The International Scholars Program
Enterprise Management

• Start Date: June 8, 2008
• End Date: August 15, 2008
• International Locations: Barcelona, Spain and Shanghai, China

Through four graduate courses, students complete individual and team-based projects, introduce themselves to management of multinational corporations, and are immersed into influential cultures. Upon completion, students will earn a graduate certificate in International Management.

The classroom experience will be complimented by guest lectures, dialogues and visits with multinational corporations, in addition to our distinguished faculty.

Read an interview with Professor Randall Peteros,
Faculty Coordinator for the Enterprise Management track.

Click on course numbers or titles to view course outlines.

Enterprise Management Culminating Project
The objective of the project component of the ISP is to provide students with a supervised hands-on experience that supplements the topics, methodologies, and concepts covered within their ISP courses. The project affords students the opportunity to situate their learning in a practical context and to bring together the various components of their learning experience into a cogent product.  Readings and lectures at the beginning of the program will help prepare students for the project activities, which will include local guest speakers and site visits to various enterprises.      

Students will perform the ISP research project in teams of about four.  The project will take advantage of the program’s international venues in order to explore business practices in organizations with global reach.  Each student team will be assigned a unique project, but the projects will be structured similarly.  Students will gather and process information necessary to complete their projects based on a variety of sources, including scheduled site visits, informal contacts, invited guest speakers, and Rensselaer’s Cole Library that contains an extensive set of on-line reference databases. 

Click HERE for the complete Project description.

ISP Site Visits and Guest Lecturers

Barcelona, Spain

• Chupa Chups (Candy Maker)
• Barcelona Stock Exchange
• Ecotecnia (Wind & Solar Power Company)
• Boat Trip Through Port & Visit to ZAL (Logistics Activity Zone)

Shanghai, China

• Eastman Kodak Company - Product Development Through Manufacturing (and presentation by Warren Wisnewski, Regional Business General Manager)
• Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation - Integrated Circuit Fabrication (and Presentation by William Lee, VP of Marketing & Sales)
• Port of Shanghai
• Shanghai Stock Exchange

Guest Lecturers
A series of invited talks will support the program as a whole and the project specifically. Guest speakers include:

• Francesc Miron, Economic Advisor, City of Barcelona
• Speaker Detailing Green Management Issues
• Speaker detailing issues of European Union integration or Telemedicine
• Speaker from La Caixa Bank
• Samuel Wu, General Manager, XinHua Control Solutions, GE Energy to Speak on Renewable Energy.
• Kenneth Kaminsky, Director of Value Engineering, SAP China to speak on global supply chain integration.
• Sarah Xu, President, Shanghai Y&T Outdoor Manufacturing Company to Speak on Entrepreneurship in China.