Informatics and Engineering Systems
The Department of Informatics and Engineering Systems offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Management and Systems; Information Management and Systems in Health Information Management (CAHIIM accredited); and Health Informatics. The Department also offers the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology Management and the Bachelor of Applied Science in Advanced Manufacturing Management. A minor is offered in Information Management and Systems and in Health Informatics.
Bachelors
- Advanced Manufacturing Management, Bachelor of Applied Science
- Engineering Technology Management, Bachelor of Science
- Health Informatics, Bachelor of Arts
- Health Information Management, Bachelor of Science
- Information Management and Systems Accredited Concentration in Health Information Management, Bachelor of Arts
- Information Management and Systems, Bachelor of Arts
Minors
Adebiaye, Richmond, Assoc Professor
Breaux, Deshia, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor
Egbue, Ona, Professor
Ellis, Tim, Director of Process Improvement, Senior Instructor
Fulbright, Ron, Chair, Dept. of Informatics and Engineering Systems; Coordinator of Graduate Programs, Professor
Katina, Polinpapilinho, Assoc Professor
Richardson, Susan, Program Director, Informatics Palmetto College Initiative, Senior Instructor
Rouse, Donald, Director, HIMS, Senior Instructor
Toland, Tyrone, Professor
Walters, Grover, Asst Professor
Advanced Manufacturing Management
Manufacturing leadership including business communication, business presentations, spreadsheet basics, financial reports, supervisory skills, and leadership roles.
Manufacturing work practices including safety topics, lean manufacturing, training, and operational efficiency.
Supervised practical experience related to the Advanced Manufacturing Management field in an elected setting planned in conjunction with the relevant AMM faculty.
Selected topics in Advanced Manufacturing Management. Topics vary depending on faculty expertise. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
A planned individual study program in conjunction with an Advanced Manufacturing Management faculty member. Course may be repeated for a total of no more than three hours of undergraduate credit.
Manufacturing leadership including budgeting, project selection, supervision, and leadership roles.
Tools and techniques for planning, and scheduling manufacturing projects.
Advanced Mechatronics
Theories and practical methods for solving complex equipment problems in manufacturing. Topics include system flow, machine state and logic, root cause analysis and communication of results. Work at a manufacturing location may be required. Two class and three laboratory hours per week.
Industrial machine communication protocols and devices. Topics include digital communication methods, implementations and applications of industrial communication, and digital data collection. Two class and three laboratory hours per week.
Methods, tools, and strategies for the maintenance of advanced manufacturing equipment. Topics include methods such as preventive and predictive maintenance, tools such as vibration analysis and strategies such as Total Productive Maintenance. Two class and three laboratory hours per week.
Engineering Technology Management
Engineering economics and financial analysis of prospective alternatives. Lab includes analysis techniques, use of modeling tools, and applications of techniques toward real-world problems. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Engineering economics and financial analysis of prospective alternatives. Lab includes analysis techniques, use of modeling tools, and applications of techniques toward real-world problems. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Techniques for operation analysis, work measurement, and work sampling. Major topics include human factors, work design principles, work environment, economic justification, work measurement and the design process. Predetermined basic motion-time systems and standard data development are introduced. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Techniques for operation analysis, work measurement, and work sampling. Major topics include human factors, work design principles, work environment, economic justification, work measurement and the design process. Predetermined basic motion-time systems and standard data development are introduced. Occasional off-campus laboratory session may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Systems analysis mathematical models, environmental factors, operations research methodologies, dynamic systems and the application of a variety of computer tools. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Systems analysis mathematical models, environmental factors, operations research methodologies, dynamic systems and the application of a variety of computer tools. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Supervised practical experience related to the Engineering Technology Management field in an elected setting planned in conjunction with the relevant ETM faculty. Pass/Fail credit.
Selected topics in Engineering Technology Management. Topics vary depending on faculty expertise. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
A planned individual research experience carried out in conjunction with an Engineering Technology Management faculty member. Course may be repeated for a total of no more than three hours of undergraduate credit.
Methods of understanding, planning, and presenting information in oral and written formats while working in an engineering team setting. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Methods of understanding, planning, and presenting information in oral and written formats while working in an engineering team setting. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Techniques for controlling quality of work processes and assuring delivered or received product quality. Topics include cost of quality, customer/focused quality, quality diagnostic tools, total quality management, quality assurance and quality standards. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Techniques for controlling quality of work processes and assuring delivered or received product quality. Topics include cost of quality, customer/focused quality, quality diagnostic tools, total quality management, quality assurance and quality standards. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Planning, scheduling, control of engineering projects, and applications of project management tools. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Planning, scheduling, control of engineering projects, and applications of project management tools. Occasional off-campus laboratory sessions may be required. Three class and three laboratory hours per week.
