Our Programs

Prepares students to translate information into visual solutions that encompass client and project objectives, research, user analysis, and branding goals. Develops advanced skills and knowledge in research, prototyping and testing, conceptualizing, creating, and analyzing interactive models to create and manage user-experience solutions across multiple devices.

Examines data analysis and mining; grouping and prediction tools; algorithmic and application issues; legal and ethical matters; and security. Case studies explore data capture, storage, retrieval, visualization, and analysis in crime, drug research, space exploration, and other contexts. Projects, presentations, and term papers involved.

Addresses project selection, negotiation, budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, monitoring, and termination. Topics include risk management, critical path method (CPM), program evaluation and review technique (PERT), and earned- value analysis. Examines cultural and legal differences in international projects. Incorporates Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) material.

Topics include creating value, translating market requirements to system requirements, functional analysis, architecture, platforms and modules, concept generation and selection, and life-cycle costing. Focuses on best practices of world-class organizations. Addresses risks involving human safety, product liability, environmental impact, and financial uncertainty. Team-based project involved.

Prepares students to analyze customers, competitors, and company. Addresses product, price, promotion, and distribution elements, and explores cross-disciplinary principles, theories, and methods. Covers systems thinking, human factors, semiotic theory, and visual rhetoric. Course formats include reading, critical writing, hands-on involvement, presentations, and guest lectures.

Equips students to conduct original research on sustainable production and consumption systems, and examines impact on natural environment. Topics include decision-making methodologies such as linear and stochastic programming, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation. Case studies highlight energy planning, resource management, and recycling. Project involved.

Focuses on Internet marketing strategies and tactics, search engine marketing and analytics, and advertising and integrated marketing. Topics include e-culture and innovation, and strategies for enhancing customer acquisition. Also assesses sales promotion, public relations, personal selling, and direct marketing tools. Comprehensive project involving marketing strategy, implementation, and evaluation involved.

Explores social science theories predicting or explaining the effects of interaction and communication technology on audiences. Curriculum includes creating targeted written and visual messages. Prepares students to develop campaigns using the print, broadcast, Internet, video game, virtual community, and mobile technologies. Project involved.

Addresses the technical and managerial aspects of developing, designing, and implementing environmental, health, and safety (EHS) systems. Uses an integrated-systems focus to equip students to identify and leverage the regulatory, voluntary, and business drivers for EHS programs; design and implement effective management systems and programs; design and implement performance-measurement processes; and demonstrate how an effective EHS management system boosts organizational value.

Prepares graduates to work in management overseeing the planning, design, operations, and maintenance decommissioning of facilities; and to intelligently communicate facility issues with corporate officers, customers, contractors, vendors, and employees. Program developed by a panel of experienced facility management professionals, using educational standards established by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). Accredited by IFMA.

Builds competencies in world-class employee and talent development practices; outcome- and evidence-based training and learning; instructional design and delivery; career development; and workforce development. Combines a competency-focused program with solid scholarship, writing, and analytical skills.

Suitable for students seeking leadership roles in hospitality, tourism, and other service industries. Service system courses include managing projects, serivce quality process, and data mining in not-for-profit and public-sector environments. Prepares students to transform their service organizations. A comprehensive exam, capstone project, or thesis required.

Offers service professionals cutting-edge skills, abilities, and applied service knowledge. Heightens students’ capacity to function in a highly competitive and quickly evolving service environment. Curriculum addresses performance system design and implementation; service value delivery system structures and processes; the evolving strategic environment of service-sector businesses; building service metrics from feedback processes; and innovative approaches to customer relationship management.

Designed for individuals seeking managerial and leadership roles in telecommunications. Develops high-level skills and knowledge required for leadership in areas such as policy and regulation, Internet services, mobile technology, and fiber-optic capacity.

Equips human resources and business management professionals to develop learning materials that drive and manage strategic employee development and boost performance. Students gain skills in aligning employee development plans with strategy; in providing targeted learning experiences to enable peak workforce performance; and in attracting and retaining the most qualified talent.

Focuses on skills for conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating technologies and applications to benefit the user—whether an individual, group, organization, or society.

Designed for those seeking careers in emerging network technologies, network design, or enterprise networking. Students design and implement plans for sophisticated network projects; work with emerging technologies; develop, test, and implement simulations of enterprise-scale networks; and develop and implement security policies and procedures.

Equips students to master the practices, methodologies, and techniques used in managing a modern IT networking infrastructure. Includes an understanding of basic business concepts and processes. Focuses on enterprise-scale problems and solutions, addressing the needs of medium to large organizations.

