Interdisciplinary research meets project management — MBA students partner with OMSCS students to manage real AI research projects.
After completing MGT 8803 / CS 8803, students should be able to:
Founded HAAG in Summer 2024; leads administration and outreach.
Creator and instructor of the open research course CS 8803.
Scheller College of Business; empirical and computational methods for court-system research.
A project-driven course in which MBA students partner with OMSCS students to manage research projects involving novel data, analytics, and computer science methods — past projects have spanned computer vision, generative AI, and NLP. Working in pairs or small teams, students embed in larger ongoing HAAG research projects, combining MBA project management expertise with OMSCS subject-matter knowledge.
Students are assessed on two components: their contribution to managing the operations of the research group, and their work on a project management initiative of their own choosing. As an option (subject to instructor approval), students may also join the authorship team on articles written about their assigned project.
The course suits MBA students with an interest in computer science or analytics and a project management background (including those accumulating certification hours), as well as OMSCS students with computational expertise who want to build project management skills.
Work is documented across three staged reports — initial proposal, mid-term, and final — each covering both operations (managing the ongoing research project) and initiative (progress on the student's chosen project management focus, e.g. communication strategy, team dynamics, or tooling). Pairs or small groups receive a shared grade; attendance and participation are graded individually.
Students define and scope their chosen project management initiative at the start of the semester, in writing and presented in class.
Covers operations role and initiative progress, with reflection on successes, challenges, and plans for the rest of the semester.
Addresses the same two topics across the full semester's work.
Regular attendance and engaged participation are expected, with cameras on for virtual meetings; repeated unexcused absences affect the participation grade. Students are responsible for all material posted on Canvas, Basecamp, email, or Slack. Academic honesty follows Georgia Tech's Honor Code in full; suspected violations are referred to the Office of Student Integrity. Instructors reserve the right to adjust syllabus policies as needed.