Technological University Of Miami

Master of Business Administration – International

• Core Courses: 36 credits

  • International Human Resource

  The course objective is to introduce students to the challenges the manager’s face to effectively manage the work force. In an effort to accomplish that goal, students are exposed to the various aspects of analysis and management of human resources job design, staffing, employee training and development, performance evaluation, compensation system design, and employee relations. The course places a special emphasis on the analysis of Human Resource Management’s strategic role in International and cross-cultural settings.

  • 21st Century Management:

  In this class students will gain an understanding of leading state-of-the-art business theories and will be able to apply them to real-world situations. Students will learn to understand and challenge the ideas of 20th century management thinkers, and to practice developing and challenging their own theoretical and applied models and paradigms

• International Economics:

The purpose of this course is to help students understand the basics of international trade and finance and the effects of various international economic policies on domestic and world welfare. The course will highlight sources of comparative advantage, gains and losses from trade, the impact of trade on economic growth, and effects of trade policy interventions such as tariffs, quotas, voluntary export restraints, and export subsidies. International agreements on regional trade liberalization and on multilateral trade liberalization will be also discussed. Topics on international finance will include balance of payments, determination of foreign exchange rates, and international monetary system.

• Business Statistics:

Business Statistics emphasis on concepts rather than in-depth coverage of traditional statistical methods. Topics include sampling and experimentation, descriptive statistics, probability, binomial and normal distributions, estimation, single sample and two sample hypothesis tests for means and proportions. Additional topics will be selected from descriptive methods in regression and correlation, or contingency table analysis.

• International Accounting:

This course develops a working knowledge of the basic accounting system. The primary focus is on financial accounting by the business entity. Students will learn to read and understand the four standard financial reports: the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of retained earnings with emphasis on their implications for management.

• Global Marketing:

The objective of the course is to develop the knowledge and understanding of the global marketing environment through key concepts, and tools, and theory. The course challenges the students to think critically about global competition, perspectives of marketing across national boundaries and within foreign countries, consumer similarities and differences outside the home country, marketing decisions concerning all parts of the marketing mix, research in trade laws and regulations in other markets, global analytical frameworks and tools; and understanding of the current strategies of major global firms.

• International Business Law:

This course prepares students for business dealings in international law. The lectures cover in detail the fundamental concepts, principals, and rules of law that apply to international business transactions. Topics include how market infrastructure (contracts, commercial laws, intellectual property) affect business strategy, with special emphasis on legal differences between countries.

• Organizational Behavior:

Students will gain a working knowledge of how to manage personal, interpersonal, and group processes by having the interpersonal skills to assume responsibility for leading and promoting teamwork among diverse stakeholders. Students will learn to manage individual and group behaviors in improving organizational productivity and performance. Through experiential learning, students will learn to integrate home, work, and educational observations and experiences and to convert them into proactive practical applications for growth and renewal.

• Principles of Import/Export:

This class is designed to provide students with the skills and tools necessary for international trade. Students will be exposed to techniques and procedures for conducting international trade. Some of the topics include operations, supply chain and logistics, government agencies and import/export channel networks, and the evaluation of international opportunities.

• International Finances:

This course is taught from the point of view of a firm engaged in international business. An examination of financial concepts and tools as they apply to the management of domestic and international operations. The course helps students to understand how the managers of a firm function in the increasingly uncertain environment. This class will focus on key economic theories, various financial instruments for risk management, exchange risk management, and international financing and investment issues

• International Ventures and Acquisitions:

This class focuses on developing student’s abilities to prepare to start a new international business. Students develop a specific business idea, and then examine the political risk, market opportunity, and operating conditions of their international market destination. The business plan is developed using market research options, entry modes, resource allocation, financial projections, and overall strategy for new ventures. The emphasis is on developing the ability of students to start a new business in another country using the business plan model

• Global Strategy:

This class covers the concepts of strategic management from a global perspective. The course focuses on understanding how firm's create competitive advantage in the global arena, and how firms can implement strategy. The course uses an international corporate simulation which requires students to develop a strategy to lead their own company and implement the strategy through tactics for operations, management, marketing, finance, logistics, and manufacturing. The simulation is an interactive competition between firms and includes random environmental factors which play a moderating role by impacting the performance of individual firms.

