Duren, Ron G, Jr.

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CYBR 5505 - Leading Oneself
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
Provides working engineers a background in leadership concepts and methods and enables students to develop practical leadership skills through numerous in-class exercises and experimentation based assignments. Topics include authentic leadership, motivating self and others, cultivating emotional intelligence, personal mastery, creating accountability, conflict resolution, leading change and organizational culture. Required for all Engineering Management degree students.
EMEA 5051 - Leading Oneself with Self-Knowledge
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
Before we can lead others well, we must first learn to lead ourselves well. Knowing thyself is the starting point on this journey. In this course, you will come to understand the importance of three forms of awareness, craft a personal identity, gain understanding of how you work best, learn to be strategic with your time and energy and manage cognitive biases and understand your worldview.
EMEA 5052 - Leading Oneself with Purpose and Meaning
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
Before we can lead others well, we must first learn to lead ourselves well. Knowing your why is an important part of this journey. In this course, you will identify your core purpose and recognize meaning in your life, explore the power of spirituality and embracing our mortality, create a lasting impact by serving a greater good, describe your character and practice personal excellence.
EMEA 5053 - Leading Oneself with Personal Excellence
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
Before we can lead others well, we must first learn to lead ourselves well. Knowing personal excellence is the culmination of this journey. In this course, you will describe how and why to set goals and create action plans, increase your focus and reduce distraction, harness motivation and flow state for performance, build self-efficacy and agency, and redefine your relationship with stress, anxiety, fear and adversity.
EMEA 5064 - The Neuroscience of Personal Excellence
Primary Instructor - Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
This course examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Utilizing the latest research, we develop a leadership practice based on the foundation of neuroscience. Topics include neuroplasticity, regulating arousal, personal performance, flow state, decision-making and learning. This course focuses on personal excellence to lead oneself.

EMEA 5065 - The Neuroscience of Leading High-Performance Teams
Primary Instructor - Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
This course examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Utilizing the latest research, we develop a leadership practice based on the foundation of neuroscience. Topics include motivation, storytelling, improv, collaboration, psychological safety, influence, and coaching. This course focuses on leading high-performance teams.

EMEA 5066 - The Neuroscience of Leading Transformational Organizations
Primary Instructor - Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
This course examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Utilizing the latest research, we develop a leadership practice based on the foundation of neuroscience. Topics include innovation, creativity, facilitating change, gender and diversity, mental toughness, and explore the neuroscience of business. This course focuses on leading transformational organizations.

EMEN 3100 - Introduction to Engineering Management
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2021
Examines topics important to the management of engineering activities within organizations. Topics include the relationship of engineering to business and management disciplines, the functions of an engineering manager, principles and techniques for managing financial resource and business ownership. Explores best practices in global engineering management, process management, legal issues, ethics, organizational behavior and communications.

EMEN 4030 - Project Management Systems
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
A practical approach is used to help students learn about project management to help develop the skills needed to be successful in this dynamic profession. This course is designed for students with various experience levels and provides lessons learned examples from real-world projects in different industries. The course covers project management in both theory and practice by introducing globally recognized processes, tools, techniques, and methods used to effectively manage projects through their life cycle.

EMEN 4050 - Leadership and Professional Skills
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Accelerate your personal and professional growth with the essential skills required to become an effective leader/manager. Conduct personal development through exercises in communication and leadership effectiveness. Explore leadership styles, managing commitments, change management, negotiation, conflict resolution, organizational culture, emotional intelligence, team dynamics and business ethics.

EMEN 5015 - Engineering Communication
Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Enables students to communicate their thoughts and ideas in written and oral form in professional environments. Understand and demonstrate the ability to write a correctly-formed document. Develop active listening skills, particularly when providing and receiving feedback. Learn to orally communicate ideas by speaking clearly, persuasively, energetically, and with appropriate non-verbal elements. Present in various environments and to various audiences.

EMEN 5050 - Leading Oneself
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
The "Leading Oneself" course offers a comprehensive blueprint for professional's keen on honing their leadership capabilities, starting with the cornerstone of personal excellence. The curriculum delves into essential areas such as personal accountability, genuine leadership traits, individual brand development, enhanced self-awareness, fostering a growth mindset, mastering emotional intelligence, and achieving personal mastery. This content lays the foundation for all leadership to follow.

EMEN 5054 - Neuroscience of Leadership
Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Utilizing the latest research, we develop a leadership practice based on neuroscience. Consideration for leading oneself, leading others and leading organizations is covered. Topics include neuroplasticity, psychological safety, resililence, mental toughness, primal power of storytelling, improv and creativity, as well as the subtle power of influence.

EMEN 5830 - Special Topics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
May be repeated up to 9 credit hours.

ORGL 5320 - Building and Leading Innovative Work Teams
Primary Instructor - Summer 2019
Learn how to build innovative work teams, with a special focus on promoting cohesion among groups that are inclusive and diverse. Students will learn how to diagnosis low-performing groups before they reach the point of failure. The course will also address the use of �tight-loose� leadership, which controls the process while giving free rein to diverse thinking. Special attention is paid to specific managerial tools, such as brainstorming, the nominal groups technique, devil�s advocacy, and dialectical inquiry.

TLEN 5050 - Leading Oneself
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019
Provides working engineers a background in leadership concepts and methods and enables students to develop practical leadership skills through numerous in-class exercises and experimentation based assignments. Topics include authentic leadership, motivating self and others, cultivating emotional intelligence, personal mastery, creating accountability, conflict resolution, leading change and organizational culture. Required for all Engineering Management degree students.

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