MST Receives National Recognition!
U.S. News &
World Report chose MST-Online as one
of the "Best of the Online Grad Programs." The October 15,
2001 issue (p. 66ff) reported on 130 accredited programs chosen from
a survey of 2,000 institutions. The MST program at OGI was one of
33 on-line engineering programs; among the others recognized were
Stanford, Columbia, and Texas Tech.
Congratulations to Neil
Berglund!
Longtime MST faculty
member Neil Berglund was one
of seven technologists honored Sept. 27 for their significant contributions
to the advancement of semiconductor manufacturing technology at an
award ceremony sponsored by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials
International (SEMI). "With this award, our industry recognizes
these technology pioneers for their brilliant innovation and dedication
to the creation of pivotal technology that has significantly advanced
our industry," said SEMI President Stanley T. Myers.
Neil was honored
for his participation in a three-man team in the early 1980s that
performed "breakthrough work" on laser pattern generation
technology. He and his collaborators did the work at ATEQ Corp (now
Etec Systems Inc.), where Neil was founder, president, and CEO. He
is now president of Northwest Technology Group and a professor in
both the MST and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at
OGI.
Free
Seminar: Career Management
In keeping with
the MST Department's mission of providing relevant education, our
faculty are proud to present a free seminar on Career Management.
We recognize your need for professionally relevant information on
how to respond to and survive in the current business climate. Please
join us for a great networking opportunity.
Nov 29, 2001,
5:30--7:30 pm, OGI Café
5:30--6:00 Networking
(pizza & soft drinks provided)
6:00--6:55 Panel
Presentations:
- Long-Range
Career Planning: An Overview
Alvin Tong (5 min.)
- Personal
Effectiveness Tips and Tools during Times of Business Lay-Offs
(whether you are a casualty or a survivor)
Leslie Smid (15 min.)
- Managing
Change and Transitions: Taking Care of Yourself and Your Business
Niki Steckler (10 min.)
- How to Get
a Better Job
Jack Raiton (20 min.)
- Available
OGI Resources
Victoria Tyler (5 min.)
6:55--7:25 pm
Open Discussion
7:25--7:30 pm
Wrap-up
NOTE: RSVP by
November 27th to Staci (ssutton@admin.ogi.edu
or 503-748-7804)
Upcoming Seminars from
the OGI Center for Professional Development and the MST Department
(Please click
on Web link below for an overview of the seminar and to register.)
OGI
PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING SERIES
Proactive Management
of Product Development Risk
Preston Smith (New Product Dynamics)
Tuesday, Nov 20 at 7 pm (6:15 pm pizza, soft drinks, networking)
FREE
OGI
FUTURE OF COMPUTING SERIES
.Net-What It Means for Developing Applications
Sean Campbell
Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 pm (6:15 pm pizza, soft drinks, networking)
FREE
BUSINESS
OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY FORUM
When Does an Acquisition Make Sense?
Kirby Dyess (VP, Intel)
Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7 pm (6:15 pm pizza, soft drinks, networking)
FREE
Upcoming in 2002:
· Joe Reinhart, VP of Business Development, ESI, January
· Mark Hollinger, CEO, Merix, February
· Paul Gullick, Clarity Visual Systems, March
· Gerry Perkel, CEO, Merrit, April
· John Harker, CEO, InFocus, May
The OGI
Center for Professional Development offers intensive, non-credit
short courses in software development and engineering, product development
and quality, project management, marketing and communications.
· To
receive e-mail announcements concerning software courses.
· To
receive e-mail announcements of courses related to product development,
quality, project management, etc.
· To register for any seminar or course: http://cpd.ogi.edu
· To
add your name to the seminars list.
Microsoft
Master's Degree Pilot Program
MST and Cenquest
are working with Microsoft to develop a Master's degree program specifically
tailored for employees of Microsoft's Enterprise Services organization.
As a step in that direction, a pilot program of 4 one-credit modules
condensed from MST courses will take place from December 2001 to February
2002.
The pilot is designed
to test the ability of Microsoft employees to manage a 10-15 hour
per work course load while still performing their job responsibilities.
The pilot will also be testing the effectiveness of distance-learning
technologies in delivering Master's-level course work. The four modules
include Effective Business Writing, Initiating Winning Projects, High-Tech
Marketing Basics, and Making Sense of Financials.
The course content
is tailored to the business challenges relevant to Microsoft's environment
and includes Microsoft-specific readings, discussions, and case studies.
