3 credit hours
Prerequisite: CSCI 152, MGMT 263, and MGMT 363
This course will allow the student to develop a problem to solve in their primary major field of study. Because of Drury’s relationships with alumni and the community at large, the student will work with live data from organizations and companies. The student will be assigned an advisory team consisting of a Drury faculty member from their field and two representatives from the organization or company. The organization or company will have a problem identified. The student will have to refine the problem to be able to craft the research plan. Students produce a research plan including, 1) proper definition of the problem, 2) evaluation of the ethical considerations of the issue, 3) relevant data to be acquired, and 4) example methodologies to properly analyze the data. The plan will be approved by the course professor and the advisory team. The student will work with the client to obtain the data and will work on the analysis in a laboratory setting with the course professor. The project will require the components as in the previous courses, but will have the addition of multiple visual representations of the results AND a presentation to leaders of the client organization.