DQP Specialized Knowledge Bachelor's Level

Legend: DQP Specialized Knowledge Bachelor's Level Title of Course Learning Objective Assessment Gap / / Hole Rationale Next Steps Defines and explains the boundaries, divisions, styles and practices Defines and properly uses the principal terms in the field, both historical and contemporaneous. of the field. (SK2) (SK1) Constructs a project Constructs a Evaluates, clarifies and related to a familiar but summative project, frames a complex complex problem in the paper or practicebased performance Demonstrates fluency in the use of question or challenge field of study by tools, technologies and methods in using perspectives and assembling, arranging and that draws on current the field. scholarship from the reformulating ideas, research, scholarship (SK3) student s major field and concepts, designs or and/or techniques in at least one other. techniques. the field. (SK4) (SK5) (SK6) BA in Transportation & Logistics Program Objectives Apply systems analysis to transportation, logistics, and supply chain management. TLMT313 Supply Chain TLMT 311 Introduction to Transportation LO7: Define the roles and responsibilities of the Supply Manager to LO 5: Analyze the different types of pipeline carriers, commodities, and examine pipeline companies in relation to limited today's global markets. intermodal competition. Assessment: Week 7 Forum Assessment: Week 4 Case Study (Internet Field Trip) Rationale: Students must assess and analyze the case to provide marketing and cost data (historical data) as well as logistics Rationale: Students find real world examples of supply managers and supply chain issues (current), recommendations in using RFID technology, and their recommendation for/against the new discuss HOW the supply manager is making a difference in today's container ship operation. global market. They research the Internet and industry periodicals to find individuals within the field. 1. Rewrite LO (two verbs used) 2. Rewrite instructions to detail intent and expectations of assignment. The intent is for students to use the weekly readings 1. Make this a written assignment. and tie the concepts, terms, etc. into the assignment via their analysis of the data. This is not clearly stated. Needs to better TLMT331 Fundamentals of Intermodal Transportation li ihlo TLMT352 Distribution Systems TLMT341 Logistics TLMT352 Distribution Systems LO 8: Present the logistics LO 14: Describe the and supply chain role of the supply chain requirement of a product manager in creating from source to customer transportation including the integration of efficiency. information technology into business processes. Assessment: Week 8 Paper Assessment: Week 8 Presentation Rationale: Students assume the role of VP Rationale: Students of Supply Chain d il M ihi LO 1: Discuss the various approaches to intermodal tansportation as Relate the practiced in the United States and internationally. multidimensional impact of Assessment: Week 1 Forum transportation on the economy, public systems, national and local Rationale: The student answers the questions: 1) What is intermodal infrastructure, and transportatoin? 2) What were the reasons for the development of the environment. intermodal transportation? LO 2: Understand supply chain innovations. LO 6: Explain technology's role in transportation (EDI, RFID, other innovations). Assessment: Week 2 Paper 1. Rewrite/add LO to better align with forum assignment. 2. Make this a written assignment(?). Rationale: Students describe the technologies and innovations of Walmart. TLMT331 Fundamentals of Intermodal Transportation LO 2: Interpret shipping impacts before and after government regulation. N S TLMT331 Fundamentals of Intermodal Transportation Understand and evaluate the transportation systems political, regulatory, and legal issues. Assessment: Week 2 Written Paper Rationale: Students identify governmental Acts and discuss the impact of regulation/deregulation on the growth of intermodal transportation in both the United States and Europe. 1. Rewrite LO. LO 3: Gain a foundational understanding of current and emerging issues and challenges facing the industry. Assessment: Week 8 Written Paper TLMT 352 Distribution Systems LO 9: Explain the Hub & Spoke concept and the efficiencies it promotes in Describe and assess the strengths and Assessment: Week 7 Forum weaknesses of the major modes of international Rationale: The student defines the Hub and Spoke Concept and describes the advantages of this concept within the various modes of transportation (Maritime, Air, Truck, and Rail). 1. Make an assignment (?). Rationale: Students dtlmt 341 h Logistics LO 6: Examine global logistics, risk management strategies, and product and supply chain design. Assessment: Week 6 Paper Rationale: Students analyze global market forces, risks, development h l h d