And because only Microsoft employees will participate in this program,
students will be able to freely discuss Microsoft-sensitive issues
and will have the opportunity to network with other Microsoft employees.
For more information,
visit http://www.cenquest.com/corp/microsoft.
MST
Advocate at Cenquest
MST faculty member
Marianne Koch is the new Academic
Consultant at Cenquest. In this part-time position, she helps assure
the integrity of the academic offerings of university programs, such
as the MST program at OGI, and company-specific degree programs. In
these latter programs, the company goes beyond tuition reimbursement
of graduate credits and instead offers an advanced degree in coursework
specifically geared for that company's needs.
From her Cenquest
vantage point, Marianne will be able to keep all members of the MST
community informed of online course developments. Currently, she says
active work is being done on the online Capstone course and plans
are solidifying to revisit all the original online courses implemented
at the beginning of the Cenquest/MST partnership.
In her new role,
Marianne also acts as a liaison for MST department administrators,
faculty, and students. If you have concerns or suggestions about MST
online courses, please contact her at mkoch@cenquest.com.
MST
listed in Service Members Opportunity catalog
Marianne Koch
also helped Cenquest sales guru Michael Corbett place MST as one of
the few graduate programs on the selective list of the Service Members
Opportunity College. Last year, the US Army announced it would spend
a billion dollars on online degree education for its men and women
in uniform. Rather than take proposals directly from universities,
the Army hired PricewaterhouseCoopers as an "integrator."
Mike and Marianne negotiated with PwC for MST's place in the Army
catalog. The placement makes MST studies eligible for reimbursement
for qualifying Army personnel. Everyone at MST hopes to see new enrollments
from among the officer corps, and to be able to make a constructive
contribution to military management and national security.
We do live in a wired
world!
An April 2001
survey by Nielsen NetRatings found Portland, Oregon, to be the U.S.
city with the highest percentage of homes connected to the Internet,
at nearly 70%.
Tips
on Public Speaking
Using gestures
We've all been
annoyed by speakers who over-gesture or who are so wooden that their
lack of gestures is equally distracting. And we all know what improper
gestures are. But what works well? The word "natural" comes
to mind here. When you're relaxed and comfortable, natural gestures
help punctuate your presentation. If you're nervous, it's a bit more
difficult to be natural.
If you typically
use your hands while talking, go ahead. However any body movement,
gesture, or facial expression that is excessive or repeated too frequently
should be toned down.
Also be aware
of the messages your body and voice may be sending. Remember we respond
visually first. If the face/body don't match the words, we'll respond
to what we see rather than what we hear. Here's an example: A presenter
begins by saying they are delighted to be talking with you and are
extremely excited to share their new product. However, their expression
is solemn and their arms are folded tight to the body. Will you believe
the words or the body?
Concerned that
your gestures aren't helpful? Ask a friend or colleague to watch you
in an upcoming meeting or presentation, and note anything distracting.
(Videotapes are also great!)
When speaking
in public, you need to find what's natural for you. Facial expressions
are important and eye contact is the most important of all. And don't
forget to smile. People always respond well to those.
Kathy
Mangel Davis (PS2Kathy@aol.com) is a Presentation Skills trainer
and coach. She is currently co-teaching Project Management for MST.
MST
in Korea
Three MST professors,
Alvin Tong, Fred
Phillips, and Paul Newman,
offered classes this fall in a collaborative program offered by the
State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB) and The Institute
of Industrial Policy Studies (IPS) of Korea.
In mid-August,
SUNYSB approached Alvin with an urgent request for faculty expertise
for September and October in this joint education program, which takes
place in Seoul. The students are recruited by IPS from high-tech industries
in Korea, while SUNYSB provides curriculum and teaching faculty (all
courses are taught in English). The coursework leads to an MS degree
in Technology Management from SUNYSB.
MST was able to
respond promptly to SUNYSB's request: Alvin taught Project Management
from 9/10 to 9/14; Fred and Paul both taught Issues in Technology
Management, Fred over the first two weekends of October and Paul over
the last two weekends of October. Students represented companies such
as Deloitte Consulting, Korea Telecom, Concert Global Networks, Bank
of Korea, ADC Telecommunications, SAP Korea, Samsung Electro-Mechanics,
Unitel, and SK Telecom.
The MST faculty
all had a great experience. They found that the students' English
was passable and that they worked very hard. Classes were lively with
much humor from the students and an excellent quality of work. Support
from the IPS staff, including classrooms and equipment, was also excellent.
According to Alvin,
there will be continuing teaching opportunities in this joint MST/SUNYSB/IPS
effort. Stay tuned!
