This applied seminar is designed for working professionals who want to understand their roles as change agents within the organizations (broadly defined) in which they work, regardless of whether or not they occupy formal leadership positions. The course is focused on examining how change happens in organizations, and considers organizational need, planning for change, and implementing change. Change efforts originating both inside and outside of organizations will be considered. Students will have the opportunity to think about and apply how the psychological notion of “personal influence” can contribute to the social and institutional goals of their organizations.

The purpose of this course is to learn about the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children and youth who are English language learners (ELL), come from multicultural contexts demanding culturally sensitive strategies for assessment and intervention, or are in other bilingual programs such as French Immersion. The course is intended to provide doctoral students with a repertoire of strategies for dealing with the complex array of cognitive, linguistic, affective, social-emotional and cultural issues involved in assessment of CLD children and adolescents. This is achieved through readings, lectures, class discussion, case presentations, hands-on experience with a client and family, and school consultation. Each student will conduct an assessment with a CLD student who is learning difficulties. The goals of this assessment is to establish the client's’ learning and social-emotional needs, the strategies that support their learning and adjustment, and consult with their schools in order to enhance the likelihood that these strategies will be implemented there.

The purpose of this course is to learn about the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children and youth who are English language learners (ELL), come from multicultural contexts demanding culturally sensitive strategies for intervention, or are in other bilingual programs such as French Immersion. The course is intended to provide doctoral students with a repertoire of strategies for dealing with the complex array of cognitive, linguistic, affective, social-emotional, and cultural issues involved in intervention of CLD children and adolescents. This is achieved through readings, lectures, class discussion, case presentations, hands-on experience with a client and family, and school consultation. Each student will conduct an instructional intervention with a CLD or bilingual child or adolescent who is experiencing learning difficulties and who may have a learning disability. The goals of this intervention is to address the client's learning and social-emotional needs, find strategies that support their learning and adjustment, and consult with their schools in order to enhance the likelihood that these strategies will be implemented past your work with the student.

All students completing an EdD in the School Psychology field will be required to complete the doctoral internship course APD3403H. This course requires the completion of at least 1600 hours of internship under the supervision of a doctoral-level psychologist registered with the CPO and approved by the Internship Coordinator. All internship arrangements must be made in consultation with the Director of Clinical Training. The internship may be accomplished on either a full-time or part-time basis and may be completed in either a school or education setting. The internship will normally involve assessment, intervention, consultation with other professionals, supervision, and other activities relevant to professional training. It is also generally expected that, where possible, students will have contact with clients reflecting a range of diverse backgrounds (e.g., clients who derive from various cultural, ethnic, social or linguistic groups and/or who bring other types of diversity issues, such a gender identity or disability).

Courses designed to permit the study (in a formal class setting) of a specific area of human development and applied psychology not already covered in the courses listed for the current year. The topics will be announced each spring in the Fall/Winter Session and Summer Session timetables.

The purpose of this course is to explore, from a multidimensional perspective, assessment and intervention issues and techniques arising when learners in second language or multicultural contexts experience learning difficulties. Through readings, classroom discussion, case studies, and client-work, the course is intended to help students become better aware and better prepared for work with individuals in culturally and linguistically diverse settings. Students are expected to integrate and apply such diverse areas as second language acquisition, learning disabilities, cognitive and affective functioning, and to consider alternative assessment and intervention practices.

Course description same as APD5000H.

Project management has evolved from being an accidental job title into being a chosen profession with career paths and a body of knowledge. This course covers most of the knowledge areas of the Project Management Institute: integration, scope, cost, time, risk, human resources, procurement and communications management. We take a practical, applied approach, with the "PMBOK Guide" textbook, in-class exercises, and a team paper on "lessons learned" from an actual project. This a completely asynchronous online course.

