Current Offerings

Organizational Development and Comprehensive Business Planning

FIU-ARC provides the following business and management services to protégés:

• Business assessment and consultation to protégés.
• Provides management expertise to create a stable operating position and increase business base and revenues.
• Supports the protégés in taking full advantage of the technological and competitive advantages resulting from the mentoring partnership with its mentor.
• Provides technical assistance to protégés to gain insight into the direction and future trends in its business segment.
• Assists the protégés to plan proactively with the mentors in a continuously changing environment.

Tech Transfer Services

Manufacturing Technology Support

      FIU-ARC has a wide range of faculty expertise and capabilities to assist protégés in the following fields:

• Manufacturing Systems Design
• Production Planning and Control
• Facilities Planning and Control
• Queuing Modeling
• Concurrent Engineering
• Computer Simulation
• Quality Engineering
• Inventory Control
• Ergonomics/Human Factors
• Project Management

With a strong background in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing processes and Enterprise Development, FIU-ARC is a unique and valuable resource to partnerships.

Business Technology Transfer

      FIU-ARC offers technology services in the following fields:

• Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP)
• Manufacturing Resource Planning(MRP)
• Customer Relationship Management(CRM)
• Internet-enabled multimedia repositories
• Environmental Data Management
• Virtual Collaboration Tools
• Knowledge Management
• Software Engineering with UML, XML, ASP.net
• Network/Systems Design
• Sensors, Automation, Robotics
• GIS and GPS integration systems
• Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)
• Computer Aided Design( CAD)
• Database Systems(DBS) and Database Management System( DBMS)

Certification Training Programs

The teaching staff at FIU-ARC works with both mentor and protégé to develop a curriculum based on the technologies/contents that the protégé does not currently possess, but needs to acquire. FIU-ARC teams up with service providers to provide group training in these technological fields. The following training programs are currently being offered:

• LEED
• CMMI
• PMP
• LEAD AUDITOR

LEED

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED gives building owners and operators the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their buildings’ performance. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.

PMP

Project Management Professional (PMP) is the most globally recognized certification in project management. It is managed by the Project Management Institute and is based on the PMP Examination Specification published by PMI in 2005. Most exam questions reference to PMIs ANSI standard A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, abbreviated to PMBOK Guide.(Link to the form)

LEAD AUDITOR

This course and the associated examination provide the necessary body of knowledge and assessment techniques to cover the requirements for registration, when combined with appropriate documentation of education, professional experience, and auditor practice. This course meets the training portion of the requirements for certification of individual Quality System Provisional Auditors, Auditors, and Lead Auditor and meets the IATCA requirements for QMS (Quality Management System) Senior Auditor training.