Fred
Phillips in Korea
Editor's note:
In October, MST Professor and Department Head Fred
Phillips traveled to Seoul, Korea, to do some teaching and lecturing.
The following is excerpted from a letter he emailed to the MST department.
Because I am interested
in techno-growth areas, Dr. Deok-Soon Yim, who recently spent a year
as visiting scholar at PSU, set up an opportunity for me to tour the
Taeduk (or Daedeok) science city and to give a public lecture at Hanbat
National University in Taejon.
Since the 1970s,
the Korean government has gone full-court on making Taeduk successful,
putting direct investment, infrastructure projects, government and
military offices, and so on there. While it seems to have worked,
resident scientists are conscious of the fact that there have been
fewer seed startup companies at Taeduk than at Hsin Chu in Taiwan.
And companies still have to go to Seoul for venture capital and all
the way to the new Seoul-Inchon airport to fly to visit foreign customers.
Moreover, there is essentially no seed-stage venture capital in Korea.
Companies start up on friends-&-family money and credit cards,
then go to the VC market for second-stage. There are no special tax
breaks for Taeduk start-ups.
I visited one
semiconductor boutique, one biotech firm, and one government lab.
The semiconductor equipment design firm needs foreign contacts to
possible alliance partners, and needs sources of industry information
beyond what the local analog of AeA can provide. The government marine
science laboratory has the coolest VR setup I've yet seen-they train
ship pilots on a mock tanker bridge, with surround-sight 3D mockups
of every major port in the world, each accurate and based on GPS and
depth-sound data. The biotech firm (microbial technologies, with a
factory that smells like a Portland brewery) just went public; it
is sheltering several other, non-competing biotech startups in a "bio-community"
that is very much like Portland's late, lamented biotech innovation
center. The Taeduk bio-community was made possible when the lead firm
went public and had the cash to buy a campus at a distressed price
from another company that had gone under earlier in the recession.
Later in the week, I gave a lecture at STEPI, the government's Science
& Technology Policy Institute in Seoul. STEPI runs an MOT (management
of technology ) degree program for nearby Sangwan University, with
classes held in the evenings at STEPI and taught by STEPI researchers.
These engineering and R&D-oriented MS programs in MOT seem more
common in Korea than tech-oriented MBAs.
South Korea's
S&T planning process mainly consists of government-industry dialog
orchestrated by STEPI. The institute researchers express much interest
in learning practical ways to use formal methods of e.g. technology
forecasting and assessment. But it seems their bigger need is for
ways to integrate and weigh all the data and opinions they gather
from their industry and government contacts.
I have visited Korea at intervals of 5-7 years since 1976. Each time,
I find the country totally transformed. This time, I found it to be
completely modern, convenient, and comfortable (but still different
enough to be interestingly exotic), and more advanced than the U.S.
in cell phone use and in multi-modal Internet connections. They are
moving toward public wireless LANs in cafes and convenience stores.
The story I heard was that some Koreans travelling in Europe couldn't
wait to go home to Korea "because the Internet is better at home."
I'm wondering what impact this kind of trend (in Korea and other countries,
like Finland) should have on MST's curriculum.
From
the OGI Library
The library's
ejournal page http://www.ogi.edu/library/ejournal.html
has been updated to reflect new journals available at OGI. This list
now includes 278 titles with direct links to the journals. Journal
additions include many for finance and accounting as well as computer
science.
The library also has a trial running now for Business Source Premiere.
This indexes 2798 periodicals, 2260 of which are available in full
text. To access this database, go to http://www.ogi.edu/library/databases_atoz.html
and click on Business Source Premiere. The trial will run through
December and the library is asking for feedback on this database,
which doubles the coverage of the business literature provided by
Business Source Elite.
New
Winter Course/New Faculty Profile
The MST department
is pleased to announce a new course on the impact of technology on
the business-and consumers-of healthcare. MST
580 E-Health Management presents an overview of current E-Health
initiatives and an exploration of their business impact. E-Health,
the use of technology to facilitate the interaction of people and
process in healthcare, is of particular interest to Dick
Prins, instructor for the new course.
Dick received
his Master's degree in management from the Graduate School of Industrial
Administration at Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's degree
in physics from Reed College. The GSIA program is based on the use
of quantitative methods for data analysis to support decision-making.
Dick's interest lies in bringing the same concepts of continuous process
improvement, best practices, benchmarking, and quality analysis to
all aspects of healthcare, including record keeping, knowledge dissemination,
and applied services.
