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Graduate
Certificate in Emergency Management
(12 Credits, 4
Courses)
Management has historically focused on practices and procedures that
bring a sense of normalcy and control to situations that confront an
organization. This focus assumes that the situations themselves are
normal occurrences requiring normal responses. When the situation
becomes complex, such as an emergency, the assumption of normalcy
changes drastically as well as the concept of management required to
address the emergency.
Today
emergencies in doing business are becoming commonplace: supply chain
disruptions, competitive product announcements, strikes, shortages,
loss of a key customer, responding to a RFP on a short-fuse, or the
non performance of a delivered system, are a few examples. Similar
methods and approaches that are being utilized to manage and
eventually control should and can be applied to address business type
emergencies.
During emergencies,
whether man made, such as terrorism, natural, such as hurricanes and
tsunamis, or business disruptions caused by the collapse of an
electrical power grid, management takes on different dimensions
requiring different skills and suggesting responsive organization
structures. Understanding these management dimensions, developing the
required skills, and learning how to build
collaborative organization structures in addressing emergency
situations is the direction that NJIT has taken by developing a set of
courses that will provide graduate credits towards a new certificate
and master's degree in Emergency Management.
Our courses are designed to expose the
practitioner to all the phases of Emergency Management. These include
Intelligence, Planning, Training, Preparedness, Mitigation, Detection,
Alerting, Response, Recovery, Evaluation, and Properties.
Managing the
"unexpected" involves some significantly different management methods
than those used to manage normality.
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Courses: |
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1. Design of Emergency
Management Information Systems (IS 613) |
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This is course is concerned with the
development of requirements, the design of the human interaction,
and the supporting functionality of any Information System related
to the complete preparedness lifecycle for emergency, disaster,
and crisis situations for government bodies, non profit, and/or
private organizations that are concerned with business continuity.
The components of the interactive and continuous emergency
lifecycle are planning, mitigation, training, alerting, response,
recovery, and assessment. It will also focus on human and
organizational behavior in this environment and how the
functionality of the system and the approach to the human
interface are influenced. Also covered are the relationships
between systems serving the different phases of the lifecycle and
the needs for integration and coordination across the phases of
the process.
Prerequisites – Undergraduate degree in
Management, Engineering, Computing, or one of the Social Sciences,
with an ability to implement a personal website and understanding
of how to use HTML for that purpose. An undergraduate course in
probability and statistics.
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2. Improvisation in Emergency
Management (IS 615) |
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This introduces emergency response
personnel to a theory of improvisation, provides a set of
methodological tools useful for building theory or improving
practice, and enables learners to apply the theory and tools in
simulated emergency response scenarios, thus cementing their
knowledge.
Prerequisites – none. |
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courses 3 and 4 from the following: |
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a) Elements of Infrastructure Planning
(MIP 675) |
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Introductory
survey of the basic principles, operation and design of physical
infrastructure systems including roads, public transportation,
community facilities, public open space, surface drainage, and
electric, gas, water, waste disposal, and telecommunications
services.
Prerequisites – none.
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b) Command and Control (IS 614) |
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This course examines the functionality
and properties of command and control as well as command and
control systems and processes in terms of matching requirements
for these systems and processes to the behavior of individuals,
groups, and organizations under emergency conditions. The concepts
of situational awareness (individual and shared), threat rigidity
syndrome, information overload, HRO (High Reliability
Organizations), sense making and sensing organizations, general
systems and requisite variety, virtual organizations and
virtually, complexity, visualization, and the use of multimedia
will be among topics covered. The course will also address the
concept of integrating systems to address behavior across the
operational, tactical, and strategic spectrum surfacing during
various stages of emergency management and response.
Prerequisites – Undergraduate degree in Management,
Engineering, Computing, or one of the Social Sciences, with an
ability to implement a personal website.
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c) Hazardous Waste Operations and
Emergency Response (EVSC 603) |
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Explores the
safe operation of hazardous waste sites as well as emergency
responses to hazardous releases. Overview of OSHA regulations and
NIOSH standards concerning toxicological hazards and medical
surveillance requirements. Emphasis on recognition and monitoring
of site hazards. A written health and safety plan, and
participation in a group problem involving a simulated hazardous
site entry using actual protective equipment is required.
Course satisfies the regulatory compliance mandates to meet 29 CFR
1910.120 for OSHA, with certification valid for one year.
Prerequisites – none.
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d) Toxicology for Engineers and
Scientists (EVSC 616) |
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General
principles of toxicology are presented and applied to the
assessment of acute, sub acute and chronic effects of hazardous
and toxic chemicals. Qualitative and quantitative measures of
toxicity and testing protocols, as well as role of toxicology in
risk assessment and management are addressed.
Prerequisites – none. |
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