Curriculum
Onsite classes meet only one weekend (Friday and Saturday) per month, letting busy professionals earn their degree while not interrupting full-time work schedules. Engineering Management courses may alternately be attended remotely through a synchronous viewing option, allowing remote students to virtually attend class live with onsite students.
The 30-credit hour program is comprised of 10 courses, including two project courses, Project A and Project B. Students follow a prescribed course sequence, which includes course work in management, negotiations, marketing, engineering economics and product development.
Program of Work
Year 1
Fall Semester
ENM 382E.3 Engineering Operations Management (3 Credit Hours)
ENM 381E.2 Legal Issues and Technology Management (3 Credit Hours)
Spring Semester
ENM 380E.1 Managing People and Organizations (3 Credit Hours)
ENM 382E.1 Analytics for Engineering Managers (3 Credit Hours)
Summer Semester
ENM 397P Projects in Engineering Management I (3 Credit Hours)
Year 2
Fall Semester
ENM 382E.2 Strategic Decision & Risk Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
ENM 381E.3 Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers (3 Credit Hours)
Spring Semester
ENM 381E.1 Marketing and Negotiation (3 Credit Hours)
ENM 380E.2 Engineering Project Management (3 Credit Hours)
Summer Semester
ENM 397P Projects in Engineering Management II (3 Credit Hours)
Master’s Projects and Internships
All students must complete two of the following courses: Project A, Project B, or the ENM Internship, as part of their degree program. Each course is one semester in duration.
Project A is independent study and is an opportunity for students to explore an aspect of engineering management in more detail. This exploration ideally takes place within a work environment. Project A should be undertaken after completion of at least two ENM courses. The course allows for CPT authorization.
Project B is a practicum during which students apply what they have learned in the program to a real engineering management problem. Project B should be undertaken after completion of at least four ENM courses. Project B must be taken after or concurrently with Project A. The course allows for CPT authorization.
The Internship is a one-semester course during which the student works in an engineering management role for a company. The Internship should be undertaken after completion of at least four ENM courses and must be taken after or concurrently with Project A. The course allows for CPT authorization.
Students who are not working (e.g., international students) should plan on taking Project A and the Internship. Students are responsible for obtaining their own internship and must focus on engineering management. Internships that are outside engineering management will not be approved.
More details about the Projects and Internship classes will be provided upon admission into the Engineering Management program.
Courses
ENM 380.1 Managing People and Organizations (3 Credit Hours)
Introduction to frameworks from the social sciences that are useful for understanding what effective leaders do when working with others.
ENM 380E.2 Engineering Project Management (3 Credit Hours)
Explore methods for organizing, coordinating, and controlling resources to minimize risk and conflict, and to maintain budgets and schedules. Discuss the evaluation of competing alternatives, organization of a project, scheduling of tasks and resources, and the role of management.
ENM 381E.1 Marketing and Negotiation (3 Credit Hours)
Explore major marketing concepts and variables, their interrelationships, and their implications for policy making, problem solving, and strategy formulation. Examine the development of sophisticated strategies and tactics to pursue mutually beneficial solutions.
ENM 381E.2 Legal Issues and Technology Management (3 Credit Hours)
Examine legal considerations in the practice of engineering management. Explore management disciplines to create maximum value from technology.
ENM 381E.3 Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers (3 Credit Hours)
Introduction to fundamental concepts in finance and accounting with application. Explore how to evaluate investment and financing opportunities in a corporation.
ENM 382E.1 Analytics for Engineering Managers (3 Credit Hours)
Explore theory and tools that allow the engineering manager to draw correct inferences from data and include those inferences in the decision-making process. Examine descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and statistics.
ENM 382E.2 Strategic Decision and Risk Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Explore tools and methods for making high-quality decisions in the face of uncertainty, applied within an engineering context. Learn how to frame and analyze major decisions and how to overcome the biases that can degrade these decisions.
ENM 382E.3 Engineering Operations Management (3 Credit Hours)
Examine methods to improve the efficiency of an organization’s operations. Explore management of production systems, inventory management, logistics, and supply-chain management.
ENM 397P Projects in Engineering Management I (3 Credit Hours)
Independent project carried out under the supervision of an Engineering Management faculty member.
ENM 397P Projects in Engineering Management II (3 Credit Hours)
Independent project carried out under the supervision of an Engineering Management faculty member. Project II represents a deeper dive and application of additional skillsets learned during the duration of the program.
