Operations Management (OMGT)
Also offered through Graduate Resident Centers
Sandra Parker
Chair of Studies
4207 Bell Engineering Center
479-575-7426
E-mail: ncsloan@engr.uark.edu
Web: http://www.opnsmgmt.uark.edu/
• Professors English, Johnson, Parker
• Visiting Assistant Professors Bailey, Benamon, Berthelot, Carmichael, Caviness, Collier, Daniell, Dansby, Davis, Day, DelCastillo, Dhodapkar, Donaldson, Donatelli, Garner, Heintz, Hurd, Lamphear, Long, Mahan, Maksi, Martin, McCaa, Miller, Moores, Moorhead, Myers, Nethercutt, Noland, O’Neal, Rasmussen, Ray, Roy, Sloan, Teague, Ton, Vash, Wilke, Yeager, Zilinsky
Degree Conferred:
M.S. (OMGT)
The Master of Science in Operations Management program is directed toward the acquisition of practical knowledge in the areas of project planning, quality assurance, safety management, inventory techniques, and human factors analysis.
The operations management program is operated at Graduate Residence Centers in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Florida, as well as at Fayetteville. Evening classes are offered in eight-week terms, five terms an academic year. Selected courses are available by video and Internet. The operations management curriculum is aimed at the needs of both military and civilian working managers of technical and logistics operations, regardless of the major they selected as an undergraduate student. The subject matter is patterned after the industrial engineering curriculum but is less technical and does not require a calculus mathematics background.
Before students complete more than 12 hours of course work toward the operations management degree, they must successfully complete the following courses (or equivalent courses or demonstrate knowledge of subject areas):
OMGT 4313 Law and Ethics
OMGT 4323 Industrial Cost Analysis
OMGT 4333 Applied Statistics
OMGT 4853 Data Processing Systems
These courses are offered at the undergraduate level and cannot be applied toward the requirements for a Master of Science degree.
To fulfill requirements for the M.S. degree, a student must earn a total of 30 semester hours credit in the program. Upon approval of the program director, students may take up to six thesis hours to be applied toward the 30 semester hours required for degree completion. The six hours of thesis must be completed on the Fayetteville campus.
(OMGT) OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
OMGT4223 Occupational Safety and Health Standards (Sp) Survey of existing and proposed standards by examining fundamental physical, economic, and legal bases. Performance vs. specific standards. Enforceability and data collection. National consensus and promulgation process. Includes a design project using a computer. (Same as INEG 4223)
OMGT4303 Industrial Safety Administration (Sp, Su, Fa) Principles of accident and industrial disease prevention; organization and operation of industrial safety and hygiene programs; conformance with federal occupational safety and health regulations.
OMGT4323 Industrial Cost Analysis (Sp, Su, Fa) Use of accounting information for planning and control from a management viewpoint; principles of cost accounting and other aspects of production costs; budgeting, depreciation, taxes, distribution of profits, securities, sources of corporate capital, and interpretation of financial statements. Not for graduate credit.
OMGT4373 Quality Engineering and Management (Irregular) Provides the student with complete coverage of the functional area of “Quality Assurance”; ranging from the need for such a function, how it works, techniques utilized, and managerial approaches for insuring its effectiveness. Prerequisite: INEG 3313.
OMGT4523 Automated Production (Fa) Industrial robots and robot programming, industrial logic control systems, programmable controllers for the control of work stations, and conveyor systems. On-line computer and microprocessors. Group technology, flexible manufacturing systems, and computer-integrated manufacturing laboratory required.
OMGT4553 Production Planning and Control (Sp) Operational problems of production systems including control of purchased materials inventory; scheduling of a job shop, batch, and continuous production process for single and multi-item product lines; planning of work force and inventory under seasonal and stochastic demand.
OMGT4583 Operations Productivity and Automation (Sp, Su, Fa) An examination of methods to improve industrial productivity including quality circles, robots, machine vision, programmable controllers, computer numerical control, and computer-assisted manufacturing.
OMGT4613 Production and Inventory Control (Sp, Su, Fa) Operational problems of production systems including control of purchased materials; scheduling of job shop, batch, and continuous production processes; planning of work force and production under seasonal demand. Inventory models and strategies are compared.
OMGT4623 Strategic Management (Sp, Su, Fa) Case studies covering the spectrum of strategic management issues facing typical organizations. Designed to provide analysis and synthesis experience to apply principles of operations management. Should be taken in last half of degree program
OMGT4783 Project Analysis and Control (Sp, Su, Fa) Introduction to the Critical Path Method and Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Project planning and control methods; activity sequencing; time-cost trade-offs; allocation of manpower and equipment resources; scheduling activities; computer systems for PERT/CPM.
