COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN BIOMEDICAL SECTOR

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BMT 0608 PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN BIOMEDICAL SECTOR ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZLEM YEŞIL ÇELIKTAŞ

Offered to

Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies

Course Objective

Business Process Management combines aspects of understanding and analyzing different types of business processes, and then uses a variety of approaches and techniques to improve the quality and increase the effectiveness of those processes. The engineering students who are working at industrial companies or who will apply to industry should possess strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills and have a respectful skepticism for the status quo. They have a strong desire to understand and improve cross-functional processes in order to reduce costs and/or improve the quality of goods or services. They are able to select and apply current information technologies to streamline processes and improve product flexibility and service times.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   What is process
2   The advantages of process management
3   Process classification and determination
4   Process analyzes and responsible people in biomedical sector.
5   Flow-process diagram, process performance
6   Financial, customer, process, learning and progressing dimensions.
7   Critical performance factors and processes.
8   Process improvement in biomedical processes; evaluation, customer meeting, process responsible participants meeting. Analyzes ,check and compare
9   Develope problem-solving and adopting. Pilot application and proliferation. Relationship between capacity and competitive advantage. Set goal, process map and research of the problem source.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 I. Introduction- What is process Process classification, determination and steps.
2 Process main properties: Customer focusing Develop input values responsible people is certain. Understand clearly Performance is regularly measuring and rating Continuously getting better
3 Process main properties: Customer focusing Develop input values responsible people is certain. Understand clearly Performance is regularly measuring and rating Continuously getting better
4 II. Process Management in biomedical sector: Total quality management (TQM) and ISO9000 quality systems.
5 Process Management in biomedical sector; PDCA cycle. Financial, customers, process, learning and developing dimensions.
6 III. Analyzes ,check and compare. Critical performance factors and processes.
7 Critical success criterions.
8 Midterm Exam
9 Set goal, process map and research of the problem source.
10 Set goal, process map and research of the problem source.
11 To develop problem-solving and adopting. Pilot application and proliferation. Relationship between capacity and competitive advantage.
12 III. How was 6 Sigma developed and company examples.
13 Process management examples in biomedical sector.
14 Term project presentations.

Recomended or Required Reading

Papers in SC; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH & PRACTICE, TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE, etc. TQM and KALDER documents.
*Balanced Scorecard Translating into action, Robert S. Caplan David P. Norton Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1996.
*Dilworth, J.B.: Operations Management, Mc Grow Hill, inc., New York, 1995

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Project and exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Case study 5 15 75
Design Project 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 164

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1322
LO.2453
LO.322
LO.444
LO.5232
LO.65
LO.743
LO.83
LO.93344

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