What is Engineering Management?

Engineering Management is the degree that "bridges the gap" between engineering and management and it is the degree that enables a graduate to work with and through people to get things done. More technically speaking, this is the degree that provides graduates with both excellent technical and managerial skills. The degree, in essence combines a typical engineering education (technical) with key elements of a typical management or business education (managerial).

The Engineering Management department has been in existence for over 40 years and has awarded a substantial number of Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees. Our undergraduate program is an accredited engineering program with a significant management component that enables graduates to pursue professional engineering registration after graduation.

What is Unique About Our Degree?

Our degree is unique among typical engineering disciplines in that it combines traditional engineering course work with course work typically taken in pursuit of a business or management degree. What does that mean? In general, it means exceptional starting and future salaries; exciting, challenging and rewarding career opportunities in a wide variety of industries and companies; and, more importantly, it means you will be choosing to study in a discipline that has a long history in pursuit of the betterment of society. But what is even more exciting, when you choose to study Engineering Management, you are able to add the business, management and people side to the basic engineering equation.

You will work with people, organizations, business cultures, systems integration and problem solving.

How Big Is The Department?

The Engineering Management department currently employs 23 faculty, 9 staff and has over 140 undergraduate students.

What Are My Engineering Management Options?

You can specialize in specific engineering disciplines such as: General, Industrial Engineering, or Management of Technology (MOT).

Management of Technology focuses on administration and decision making aspects of an organization. These include human relations, management principles, accounting, finance and marketing.

Industrial Engineering focuses on acquiring, analyzing and interpreting data to improve productivity, quality and safety.

In addition to the above options, Engineering Management students may choose the General Engineering Preference which allows interested students to create highly individualized programs in classical engineering disciplines including: electrical, mechanical, civil and others.

Who Hires Engineering Management Graduates?

Many well known companies who employ Engineering Management students are:
In manufacturing companies:  Boeing, Ford, Hallmark Cards, Anheuser Busch and General Electric
In service companies:  Sprint, IBM, American Express and city governments
In consulting firms:  Accenture and numerous others

What Does The Future Hold?

A wide variety of jobs are offered to Engineering Management graduates and include: project engineering, plant engineering, information technology, sales engineering, engineering administration and many others.

Let's Talk Money... The Big Payback...

The average yearly starting salary for a Bachelor's degree is $55,373!!!
(based on 2007-2008 graduates)