• International Finances:

This course is taught from the point of view of a firm engaged in international business. An examination of financial concepts and tools as they apply to the management of domestic and international operations. The course helps students to understand how the managers of a firm function in the increasingly uncertain environment. This class will focus on key economic theories, various financial instruments for risk management, exchange risk management, and international financing and investment issues

• International Ventures and Acquisitions:

This class focuses on developing student’s abilities to prepare to start a new international business. Students develop a specific business idea, and then examine the political risk, market opportunity, and operating conditions of their international market destination. The business plan is developed using market research options, entry modes, resource allocation, financial projections, and overall strategy for new ventures. The emphasis is on developing the ability of students to start a new business in another country using the business plan model

• Global Strategy:

This class covers the concepts of strategic management from a global perspective. The course focuses on understanding how firm's create competitive advantage in the global arena, and how firms can implement strategy. The course uses an international corporate simulation which requires students to develop a strategy to lead their own company and implement the strategy through tactics for operations, management, marketing, finance, logistics, and manufacturing. The simulation is an interactive competition between firms and includes random environmental factors which play a moderating role by impacting the performance of individual firms.

Master of Science in Telecommunications and Networking

Objective:

Telecommunications and networks engineers are faced with many challenges brought about by the rapid advances in computer, internet, multimedia and telecommunication technology. This course address the major aspects of this technology, from high-level specification of telecommunications systems and networks, through implementation alternatives, to realization of communications circuits. The course aims to produce engineers with the necessary skills and practical experience to excel in the telecommunications and IT industries.

• Master of Science in Telecommunications & Networking

  Students are required to choose 10 courses from the above to complete 30 credits.
  Engineering Area:

  • Optical Fiber Communication Systems
  • Digital Communications by Satellite
  • Digital Communications I
  • Digital Communications II
  • Multimedia Computer Communication
  • Information Theory

  Networks Area:

  • Telecom Network Analysis and Design
  • Network Security
  • Computer Communications Network Engineering
  • Mobile Computing
  • Optical Networks
  • Mobile and Wireless Networks
  • Data Communications Engineering
  • Network Programming
  • Internetworking

  Technology Area:

  • Telecommunications Network
  • Telecom Technology and Applications
  • Database Management Systems and Design
  • Telecom Software & Methodologies
  • Computer Comm. And Networking Technologies
  • Secure Telecommunications Transactions

  Software Area:

  • Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Telecommunications Networks
  • Analysis of Algorithms
  • Network Management and Control Standards
  • Advance Operating Systems
  • Advanced Topics in Concurrent and Distributed Systems
  • Software Development for Telecommunications Networks
  • Advanced Topics in Database Management
  • Wireless Information Systems

  Management Area:

  • Advanced Engineering Project Management
  • Quality Engineering
  • Network Flow Analysis
  • Advanced Industrial Information Systems
  • Economics of telecommunications Systems
  • Telecommunications Enterprise Planning and Strategy

  Policy Area:

  • Telecommunications Industry Development
  • Telecommunications Public Policy & Standards
  
   
  

  10 Courses Needed (30 Credit hours)

  • Telecommunications Network Analysis & Design
  • Networking principles and integration
  • Quality of Service
  • Networking trends and controls of telecommunication networks
  • Network Management and Control Standards
  • Management Protocols
  • Simple Network Management Information Protocol
  • Extensions of present protocols
  • Optical Networks
  • Single-Hop and Multihop networks
  • Wavelength routed optical networks
  • Virtual topology, routing and wavelength assignments
  • Optical TDM and CDM networks
  • Telecommunications Software and Methodologies
  • Tools and techniques for developing software applications for network systems
  • Traffic and network engineering software platforms
  • Program specification, design, implementation, testing and documentation
  • Intranet/Extranet technologies for communication, cooperation, and knowledge sharing in large, complex organizations

