Port and Marine Terminal Development and Operations Certificate
Degree: Certificate
Major: Port and Marine Terminal Development and Operations
Hours: 12
Port and Marine Terminal Development and Operations Overview
Lamar University's Center for Advances in Port Management offers a Port and Marine Terminal Development and Operations Certificate for working professionals in the public port and private marine terminal industry seeking to enhance their career potential in roles of increasing development and operations responsibilities. This is a graduate level program offered online and features industrial engineering coursework.
You will learn from LU's Department of Industrial Engineering instructors, as well as industry leaders. This program contains just 12 hours of coursework and is offered in the fall, spring and summer semesters. In order to be accepted into this program, you must have a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited university and official transcripts from all colleges and universities.
Port and Marine Terminal Development and Operations Courses You May Take
Risk Management and Decision Making: The course covers decision tree and Monte Carlo simulation to model and analyze decision problems. The students will learn how to recognize, model and represent a decision problem and its associated risk and opportunities. Through a variety of exercises and case studies students will practice analytical modeling, data analysis and optimization to determine optimal answers to port and terminal financial and other decisions.
Capital Projects: Economic analysis of capital investments in large scale infrastructure. Topics include planning, budgeting, justification, analysis, and funding strategies. Techniques include time value of money, rates of return, depreciation, cost estimation, benefit cost analysis, capital allocation, simulation and decision making under uncertainty.
Port Security and Resiliency Planning: This course will examine the critical importance of ports to trade and their vulnerability to disruption and attack. It will also examine the importance of sea borne trade to the North American and United States economics, the value of mega ports to sea borne trade, the vulnerabilities of ports to disruption and asymmetric attack, critical port security incidents, and defensive measures to protect ports. Managing critical port infrastructure will also be discussed in terms of risk, vulnerability, and resilience perspectives, and the interdependency of port operations will be examined in this class. This course will also appraise port safety hazards and study mandatory, recommended, and voluntary standards to mitigate risk.
Strategic and Facility Master Planning: Students will examine strategic planning and master facility planning processes and major elements utilizing case studies from ports and marine terminals in North America and globally. The course is designed as a graduate course in the principles and application of systematic strategic and master facility planning across the spectrum of the various types, sizes and geographies of ports and marine terminals.
Career Paths for Port and Marine Terminal Development and Operations
Upon graduation from this program, you will be prepared to work in the operations, logistics or strategic management sectors of the port and marine terminal industry. Career progression involves gaining hands-on experience in cargo handling, safety and supply chain, transitioning to supervisory roles.
Primary Careers
Port manager, terminal manager, strategist, scheduler/logistician
- Strategic and facility planning
- Capital planning
- Logistics and supply chains
- Negotiation and communication
- Terminal operations
- Decision-making/leadership
- Port and marine terminal operators
- Logistics companies
- Chemical and refining industry
- Government agencies
- Private industrial corporations