This course analyzes the relationship between management and workers in an engineering (including construction and manufacturing) environment. The course takes a holistic and strategic view of how industrial relations affect the business environment. Students will study industrial relations from the context of engineering-related industries, economics, sociology, and psychology. Students will develop an historical appreciation and perspective of the evolution and development of labour relations through concepts presented by figures such as Adam Smith, Fredrick Taylor, Charles Deming, and J.M. Juran. The goal of the course is to provide a general manager with a thorough understanding of how they can develop a competitive advantage for their organization through effective and thoughtful human resource management practices. In the context of how they relate to engineering and industrial relations, the course topics include: organizational behaviour including methods of motivation, scientific management, quality control, employment and economics, employment as a social relation, unions and other forms of employee representation, internal labour markets, strategic planning and the formulation of human resource strategy, practices and policies.

This course introduces optimization techniques applicable in solving various engineering problems. These techniques are widely used in engineering design, optimal control, production planning, reliability engineering, and operations management. The contents of this course can be classified into two major categories: Modeling techniques (week 1) and Optimization algorithms (week 2). Topics include linear programming, network programming, integer programming, dynamic programming, and decision making under uncertainty. Widely available software will be used for numerically solving linear, network, and integer programming models.

This course aims to offer graduate engineering students a unique view of issues related to the management of natural resource enterprises, and the required knowledge to identify and develop sustainable solutions to the interdisciplinary challenges related to the management of natural resources. The course also considers the management of public enterprises that are in charge of planning and developing national resources, not only in Canada, but also internationally. This course will help students develop the necessary capabilities required of engineers working in natural resources management and natural resources enterprises, whether public or private, in Canada and internationally. The course utilizes lectures and real case analyses and requires students to write and present a final project report.

The course will provide students with the core concepts of innovation including; strategic thinking, transformational change management, future state visioning, innovative enterprise design and development, new product development, business process management and sustaining a culture of innovation. It has been designed for those who desire a career path leading to a role as a corporate change agent such as CEO, COO, Senior VPs, C-Level Certified Management Consultants, or as entrepreneurs. This seminar style course will equip students with the knowledge and the skills to manage innovation at strategic and operational levels. The management of innovation is interdisciplinary and multi-functional, requiring the alignment of market forces, technological systems and organizational change to improve the competitiveness and effectiveness of organizations and society. The process of innovation management is essentially generic, although organization, technological, and market specific factors will guide strategic choices and actions. This course will incorporate both academic readings to provide the broad theory of innovation but most of the readings and discussions will be based on the instructors many years of hands on practical experience in innovation management in a variety of industry sectors.

Applying Innovation will teach students the application and integration of the tools and techniques of innovation management including; strategic and systems thinking, business process management, creativity and problem solving, solution design and implementation, effective organizational teamwork, leadership, and project management. This seminar style course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to apply the tools of creativity and innovation to solve a real world technological business problem. Applying innovation will enable students in a team approach to actually use the tools in the class and on an industrial project either at their employer (preferably) or an external enterprise. This course will also incorporate both academic scholarly papers that will build on the readings in the APS1012H course. In addition the instructor will provide coaching based on many years of hands on practical experience solving technological problems in a variety of industry sectors. Though not mandatory it would be ideal if students have completed the course APS1012H that provides students with a conceptual understanding of the broad field of strategic innovation.

This course is designed for engineering students interested in applying their engineering knowledge and skills to address pressing social or environmental issues of our time. Using the principles of entrepreneurship, this course provides students with an understanding of the systems within which these challenges occur, analyze the range of opportunities and tensions that can be defined within a system, and construct a solution to respond to an important issue.

This course will be engage students independently and in groups through a variety of approaches that embed the principles of entrepreneurship and social change. Lectures will blend theory on key issues related to social entrepreneurship, as well as workshop-style sessions with industry experts and social entrepreneurs. These sessions will help students to understand the broader systems within which social or environmental challenges are situated, and how to introduce solutions into these systems that integrate the principles of entrepreneurship to yield benefits to communities and society as a whole. Students will apply these lessons through individual and group assignments that progressively build on each other through the course of the semester.