   

   

   

  • Telecommunications Enterprise Planning and Strategy
  • Telecommunications methodologies for reengineering, software development project management, strategic planning, and change management
  • Telecommunications management, design, and implementation of large infrastructure in telecommunications projects
  • Industrial Development of Telecommunications
  • The telecommunication industry, its structure and the regulations under which it operates
  • Spectrum management and public utility regulation
  • Telecommunications natural monopoly concepts and anti-trust laws
  • Wireless Information Systems
  • Enabling technologies and impediments of wireless information systems and mobile computing
  • Mobile architectural design, mobile aware adaptation and transparent adaptation
  • Extended CS model for mobile computing, mobile data access and file systems
  • Ad-hoc networks and emerging standards
  • Mobile Computing
  • Mobile computing models
  • Mobility management
  • Mobility architecture design
  • Ad-hoc networks
  • Network Security
  • Encryption design principles and algorithm
  • Message authentication & digital signature
  • Number Theory
  • Network system security design and requirements

   

   

  • Optical Fiber Communication Systems
  • Specification, design and application of optical fiber communication systems
  • Fiber optic wave-guide
  • Optical device sources
  • Photo-detector, receiver and transmitter designs

   

   

   

  Engineering Projects

  Open ended design projects which encourage innovative solutions to design and measurement problems. Students teams complete several projects from different areas. Both oral and written presentations emphasized.

  Circuit Theory II

  Continuous and discrete systems analysis; discrete and continuous convolution techniques.

  Algorithms and Software Design

  Covers basic algorithms including: arithmetic operations, sorting, string
  processing, parsing, hashing, and tree and graph manipulations. The C language and UNIX operating system are used as vehicles for illustration and practice in use of the algorithms and in the application of software design.

  Finance and Accounting

  Students are introduced to fundamental accounting concepts applicable to financial decision-making processes in order to fulfil fiscal requirements. Accounting principles applied t case solving in the labor field are also examined

  JUNIOR (3rd Year)

  FIRST SEMESTER

  Electromagnetic Fields

  Elements of vector analysis, transmission line theory, electrostatics, magnetostatics, time varying fields and plane waves.

  Signal and System Linear Analysis

  Feedback system analysis. System modeling methods, performance specifications, construction, and use of root-locus, Bode plots, and Nyquist
  diagrams. Continuous and Discrete systems are treated in parallel.

  Electronic Circuits

  Electron Devices, modeling and applications to basic electronic circuits, including RC amplifiers and power supplies.

  Communications Systems

  Concepts of communication systems, signal analysis and power spectrum density, signal transmission and filtering, linear modulation, exponential modulation, sampling, baseband digital communication, modulated digital communication, spread spectrum communication.

  Probability and Statistics for Engineers

  Introduction to data analysis, probability concepts, random variables, parameter estimation and hypothesis testing.

   

  SECOND SEMESTER

  Computer Networks

  Introduction to concepts and terminology of data communications and computer networking.
  Basic protocols and standards, applications of networking, routing algorithms, congestion avoidance, long-haul and local networks.

  Introduction to Power Engineering

  Real and reactive power in single and three-phase ac circuits; magnetic circuits and transformers; energy conversion, dc machines, induction and synchronous ac machines; power transmission and distribution;
  introduction to power electronics and to pulse power electronics.

  Semiconductors and Devices

  Crystal structure; quantum aspects of energy, radiation and matter; quantum mechanics and energy bands in solids; electronic and optical
  properties of semiconductors; p-n junctions and diodes; bipolar and field-effect transistors.

  Engineering Economic Analysis

  Fundamentals of cost and breakeven analysis. Decision making using capital budgeting techniques and time value of money. This includes cash flow analysis, replacement and make-or-buy taxes, inflation, risk and sensitivity analysis.

