Teaching
Courses Taught at Mississippi State Unversity
Management Information Systems (MIS) Doctoral Seminar
(BIS 9113)
▸ An IS doctoral seminar with a focus on the broadly construed “decision support systems” literature, covering diverse topics and methodologies.
Doctoral Directed Individual Study (BIS 7000)
Data Analytics
(BIS 8413)
▸ A graduate-level (MBA / MS) course on Analytics covering different analytics (data mining, machine learning, etc.) methods.
▸ Includes a project that allows students to apply the learned methods on real-world data to extract value.
▸ Aims to develop students’ data analytics skills and knowledge.
Management Information Technology and Systems
(BIS 8113)
▸ A graduate-level (MBA / MS) course covering the fundamentals of managing and using IT and information systems (IS) in the business environment.
▸ Surveys different business-IT cases and IS theories and applications.
▸ Aims to develop graduate students’ knowledge to become effective managers of information technology/systems.
Master’s Directed Individual Study (BIS 7000)
Courses Taught at Iowa State Unversity
Advanced Business Analytics (MIS 446)
▸ A project-based course on Business Analytics (BA).
▸ Provides an in-depth exploration of BA methods including data visualization, data mining, text mining and predictive analysis.
▸Enables students to apply these methods through using the relevant BA tools to extract business value from real-world data.
▸ Aims to develop students’ data analytic skills and knowledge to become successful BA professionals and enable them to build BA applications.
Systems Analysis and Design (MIS 310)
▸ Covers the MIS perspective on systems development in the modern business environment with a focus on the systems development life cycle (SDLC).
▸ Surveys the different tools, techniques, and methodologies that are used by systems analysts throughout the different phases of the SDLC.
▸ Aims to develop students’ skills & knowledge to become effective systems analysts and to enable them to analyze/design/develop information systems in dynamic business and organizational environments.
Management Information Systems (MIS 301)
▸ Provides an introduction to the management and use of information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) in the modern business environment.
▸ Covers classical and contemporary MIS (Management Information Systems) topics.
▸ Aims to develop students’ knowledge to become “informed users” of information technology/systems and to enable them to manage information resources in dynamic business environments.
Example Student Comments from Teaching Evaluations
“The instructor was amazing. Coming into this class I was so nervous, but the way the instructor taught was so effective.”
“Very professional, great sense of humor, adapts to students different ways of learning to better education on material, does a great job.”
“Very knowledgeable instructor that challenged some information given by textbooks and compared topics to real-world examples.”
“I think the instructor was amazing because his explanations were easy to understand over concepts I have never heard of before. He relates the content to his students in a way they can understand.”
“What helped me the most in this class was the structured feedback our professor returned to us for projects and homework.”
“Applying the skills we learn as we are learning to the project has been very helpful.”
“Feels like we are doing real work.”
“The project is fun and interesting. Professor is approachable and encouraging.”
“Alaa was fantastic…He did a phenomenal job explaining difficult topics, and was very receptive to answering any question that was asked. Of all the classes I’ve taken during COVID, this was easily the one that made the transition the best. The group work was great, getting as much feedback as we got from classmates and Alaa was a fantastic way for us to understand the material and our projects.”
