eBusiness Technology
Beginning in Fall 2004, full-time and part-time classes will be offered
at Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA) and
at Carnegie Mellon West campus (Moffett Field, CA).
With the Internet pervading all aspects of business, the eBusiness Technology program of study prepares students to play a variety of mission critical roles in leveraging the power of technology across the enterprise. Whether in an entrepreneurial start-up or enabling eBusiness technology within an existing company, students are prepared to provide technical leadership and an informed strategic vision.
Carnegie Mellon has transformed the eBusiness technology program into a story-centered curriculum. Instead of separate courses, the entire program consists of an integrated series of projects designed to help you acquire and practice the essential skills and knowledge that you will use upon graduation in the real world. Working with your fellow students in high-performance teams you learn by doing, putting new skills and knowledge into practice immediately. Expert mentors are always available to provide advice, guidance, feedback, and one-on-one coaching.
In this story-centered curriculum, you and your fellow students play the role of a newly formed eBusiness technology task force at Moffett Foods, a fictional company with real-world problems. Your mission is to help Moffett Foods leverage technology across their entire business. But you've got a long road ahead of you: Moffett is in the dark ages technologically, with only a simple web presence. Some of the projects you must tackle with your team include:
- Creating a business case for ebusiness technology within Moffett Foods
- Reengineering the Moffett Foods' website to make it easier to find on search engines
- Designing, building, and evaluating a highly-usable website
- Building the system and database design models
- Evaluating and selecting an ISP to host the site
- Designing an electronic self-paying invoice system
- Designing a mobile realtime, Available-To-Promise order entry system for cellular phones
- Using data mining techniques to identify products to sell
This program spans one calendar year for full-time students, 2 calendar years for part-time students. The first 2 full-time (or 4 part-time) semesters of this project-based curriculum consists of 17 projects (see Program Overview download for details). The final semester for full-time students (or 2 semesters for part-time students) is devoted to an in-depth practicum where students apply all the skills mastered during these projects to a real-world problem. Often these practicum projects are done in close collaboration with area companies, giving students an inside perspective of how the technology is used in the field.
The projects cover critical skills and knowledge in the below areas. The course numbers of similar courses offered at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh are listed, when available, to provide an approximate idea of program content.
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Applied Data Analysis (20-735)
- Computer Security (20-771)
- Database Management (90-746)
- Ecommerce Management
- Ecommerce Systems Design
- E-Payment Technology
- Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (05-610)
- Java Programming (90-712)
- Mobile Commerce
- Negotiation (90-799)
- Networks and Communications (20-770)
- Professional Writing and Professional Speaking (70-717/718)
- The Internet (20-755)
- Web Application Development
- Web-based Information Architectures (20-760)
The capstone course is an 8-week practicum in which student teams develop solutions to business problems using the latest information technologies. Student teams are presented a real world business problem by industry affiliates.
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- Contact:
- Patricia Mackiewicz
- Manager, eBusiness Programs
- patty@cs.cmu.edu
- VOX: (412) 268 7077
- Cell: (412) 478 0355
- FAX: (412) 268 2338
- Mailing address:
- School of Computer Science
- Institute for Software Research International
- Carnegie Mellon University
- 5000 Forbes Avenue, 3217 Newell-Simon Hall
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 USA
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