This course will focus on valuation of public companies, in particular new technology, and new economy and natural resources companies. The students will be exposed to classical equity valuation methods; such as discounted cash flow analysis, Net asset value, fundamental analysis and relative value analysis, using measures such as P/E multiples and P/Cash flow multiples. The students will be introduced to the principles of Bond and Stock valuations with a special emphasis on its relation to the cost of capital. The course will take an in depth view of capital budgeting, capital investment decisions and project analysis and evaluations. It will introduce students to the concept risk and return in equity markets. The students will get hands on experience in calculating cost of capital and hence the appropriate discount rate to use in valuations. Theory of optimal capital structure and financial leverage will be discussed in addition to economic value added principles. The relevance of dividends and dividend policy will be debated in class. The concept of "does dividend policy matter" will be subject of a vigorous debate. Finally the topic of mergers and acquisitions will be covered in depth, with particular reference to recent mergers of Canadian companies.

This course is to provide students with a framework to design and control supply chain systems. To achieve the goal, the course will cover key modules in supply chain. The students will be exposed to topics such as: product and supply chain matching, forecasting, inventory models, supply chain coordination via contract design, and the value of information.

This course provides insider insight into the way engineers think and feel about the work they do. The course includes methodological background on the nature of engineering work, engineering as an analytical, integrative, and generative thought process. The course begins by providing a historical background on the evolution and impact of technology on cultural and social change from the medieval period through to modern times. We then explore engineering as a practice, engineering as a profession, and engineering as a distinctive way of thinking from basic science as well as engineering's interrelation to the development of modern business practice. The course includes motivational reflection upon a number of ways in which engineering can be a satisfying occupation, seeking to understand the emotional satisfaction of complex design and problem solving as well as the social satisfaction of working in complex team settings with mixed and varied expertise. The course uses landmark books and papers, critical reading assignments, outside guest visitors and digital and social media to gain these insights, and the course concludes with reflections on recent changes in technological employment and how human resource leaders can help professional engineers — both recent graduates and experienced practitioners - align with the pace and challenge of 21st century practice.

Learn the basics of growing businesses and entering foreign markets. This course provides an introduction to global entrepreneurship, global strategy management, and corporate social responsibility within a global context.

This course provides an introduction to financial engineering concepts especially relevant for engineering students. The major topics include the theory of interest, applied interest rate analysis, fixed-income securities, e.g., bonds, basic derivative securities, options, portfolio (mean-variance) optimization theory (including practical engineering issues), the capital asset pricing model, and introduction to options and option pricing.

This course examines technical and organizational aspects of managing new products and process innovations. Topics include human creativity and problem solving, product design and development, product feasibility assessments, requirements engineering, managing research and development, project management, team communication, technology implementation, and innovation strategy.

Planning for resilience is a fundamental of strategic and operational planning of infrastructure and requires an in-depth understanding of the operation one wishes to make resilient, its context and operating environment. This course teaches resilience planning from first principles, including the development and application of international and Canadian infrastructure resilience and investment policy, demand and dependency management, all-hazards and mitigation strategies, and its relationship to Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity Planning.

A fully integrated protection scheme is necessary to efficiently implement an Infrastructure Resilience Plan to assure operational survival following a catastrophic event. Building on the first principles of security integration and fortifications practice, illustrated with case studies through history, the students explore site security surveys, different tools, mitigation methods, and models in common use and the assumptions and technology behind them in order to make informed decisions on how to approach and solve an infrastructure protection problem for the full range of event types. This is then practised in partnership with industry, analyzing real security integration issues for real clients, to whom the students will present their protection schemes.

Operations Management is the systematic approach and control of the processes that transform inputs (e.g., human resources, facilities, materials, processes, enterprise management information systems, etc.) into finished goods and services. The operation function is one of the important cores of a business, that helps an organization in efficiently achieve missions such as increasing productivity and quality. This course will deal with the role of operations management in a total organization, and introduce classic and up-to-date tools and concepts used to support managerial decisions.

This course is a guided exploration of infrastructure planning through a fundamental understanding of first principles and discussion about their application to various aspects of the discipline. This will include strategic planning, cost, finance, risk, resilience, design, and the different applications from facilities to utilities, disaster relief, and policy development. Guest presentations by recognized Subject Matter Experts round out the practical appreciation with case studies. The course is accessible to undergraduates, while providing an essentially post-graduate perspective. Given the enormity of this field, detailed exploration of any of the lecture topics is not possible. Instead, students will be encouraged to read further into the topics of interest and directed to existing courses that explore the topic in greater detail.

