SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS ARISING OUT OF NOV.8 ’05 THINK TANK (DRAFT ONLY)

1. SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS ARISING OUT OF NOV.8 ’05 THINK TANK (DRAFT ONLY) • Sectoral groups genuinely appeared to find use for courses like management, project management but did not want to sacrifice years 1-3 courses to get them preferring to have domain specific courses offered in the 7 management courses (and probably at the expense of other sectoral groups) • Entrepreneurship was thought to be an important course for biotech students and did receive favourable review by other sectoral groups • The self study course idea seemed to find some acceptance with the IT group • Desire existed to teach students analytical and decision frameworks (like SWOT analysis, Cooper’s stage/gate model) • Wanted access points for foreign students • IT core courses included: IT Management, OB, training, economics, marketing, project management and IT ethics

2. SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS ARISING OUT OF NOV.8 ’05 THINK TANK • Consider offering graduates career and job placement services • Biotech group thought New Product Introduction was important course (perhaps could be 9 hours in the marketing course) • Civil/IT felt project management important but wanted it tailored to their sector • IT felt IT Management was important course but may not be willing to give up lower level course to get it into curriculum • Introduce material on engineering and managerial ethics • A distinction could be drawn between required years 1-3 courses, core and electives (so that if, for example, the IT or Civil program feels that IT or Project Management should have a definite IT/Civil emphasis, such a course could be made a required)