EE 402A - Topics in International Technology Management

2009 Theme: “Technology Strategies in Asian Business”

Syllabus – Autumn (FY2009-2010)

We welcome visitors to all our sessions. If you are a registered Stanford student, you may take this seminar series for university credit.

Requirements for Credit

This 1-unit course is offered only on a Satisfactory/No Credit basis. To take the seminar series for university credit you must:

- Register for the course (EE 402A in Axess). There are no prerequisites. Enrollment is open to undergraduates and graduates in any school or department at Stanford.

- Participate in at least 9 of the 10 sessions. To fulfill this requirement, each student must:

1. Sign the attendance sheet at the auditorium for at least 8 of the 10 sessions. The attendance sheet is passed around the auditorium during the session. It is not available at any other time, and this task cannot be made up later or in any other way. This task is waived for SCPD students.

AND

2. Submit comments (30-60 words) each week for at least 9 of the 10 sessions. All students (regular and SCPD) fulfill this task by emailing the comments to Prof. Dasher <rdasher@Stanford.edu> with cc to the course assistant Sakiko Kedashiro <skeda@stanford.edu> following each session.

– Use the following subject line: “[EE 402A] <name> <Student ID Number>, <Date of the Session>”

– Comments must be submitted within two weeks of the session. The last session of the quarter has a shorter-than-usual deadline, namely the scheduled exam day/time as published in the Time Schedule.

– Comments should indicate something that the student has learned from the session; they do not have to be a summary of the entire session. However, the comments must demonstrate that the student has attended the session or listened to the actual presentation/discussion on video. Comments that are obvious, e.g. just from a bullet point of a slide, will not be accepted.

– Submit all comments as in-line text; no attachments.

NOTE: As noted above, students are excused from Task 1 twice during the quarter and from Task 2 once during the quarter. Students who are unable to complete Task 1 due to schedule conflict with another Stanford University class or other official University activity may contact Prof. Dasher to ask if make-up work can be done in lieu of the Task 1 requirement. Such an exception is only granted at the discretion of the instructor on a case-by-case basis.

Incompletes

Students must request an incomplete by email to the instructor by the last class session. Note that Stanford policy requires incompletes to be made up within one calendar year.

Note to SCPD Students

Same rules apply as regular students, except that SCPD students fulfill Task 1 by watching the session on-line through SCPD. SCPD students are still required to submit comments (Task 2) for 9 out of 10 sessions.

Archived Seminars

Please contact the US-Asia Technology Management Center in order to view archive copies of videotapes after the end of the course. Offerings of many of our seminars in previous years are also available for viewing. For a list of previous offerings, see

<http://www.stanford.edu/group/us-atmc/cgi-bin/us-atmc/?page_id=101>.

Course Web Page

Visit the course webpage for seminar topics and speaker background, for the archive of presentation materials from each session this quarter:

<http://www.stanford.edu/group/us-atmc/cgi-bin/us-atmc/?page_id=413>

For weekly announcement about this seminar, you can subscribe to the US-Asia Technology Management Center Event List by sending a blank email with any subject to <asiatech-events-join@lists.stanford.edu>

Course Staff

Instructor: Richard Dasher

Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center

Consulting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Tel: (650) 725-3621

Email: rdasher at stanford dot edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

Course Assistant: Sakiko Kedashiro

Assistant Director

US-Asia Technology Management Center

Email: skeda at stanford dot edu

Tel: 650-724-0096