Engineering Management, M.S.

Engineering Management Requirements (30.5-31 credit hours)

• EO 600 - Emerging Tech and Innovation Mgmt (3)
• EO 610 - Strategic Innovation in Tech Mgmt (3)
• EO 611 - Quantitative Dec Making in Eng Mgmt (3)
• EO 620 - Operations Mgmt in Energy Sys (3)
• PY 617 - Research Design & Analysis I (3)
• PY 627 - Research Design & Analysis II (3)
• FI 630 - Financial Management (3)
• OD 655 - Innovation & Creativity (3)
• MG 660 - Production/Operations Management (3)
• PM 672 - The Practice of Project Management (3)
• MG 685 - Professional Portfolio (0.5-1)

Criteria for Admission

• Students must have an undergraduate degree in one of the following areas (Engineering, Operations Management, Logistics, or related area.
• Students must have taken an undergraduate course in Statistics
• Have a grade point average of 2.75 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all undergraduate or graduate level coursework. 
• Students with a GPA less than 2.75 or at least 2.50 will be admitted provisionally. Students admitted provisionally to the program must achieve a 3.0 GPA on the first nine credits in their program of study.
• The admissions committee will consider all applications to evaluate any additional prerequisite courses needed.
• Submit official transcript/s of the bachelor’s degree as well as any graduate level coursework.

Professional Conduct

Students in the program are expected to conduct themselves as professionals-in-training both inside and outside the virtual classroom. We encourage and expect students to treat others (including classmates and instructors) with sensitivity and dignity. Impairment, incompetence, ethical misconduct, and/or problematic behavior may be identified and addressed in a variety of ways and by a variety of persons, including but not limited to students, faculty, supervisors, clients, and/or members of the community. If student behaviors or attitudes are egregious, he or she may be dismissed immediately. If student behaviors or attitudes are less dire, they will be addressed in a confidential meeting with the student’s faculty advisor and/or Dean of the College of Professional Schools who will make a plan for remediation in an articulated time frame. At the end of the stated period, during which time the students would be placed on probation, he or she could return to Student in Good Standing status, continue on probation, or be dismissed depending upon the ability to successfully complete the corrective action. Students may appeal this process at any time.

Outcomes

1. Evaluate engineering teams and projects by selecting and appropriately utilizing analytical methods, simulations, project management tools to systematically assess and improve outcomes.
2. Analyze organizational and operations data to synthesize performance insights; design process improvements and optimize systems models using statistics, quality methods and appropriate performance metrics.
3. Create financial analyses and models using financial management techniques that calculate budgets, evaluate resource allocation tradeoffs, perform cost-benefit analyses, and provide quantitative justification for engineering investments.
4. Synthesize research and cross-disciplinary insights to invent innovative solutions to complex technical and business challenges, consider analytical, technical, social, and financial constraints and opportunities.

Assessment

Program assessments will be a combination of signature assessments in all courses and assessment of all program outcomes as part of the capstone professional portfolio.

Note

If regulatory requirements are met, F-1 international students are eligible to apply for CPT for this academic program.