**Revisions of TLMT DQP Specialized Knowledge Master's Level 500 and 525 LO's and assignments were used in the mapping. These revisions will be Elucidates the major theories, research incorporated into methods and approaches to inquiry, the model sites as Assesses the contributions of major figures and organizations in the field; describes its major methodologies and and/or schools of practice in the field; soon as the courses practices; and implements at least two such methodologies and practices through projects, papers, exhibits or articulates relevant sources; and are migrated from performances. illustrates their relationship to allied EdgeTest. (SK2) fields. (SK1) Articulates major challenges involved in practicing the field, elucidates its leading edges, and delineates its current limits with respect to theory, knowledge and practice. (SK3) Initiates, assembles, arranges and reformulates ideas, concepts, designs and techniques in carrying out a project directed at a challenge in the field beyond conventional boundaries. (SK4) MA in Transportation & Logistics Program Objectives LO 4: To judge key variables, including patterns of demand to be considered in transportation costs. Apply economic principles to evaluate the performance of a transportation system. Assessment: Week 3 Case Study Rationale: Students are put in the role of Director of Operations for a company. They must identify an issue or challenge currently facing the company and perform an efficiency analysis. The discussion centers around the results of the analysis and the recommendations/alternatives presented to save the company money. Discussion is supported by course materials, academic sources, and industry specific data/sources. 1. Rewrite LO. TLMT 500 History of Transportation Analyze the history, pattern, and impact of laws and regulation on the various modes of transportation in the United States. **LO 1: Distinguish significant historical transportation events. LO 2: Analyze supply chain risk and security issues, systems, and solutions. LO 3: Appraise the cause and effect of national transportation policies and regulations. LO 4: Provide historical analysis of Motor, Rail, Air, and Water Assessment: Week 4 TIP Assignment Rationale: Students develop a Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) for a supply chain of an organization of their choice from any time period: past, present or future. TIP includes background about the organization, its products and services, markets, and supply chain strategies (e.g., green chain). Describes current freight flows and future freight flows after implementation of one or more of the recommended improvement projects being executed with a multi year planning horizon. Assignment requires support through theories, concepts, and best practices from course materials and scholarly resources. TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transportation & Logistics **LO 1: Construct research questions related to specific research problem. Evaluate the importance of **LO 4: Distinguish literature from transportation at various sources. the organizational and national levels. Assessment: Week 1 Assignment Assessment: Week 2 Forum Rationale: Week 1 Students complete a presentation that details their d h TLMT 611 Global Logistics TLMT603 Strategic Intermodal Transporation LO 6: Construct strategies for logistics effectiveness. LO 8: Summarize the importance of modes and terminals. Examine global transportation issues, to include systems, documentation, providers, and challenges in international Assessment: Week 4 Paper Rationale: Students select an organization or company to analyze its tactical and strategic decisions. This includes the three phases: Problem Definition and Planning; Data Collection and Analysis; and Recommendations and Implementation. Students also discuss supply chain operation analysis methods and techniques (design logic and decisions, relationship management, and networking). Assessment: Week 8 Presentation Rationale: Students create a PowerPoint presentation addressing the challenges and issues surrounding transportation congestion in the U.S. and around the world. Requirements include: causes of congestion, solutions for congestion, how reg/dereg impacts congestion, and environmental issues (from military and commercial perspectives). 1. Revise LO to align with the presentation. For example: Summarize the importance of modes and terminals in relation to the issues and challenges facing transport geography. TLMT 611 Global Logistics Contrast and compare buyer/seller relationships, thirdparty relationships, negotiations, bidding, contracts and the challenges of relationship management in LO 6: Construct strategies for logistics effectiveness. Assessment: Week 4 Paper Rationale: Students select an organization or company to analyze its tactical and strategic decisions. This includes the three phases: Problem Definition and Planning; Data Collection and Analysis; and Recommendations and Implementation. Students also discuss supply chain operation analysis methods and techniques (design logic and decisions, relationship management, and networking).