Integration of engineering technology management at an advanced level, the impact of engineers on society, and exploration of ethical issues. Written and oral presentation required.
Health Care Information Management and Systems
Disease etiology and organ system involvement, including physical signs and symptoms, prognoses, and common complications and their treatment. Topics include fundamental principles of disease and pharmacology. The course is restricted to Health Information Management (HIM) majors.
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding, integrating HCPCS Level II, ICD-10-CM and PCS medical coding procedures at an advanced level. Emphasis is on the application and assignment of procedural codes by specialty and body systems. Subject matter includes common coding terminologies, nomenclatures and classification systems used in healthcare delivery, electronic health records, reporting and management, such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Healthcare Common Procedures Coding Systems (HCPCS), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED), Procedure Coding System (PCS), and Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC).
Introduction to origins and evolution of current healthcare delivery systems and organizational structures, healthcare terminology and language structures, common usage, acronyms, and basic uses of information in a variety of healthcare settings. Topics also include introduction to levels of information users and information needs within a variety of healthcare organizations.
Coding principles and practices on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). Topics include historical development of the ICD classification system, coding of diagnosis records from a variety of medical specialties and use of official coding code lines.
Management, communication, and problem-solving, as they relate to human resources, quality assurance, finance, budgeting and reimbursement in a healthcare setting.
Introduction to healthcare information systems to include management and administration information systems, clinical information systems, business information systems, decision support, critical care applications, information systems in education, and emergent system applications. Particular emphasis is placed on automation required for the emerging "paperless" environment and computer-based records.
Data, knowledge, and information structures, terminological control, index language functions, regulatory determinants of data collected/stored (ex. JCAHO/HIPPA, etc.), including study of language development in healthcare systems evolution.
Quality improvement strategies to improve efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare information systems and processes including Six Sigma, DMAIC, process maps, pareto charts, control charts, root cause analysis, and cause and effect diagrams. Quality improvement theoretical frameworks such as Donobedian's structure, process and outcome theory, and Chassin's overuse, misuse and underuse theories are applied. Quality improvement in the context of leadership, person-centered, family-centered care, cost, value, and improvement capability is demonstrated through the completion of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's standard modules.
Selected ethical issues, confidentiality, preservation and conservation of sensitive data, data maintenance and integrity preservation.
Network configurations and functions including the latest developments and applications in electronic health records (EHR) and the implementation of the EHR in the healthcare industry.
Issues in information management as they relate to the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium's 10 security domains. The role of the security domains in the context of design, implementation, and maintenance of systems to include the legal and ethical aspects of privacy and security. Case studies covering these roles are included.
Current and future trends in health information systems (HIS) and health information technology (HIT) and their impact on public policy, career success in HIS management, health informatics, data analytics, public policy and public health research.
Fundamentals of financial management and accounting concepts in the healthcare environment with specific application to the health informatics or health information management professional's everyday roles and responsibilities. Topics include revenue management, cost management, variance management, and contracting.
Database formats and structures, query techniques, document classification, managing large data collections, statistical applications in data management. Emphasis is placed on the discovery of methods to capture data as an important institutional resource through efficient management of databases and data repositories, and on the importance of data collections that provide accurate outcome assessment.
Study reflective of current issues/topics related to the field of healthcare information management. Topics might include (but are not limited to) emergent technology in healthcare settings such as user interface design, expert system evolution, virtual environments, soft computing/fuzzy logic applications, artificial intelligence. Topics chosen for study in a given semester will be determined by the state of the science at the time of the offering.
Supervised professional practice involving information management in a healthcare organization.
Capstone experience integrating knowledge of health information systems, health information management, and health informatics (the combination of health and information technology) and investing current innovations in these technologies in a healthcare setting with emphasis on research, written, and oral presentations.
Information Management and Systems
Use of information technology to collect, analyze, and transform data into knowledge using desktop software and commonly available Internet-based resources and the evaluation of information sources for accuracy, suitability, safety, security, societal and ethical issues.
Approaches to identifying exposure threats against personal information as a means to establishing end-user best practices. Topics include digital reliance impact on culture, system exploitation at the hardware, operational, and application level; ethical concerns related to hacking and application use.
Object-oriented problem-solving tools, techniques, and solution structures for desktop-oriented, user-layer environments, a survey of third-generation programming languages (3GL), introduction to the object-oriented paradigm.
Theoretical foundations of organization of information; cognitive structures and processing of data, information, knowledge, and understanding information uses and users. The integrated and interdisciplinary nature of information science and computer science is introduced and developed through case studies and examples from concentration disciplines: business, education, communication, and healthcare settings.
