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This is a survey course on operations management in manufacturing and service organizations. Operations management mainly deals with the processes of value creation and delivery for customer satisfaction, and plays a key role in sustaining competitive advantage in dynamic marketplaces. This course covers various strategic and tactical decisions in the field of operations management, and introduces basics of supply chain management. 

This course examines comprehensive and integrated building design, where the architectural whole is approached as a complex of systems (of production, technology, infrastructure and so on), in turn embedded within larger systems (of ecology, economy and so on). It develops a level of competence in design skills and thinking and involves the integration of technology with the natural environment, and urban context. Students address a generic brief by building upon it with emphasis in Urban, Environment, and/or Technological issues in a given site to demonstrate the acquisition of a level of competence in research, design thinking, operational skills and communication.

This course introduces numerical methods, which are now an essential component in a diverse range of disciplines. Topics include creation and manipulation of arrays, solutions of linear systems, Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting, numerical differentiation and integration, introductory numerical differential equations, root finding methods, including bisection and fixed-point iteration, Newton's method in one and higher dimensions, and functional minimization in multiple dimensions. Within these topics students are introduced to variables and functions, floating point arithmetic, flow control, container types, plotting, and symbolic expressions.

This course introduces students to the key findings and theories concerning how people think, feel, and behave in organizations. It is equally relevant to students wishing to gain an understanding of business psychology at the university level as it is to students keen on developing hands-on skills that can be applied in organizational settings. The course focuses on topics such as motivation, negotiations, group and network dynamics, social status, influence, and individual personality. The course features interactive lectures, research exercises, and experiential activities, including individual negotiations, group problem-solving, and using data analysis to make strategic business decisions.

This course provides a study of the origins, development, and main characteristics of environmental law, its ability to effectively protect the environment taking into account the real degree of enforcement. Topics include: development and nature of environmental law; international protection of the environment; the European Law and environmental law; constitutional and statutory configuration of environmental law; means of protection; instruments and techniques; environmental protection sectors.