I turned in my final exam last night which marked the halfway point for my Master’s program at ASU. One year down and one more to go. Since there is no rest for the weary, today we started our new trimester. For the next three trimesters we’ll be taking one business class and one engineering class, a combination just as demanding as two engineering classes since the business courses are 5 week crash courses!

Our business class is Strategic Technology Management, which takes an inside look at the role of strategy in today’s technology driven companies. Our first reading is Michael Porter’s Strategy and the Internet where we take a look at the role of Internet technologies in a company’s strategies. I think it will be a very good class with a balance combination of technology and business theories.

Our engineering class is called Testing Real Time Systems. I am not sure that I can give you as good as a description as the previous course but this is mostly because we don’t have much insight into what this course will be like. I do know that we’ll be creating and testing a technical specification for a video game to run on Windows PC. I guess it will be a fun project with semi-real world applications.