modules in support of the engineering enterprise. Credits: 1.0
ENG 3971 - Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Focuses on personal and professional effectiveness through greater productivity, increased influence in key relationships, stronger team unity and complete life balance. This course will explore these areas through interactive exercises, case studies, videos, and sharing of experiences. Credits: 1.0
ENG 4950 - Enterprise Project Work IV Interdisciplinary teams work as part of an engineering enterprise to address real-world engineering design projects or problems. Fourth- year students gain experience in defining project objectives, planning strategies to achieve these objectives, and leading technical teams to accomplish project goals. Credits: 2.0
ENG 4951 - Budgeting-Intrapreneurial Engineering Introduction to the mechanics and dynamics of the financial budgeting process. Emphasizes their use in planning and evaluating engineering projects and enterprises. Topics and activities include budget preparation, performance assessment, and emerging issues analysis. Credits: 1.0
ENG 4952 - Complex Communication Practices Students apply strategies and knowledge learned in ENG2962 and ENG3962 to the achievement of more complex communication practices demanded in technical and professional settings. Emphasizes creating professional identities, management communication skills, and responsible messages within teams and organizations and for a variety of technical and nontechnical audiences. Credits: 1.0
ENG 4953 - Writing About Engineering in a Societal Context Engineering projects take place within overlapping political, social, economic, and cultural contexts, and these contexts affect and are affected by engineering work. Students reflect upon the variety of cultural perspectives that could be brought to bear on present and future projects as professionals. Credits: 1.0
ENG 4954 - Global Competition Emphasizes unique economic, market, and political risks faced by organizations as operations expand beyond domestic borders. Discusses establishing risk profiles to analyze new labor, product, capital markets on a global scale and appropriate market entry strategies. Small teams will do a risk profile and recommend market entry strategies for selected countries. Credits: 1.0
ENG 4955 - Concurrent Engineering (or Fasttracking) and Project Data Management Concurrent engineering or "fasttracking" project delivery is when the product or project is designed while being built or manufactured. The advantages and disadvantages of concurrent engineering will be discussed. Credits: 1.0
ENG 4960 - Enterprise Project Work V Interdisciplinary teams work as part of an engineering enterprise to address real-world engineering design projects or problems. Fourth- year students gain experience defining project objectives, planning strategies to achieve these objectives, and leading technical teams to accomplish project goals. Credits: 2.0
ENG 4970 - Enterprise Special Topics For the development of new, senior-level instructional modules in support of the engineering enterprise. Credits: 1.0