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Manufacturing Management Courses

Curriculum Details

  • 26 courses
  • 79 credits
  • 8-week course duration

Save time and money when you complete this accelerated online B.A.S. in Advanced Manufacturing Management. In as few as two years, you will complete 79 credit hours through 26 courses (six core courses and 20 elective courses). You may transfer up to 90 credit hours toward this bachelor’s degree; however, you must complete at least 30 credit hours at USC Upstate to graduate.

To ensure this online program gives you the industry skills employers want, USC Upstate has collaborated with local technical colleges and manufacturers to create curriculum that prepares you for the real world. Practice applying your elevated skillset — and expand your professional network — during an optional manufacturing management internship.

Core

Credits

Manufacturing leadership including business communication, business presentations, spreadsheet basics, financial reports, supervisory skills, and leadership roles.

Manufacturing work practices including safety topics, lean manufacturing, training, and operational efficiency.

Manufacturing leadership including budgeting, project selection, supervision, and leadership roles.

Manufacturing quality practices including statistical process control, quality management systems, and problem solving methodology. 

Tools and techniques for planning, and scheduling manufacturing projects

Advanced operational excellence. This course will build on concepts taught in AMMG U330 and U415 including value stream mapping, supply chain management, and change management.

Manufacturing management concepts including an exploration of manufacturing’s effect on the local community and global society.

Upper Level Electives

Credits

Survey of functions of management as they pertain to organizational efficiency and effectiveness using written assignments and class discussions. A focus on group and individual dynamics, ethics, culture, leadership, decision-making, globalization, employee engagement, innovation and entrepreneurship, organizational change and workforce diversity.

Managing the direct resources required by the firm to create value through the production of goods, services and information. There is a strong emphasis on supporting the decision-making process throughout organizations with quantitative tools and techniques. Topics may include process selection, quality tools including an introduction to statistical process control, inventory management techniques and JIT systems, project management, simulation techniques, and waiting lines analysis.
Principles, concepts, and techniques for effective and efficient utilization of personnel including human resource planning, recruiting, selecting, training, developing, appraising, compensating, and legal issues.

The study of the impact of individuals, groups and structure on behavior in a business organization in order to improve organizational performance.

Electives

Credits

Supervised practical experience related to the Advanced Manufacturing Management field in an elected setting planned in conjunction with the relevant AMM faculty.

Selected topics in Advanced Manufacturing Management. Topics vary depending on faculty expertise. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

A planned individual study program in conjunction with an Advanced Manufacturing Management faculty member. Course may be repeated for a total of no more than three hours of undergraduate credit.

Introduction of information security practices and needs including concepts of information security, types of attacks, risk analysis and management, security technologies, and basic information security implementation.

Methodologies, tools, skills, and knowledgebase supporting a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to innovative problem solving, brainstorming, and alternative thinking included, but not limited to: useful/harmful feature analysis, problem formulator diagramming, selection and application of innovation operators, and the innovation situation questionnaire.
Concepts, fundamentals, and historical evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive system technologies including machine learning, conversational natural language interfaces, large language models, and generative pre-trained transformers (GPT).Topics include the social, cultural, ethical, and commercial impacts of advancements in AI.
Exchange relationships between buyers and sellers in a dynamic global marketplace. Focus areas include: environmental analysis, marketing research, buyer behavior, marketing strategy, business ethics, and the societal impacts of marketing activity of integrated marketing organizations.
Consumer decision-making processes in a dynamic global marketplace. Selected concepts from psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, and other behavioral disciplines are examined to develop a managerial perspective on predicting and interpreting consumer responses to marketing strategies.

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