Curriculum

The number of semester credit hours for the master’s degree is 30.  Students are required to complete 8 core courses (24 semester credit hours) and two elective courses (6 semester credit hours). A candidate for the Master of Engineering Management must pass a comprehensive exam in addition to completing the 30 hours required for the degree.

Core Courses (24 hrs required)

Electives (6 hrs required)

Suggested Course Sequence

Fall Semester:  (12 hrs)

Spring Semester: (12 hrs)

Summer Semester: (6 hrs)

College of Business Course Descriptions

MBA 500V - Survey of Accounting

Concepts of accounting for non-business majors pursuing graduate degrees.  Intensive outside readings and assignments are required (1.5 credit hours).

MBA 501V - Survey of Finance

Concepts of finance for non-business majors pursuing graduate degrees.  Intensive outside readings and assignments are required (1.5 credit hours).

MBA 504V - Survey of Management

Concepts of management for non-business majors pursuing graduate degrees.  Intensive outside readings and assignments are required (1.5 credit hours).

MBA 505V - Survey of Information Systems

Concepts of information systems for non-business majors pursuing graduate degrees.  Intensive outside readings and assignments are required (1.5 credit hours).

MBA 506V - Survey of Marketing

Concepts of marketing for non-business majors pursuing graduate degrees.  Intensive outside readings and assignments are required (1.5 credit hours).

MBA 507V - Survey of Law

Concepts of law for non-business majors pursuing graduate degrees.  Intensive outside readings and assignments are required (1.5 credit hours).

ECON 6353 – Environmental Economics

This course provides analysis of some of the most important areas of environmental economics.  Areas stressed include the economics of pollution control, the application of cost benefit analysis to the environment, the economics of sustainable development, environmental policy development, and global environmental issues (3 credit hours).

MGMT 6403 – Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Leadership

This course is designed to introduce students to the ways individuals and teams work in organizations, with a special emphasis on practical applications for managers.  The objective is to improve students’ abilities to diagnose, analyze, and take effective action in their organizational work (3 credit hours).

MIS 6413 – Management Information Systems

The spectrum of the information needs of organizations. (1) Provides understanding of the uses of information by operational subsystems such as production, finance, marketing, personnel, etc. (2) Provides an analysis of the information needs of middle and top-level management, and the use of information systems to aid managers in the decision-making process. (3) Provides students with an understanding of the use of information systems to gain competitive advantage and how to manage information as an organizational resource.  Prerequisite: MBA 505V(3 credit hours).

College of Engineering Course Descriptions

EGRM 6003 – Engineering Statistics

Basic concepts and methods of descriptive and inferential statistics including graphical techniques, measures of central tendency and dispersion, interval estimation, hypothesis and goodness of fit tests, comparisons of two populations, and analysis of variance. Prerequisite: MATH 2204 Calculus I. (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6013 – Quality Control Improvement

A brief review of the evolution of quality control and improvement theory particularly as influenced by key pioneers such as Deming, Juran, and Taguchi. Extensive coverage of selected quality improvement techniques includes statistical process control, inspection sampling, and design of experiments. Prerequisite: EGRM 6003 Engineering Statistics. (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6023 - Engineering Management I

Basic principles and practices of engineering management activities including planning, organization, leadership, controlling, motivating, ethics, communications, and decision making; group research of special topics with written and oral presentations is required. (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6033 - Engineering Management II

Principles and practices of engineering management including marketing management, globalization, time management, forecasting, finance, cost accounting, managing technology, engineering management in the new millennium; invited lectures and seminars covering projects of interest to civil, electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers in management positions. Co-requisite: MBA 506V; Prerequisites: MBA 500V, MBA 501V, and EGRM 6023 Engineering Management I. (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6043 - Operations Research

Quantitative techniques for decision making; break-even analysis, economic models, Gaussian distributions, inventory control, production models, and mathematical programming. Prerequisite: EGRM 6003, Engineering Statistics. (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6053 - Human Relations and Communications

Morale and discipline in engineering management situations; case studies stressing the prevention of and solution to employee problems by means of appropriate policies, techniques, practices, and procedures. Provides a review of communication essentials, both written and spoken communications, with emphasis on communication demands of engineers (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6063 - Engineering Law and Regulations

The course involves the influence of contract, tort, and property law upon engineering activities. The course covers legal principles related to management of engineering organizations and governmental departments and other legal procedures and regulations of interest to engineers. Topics include corporations, liens, contracts, expert testimony, patent law, OSHA and environmental regulations (3 credit hours).

EGRM 6073 – Special Problems in Engineering Management

ENGR 6073 is a capstone, project-based course that requires a comprehensive written report on an investigation of an engineering management topic which has been approved by the Engineering Management Program faculty. This is a three semester credit hour course requiring weekly project meetings with the student’s faculty advisor but no scheduled lecture. The student will be required to keep a formal engineer’s log book to document activities and to devote approximately 150 hours to the project and related activities (3 credit hours).

The Special Problems in Engineering Management should be completed during the last semester of the Master of Engineering Management degree program. The special problems project will be jointly administered by the student’s faculty advisor and the management representative of the company providing the topic for study. In many instances, the company will be the student’s current employer. The objective of the special problems project is for the student to investigate and propose a solution to an existing engineering management problem requiring the application of principles learned in courses taken earlier in the program.

The MEM Program Director will solicit potential project statements from regional cities, utilities, industries, and other companies supporting the special problems course. Students in the program that are currently employed will also be asked to solicit project statements from their employer. Prior to registering for the special problems project course, the student will submit a project proposal to their faculty advisor. This proposal will identify the nature of the management problem to be investigated and must include a letter of agreement from the company’s management representative that the problem is authentic and agreeing to participate as needed and provide advice to the student during the project duration. After the proposal is accepted by the MEM program and the student registers for the course, a more comprehensive proposal will be prepared to include the problem constraints, proposed methodology and tasks, time schedule, and projected hours to complete the work.

Once the project has been completed, a comprehensive written report will be submitted. An oral presentation to the MEM faculty, students, and interested program constituents will also be required. The management representative for the project and the student’s faculty advisor will evaluate the quality of work done, and the final grade will be assigned by the faculty advisor.