[BLC] Online Teaching Opportunities at Bellingham Technical College

[Timothy Ewing]

Dear Colleagues,

Bellingham Technical College has two adjunct openings in our BAS Operations Management (BASOPS) program. Please forward to any interested/qualified faculty. We will review CV’s for Winter quarter as they come in, but we will also include interested faculty for consideration for Spring quarter as well as the next academic year pool. The courses are 100% online.

Please direct inquires to our Dean of Professional Technical Education, Ray Kubista (rkubista at btc.edu) and/or follow up with me for additional details.

OPM 313 Quality Management
 
Course Description:
This course is designed to equip students with the managerial concepts and quantitative tools used in effective and efficient management of quality in manufacturing and service organizations. The course begins with the quality management concepts espoused by Deming and discusses some of the resulting approaches such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and AS 9100. Quality requirements specific to regulated industries such as biomedical devices and aerospace will also be surveyed. Students will learn how to plan, implement and manage a comprehensive quality management program within an organization with special emphasis on process documentation, staff training, and communication of results to management and auditors
 
Learning Objective:
1) Compare and contrast the quality management concepts espoused by Deming, and some of the resulting approaches such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and AS 9100.
2) Discuss quality requirements specific to regulated industries such as biomedical devices and aerospace.
3) Develop a plan for the implementation and management of a comprehensive quality management program within an organization with special emphasis on process documentation, staff training, and communication of results to management and auditors.
 
OPM 314 Logistical Planning and Supply Chain Management
 
Course Description:
A supply chain is a sequence of organizations involved in the production and delivery of a product or service. Supply chain management is the coordination of those organizations, and logistics is the management of the flow of resources e.g. goods, materials, information; between the organizations. This course will introduce students to the complexities of domestic and global supply chains including consideration of make/buy and outsourcing decisions. The importance of the procurement function is explored, and inventory management techniques are presented including the application of mathematical approaches to solve typical problems. Finally, the use of materials resource planning (MRP), manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in operations management is examined.
 
Learning Objective:
1) Discuss the differences between supply chain management and logistics management..
2) Explain how inventory management strategies relate to overall business strategy.
3) Analyze the strategic, legal, financial and ethical considerations that must be taken into account when making outsourcing and make/buy decisions in a range of business situations.
4) Apply modern inventory management techniques, including mathematical approaches, to solve typical problems.
5) Compare and contrast the uses of materials resource planning (MRP), manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Best regards,

Timothy Ewing, PhD
Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Technology
Program Lead & Instructor
Bellingham Technical College
3028 Lindbergh Avenue | Bellingham, WA 98225
Call: 360.752.8317 | Office: MC 203