University of Wisconsin-Madison

As an engineering leader, you will need to work with teams that are often separated geographically or work on different time schedules. These teams may also represent more than one company, agency or division, which means that they can be using different forms of data and software applications.

This course builds on your understanding of remote collaboration and further enhances your systems engineering and team management skills. Central to the course are new methodologies and technical tools that engineering leaders can apply today and tomorrow. Many of these tools extend communications across boundaries and improve your ability to create, store, transform and deliver engineering data and information.

Course Topics

• Systems Engineering as Applied to Networked Systems
• Small Office/Home Office Networks and Remote Access
• Local Area Networks and Corporate Intranets
• Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering
• Leadership in a Virtual Engineering Environment
• Collaborative Technologies and Systems

Team Project

Students will work in teams to address issues they have identified related to collaborative leadership and technology, as applied to engineering. Each student identifies an individual project idea that can be perused jointly. Teams will determine best practices and the most appropriate technologies and present results in a formal class presentation and report.