COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARINE TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTE 5031 MARINE TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OKAN TUNA

Offered to

Marine Transportation Systems Engineering
Marine Transportation Systems Engineering
MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Course Objective

This course covers the basic engineering management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, as applied to project, team, knowledge, group/department and global settings, including discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of engineers as managers, and the engineering management challenges in the new economy. Strategic Management, Managing Change and Innovation,Operation Value Chain Management,Project management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   An understanding of relevant ethical issues
2   Understanding groups, teams and individual behavior
3   Acquire information related to controlling, motivating employees and organizational structure.
4   Have a coherent and integrated global perspective on marine transportation issues and problems

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Management & Organizations Management History
2 Managers as Decision Makers and Social Responsibility
3 . Planning Tools and Techniques
4 Strategic Management
5 Organizational Structure and Design
6 Managing Change and Innovation I
7 Managing Change and Innovation II
8 Understanding Groups and Teams
9 Understanding Individual Behavior
10 Motivating Employees
11 Managers as Leaders
12 Introduction to Controlling
13 Operation Value Chain Management
14 Project management

Recomended or Required Reading

TEXTBOOK : Robbins, S.P. & Coulter, M. (2005). Management, 9th edition, Prentice Hall.
REFERENCE BOOKS : Marine Transportation Management, Henry S. Margus, Auburn House Publishing,1987
Handbook of Engineering Management, Dennis Lock (Editor), Butterworth-Heinemann; 2nd Revised edition edition (September 1993)
Engineering team management /David I. Cleland, Harold Kerzner, Malabar, Fla. : R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1990, c1986 TA190 .C54 1990
Thamhain, H.J., Engineering Management: Managing effectively in Technology-based Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Gray, C.F. & Larson, E.W., Project Management. The Managerial Process. Irwin McGraw-Hill
Engineering Management: Challenges In The New Millennium, C M Chang (Author) Prentice Hall (December 18, 2004)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Active and student centered teaching and learning strategies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Web Search and Library Research 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Project Assignment 1 6 6
Project Final Presentation 1 6 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 201

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.25
LO.3533
LO.433