Manufacturing Management (Non-Thesis) (M.M.) (56 credits)
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)
Degree: Master of Management
Program credit weight: 56
Program Description
M.M. in Manufacturing Management, Non-Thesis program provides a professional, hands-on approach that addresses all major issues germane to the optimization of operations. The program moved beyond a manufacturing focus to all facets of supply chains, logistics and manufacturing management. A key feature of the program is industry participation and interaction. To ensure a profound comprehension of the issues and challenges facing business today, courses have corporate sponsors and partners that provide case studies, plant tours, seminars, industrial projects and internships. The
major emphasis of these activities is on improving productivity and operational effectiveness. The program aims at training the students with diversified backgrounds who wish to pursue a career in the top management of global operations and supply chain.
A version of M.M. in Manufacturing Management, Non-Thesis program is collaboratively offered with Zhejiang University Hangzhou in China.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (20 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGCR 611 | Financial Accounting. | 2 |
Financial Accounting. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The understanding and use of published financial statements as a primary source of accounting information. The concepts, conventions and techniques involved in the preparation of financial statements leading to the analysis and interpretation of this information. | ||
| MGCR 612 | Organizational Behaviour. | 2 |
Organizational Behaviour. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Overview of the many issues that influence the management of complex organizations. Understanding of individual and group attitudes, cognitions, and behaviours, providing the essential core knowledge for day-to-day managerial activity. | ||
| MGCR 616 | Marketing. | 2 |
Marketing. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course concentrates on what may be the most scarce resource for most corporations today - the customer. The course examines how organizations research what the customer wants and needs. The course also looks at the social and psychological backgrounds of consumer choice and looks at the methods for grouping consumers into segments according to the heterogeneity of their desires. The firm's response to consumers is then considered. First, the need satisfying item is considered - the product. Following this, the elements of the marketing mix, distribution, pricing and promotion, are considered. | ||
| MGCR 641 | Elements of Modern Finance 1. | 2 |
Elements of Modern Finance 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics: appropriate evaluation criteria for projects, risk and return; how to construct efficient portfolios; rigorous techniques for valuing financial assets. Corporate financing strategies, efficient market theories and investment banking; principles of debt financing and Modigliani-Miller propositions. | ||
| MGSC 609 | Operations Industrial Seminar. | 1 |
Operations Industrial Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Presentations by operations industry experts and manufacturing managers, covering the information on recent trends, issues and challenges. | ||
| MGSC 610 | Operations Case Studies. | 2 |
Operations Case Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Case studies on a variety of manufacturing topics given by industry experts, that can be a historical example of a solved problem or a present problem. The case study is to be researched thoroughly and a solution is to be proposed. | ||
| MGSC 611 | Operations Industrial Stage. | 9 |
Operations Industrial Stage. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The stage is to be completed under the supervision of an experienced engineer in the facilities of a participating/host company. The stage consists of a project that requires the approval of the host company and the course instructor. | ||
Complementary Courses (36 credits)
15-18 credits of General Business and Management courses from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGSC 602 | Strategic Management of Operations. | 3 |
Strategic Management of Operations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Tools, conceptual frameworks, and technological understanding necessary to manage operations in today's increasingly competitive marketplace. | ||
| MGSC 604 | Managerial Communication in Supply Chain Management. | 2 |
Managerial Communication in Supply Chain Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Analysis of communication situations, including identification of the different viewpoints of the parties involved, cogent arguments based on the available data, communications with an effective structure, style, and tone. | ||
| MGSC 607 | Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain Management. | 1 |
Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Introduction to the basic theories and development on business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). | ||
| MGSC 608 | Data Decisions and Models. | 3 |
Data Decisions and Models. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The goal is to evaluate quantitative information and to make sound decisions in complex situations. The course provides a foundation for various models of uncertainty, techniques for interpreting data and many decision making approaches in both deterministic and stochastic environments. | ||
| MGSC 619 | Independant Study. | 3 |
Independant Study. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Research reading or field projects, permitting independent study under the guidance of a faculty member. | ||
| ORGB 625 | Managing Organizational Change. | 3 |
Managing Organizational Change. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examine strategies of organizational development (OD) that enhance the organization's capacity to respond to change, maximize productivity and allow employees to experience dignity and meaning in their work. Explores the strategic, techno-structural, human process, and human resource management types of OD interventions. In addition, the course will provide opportunities for the practice of various OD skills (process consultation, feedback, observation) which enable managers to identify dysfunctional policies or behaviours. The fundamental theoretical framework of the course will draw upon developments in the behavioural and socio-technical systems approaches to organizational change. | ||
| ORGB 632 | Managing Teams in Organizations. | 3 |
Managing Teams in Organizations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The dynamics of group and interpersonal behaviour. As well as learning conceptual frameworks, participants will examine their own interpersonal style and behaviour in group processes. | ||