Legend: Broad Integrative Knowledge Bachelor's Level DQP Title of Course Learning Objective Assessment Gap / / Hole Rationale Next Steps Explains a problem in science, the arts, society, human services, economic life Frames a complex scientific, social, technological, economic or or technology from the perspective of at least two academic fields, explains Produces, independently or collaboratively, an investigative, creative or aesthetic challenge or problem from the perspectives and literature of how the methods of inquiry and research in those disciplines can be brought to practical work that draws on specific theories, tools and methods from at least two academic fields and pro poses a best approach to the bear, judges the likelihood that the combination of disciplinary perspectives at least two academic fields. question or challenge using evidence from those fields. and methods would contribute to the resolution of the challenge, and justifies (BIS2) (BIS1) the importance of the challenge in a social or global context. (BIS3) BA in Transportation & Logistics Program Objectives TLMT351 Packaging LO 2: Compare the various frameworks for packaging design, function, research, and planning of a package. Apply systems analysis to transportation, logistics, and supply chain management. Assessment: Week 8 Project Rationale: Students assume the role of a packaging engineer at a large consumer product company. Students complete a Package Design Brief for a specific product. Students demonstrate their ability to apply various concepts, terms, processes, etc. to design appropriate packaging of the product. This includes justification (from academic sources), recommendations, and assumptions in completing the project. 1. None TLMT331 Fundamentals of Intermodal Transportation LO 5: Analyze how competition and efficiency in worldwide transportation has evolved. Relate the multidimensional impact of transportation on the economy, public systems, national and local infrastructure, and the environment. Assessment: Week 5 Paper Rationale: Students evaluate the limited real estate available at ports and how these ports can compete with newer larger ports. Students must complete the evaluation based on information of a real world port and provide recommendations for improvement in equipment, technologies, alliances/partnerships, and business practices. 1. TLMT441 Advanced Business Logistics LO 3: Evaluate issues from various business logistics problems, situations, and controversies. Assessment: Week 6 Article Review Understand and evaluate the transportation systems political, regulatory, and legal issues. Rationale: Students locate a peer reviewed journal article from our online library. The article must focus on business logistics. The students must discuss and present a critical evaluation of the research conducted (problem presented). TLM brings business and the field of logistics together which meets this AOL. Students get various perspectives from the authors, perspectives from others in the field (lit review), methods of inquiry, and addresses a problem, purpose, or challenge within the field. TLMT352 Distribution Systems LO 11: Describe cyclical economic forces in relation to the transportation industry. Assessment: Week 4 Paper Describe and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the major modes of international Rationale: Students address the cyclical nature of the transportation industry. They provide steps for transportation companies to take to avoid or mitigate the negative effects of the economy. This requires students to conduct searches for academic sources, industry periodicals, etc. to frame the situation.

**Revisions of TLMT 500 and 525 LO's and assignments were Broad Integrative Skills Master's Level DQP used in the mapping. These revisions will be incorporated into the model sites as soon as the courses are migrated from EdgeTest. Designs and executes an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the Articulates how the field has developed in relation to other major domains of Articulates and defends the significance and implications of his or her specialized work in perspectives and methods of other fields and assesses the resulting gains and inquiry or practice. terms of challenges, trends and developments in a social or global context. difficulties. (BIS1) (BIS3) (BIS2) MA in Transportation & Logistics Program Objectives TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transporation & Logistics LO 5: Examine the regulation of market power and social costs of Assessment: Week 5 Case Study Apply economic principles to evaluate the performance of a transportation system. Rationale: Students complete a Visual Impact Assessment on an issue within Requires the student to conduct the analysis and determine the positive and negative impacts of the proposed project/ development. This type of assessment intersects with business and environmental gains/losses. TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transporation & Logistics LO 7: Evaluate program implementation. Assessment: Week 7 Paper Analyze the history, pattern, and impact of laws and regulation on the various modes of transportation in the United States. Rationale: Students address four topics all relating to TLM and governmental involvement (policy, laws, and Acts). Students must analyze the government's involvement in relation to TLM and clearly articulate their position using data and facts as support. Topics: Stimulus Plan, Federal jurisdiction vs. State and Local government, NAFTA, and Fuel Crisis (truck and air). TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transporation & Logistics Evaluate the importance of transportation at the organizational and national levels. TLMT 603 Strategic Intermodal Transportation TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transporation & Logistics Examine global transportation issues, to include systems, documentation, providers, and challenges in international LO 3: Extrapolate the impact of globalization, regulation, and technology on intermodalism. Assessment: Week 7 Paper **Potential Hole: Not sure this meets the criteria 100%. Rationale: Students choose from one of 3 topics for the assignment. Each topic incorporates technology/innovation within the context of intermodal containers. TLMT 611 Global Logistics TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transporation & Logistics LO 1: Operationalize perspectives on the evolution of logistics development. Assessment: Week 1 Presentation Contrast and compare buyer/seller relationships, third party relationships, negotiations, bidding, contracts and the challenges of relationship management in Rationale: Students develop a presentation on the functional nature of logistics. More specifically, choose an organization and create a visual and narrative representation of the company's logistics operations. Items include: CRM, procurement strategies, design, information flow, etc.

