INFORMATION SYSTEMS GRADUATE PROGRAMS

THE INF ORMAT ION CHALLENGE

Rapid advancements in technology, dynamic markets, and the changing global business environment have created increased demand for professionals who can lead, manage, deliver, and support information systems. This demand has been accelerated by new competition, shorter product life cycles, outsourcing, and more complex and specialized international markets. Information systems professionals are required to lead and evolve information resources while partnering with corporate management. Organizations need IT professionals that are effective at working closely with their business partners to identify innovative opportunities to leverage IT for competitive advantage. Likewise, business people need to be more effective as they work closely with their IT partners. This requires an appropriate balance of technical, business/management, industry, and interpersonal (e.g. writing, presenting, working in teams) skills. With about 1,000 students (one of the largest IS graduate programs in the world) this balanced program is designed for information systems professionals seeking to advance their careers in IT, for business professionals looking for ways to leverage their IT resources, and for academics that are preparing students for the challenges that await them. To meet the increasing need for professionals with the experience necessary to enable these important functions, Stevens offers a multi-track Master of Science program to help achieve your Information Technology career objectives. This program prepares students for careers such as: IT Management IT Liaison Systems Analyst Entrepreneur Management Consultant Outsourcing Manager Project Management Systems Integrator Business Analyst Internal Consultant Technical Specialist Academician

In addition to strong practical, real-world IT and management skills, graduates of the program leave with improved communication, interpersonal, team, analytic, and critical thinking skills. The MSIS is a professional degree that integrates information and organizational cultures with emphasis on IT professionals that can complete a set of flexible initiatives that meet the current and emerging demands of our industry partners. 80% of our students are sponsored by their company.

P ROGRAM S TRUC TURE

Degree Requirements 12 graduate courses with a minimum GPA of 3.0 for the degree of Master of Science usually completed over a 2-year period (see page 2 of this brochure). This MSIS is comprised of 3 Business core courses and 5 IS core courses described in the column on the right, in addition to 4 selected electives or concentration courses (listed on page 2 of this brochure; 12 courses in total for the MSIS). Your assigned faculty advisor is available to assist you in creating your personal study plan. With an additional 8 courses students can be awarded an MBA instead of the MSIS.With an additional 12 courses they get both. (see page 2 of this brochure).

P ROGRAM LOCATIONS & SCHEDULES

Courses are offered on the Stevens campus (across the river from Manhattan in Hoboken, NJ), on weekday evenings, and Saturday mornings. Weeknights On-campus classes are held Monday-Thursday 6:15pm - 8:45pm. Saturday On-campus classes are held 8:30am - 1:30pm. Off-campus classes at company sites are typically held on weekday evenings on a trimester schedule. Stevens also offers the program throughout the world. Most of the program tracks are also offered as online courses via Stevens WebCampus. For calendars, on-campus and WebCampus offerings, see: http://howe.stevens.edu/MSIS

RE QUIRED BUSINE SS CORE (3 COURSE S)

Introduction to Project Management This course examines IT projects within an organizational context, including the processes related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting, and closing an IT initiative. Students develop detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets; they also experience estimating project resources, allocating/coordinating resources, and interfacing with management. MIS 623 Financial Management of IT The collection, processing, and reporting of financial information for IT organizations. Topics: applying managerial and cost accounting to information and IT organizations, and how IT accounting relates to strategic business and process innovations. The impact of cost, revenues, risk and uncertainty on financial decisions will be illustrated via case examples. MIS 689 Organizational Behavior & Design This course exposes students to the macro and mirco aspects of organizational behavior and theory that are essential to technology management.The macro aspect will focus on the structural contingency theory as an approach to effective organizational design.The micro aspect will focus on leadership, teams, and individual behavior.Current topics that are key to technology management,will be stressed.

