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Course Descriptions

Courses are six weeks long and offer undergraduate credit through Kansas State University.

Courses available include (course descriptions appear below the lists):

DEN 302 Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams
Performance management, coaching, and motivation techniques. Negotiation strategies and techniques. Recruitment, selection, EEOC, and compensation practices. Selecting team leaders and team members, managing cross-functional teams, evaluating team performance. Managing a diverse workforce: regional and cultural differences and fair management regulations and practices regarding race, gender, and age.
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DEN 303 Market Research, Technology Updates and Environmental Scanning
This course is directed at engineering managers who have little to no exposure to marketing, whether on the college level or in practical application to their work environment. The purpose of this course is to provide skills, knowledge, and appreciation of marketing and its interaction with the operations and technical arenas of a firm. It covers a broad range of topics including communication skills, market research and analysis, benchmarking, trends, risk analysis, pricing, products, and branding.
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DEN 304 Developing Products, Services, and Processes
This course is directed at engineering managers who are responsible for new product development, services, or processes. The purpose of the course is to provide skills and knowledge in managing the product planning, design, and manufacturing processes.
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DEN 305 Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies
This course is intended to provide knowledge in strategic destinations and planning domestically and internationally, system design and life cycle engineering, partnering and outsourcing strategies, financial risk management strategies and models for new technologies, and change management techniques and adjusting strategies.
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DEN 306 Engineering Maintenance, Operations and Change
This course introduces you to Project Management concepts from a system theoretic point of view. The role of project manager highlighted as a person who plans, controls, and optimizes a multi-task project towards a singular goal in a timely and cost-effective manner. The science and art of project management are discussed in settings where scarce resources, risky decisions, and conflicting tensions continually require sensible and effective compromises.
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DEN 307 Financial Resources and Procurement
This course covers the topics of capital resource requirements, measuring return on investment, establishing a budget, contract management, documentation of contracts, budgeting techniques, funding sources, and inventory control software.
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DEN 308 Professional Responsibility
This course is directed at engineering managers who have responsibility for ensuring adherence to professional standards and regulatory requirements. The purpose of the course is to provide knowledge of these requirements that can be combined with management skills in a way that effectively conveys the standards to their direct reports and colleagues. It covers interpreting codes and standards as they apply to their projects and enforcing compliance.
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DEN 398 Problems/Project Management For Engineers and Technical Professionals
This online course will provide fundamental concepts of project management. The course will include a step-by-step process to plan, implement, and evaluate each project; will demonstrate how to assess other peoples abilities to complete their part of the project; will provide strategies for making other people able and communicating with them on progress; and will show how to steer a project around a lack of resources, wrong parameters and political maneuvering.

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DEN 330 Basic Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing I - Drawing Interpretation
This course covers the majority of information required to understand basic mechanical two-dimensional engineering drawings. Topics covered are: basic drawing elements (formats, title block, parts list, revision block, etc.), part views (multiview, auxiliary, and isometric), section views, general dimensions, tolerances, finish symbols, and welding symbols. For most modules, there are drawing assignments, a quiz, and supplementary information. A drawing packet is included as reference material that shows 5 detail drawings and an assembly drawing for the parts of a Trolley Wheel. The package includes flat and round parts and a casting. This course is intended for individuals working in design, drafting, quality, procurement, tooling, production, and manufacturing.
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DEN 335 Lean Manufacturing
This course is directed at engineers who either work in environments where Lean principles are used or are being introduced. The purpose of the course is to provide an overview of all the principles of Lean Manufacturing. Functional concepts of the course include: value, waste and pull production, value stream mapping and identifying problems, shortening production flow by eliminating waste, and continuous improvement.
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DEN 398 Problems/Mechatronics I
Mechatronics, as an engineering discipline, is the synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronics, control engineering, and computers, all integrated through the design process. It involves the application of complex decision-making to the operation of physical systems. Mechatronic systems depend on computer software for their unique functionality. This introductory course presents mechatronics at a theoretical and practical level; balance between theory/analysis and hardware implementation is emphasized; emphasis is placed on physical understanding rather than on mathematical formalities. A case-study, problem-solving approach, with video hardware demonstrations, is used throughout the course.
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DEN 431 Intermediate Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing II
This course covers most of the geometric dimensioning controls used on mechanical engineering drawings. The theoretical and practical concepts of each of the geometric controls are explained relative to the areas of design, tooling, production, and inspection. All ten modules include a quiz. For most modules, there are drawing assignments and supplementary information. The parts of a directional-change gearbox are used as platforms for the geometric controls. The assembly includes shafts, gears, bearings, keys, lip seals, castings, and threaded fasteners. This course is intended for employees working in design, drafting, quality, procurement, tooling, production, and manufacturing.
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DEN 432 Advanced Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing III
This advanced course more thoroughly covers some of the most frequently used geometric dimensioning controls used on mechanical engineering drawings. The basic applications of position are explained in greater detail: fixed and floating fastener, zero tolerance, size feature datums, and composite versus two single segments. Several possibilities of how to control the size and location of non-size features with profile are explained. Coaxial relationships and control of rectangular features are also covered. All nine modules include a quiz. For most modules, there are drawing assignments and supplementary information. The parts of an Idler Wheel assembly are used as platforms for the geometric controls. The assembly includes a shaft, pulley, weldments, bushings, and threaded fasteners.
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