   

  SENIOR (4th Year)

   

  FIRST SEMESTER

  Wireless Communication

  Principles of wireless communication analysis and design. Digital communication basics, cellular radio, wireless PCS communications, multiple access techniques, channel coding and equalization, and standards of digital cellular/PCS systems.

  Capstone Design I

  Group design projects. Design methodology, project management, development of specifications, examination of alternatives, preparation of proposal. Oral and written reports. Not for graduate credit.

  Programmable Logic Controllers

  Hardware and software aspects of PLC’s; computer/PLC Commuications; developing ladder logic programs; interfacing I/O devices, including sensors, to the PLC; labeling and documentation; utilizing analog capabilities; applications; developing Supervisory Control and Data Acquistions (SCADA)

   

  Automatic Control System Design

  Techniques for feedback system design and analysis; compensation using root locus and frequency-domain methods; state-variable design methods; techniques for nonlinear systems analysis and design; sample-data control
  systems.

  Power Electronics

  Power electronic device characteristics, important circuit and component concepts, loss mechanisms and thermal analysis, phase controlled rectifiers, dc-dc converters, and dc-ac inverters.
  Includes laboratory projects.

   

  SECOND SEMESTER

  Capstone Design II

  Design prototyping, testing, evaluation and preparation of documentation. Lectures on ethics, professionalism, safety, economic consideration. Oral and written reports.

  Robotic Control And Intelligence

  Introduces robotics; robot system charactersitics; robot motive power systems; geometric structure of robots; sensors and feedback; control applications and algorithms; data acquisition and output actuation function;
  robots and AI; microprocessor applications. Lecture and Laboratory.

  Undergraduate Research

  Analytical or experimental problems pertaining to electric circuits, machines, fields or electronics.

  Microelectronic Fabrication

  Basic silicon integrated circuit fabrication processes, basic techniques of wafer processing, economics of fabrication and resulting devices

  properties, interdependence of process flow and device design. Accompanying laboratory.

  AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:

  • General Classes:   38 credits

    • PROFFESIONAL SKILL ( 10 credits)
    • English Composition
    • Public Speaking Fundamentals
    • Finance and Accounting
    • Engineering Economic Analysis
    • MATHEMATICS ( 16 credits)
    • Mathematics I
    •  Mathematics II
    • Mathematics III
    • Mathematics IV
    • Probability and Statistics for Engineers

     

    • BASIC SCIENSE (  16 credits)
    • Chemistry for Engineers
    • Physics For Engineers I
    • Physic For Engineers I Laboratory
    • Physics For Engineers II
    • Physic For Engineers II Laboratory
    • Electromagnetic Fields

         

    Electives:    8 credits

    • Social Science
    • Political Science
    • Integrate Circuits and Systems
    • Modern Control Theory
    • Antenna Theory and Design
    • VLSI Design
    • Microwave Principles
    • Pulsed Power Engineering

     

    Core Courses:   78 credits

    • TELECOMMUNICATION AND TELEMATICS (  9 credits)
    • Communication System
    • Computer Network
    • Wireless Communication
    • POWER ELECTRONICS (  6 credits)
    • Introduction to Power Engineering
    • Power Electronics

     

    • CONTROL AND AUTOMATION ( 12 credits)
    • Control Engineering
    • Signal and Linear System Analysis
    • Programmable Logic Controllers
    • Robotic Control and Intelligence

     

    • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (  17 credits)
    • Introduction to Electronics
    • Circuit Theory I
    • Circuit Theory II
    • Electronic Circuits
    • Experimental Electrical Engineering
    • Semiconductors and Devices
    • COMPUTER AND DIGITAL SYSTEMS ( 21 credits)
    • Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming
    • Introduction to Digital System
    • Engineering Graphics
    • Logic Design
    • Engineering Computing
    • Algorithms and Software Design
    • Microelectronic Fabrication

     

    • ENGINEERING PROJECTS (  13 credits)
    • Engineering Projects
    • Capstone Design I
    • Capstone Design II
    • Undergraduate Research