MIS 609

P ROGRAM TRACK S
Many concentration areas are available to students, including Management, Industry, Process & Services, and Technical tracks. See page 2 for the listing of tracks and their courses.Also available as a Certificate, students will be awarded both the MSIS degree and Certificate for their chosen concentration. MBA, Executive MBA, and P.h.D. degrees with IS majors are also available. The eight Information Systems core courses on the right are available on Saturday mornings as a lock-step program to company sponsored students. The non-core Saturday courses are avaliable as electives to all IS students. All tracks and courses can be made available to build flexible seminars for our corporate collaborators.

RE QUIRED INF ORMAT ION SYS TEMS CORE (5 COURSE S)

MIS 700
Managing Emerging Information Technology A fundamental part of IT organizations is their ability to leverage new technologies. This course focuses on how organizations can effectively and efficiently assess trends and emerging technologies in the data and knowledge management, information networks, and analyzing and developing application systems. Students will learn how to help their organization define, select, and adopt new technologies.

MIS 710 Process Innovation & Mgt. How strategy, organization structure and processes can be integrated to execute corporate strategy and provide competitive advantage. Students learn how to analyze, design and manage processes using reengineering best practices and how to integrate processes into a business intelligence architecture for the firm. MIS 730 Integrating IT Architecture
This course focuses on ways of designing and integrating an enterprise architecture across current and emerging technologies, and explains the different forms of large-scale information systems and their interaction.Students will learn about the building blocks of current enterprise architecture including clusters and mainframes, and how to connect them to solve the problems of larger institutions.In this way students will be prepared to design systems in an age characterized by a rapid expansion in data and application demands the invention of new storage technologies, evloving networks, and the increasing the ubiquity of large scale parallel processing infrastructure.

MIS 750 Managing the IT Resource Improves the competency in managing the tactical and operational responsibilities of the IT organization of a company. Topics include: key IT processes, IT governance, IT organizational design, managing emerging technologies, role of the CIO, value of IT, IT HR considerations, IT outsourcing, and Strategic Alignment Maturity. MIS 760 IT Strategy The objective of this course is to provide the student with a strategic analysis process that incorporates the necessary tools and skill sets to create business strategy that is aligned with information technology (IT) strategy.This includes the formulation of strategic business initiatives that are aligned with and empowered by IT using methods to identify opportunities for leveraging IT capabilities for competitive advantage and building a harmonious integrated strategy.

PROGRAM TRACK/CONCENTRATION SELECTIONS:

The courses listed under each track area are available as electives in any track.Meet with your advisor to prepare a study plan.

MANAGING THE IS ORGANI zATION TRACKS :

Information Management
4 electives or thesis option

In addition to the 8 core courses on page 1 column 2 of this brochure, 4 courses (from the list below) are required for the MSIS. There are 24 program tracks from which to select. For a complete listing of all of the course descriptions visit: http://howe.stevens.edu/academics/graduate-programs/information-systems/curriculum/

Healthcare IT
MIS 685 MIS 686 MIS 687 MIS 688 MIS 671 MIS 672 MIS 673 MIS 674 The Healthcare Value Chain Administrative Systems in Healthcare Clinical Systems in Healthcare Patient-centered eHealth Systems Pharma Industry Trends & Issues Pharma Industry New Drug Dev. Pharma Industry Supply Chain Pharma Industry Marketing & Sales

Software Engineering
Select four 500/600 level SSW courses.

Systems Engineering
SYS 611 SYS 625 SYS 650 SYS 660 Modeling & Simulation System Operational Effectiveness & Life Cycle Analysis System Architecture & Design Decision & Risk Analysis for Complex Systems Prin. of Applied Telecom Technology Intro. to Probability & Stochastic Business Information Networks Regulation & Policy in Telecom Industry

Entrepreneurial IT
MIS 661 Marketing On-Line MIS 662 Legal Issues for the IT Professional MIS 663 Entrepreneurship in IT
See website for 1 elective

IT in Pharma/Biotech

Global Innovation Management

MGT 630 Global Business & Markets MGT 650 International Business Management MGT 673 Global Innovation Management
See website for 1 elective
L egal Issues in I T

Telecommunications Management
TM 601 TM 605 TM 610 TM 612

IT in Manufacturing
ME 635 Simulation and Modeling ME 644 Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing ME 645 Design of Production Systems ME 665 Advanced Product Development