Designed for working professionals seeking to update their skills or pursue a career change. Courses include health governance and economics, bioethics, managing risk, Lean Six Sigma, and health insurance and reimbursement. Advanced certificate may serve as stand-alone credential, or courses may be applied to an MS in health systems administration.

Suitable for students with an associate or bachelor’s degree who seek to enter the health care workforce, develop new aptitude in health care, and/or update older credentials. Provides an orientation to health systems and enhances knowledge about health care.

Provides strategic skills for managing a health-care environment in which technology and innovation are changing how, when, and where health care is provided, and by whom. Includes courses in policy and law formation, health care economics, innovation, and leadership.

Assists professionals wishing to update their skills or pursue a career change. Courses include health governance and economics, bioethics, group dynamics and facilitation skills, marketing in health care, service leadership, and health systems planning. Advanced certificate may serve as stand-alone credential, or courses may be applied to an MS in health systems administration.

Designed for mature, high-performance, innovative individuals who have established careers in business and are looking for proven strategies for advancing themselves. Rigorous curriculum covers master executive skills such as strategic and cross–functional thinking and leadership. Students learn from knowledgeable and professional instructors and from the network of successful, motivated, diverse peer groups they develop in the program. Requires six years of professional experience.

Suitable for engineers, scientists, and other professionals seeking a solid education in the statistical methods most relevant to their work. Program is a subset of courses from the MS program in applied statistics and requires familiarity with MINITAB.

Designed for those aspiring to positions such as quality engineer, reliability analyst, quality manager, or statistical consultant. Program intended for students not planning to seek a degree beyond the MS, including those who are pursuing or have attained a doctoral degree at another university.

Intended for current and aspiring quality managers and quality engineers. Curriculum includes Lean Six Sigma fundamentals, statistical quality control, and designing experiments for process improvement. Program requires familiarity with MINITAB.

Designed for experienced professionals moving to mid- and senior-level positions in manufacturing and service organizations. Program emphasizes supply-chain management, global manufacturing and operations, lean thinking, leadership, and decision-making. Capstone project challenges students to apply new skills and capabilities to solving a real-world problem in manfacturing, services management, or process improvement. Developed by the E. Philip Saunders College of Business and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

Designed for students with a bachelor’s degree in traditional engineering or science seeking a career in the semiconductor industry. Students design steps for fabricating a solid state device to meet geometric, electrical and/or processing parameters; analyze experimental electrical data to extract performance parameters; understand lithographic materials, processes, and systems to meet imaging and/or device patterning requirements; and understand the relevance of a process or device to manufacturing practices.

For engineers, scientists, and technical professionals who aspire to product-development leadership positions. Designed by academic and industry leaders, curriculum integrates business and technical elements to develop leaders with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and perspective to deploy best-in-class product-development methods, tools, and practices.

Prepares students holding bachelor’s degrees in science or engineering for research positions in imaging, or in applying imaging modalities to engineering and science problems. Curriculum includes the physical properties of radiation-sensitive materials and processes, applications of physical and geometrical optics to electro-optical systems, mathematical evaluation of image forming systems, digital image processing, and statistical characterization of noise and system performance. Interdisciplinary work with the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and the College of Science possible.

Appropriate for individuals with college-level learning who are interested in changing majors, seeking a unique academic path, or pursuing a career requiring expertise from several disciplines. Students work closely with faculty and advisers to customize multidisciplinary plans combining select areas of professional knowledge.

Designed for individuals with college-level learning who are interested in changing majors, seeking a unique academic path, or pursuing a career requiring expertise from several disciplines. Students work closely with faculty and advisers to customize multidisciplinary plans combining select areas of professional knowledge.

Intended for individuals with college-level learning who are interested in changing majors, seeking a unique academic path, or pursuing a career requiring expertise from several disciplines. Students work closely with faculty and advisers to customize multidisciplinary plans combining select areas of professional knowledge.

Enables the mature learner to create a graduate study plan tailored to the student’s professional goals. Concentration options include applied statistics, environmental health and safety management (EHS), facility management, general management, health systems administration, human resources, imaging science, information technology, microelectronics manufacturing engineering, project management, strategic training, and telecommunications engineering technology. Students also complete a capstone project.

Teaches students how to plan, develop, and implement successful projects and onetime initiatives. Addresses skills for managing industrial aspects of a project as well as cultural and social differences.