Legen d: Title of Course Intellectual Skills Bachelor's Level DQP Legend: Title of Course Learning Objective Assessment Gap / / Hole Rationale Next Steps Incorporates multiple information resources in different media or languages in projects, papers or Differentiates and evaluates theories and approaches performances, with appropriate citations; and to complex standard and non standard problems evaluates the relative merits of competing resources within his or her major field. (Analytic inquiry) with respect to clearly articulated standards. (Use of (IS1) information resources) (IS2) Constructs sustained, coherent Constructs a cultural, political or technological argument or presentation on technical Translates verbal problems into mathematical algorithms, constructs alternate vision of either the natural or human issues or processes in more than one valid arguments using the accepted symbolic system of world through a written project, laboratory report, language and in more than one mathematical reasoning, and constructs accurate calculations, exhibit, performance or com munity service design; medium for general and specific estimates, risk analyses or quantitative evaluations of public defines the distinct patterns in this alternate vision; audiences; and works through information through presentations, papers or projects. (Quantitative and explains how these patterns differ from current collaboration to address a social, fluency) realities. (Engaging diverse perspectives) personal or ethical dilemma. (IS4) (IS3) (Communication fluency) (IS5) BA in Transportation & Logistics Program Objectives Gap Apply systems analysis to transportation, logistics, and supply chain management. TLMT441 Advanced Business Logistics TLMT311 Introduction to Transportation TLMT313 Supply Chain LO 5: Analyze management interactions and impacts. LO 1 8: Assessment is not tied to a specific LO due to the student selecting the topic. Assessment: Week 5 Case Study Hole: Assignment does not include multiple languages Rationale: Students review a case study and in or media. addressing the questions, they also describe alternative solutions and justify their Rationale: Students select a topic from the course recommendations with concepts, terminology, materials and complete a 5 8 page paper on the given processes, etc. within the current state of the topic. The assignment requires the student to industry. incorporate a minimum of 5 sources to support the discussion. These sources may include academic journals industryreports industryrelatedarticles etc TLMT311 Introduction to Transportation LO 3: Evaluate issues from various business logistics problems, situations, and controversies. Relate the multidimensional impact of transportation on LO 4: Analyze management interactions in interpreting the economy, public systems, these situations. national and local infrastructure, and the Assessment: Week 2 Article Review environment. Rationale: Students locate a peer reviewed journal article from our online library. The article must focus on business logistics. The students must discuss and present a critical evaluation of the research conducted. TLMT441 Advanced Business Logistics LO 6: Analyze and assess transportation planning and execution strategies within a global supply chain. Assessment: Week 6 Case Study : Rationale: Students complete a case study regarding a new market opportunity for a transportation company. They must calculate operating costs for pick up, sorting, line haul, and delivery costs. Additional calculations are required to determine the total cost of each movement, cost per CWT, drivers cost, and backhaul costs. Students must also consider routes, times, and location of distribution centers in determing the most appropriate decision for this new market Understand and evaluate the transportation systems political, regulatory, and legal issues. LO 2: Demonstrate knowledge of how economic and international situation will influence s assessment of logistics. LO 5: Forumulate an individual philosophy regarding business practices and procedures based on coursework, lifework, and business experiences. Assessment 1: Week 7 Research Paper Assessment 2: Week 8 Presentation TLMT341 Logistics LO 2: Describe inventory management techniques and approaches in relation to network planning. TLMT312 Transportation Economics LO 1: Explain how the processes of transportation economics play a major role in transportation decisions of an organization. Describe and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the major modes of international Assessment: Week 2 Paper Assessment: Week 8 Paper Hole: Uncertain if this truly meets the intent of the the criteria. Rationale: Students desribe how they would design Rationale: Students complete a case study wherein they calculate a logistics network consisting of only one warehouse. various costs (inventory, distribution, order processing, etc.) They discuss the optimal network, data required to associated with the specific issue faced by the company. Students make this determination, and strategies employed in use the calculations/results as part of their analysis in assessing the the network. Students must consider the entire risk/benefit to the company. Use academic sources, industry reports, supply chain in their design (shippers, modes of news, etc. to support their position. transportation, distribution, etc.).