Project management is important for any business organization, but particularly so for the energy industry. Sufficient controls are needed during initiation, study, implementation, and closeout of any energy project, and project managers within the energy environment (such as oil, gas, nuclear, …) face unique challenges and important risk management considerations. This course will expose students to best project management practices within the context of the energy industry. The course will introduce the particular characteristics of managing energy projects from the planning phase to closeout. Environmental assessments, geopolitical considerations, the political landscape, risk management and the roles of different players will be discussed. Tools to monitor the health and progress of a project will be introduced. Examples of different types of energy projects in the fields of nuclear, bio-mass, oil, gas, wind, and solar will be used to illustrate concepts.

Instructors and guests will train the students to use their technical skills and problem solving abilities to identify where the world around them will be 10 or more years from now. The core goal is to assess opportunities many years in the future and using "Imagineering" to identify startup possibilities and how to pick the best ones. Topics covered will all be designed to increase the student's competence in the Canadian business world. Such aspects include the assessment of what future technological challenges will emerge and how to find the business opportunities to solve such problems in both private and public contexts.

The delivery is via 12 three-hour sessions with a mix of lectures, outside speakers, group work, and presentations on topics on emerging/future opportunities. There is an emphasis on technological leadership as the course teaches you how to be out front and be seen as a leader. Topics may include the social problems of wastewater engineering, air/particulate emissions, traffic engineering, project definition, and financing and others.

A highly interactive environment will encourage out of the box thinking and innovative approaches to large problems which impresses potential employers and your co-workers. There will be a number of assignments, projects, and a term report. Class interaction with grading will be done in 6 of the sessions where both individual and group presentations will be required. Cases will be used for some of the projects. There will be no written final examination.

Despite the best of engineering practices that rely on reliability, human factors, and continuous quality improvement, severe accidents involving complex technological systems occur regularly: bridges collapse, chemical plants catch fire and explode, airplanes crash, and nuclear reactors melt down. The most comprehensive approach to understanding the causes of such disasters is based on systems engineering that highlights the limits of traditional event-chain models of accident causation. The course focuses on this approach using a group project but also provides an overview of the various sociological theories that have attempted to elucidate the organizational and psychological factors underlying the failure of sociotechnical systems.

The course is all about how to get people to listen and gain enough trust in you to take a chance on your offer. Students will learn the keys to selling a "customer”" on an idea, product or service that they passionately believe in. The course is designed to have a variety of learning objectives which are delivered via lectures, exercises, role playing, group presentations, and homework assignments. The students will learn how to organize and communicate their thoughts and facts in a way that will increase their probability of succeeding in convincing the decision makers that they should take a chance on a new idea or innovation. The course is delivered in 12 three-hour classes that are a mix of lecture and role play exercises. Lectures and handouts as appropriate provide the background material necessary for students to grasp the ideas and processes required to achieve a level of competence. The class will be organized into groups or as individuals for various course assignments. Eight of the lectures are mostly devoted to student presentations of various kinds around marketing, sales, and negotiation.

The overall objective of this course is that students increase their confidence in their ability to create a start-up by solving high impact problems and defining its business model. The FEEL^TM methodology, used in this course, provides students with a hands-on opportunity and a real world application of the entrepreneurship mindset. The course will help students define a start-up that creates value for co-founders while creating a forum for mentorship and knowledge exchange. The course is structured as a process to define the startup's business model, the creation of a business canvas, and an investor pitch deck. Students will be guided on the use of tools to manage team building/dynamics, market fit, scaling, user insight generation, pitching, and the FEEL^TM's modified business model generation canvas(*). Students will be working in teams. Team members can be fellow students or outside the classroom partners. This course will also provide students with an understanding, guidance, and access to resources in the University of Toronto's start-up eco-system, featuring the Entrepreneurship Hatchery at the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

This course introduces quality control techniques applicable in various engineering settings. These techniques are widely used in monitoring and improving the quality of both products and services. Topics include process quality inferences, statistical process control, Shewhart control charts, system capability analysis, and charts for detecting small shifts (CUSUM and EWMA). An online simulation model will be used to represent and generate data sets, for analysis with Minitab and Excel.