OMGT4853 Data Processing Systems (Sp, Su, Fa) Fundamentals of computers and data processing. Computer hardware and software. Word processing and spreadsheet methods and applications. Introduction to database concepts and applications.
OMGT4873 Principles of Operations Research (Sp, Su, Fa) Surveys the mathematical models used to design and analyze operational systems. Contents include linear programming models, waiting line models, and management science. Applications of operations research are emphasized.
OMGT5003 Introduction to Operations Management (Sp, Su, Fa) An overview of the functional areas of Operations Management. Each class will consist of a capsule of the topics covered in other courses in depth. Guest lectures. Required course for all majors in Operations Management.
OMGT5013 Operational Systems Design (Sp, Su, Fa) Fundamental tools for design and analysis of operational systems. Facilities location and design, materials handling, transportation, maintenance, standards, and control.
OMGT5113 Human Resource Management (Sp, Su, Fa) Human resource policies and practices are examined including legal foundations, classification and compensation plans, recruitment and selection processes, training, employment policies and morale, compensation, employee relations, and organization.
OMGT5123 Public Financial Administration (Sp, Su, Fa) Financial planning in military and civilian operations; the application of budgets and controls for operational systems.
OMGT5133 Operations Management i the Service Sector (Sp, Su, Fa) Review of the role of the operations management in the service sector, e.g., health care systems, banking, municipal services, utilities, and postal service and others. Emphasizes the principles and methodologies applicable to the solution of problems within the service industries. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
OMGT5143 Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management (Irregular) Emerging issues affecting employee well-being and workforce productivity. Impact of such issues as diversity, job evaluation, compensation, incentive pay, retention, and the aging workforce. Legal aspects of FMLA, EAP, and ADA are included. Students will develop a wage survey and an action plan to implement into an organization.
OMGT5223 Safety and Health Standards Research (Sp, Su, Fa) For graduate students who seek Certified Professional or Certified Industrial Hygienist status, or both. Includes review and development of computer databases for standards, interpretations, court decisions, and field memoranda. Test equipment and procedures for determining indoor industrial aid containment PEL concentrations and industrial environment noise levels are examined. Prerequisite: INEG 4223 or OMGT 4303. (Same as INEG 5223)
OMGT5303 Health Care Policies and Issues (Irregular) Health care management and policy development. Health insurance, Medicare and managed care. Health benefits for employees. The role of government and business in policy formulation. Financing of health care. Legal and ethical considerations in health care. Hospital and outpatient management issues.
OMGT5373 Quality Management (Sp, Su, Fa) Implementation of modern participative quality management techniques in military and civilian operations. Includes quality control methods and control charts. Acceptance sampling plans with emphasis upon Department of Defense procurement standards.
OMGT5423 Operations Management & Global Competition (Sp) Studies of principles and cases in business/industrial administration in global competition. Survey of markets, technologies, multi-national corporations, cultures, and customs. Discussion of ethics, professionalism, difference valuing, human relations skills, and other topics relevant to global engineering practice. Prerequisite: INEG 4433.
OMGT5433 Cost Estimation Models (Sp, Su, Fa) An examination of the methodologies for estimating and forecasting manufacturing costs. Types of cost recovery systems, work progress functions, product improvement curves, determination of hourly rates, parametric estimating systems, and the development of software for computer-assisted estimating systems. Prerequisite: INEG 3513 and INEG 3833. (Same as INEG 5433)
OMGT5463 Economic Decision Making (Sp, Su, Fa) Principles of economic analysis with emphasis upon discounted cash flow criteria for decision making. Comparison of criteria such as rate of return, annual cost, and present worth for the evaluation of project alternatives.
OMGT5503 Maintenance Management (Sp, Su, Fa) Principles and practices of maintenance department organization, prevention procedures, and typical equipment problems. Includes related topics such as plant protection, preventative and plant maintenance.
OMGT5733 Human Factors Analysis (Sp, Su, Fa) Psychological and physiological factors to be considered by the operations manager. Human perceptual and work capacities are examined in relation to various task situations, with emphasis on controlling and monitoring tasks. Fundamental design factors are also considered. Human behavioral aspects of management decisions are considered.
OMGT577V Special Problems (Sp, Su, Fa) (1-3) Application of previous course work knowledge to problems encountered in military base and civilian operations. Problems are proposed by students according to individual interests and needs.
OMGT5823 Computer Applications (Sp, Su, Fa) Computer systems for analysis and control of operations management problems. Coding of operations models and currently available software systems. Microcomputers, minicomputers, and time-sharing systems. Networking and navigating the Internet as a resource for solving operations management problems.
OMGT5873 Organization and Control (Sp, Su, Fa) Examination of organizational decision making authority, structures, and controls. Functions of management-planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Comparison of military and civilian environments for the implementation of management principles.
OMGT600V Masters Thesis (Sp, Su, Fa) (1-6)