MEM ELECTIVES LIST
MEM Major in Design or Operations:
A major is required for the MEM degree: Design or Operations. Either requires four electives from a list of approved courses, three in the area of the major and the fourth from the other area. Students may fulfill both majors by taking three Design and three Operations courses from the approved list.
Class of 2010 must follow the new MEM Elective List. Click here to see the list of classes offered.
Class of 2009 may follow either the old or the new MEM Elective list. The old list is found on this web page under the headline "Curriculum B MEM Elective List." Click here to see the new MEM Elective List.
"Curriculum B" MEM Elective List
This MEM Elective List is only available to the Class of 2009. Class of 2010 must follow a different list which can be found here.
(Note: Not all courses are offered every year; students must check the department's course offerings. This is especially true of courses numbered 497 (e.g., IEMS 497). Courses from IDEA, IEMS, MAT_SCI, and ME are from the McCormick School of Engineering.)
Areas of MEM Electives
- Decision Methods
- Design & Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Information Technology
- Leadership & Management
- Operations Management
- Quality Management
- Technology Management
- DECS 450 Decision Analysis
- DECS 452 Strategic Decision Making
- IEMS 415 Computer Simulation for Risk and Operations Analysis
- IEMS 488 Economics and Decision Analysis
- MGMT 469 Empirical Methods in Strategy
- MECN 446 Pricing Strategies
- MKTG 450 Research Methods in Marketing
- OPNS 450 Analytical Decision Modeling on Spreadsheets
D&I Core Courses
- IDEA 497: Design Research. (0.5 credit)
- IDEA 497: Innovation Frontiers. (0.5 credit)
D&I Elective Courses
- BIOT 912 Managing Innovation
- BIOT 915 Medical Innovation: Developing Biomedical Products from Patient to Market (This is a two-quarter course, 1.0 credit per quarter, 1 unit may be used for the Design & Innovation major. The second unit fulfills an open elective, but it cannot be counted for either the D & I or the Operations major.)
- ENTR 903 Corporate Innovation
- IDEA 401-1 Engineering Design & Innovation I: Fundamentals
- IDEA 401-2 Engineering Design & Innovation II: Interaction and User Experience
- IDEA 401-3 Engineering Design & Innovation III: Service and Platform Design
- IEMS 497 Rapid Product Innovation (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 Management of Intellectual Property (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 Innovation Effectiveness (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 Sustainable Manufacturing (0.5 credit)
- ME 497 Design for Manufacturing (0.5 credit)
- MKTG 452 Consumer Insight Tools
- MKTG 464A Product Development and Design (0.5 credit)
- MKTG 465 Introduction of New Products and Services
- MKTG 466 Marketing Strategy
- MKTG 468 Technology Marketing
- TECH 913 Intellectual Capital Management
- TECH-919 Innovation Process Management
- ENTR-462-0 Entrepreneurship & New Venture Formulation
- ENTR-463-0 Successful Entrepreneurship
- ENTR 903 Corporate Innovation
- TECH 922 Managing Portfolios and Projects
- IEMS 413 Information Systems and Telecommunications Management
- IEMS 497 Knowledge Management (0.5 credit)
- MGMT 464 Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
- MORS 921 Strategic Technology Management : Planning for the New Wave of Science-driven Technologies
- OPNS 915 Information Technology and Business Process Management
- TECH 911 The Strategic Impact of Information Technology
- TECH 914 Technology Concepts for General Managers
- TECH 917 Analytical Marketing and Customer Relationship Management
- IEMS 419 Technical Entrepreneurship Inside and Outside the Company
- IEMS 497 General Management and Market Uncertainty (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 Leadership in Decision-Making Contexts (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 The New General Manager (0.5 credit)
- IR 442 Employee Relations and Collective Bargaining
- MKTG 463 Sales Force Management
- MORS 451 Designing Organizational Systems
- MORS 452 Leading the Strategic Change Process
- MORS-453-0 Power In Organizations: Sources, Strategies and Skills
- MORS 454 Creating and Managing Strategic Alliances
- MORS-460-0 Leading and Managing Teams
- MORS-470-0 Negotiations
- MORS-914-0 Bargaining Games
- OPNS 454 Operations Strategy
- OPNS 455 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- OPNS 912 Service Operations
- IEMS 305 Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement
- IEMS 307 Quality Improvement by Experimental Design
- IEMS 395 Design for Six Sigma (MEM course)
- IEMS 428 Quality Engineering Tools
- IEMS 497 Quality Engineering Tools: Experimental Design (0.5 credit)
- ME 359 Reliability Engineering
- BIOT 911 Dynamics of the Biotechnology and Life Sciences
- IEMS 497 Intro to Nanotechnology (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 Nanotechnology: Scientific and Business Opportunities (0.5 credit)
- IEMS 497 Areas of Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- IEMS 497 Sustainable Manufacturing (0.5 credit)
- ME 497 Design for Manufacturing (0.5 credit)
- MAT_SCI 318 Materials Selection
- MORS 459 Managing Technology: Development and Deployment
- MGMT 463 Management of Technology
- MGMT 464 Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