Introduction to the major features of operating system software, the primary functions of CPU's, bus architectures, secondary storage devices, peripheral devices, hardware and software configuration. The goal is the assembly and disassembly of microcomputer systems and installation of operating systems, network operating systems, and applications software.
Needs, uses and consequences of information in organizational contexts, information technology platforms, architectures and infrastructures, functional areas and processes, information-based products and services, the use of and redefining role of information technology, sociotechnical structures, and the rise and transformation of information-based industries.
Key social research and perspectives on the use of information and communication technologies, information ethics, relevant legal frameworks, popular and controversial uses of technology, digital divides, and multicultural issues of information management.
Methodologies, tools, skills, and knowledgebase supporting a repeatable, structured, and disciplined approach to innovative problem solving, brainstorming, and alternative thinking included, but not limited to: useful/harmful feature analysis, problem formulator diagramming, selection and application of innovation operators, and the innovation situation questionnaire.
Basic concepts of computer networks, data telecommunication and distributed applications, including network topology, hardware, software protocol, security, and the implications of network technologies on the deployment and implementation of networked systems.
Basic architecture, structures, and query languages. Topics include design and implementation of RDBMS, relational data models, conceptual modeling, data independence, specification of data requirements, normalization, recovery and security.
The art of effective creation of formal oral and written communications in a professional environment using modern technology to assist in writing and presentation. Covered topics include using word processing software to ease the research process, evaluation of information sources, the proper use of visual aids such as PowerPoint, the creation of video presentations, effective speech writing, power-speaking methods and techniques, and methods of persuasive writing in the professional work.
Understanding the components of various technologies and their importance in information management and dissemination within and outside the organization.
Design of user-layer Web pages using HTML, Java script, Flash, and Dreamweaver, featuring graphic preparation, layout and effective presentation of information.
Directed and self-guided research into topics of interest in the field of informatics. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
Coordination and cultural challenges, value creation opportunities, and information management issues associated with various forms of electronic commerce including electronic data interchange, the World Wide Web, and the Internet in today's global economy.
Issues information management as they relate to the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium's 10 security domains. The role of the security domains in the context of design, implementation, and maintenance of systems to include the legal and ethical aspects of privacy and security. Case studies covering these roles are included.
Data warehousing, online analytical processing, and decision support systems. Topics include design and architectural issues, cost effectiveness, management concerns, data integrity, deployment, and maintenance issues.
Knowledge representation, intelligent decision systems, principals of rule-based systems, action rules, interestingness measures, distributed query answering. Select study of actual systems and applications in specific domains such as: medicine, business, communications, and education.
Concepts of interaction and how people acquire, store and use data including interface analysis and creation, human factors in perception, pattern recognition, speech recognition, attention, memory and expectation.
Infrastructure, management, analysis, applications, visualization, architectures, security, and privacy issues of large-volume, rapidly-changing, uncertain, unstructured data sources.
Fundamentals, management issues, and architectures of cloud-based implementations, concepts, models, enabling technologies, security, and cloud infrastructure.
Network and security foundation, data recovery techniques, network vulnerability assessments and technologies, cyber intelligence and internet governance, anticipating attacks, using monitoring tools, and developing defensive strategies.
Concepts, fundamentals, and history of artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, and human cognitive augmentation. Social, ethical, and commercial implications of the application of recent advancements in machine learning, natural language interfaces, and thinking machines will be discussed.
Information technology and communication requirements of, and cultural or social issues pertaining to, the flow of work through distributed information management processes in business and other organizations. Students taking the health informatics minor focus on applications in healthcare settings.
Breakdown, estimation, leadership of a diverse team, and the use of tools to ensure the completion of deliverables within budget and on schedule. Students taking the health informatics minor focus on applications in the healthcare settings.
Recovery and analysis of digital evidence, legal and technical issues, and the use of modern forensics tools and techniques. Real-world case studies regarding security and investigative forensics processes are used.
Issues and challenges facing IT executives including IT alignment and governance, consensus, executive leadership, oversight, return-on-investment analysis, project management, and risk management. Students taking the health informatics minor focus on applications in the healthcare settings.
Current trends, events, software, hardware, and issues in informatics, information technology, and information management. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
The application of learning in a professional setting. To complement and strengthen the Information Management and Systems academic program, students will complete a planned program of observation, study, and work in selected organizations with information management and systems offices. Student will have an opportunity to apply and articulate what they have learned in the classroom. Pass/Fail credit.
Integration of knowledge in information management and systems. Students will study and evaluate current innovations in technology and current applications of these systems. Case studies involving information systems technology will be used. Students will research and present new trends in technology. Students will experience an intensive and practice exercise in scholarship production. Class discussion will foster effective and creative implementation of research strategies, writing abilities, documentation procedures, portfolio development, and presentational skills.