Project Management
MGT 610 Strategic Perspectives on Project Mgt. MGT 612 Human Side of Project Leadership MGT 614 Advanced Project Management
See website for 1 elective

MBA IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

TECHNICAL TRACKS:
Computer Science
CS CS CS CS 506 561 568 56 9 Introduction to IT Security Database Management Systems Software Project I Software Project II

IT Outsourcing
MIS 650 MIS 651 MIS 652 MGT 654 IT Outsourcing Governance Legal Issues in IT Outsourcing Relationship Mgt. IT Outsourcing Organization Change & Devlpt

This degree requires 8 additional management courses beyond the MSIS

MGT 600 MGT 607 MGT 657 MGT 620 MIS 661* MIS 662* MIS 663* Managerial Accounting Managerial Economics Operations Management Statistical Models Marketing On-Line Legal Issues for the IT Professional Entrepreneurship in IT

Legal Issues in IT
MIS 662 MIS 651 MIS 647 MIS 665 Legal Issues for the IT Professional Legal Issues in IT Outsourcing Information Assurance & the Law Issues & Trends in the Law of IT

Knowledge Management/Data Mining

MIS 635 Designing the Knowledge Org. MIS 636 Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence MIS 637 Knowledge Discovery in Databases MIS 638 Data Mining Algorithms

See website for 1 elective

* These courses also count as electives in the MSIS degree. If any are taken as part of the MSIS degree, then they would be replaced in the MBA with additional electives.

PROCESS & SERvICES MANAGEMENT TRACKS:

Business Process Mgt. & Service Innovation
MIS 712 BPM & Workflow Implementation MIS 713 Service Innovation MIS 690 Supply Chain Management & Strategy
See website for 1 elective

Service Oriented Architecture

MIS 610 Managing Enterprise Systems
See website for 3 electives

FOUNDATION COURSES
In additon to the twelve required courses for the MSIS one or more of the following non credit business/information technology foundation courses may be required depending on your background.

Internet Applications
Select 2 from:

IT Services
MIS 735 Strategy and Design of IT Service Management MIS 736 IT Service Management Operations
See website for 2 electives

MIS 501 Introduction to data & knowledge

management, network management, analysis of application systems, and programming.

SSW 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering

MIS 661 Marketing Online MIS 662 Legal Issues for the IT Professional
See website for 2 electives

Management Consulting
MIS 652 Relationship Mgt. in IT Outsourcing MIS 655 Management Consulting MIS 712 BPM & Workflow Implementation
See website for 1 elective

Enterprise Systems
MIS 610 Managing Enterprise Systems
See website for 3 electives

MIS 502 Introduction to: A) Accounting B) Microeconomics C) Statistics

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Additional MSIS program information may be

Information Security
MIS 645 Cyber Security Principles MIS 646 Information Security Management MIS 647 Information Assurance & the Law MIS 648 Analyzing Technology Risks

http://howe.stevens.edu/msis
or by contacting Jerry N. Luftman, Ph.D. Executive Director, Howe School of Technology Management

Strategic Supply Chain Management

MIS 690 Supply Chain Management & Strategy MIS 691 Procurement & Supplier Management MIS 692 Distribution & Logistics Management MIS 657/MGT 657 Operations Management

Integrated Information Architecture INDUS TRY TRACK S:

CS 561 CpE 560 Database Management Systems I Intro to Networked Info. Systems

Phone 201.216.8255 Fax 201.216.5385 Email jluftman@stevens.edu

or Jennifer Perez, Jennifer.Perez@stevens.edu 201-216-5584 Esther Rosado-Candelaria, erosadoc@stevens.edu 201-216-8167

IT in Financial Services
MIS 681 MIS 682 MIS 683 MIS 684 Fin. Serv. Industry Trends & Issues Capital Markets Financial Services Back Office Financial Services Marketing & Sales

NIS/EE 611 Digital Communications Eng. I

See website for 1 elective