Intellectual Skills Master's Level DQP **Revisions of TLMT 500 and 525 LO's and assignments were used in the mapping. These revisions will be incorporated into the model sites once the courses are migrated from EdgeTest. Disaggregates, adapts, reformulates and employs in an essay or project principal ideas, techniques or methods at the forefront of the field. (Analytic inquiry) (IS1) Not seeking a degree in a quantitative Addresses in a project, paper or performance a field employs and applies mathematical, core issue in the field from the perspective of a logical or statistical tools to problems Provides adequate evidence through papers, different point in time or a different culture, within the field in a project, paper or Creates sustained, coherent explanations and reflections on projects, notebooks, computer files or catalogues of political order or technological context, and performance, while the student seeking the student s own work in two or more media or languages expanding, assessing or refining either a recognized elucidates how the perspective contributes to a degree in a quantitative field to both general and specialized audiences. (Communication information resource or an information base within results that depart from current norms, dominant articulates and undertakes multiple fluency) the field. (Use of information resources) cultural assumptions or technologies. (Engaging appropriate applications of quantitative (IS5) (IS2) diverse perspectives) methods, concepts and theories. (IS3) (Quantitative fluency) (IS4) MA in Transportation & Logistics Program Objectives TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transportation and Logistics **LO 4: Distinguish literature from various sources. LO8: Integrate transportation economics theory and applications. Apply economic principles to evaluate the performance of a transportation system. Assessment: Week 4 Assignment Rationale: Students complete a literature review. Students are to collect, organize, analyze, and requires the student to write an introduction to their topic, problem being addressed, literature review, any gaps identified, and how this aligns with the Assessment: Week 6 Paper Rationale: Students address four scenarios in which they use mathematical equations, economic concepts, and theory to apply/address the question being posed in the assignment. TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transportation and Logistics **LO 4: Distinguish literature from various sources. TLMT 603 Strategic Intermodal Transportation LO 2: Explain the impact of geography on transportation systems. Analyze the history, pattern, and impact of laws and regulation on the various modes of transportation in the United States. TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transportation & Logistics Assessment: Week 4 Assignment Rationale: Students complete a literature review. Students are to collect, organize, analyze, and requires the student to write an introduction to their topic, problem being addressed, literature review, any gaps identified, and how this aligns with the TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transportation and Logistics Assessment: Week 2 Presentation Hole: Students reflection is not part of the requirements of the assignment. Rationale: Students choose a city and conduct a traffic network analysis. The presentation must include current traffic networks, patterns, issues/challenges, current/future developments, etc. They must identify the appropriate type of traffic in their analysis and any alternatives or solutions to the issues they identify in the analysis. Presentation may includegraphics images videos etc toprovidethis Evaluate the importance of transportation at the organizational and national levels. **LO 5: Justify the criteria for research methods selection. **Assessment: Week 3 Assignment Rationale: Students research the online library for a peer reviewed journal article within TLM. They review and evaluate the article in order to provide an alternative research design and method. This includes discussion on how the alternative **LO 4: Distinguish literature from various sources. **Assessment: Week 4 Assignment Rationale: Students complete a literature review. Students are to collect, organize, analyze, and requires the student to write an introduction to their topic, problem being addressed, literature review, any gaps identified, and how this aligns with the TLMT 525 Research Methods in Transportation and TLMT 500 History of Transportation Logistics **LO 6: Diagram an intermodal, multi stage global **LO 4: Distinguish literature from various sources. freight flow. Assessment: Week 4 Assignment **Assessment: Week 6 Assignment Examine global transportation issues, to include systems, documentation, providers, and challenges in international Hole: Incorporate "how the perspective contributes to results that depart from current Rationale: Students complete a literature review. norms, dominant cultural assumptions or Students are to collect, organize, analyze, and technologies" into the assignment. requires the student to write an introduction to their Rationale: Students develop a process flow or topic, problem being addressed, literature review, value stream for a supply chain of an any gaps identified, and how this aligns with the organization/company from the past, present, or future state. TLMT 611 Global Logistics LO 2: Appraise the role of transportation as the core of logistics. Contrast and compare buyer/seller relationships, third party relationships, negotiations, bidding, contracts and the challenges of relationship management in Assessment: Week 8 Paper Rationale: Students must identify a topic discussed in the course. The paper must include a discussion on the following sub topics: Logistics How is impacts your chosen topic; Accommodation; Procurement and Manufacturing; Integrated Operations Planning; Inventory ; Transportation Infrastructure; Warehousing; Network and Operations Planning