Briefly

Courses in the study programme of the department of Management and Economics aim to provide key knowledge for managing engineering and other industrial enterprises and service businesses. The subjects, or in other words the topics that form the core of curricula include:

• Business economics and finance, controlling
• Logistics and management of production process
• Marketing and Strategic Management
• Business Information Systems
• Theory and practice of corporate management

The content of courses and some of the lectures are conducted in cooperation with the successful Czech managers and businesses.

Thanks to the appropriate combination of economic, managerial and technical subjects, the student (graduate) is able to quickly and efficiently search for simple and complex, ordinary and extraordinary solutions for corporate issues, such as:

• Is our company is in good condition?
• What technical solution is more economical?
• What are our customers needs, how can we meet them?
• Would it be efficient to buy a new production line?
• How to organize and manage production to avoid unnecessary losses?

Finding a solution is then a prerequisite for correct decisions and thus for the successful achievement of company targets.

The courses and lectures are not only theoretical and they are designed so as to five the students also practical knowledge. We aim to prepare the students in terms of skills necessary for successful integration into the workforce and work team. For this reason, the courses focus on:

• Practical orientation of the courses on managerial calculations and support of decision making
• Independent solution making of practical tasks
• Teamwork in groups
• Participation in projects
• Communication and presentation skills
• The use of computers in the courses and for processing the task (MS Office, Tecnomatix Plant Simulation, SimaPro, Markstrat, computer models for evaluating investments, etc.).