| ORGB 633 | Managerial Negotiations. | 3 |
Managerial Negotiations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Negotiating is a critical managerial skill. The purpose of this course is to allow students to learn to be more effective negotiators. The class environment used to accomplish this goal includes many exercises, personality inventories, and cases. The focus of the course will be on the processes of bargaining and the emphasis is "hands on" learning, although theories of negotiation and research examining negotiation will also be covered. Each student will have a great deal of control over how much he or she will develop into a better negotiator as a result of participating in this course. | ||
| ORGB 640 | The Art of Leadership. | 3 |
The Art of Leadership. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Influence of personality, situational and cultural factors on strategic decision making. The role of power and political behaviour in organizational life. Topics include: managerial style, superior-subordinate relationships, organizational stress, entrepreneurial behaviour patterns, power and politics in decision making. | ||
| ORGB 685 | Cross Cultural Management. | 3 |
Cross Cultural Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Cross-cultural awareness and communication skills necessary to manage in multicultural organizations. The focus of the course is on the relationship between cultural values and communication styles as they affect inter-and-intra cultural communication of managers, personnel and clients of multinational and multicultural corporations and organizations. | ||
18-21 credits of Manufacturing and Supply Chain courses from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INSY 610 | Manufacturing Information Systems . | 3 |
Manufacturing Information Systems . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the key concepts, frameworks, technologies, and applications of information systems (IS) related to the manufacturing industries. Focus on the strategic value of IS, the enabling role of IS in organizational changes and product/process innovation, the management methods of IS, and recent IT advancements related to manufacturing industries. This includes the fundamental theories underlying the impacts of IS, issues related to the management and use of IS, IS-related key technologies and their recent advancements, and IT-driven industry transformation. | ||
| MGSC 603 | Logistics Management. | 3 |
Logistics Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 The management of the logistics functions in a manufacturing firm. Internal logistics includes the design and operation of a production-distribution system, with emphasis on the management of supply chains in global manufacturing companies. External logistics includes an analysis of the prevailing sourcing strategies and alternative means of customer satisfaction. Important tools such as forecasting techniques and information technology are also covered. | ||
| MGSC 605 | Total Quality Management. | 3 |
Total Quality Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The topics include: Top Management Commitment, Leadership Style, Bench Marking, Employee involvement, Human Resource Utilization, Employee Motivation, Quality Function Deployment, Statistical Techniques for Quality Improvement including the seven tools of quality and statistical process control. New topics of ISO9000, Just-in-Time, "Kaizen" and Return-of Quality are also discussed. Students are encouraged to do industry projects on TQM. | ||
| MGSC 614 | Computer Integrated Manufacturing. | 3 |
Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the present impact of information technology and automation on manufacturing. The characteristics of information systems and how they influence work flow. Computer-aided systems and their effect on productivity. The integration of information paradigm and its effect on manufacturing. Time based manufacturing principles. Implementation of CIM strategies and technologies. The course includes a manufacturing analysis project using computer simulation. | ||
| MGSC 615 | Procurement and Distribution. | 3 |
Procurement and Distribution. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Key strategic, operational and technological issues associated with the role of procurement and distribution, including selection and management of suppliers, international sourcing, price determination, e-purchasing, and auctions. It will explore traditional as well as emerging business models and emphasize the use of operations-related technologies. | ||
| MGSC 617 | Product Design. | 3 |
Product Design. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the fundamental design principles and techniques for user-centered designs in both product and service environments. Topics covered: the role of design in business, characteristics of good design, various effects of design (e.g., on cost, manufacturability, maintainability, environmental compatibility, marketability), design process frameworks, organizing for design. | ||
| MGSC 618 | Data Analytics Foundations in Supply Chain Management. | 3 |
Data Analytics Foundations in Supply Chain Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Data processing and analysis skills; basics of Python; data processing, visualization and simple programming. Study of regression and simulation techniques to address management problems that arise in real-world business settings. | ||
| MGSC 631 | Analysis: Production Operations. | 3 |
Analysis: Production Operations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course presents a framework for design and control of modern production and inventory systems, and bridges the gap between theory and practice of production and inventory management. The course develops analytical concepts in the area and highlights their applications in manufacturing industry. The course is divided into three segments. The first segment looks at the production planning process and discusses in detail the resource allocation issues. The second segment deals with analysis and operation of inventory systems. The third segment integrates production planning and inventory control and looks at various integrated models for determining replenishment quantities and production lots. | ||
| MGSC 690 | Selected Topics in Management Science 1 . | 3 |
Selected Topics in Management Science 1 . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current selected topics in management of science. | ||
| MGSC 691 | Selected Topics in Management Science 2 . | 3 |
Selected Topics in Management Science 2 . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of current selected issues in the management science area. | ||
Or other courses at the 600 level [up to 6 credits] offered by Desautels Faculty of Management, chosen in consultation with, and approval by, the Program Director.