This course introduces students to the business of asset management. Students scan the economic, legal, and social systems that support small, medium, and large organizations across key sectors. Students build the skills necessary to identify critical trends, adapt to change, and manage the risks involved in managing and growing an organization. The roles and responsibilities of managers, from start-ups to transnational organizations, are examined across each form of ownership and within public and private enterprises. Students identify the key stakeholders involved in these endeavors and review the important role they play in the global economy.

This course introduces the principles and mandated requirements derived from and consistent with the organizational corporate plan, providing a framework for the development and implementation of the asset management strategic plan and the setting of the asset management objectives. The course includes scenario analysis and KPIs selection for economic, environmental and performance of an asset portfolio.

This course exposes students to the management activities and processes involved in operations and maintenance requirements essential to support the organization's AM objectives and goals. Students will forecast costs and use techniques to determine maintenance activities, while ensuring asset management activities are compliant with the relevant technical standards and legislation.

This course will enable students to apply project management principles, tools and techniques to asset management activities for the continuous improvement of business results. Students will learn how to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness, improve customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and achieve greater competitive advantage for the organization.

This course is a comprehensive overview of modern-day human resources management (HRM). The course will introduce the diverse components of human resource (HR) functions and their role in the current business environment. The course will focus on advocacy for AM strategies across an organization and communication to various stakeholders. The course will also cover organizational culture and the development and monitoring of people.

This course examines the effective management of supply chain and distribution networks and the challenges posed by logistics operations that straddle borders, cultures, time and distance. The course will challenge students to solve problems and integrate solutions into the corporate strategy.

This course focuses on the practice of mathematical skills commonly used in business and the financial community. Students will have opportunities to use real world examples such as annual reports and stock market tables to interpret and evaluate the information. The evaluation of investment opportunities such as assets valuation, business expansion and investment in financial markets is covered.

This course exposes students to the methods and best practices used to ensure the best total value is obtained in asset acquisition, creation, utilization, maintenance, improvement, renewal, and disposal to meet organizational objectives.

Students will conduct a capstone project in which they apply learning from previous courses to one large-scale asset management project with an industry partner. Students will choose an area of professional interest and refine the project's deliverables in collaboration with peers and the chosen industry partner. The main objective of this course is to ensure that students are able to apply asset management theories and concepts to a real-world assignment, while gaining valuable industry exposure.

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the principles governing the functioning of capital markets and the theories, concepts and principles used by companies to engage in financial analysis and decision making. Students analyze how organizations allocate scarce resources to projects, how assets are valued, the factors of risk management and capital budgeting. Emphasis is placed on the term structure of interest rates, the time value of money and discounted cash flow valuation which are applied in assessing a firm's capital structure, capital expenditures and working capital management. Ethical considerations and fiduciary responsibility as they relate to financial management are also examined.

This course teaches techniques to identify, quantify and mitigate risk to property, liability, personnel, and net income losses. Students will learn how to manage and mitigate the risks to which a business is exposed. Global risk management standards and guidelines are also discussed and other important financial risks such as liquidity and capital investment are addressed.

This course explores corporate sustainability and the policies integral to the development of sustainable strategy and practices. Students will focus on the development and management of corporate sustainable strategies and examine the use of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) report - a tool used to manage and report on an organization's economic, social, and environmental performance. Students research incentive programs available to improve business sustainability and productivity and learn about government jurisdictions, regulatory agencies, legislation, and the leverage points to influence these as well as other stakeholders. Through identifying and analyzing key data associated with waste, students assess and recommend strategies for transitioning to sustainable and more efficient business practices.

This course uses software to reveal the importance of information in decision-making and the manner in which information can be used to craft an organization's asset management strategy. The course will focus on the definition, collection, management, reporting and governance of asset information. A variety of asset information standards, guidelines and systems will be employed.