Digital Solutions Management (Optional Co-op)

In today’s high-tech world, managers may work in a wide variety of businesses, varying greatly in size as well as business and ownership models. Students will learn the fundamentals of business organization, organizational motivation, business models, and financial analysis to understand the varied environments of digital solutions.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Today’s solutions managers require creative and critical thinking skills to foster innovation and take advantage of evolving best practices in a changing workplace. In this course, students will solve design problems and case studies to learn how to make design decisions and evaluate the consequences of those decisions. The course will include brainstorming techniques, research methods, usability analysis, and prototyping techniques.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Project management combines analytical methods with business leadership skills for the purpose of scheduling, staffing, and costing complex software and engineering projects. Students will complete projects and case studies to practice the necessary underlying skills and to understand the business environment, as well as its challenges and motivations, in which those techniques will be used.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Quality is ultimately one of the most important predictors of whether a digital product or information system will be successful. Students will learn how to use quality and testing methodologies as they apply to both software and engineering development. Topics will include usability testing, various kinds of software development testing, and manufacturing quality.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
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• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: PROG8175 OR PROG8176
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 70
• Credits: 5
• Pre-Requisites: INFO8365 OR INFO8366
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 70
• Credits: 5
• Pre-Requisites: PROG8175 OR PROG8176
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: INFO8545 OR INFO8546
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.