ID 1400 Introductory Mandarin Chinese

The course is intended for people with no prior knowledge of the Chinese language.  Students will become familiar with the pronunciation system of the language.  They will be able to have short conversations about simple everyday matters such as greeting, introducing oneself, enquiring about the location of objects, asking  for and giving directions to common places, telling time, describing the weather, and ordering food or drinks.  They will learn common verbs such as

IN 3405 Seminar on Operating Management

The aim of this course is for students to: (1) Design a process to turn a manufacturing company into a World Class enterprise. (2) Determine the projects and programs required to achieve that goal, such as changing the organizational culture, organizing high-performance teams, reducing product-change time, flow synchronization, cellular manufacture, and tion of the time of change of products, synchronization of the flow, cellular manufacture, etc.

GE 3180 Technological Research

By the end of this course, students will learn how to identify competitive advantages of products and services in order to improve them. They will also be introduced to the process of innovation. An aim of this course is for students to apply qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the potential of a technological opportunity or eco-technology idea (product, process, or service), based on non-proprietary technological avenues whose technological development has not been explored, for the management and generation of sustainable innovation.

GE 3170 Research Methodologies

The aim of this course is for students to understand descriptive research methodology through the use of qualitative tools applied to the development of the proposal for the final evaluation project in order to focus it on a real client or on the development of a product or system within the field of design applied to energy and sustainability.