This is a required course in the Graduate Telecommunications Management programs. Engineers, other technical professionals and any business person with a need to understand the issues surrounding technology investment and how to make the business case for telecommunications and technology projects would benefit from this course. Students research a telecommunications application and prepare a consulting proposal for mythical electronics company. A business-style presentation of the paper will be prepared for presentation to the class. A student team project to develop a 5 year telecommunications for the hypothetical company culminates in presentation of the plan and project portfolio to a group of executives from the industry.
Students grade their teammates on teamwork and participation.
Weekly discussion of reading material, student research, student preparation of answers to homework questions add to the students' knowledge of how certain applications are deployed. . Instructor presents news items to the class in addition to the student items. All discussions include asking students to talk about their companies' deployment of topic applications. The Internet's World Wide Web provides an enormous amount of vendor, product and technical information on corporate websites. Students will use these resources for their individual and team projects.