Economics and Manufacturing Management
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Appendix 1
Course: Economics and Manufacturing Management
Programme Summary
Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology
Degree: Master
Course units:
- Unit 1. The concept and the activity of a business enterprise in the market economy.
- Unit 2. The basics of cost management in industry.
- Unit 3. The place of thermal power in the process flow of a steel making company. New maintenance planning technologies.
- Unit 4. Production management. Maximizing profits.
- Unit 5. Innovations management within a company. Sources of project financing. Sustainable borrowing. Assessment of innovation project related risks.
- Unit 6. Assessment of revamping and diversification projects performance.
- Unit 7. Business planning. The innovative project concept and the business planning stages: the definition of goals and strategies; feasibility study; search for investors; generation of cash flows; risk and performance assessment.
Course contents:
- Unit 1. The concept and the activity of a business enterprise in the market economy.
- Unit 2. The basics of cost management in industry.
- Unit 3. The place of thermal power in the process flow of a steel making company. New maintenance planning technologies.
- Unit 4. Production management. Maximizing profits.
- Unit 5. Innovations management within a company. Sources of project financing. Sustainable borrowing. Assessment of innovation project related risks.
- Unit 6. Assessment of revamping and diversification projects performance.
- Unit 7. Business planning. The innovative project concept and the business planning stages: the definition of goals and strategies; feasibility study; search for investors; generation of cash flows; risk and performance assessment.
Activities:
- Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
- Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
- Office-hours.
Total hours – 144.
Total points – 4.
Classroom hours – 40.
Unsupervised hours – 104.
Midterm assessment – Examination.
