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Programs increase business
skills
By Rachel Weybright
Staff
Writer
Two short-course management programs are being
offered on campus to technically educated individuals who wish to sharpen
their business skills and knowledge.
The programs, which are being held during April
and May, are the result of a collaboration among the Krannert School
of Management and Purdue’s Schools of Engineering and Science.
The first, Purdue’s Engineering/Management
Program, will begin April 30. Practicing engineers, scientists and technical
specialists with at least five years of experience are eligible for
the program. The courses within the program, which run until May 4,
focus on updating each participant’s engineering and management
skills. Classes cover topics such as accounting, marketing, design for
manufacturing, e-commerce design and business communication. The cost
of the program is $2,495.
The Applied Management Principles Program is the
second one being offered. The "mini-MBA" program is designed
to help Ph.D. scientists and engineers and current doctoral students
at Purdue improve their business skills.
The program was created four years ago, where it
graduated 48 individuals in the first year. Since then, according to
Michael Sheahan, associate director of the Krannert School’s executive
education programs, the graduation rate has grown by 20 percent in each
of the following years.
"In 1998, our first year, most of (the program's)
participants came from the engineering and science schools," said
Sheahan. "Since its foundation, other schools, such as Consumer
and Family Sciences and the School of Agriculture, have participated
in the program, but science and engineering students make up the majority
of the participants."
Participants must be nominated by their dean and
major professor in order to enter the Applied Management Principles
Program.
"The program is also relevant to students
in an industrial setting," said Sheahan. "It gives those individuals
who have focused on the technical aspects of their careers a chance
to see the business side of their profession."
Taught by Professor Joseph Steinman, a Krannert
alum now at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, the program covers
many of the topics in traditional MBA programs, but in a non-degree
format. The courses begin May 14 with students taking six hours of classes
each day.
Participants are also expected to complete homework
assignments in each of the subject areas: human resource management,
accounting and finance, marketing management, entrepreneurial management
and international and strategic management.
The program concludes on May 25. It is funded by
the Sloan Foundation in its first year and the National Science Foundation
in its second and third years.
This year a tuition fee of $5,000 will be charged
to those participants who are already employed in industry. Their fees
will fund the program, enabling the sponsors to continue offering the
program cost-free to participating Purdue doctoral students.
For more information, contact Sheahan at 494-7700
or sheahan@mgmt.purdue.edu.
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