"Healthcare
is a $1.6 trillion industry, with about 25% wasted or misspent. Add
to that the over 90,000 people each year who die from medical error
and the need for change becomes really clear," says Dick. "Institutions
are eager to embrace technology in the form of new diagnostic and
treatment equipment, but until now they have been slow to leverage
technology to modernize their enormous information needs." MST
580 looks at the many opportunities that exist for technology and
management professionals in e-Health.
Dick brings a
wealth of e-commerce and management-in-technology experience to the
MST classroom. He founded and served as senior vice-president of Myhealthbank,
an e-health financial service and e-commerce business. He has held
executive positions at Planar Display Solutions, a leading supplier
of flat panel display computers and terminals to the healthcare market;
Synektron Corporation, a TDK Group company; National Semiconductor;
and Corning, Inc. As a principal with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, he
directed consulting assignments in marketing and operations strategy,
materials management, technology modernization and profit improvement.
Dick currently serves as executive vice president of Group 3, which
helps companies use technology to make the decisions that drive financial
success.
Dick is also the
founding president of the Oregon Quality Initiative, a private, nonprofit
corporation that administers the Oregon Quality Award, and he serves
on the advisory board of Northwest Medical Teams, where he consults
about technology uses in long-distance health care and relief efforts
in undeveloped nations.
For more information
about MST 580, contact Dick at dick.prins@home.com
Factoids for current
and prospective MST students
Academic
counseling is advised for all students.
New students
who wish to complete the MST Program in approximately two
years should take two courses per quarter.
Although
MST classes do not normally meet during finals week, the instructors
may require that an assignment or take-home examination be
submitted during the week; or due to scheduling arrangements,
a class may have its final meeting on the weekend of finals
week.
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Winter
2002 Courses
Winter Weekend
Courses
Begins January
11-12, 2002
MST
502 Financial Management (4 credits)
Inst: Michael McLean (AB401)
MST 512-1 Project Management
(Section 1) (4 credits)
Inst: Blake Mills (Rm 110B, 1600 Bldg)
MST
515 Supply Chain Management (3 credits)
Inst: Thoi Truong (JM561)
MST
520 Management in Science and Technology (4 credits)
Inst: Nick Steckler (Rm 110A, 1600 Bldg)
MST
524 Strategies for Success in the Digital Economy (4 credits)
Inst: Jean-Claude Balland (CSC 6217)
MST
530 Strategic Planning & Management (4 credits)
Inst: Paul Newman (Rm 120, 1600 Bldg)
Begins January
18 & 19, 2002
MST
504 Marketing: Gong to Market (3 credits)
Inst: Rita Laxton (CSC6217)
MST
512-2 Project Management Section 2 (4 credits)
Inst: Alvin Tong (Room 110B, 1600 Bldg)
MST
513 Manufacturing Practices and Management (3 credits)
Inst: John Wallner (Rm 120, 1600 Bldg)
MST
514 Issues in R & D Management (3 credits)
Inst: Gene Weissman (Room 110A, 1600 Bldg)
MST
541 Leadership and Negotiation Skills (3 credits)
Inst: Jesse Reeder (AB401)
MST 580 E-Health
Management(3 credits)
Inst: Dick Prins (JM561)
Note: The overall
course schedule may be subject to change. Weekend classes are scheduled
on Fridays 4pm-9pm; Saturday 9am-2pm. MST students may take courses
in PSU's Engineering & Technology Management Department; see your
faculty advisor and http://www.emp.pdx.edu
for details.
Winter Weeknight Classes
MST
510 Principles and Trends in Technology Management (3 credits)
Inst: Mark Chen (CSC6217)
6:00-9:45pm; Mondays; begins January 14 (10 sessions)
Winter Online Classes
MST
502D Financial Management (4 credits)
Inst: Jack Raiton (begins January 21)
MST
503D Marketing in Science and Technology (4 credits)
Inst: Raj Merchant (begins January 21)
MST
511D Quality Management (3 credits)
Inst: Yong-In Shin (begins January 21)
MST 590D
Effective Business Writing (1 credit)
Inst: Rich Fournier (begins January 21)
MST
591D English for Non-native Speakers (1 credit)
Inst: Rich Fournier (begins January 21)
Note: Registration
for online courses is the same as for courses held on campus. Be sure
to give the full course number with the "D" to indicate
an online course.
For information
about online courses and their availability:
visit the Cenquest
website or contact Kelly Eason, Cenquest Customer Service Representative,
503-276-7918.
