Graduate Courses
Registration Information
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Required Core Courses
Four (4) Engineering Management & Systems Engineering (EMSE) Courses:
- EMSE 212 Management of Technical Organizations
- EMSE 260 Survey of Finance and Engineering Economics
- EMSE 269 Elements of Problem Solving and Decision Making for Managers
- EMSE 283 Systems Engineering
For a complete listing of EMSE Courses offered each semester, go to the EMSE website.
Crisis, Emergency, and Risk Management Courses
EMSE 218 Management of Information and Systems Security
Description: Development and management of effective
security systems, including information, personnel, and physical security.
Emphasis on risk analysis for information protection.
EMSE 230 Homeland Security: The National Challenge
Description: The evolution of homeland security
as a concept, a legal framework, a redirection of national policies
and priorities
is described. The issues and problems of implementation are examined.
An overview of the history of the terrorist threat and U.S. responses
and an introduction to
fundamental policy legislation and documents, such as national security
strategies, homeland security decision directives, the National Response
Plan, and National
Incident Management System.
EMSE 232 Crisis and Emergency Management
Description: Concepts and problems
of crisis and emergency management. Defining crises, emergencies, and
disasters. Developing crisis, contingency, and incident management
plans. The National Response Plan,
National Incident Management System, organizing for response, managing
the response organization, managing in a turbulent environment, crisis
decision making and communications.
EMSE 233 Information Technology in Crisis and Emergency Management
Description: The role of information in crisis and
response management, determining disaster and crisis information requirements;
information technologies applied to crisis, disaster and emergency
management;
causes and effects of information breakdowns during crises and disasters.
EMSE 234 Management of Risk and Vulnerability
for Hazards and Terrorism
Description: Developments of concepts required for
risk based planning and risk management. Objectives of and methods
for
vulnerability assessment for natural disasters, technological hazards,
and terrorist threats. Risk analysis, risk perception,
risk
communication and risk mitigation.
EMSE 238 International Disaster Management
Description: Guiding principles, key institutions,
operational requirements, policy issues and broad fundamentals associated
with
international disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response to
natural and man made disasters and complex emergencies.
EMSE 239 Medical and Public Health Emergency Managementt
Description:Medical and public health management issues encountered
in crises, emergencies and disasters are examined and presented at the technical level
of a non-medical emergency manager. The spectrum of medical, public health, psychological
and behavioral problems are described, as well as incident management organization and
processes that addresses these concerns and integrate medical and public health assets into the response.
EMSE 240 Management of Terrorism
Preparedness and Response
Description: Terrorism, terrorist methods, and human/infrastructure
vulnerability are described. Current preparedness and response programs.
Mitigation, preparedness and response requirements to manage mass
terrorism within the context of all-hazard emergency management.
Case studies.
EMSE 332 Disaster Recovery and Organizational
Continuity
Description: Disaster recovery planning
and business continuity. Recovery of information and communication
systems. The role of private sector in mitigation and recovery. Public/private
partnerships in community reconstruction and recovery.
EMSE 333 Hazard Mitigation in Disaster Management
Description: Hazard mitigation and its role in disaster management;
analysis of past and current government and private-sector programs; examination of
new approaches; structural vs non structural actions; mitigation of terrorist attacks.
EMSE 334 Environmental Hazard Management
Description: Geological, meteorological,
radiological, chemical and biological hazards facing the U.S. and international
communities. Organizational responsibilities for hazard
identification and risk management. Communication and perceptions of
vulnerability and risk. Challenges to local governments and communities.
