Master of Engineering Management

Leadership and Team Effectiveness is fundamentally the product of the appropriate application of leadership and management at the group or team level. It is about your ability to get things accomplished successfully with others regardless of their position, authority, or the geographic locations of team members. Leadership is about the ability to responsibly accept, delegate, and execute any project, task, or assignment with integrity. This course is about being an engineer who has a demonstrable proficiency in and a reputation for leading and managing others to successful accomplishments. It is about gaining power and confidence in causing results in different conditions and circumstances. 

*Students choose between taking this course and PUBAFRS 6050. 

This course provides an introduction to public management ­‐ managing public organizations and managing the public aspects of nonprofit and private sector organizations. In this course, you will consider the organization as the unit of analysis. You will build from a foundation in organizational theory and consider modern management challenges facing organizations that carry out public purposes. This course focuses on traditional public sector organizations, government funded bureaus, and agencies that deliver public services directly to citizens, but also considering other organizations that operate in the public sector (e.g. nonprofits, private firms under contract). The course begins by examining the backbone of public management-organizations and ways to evaluate and understand organizations. Students pull from organizational theory and practice to distill the core similarities and differences between organizations operating publicly, and those operating privately. You then evaluate the environment of organizations in depth, paying careful attention to identify how different environmental factors constrain and enhance the ability of managers to deliver goods and services. All organizations operate in multi-­‐layered environments, but public sector organizations are perhaps unique in the complexity of their environmental circumstances. After looking externally, students then turn internally to examine processes and structures that define and direct organizational activity, including goals, decision making processes, and formal structure. The course concludes with a discussion of organizational reform, with particular focus on efforts to reform public and nonprofit organizations. 

*Students choose between taking this course and ENGR 6210. 

You will learn about information visualization techniques that help people analyze massive amounts of digital data to combat overload and aid sensemaking and financial decision-making with applications in retail, logistics, information systems, manufacturing, healthcare, energy and smart grids, cybersecurity, and social networks.  

**Students choose between taking this course and ISE 5110. 

You will plan and analyze experiments relevant to system design while learning regression and alternative approaches for hands-on data analysis. This course also prepares you to develop quantitative literacy and logical reasoning, including the ability to identify valid arguments, use mathematical models, and critically evaluate results based on data.

**Students choose between taking this course and ISE 5760. 

Provides an overview of the basic topics in financial and managerial accounting. The primary focus will be on helping engineering students understand the meaning of the numbers in financial statements, their relationship to one another, and learning how they are used in planning, decision-making, and control toward achieving the objectives of an organization.

In this course you will learn how technology strategy may lead to the creation of competitive advantage. You will explore tools and frameworks related to how to evaluate highly uncertain investment proposals, whether and how to capture value from intangible, knowledge-based assets, and how to design organizations that assemble and organize resources to exploit existing advantages and explore new opportunities. 

This course is intended to provide foundational and advanced project management education in an interactive online learning environment. This Project Management course focuses on relevant and best practice project management topics and case studies that will prepare the students to plan, organize, engineer for success, lead/manage, and participate in the multi-faceted and complex conditions that arise during the planning and execution of small to large engineering projects and programs.

In this capstone course, you will integrate operational excellence principles, lean leadership strategies, and process improvement methodologies into the analysis and decision-making process. You will use Lean Six Sigma tools and statistical analysis to identify bottlenecks, reduce waste, and optimize business processes relevant to engineering management.

* Students must take at least 3 credit hours (but no more than 6) in Engineering Electives. 

ECE 5025 – Power Electronics: Devices, Circuits, and Applications – Provides an introduction to power electronic conversion principles. Analytical techniques will be developed through the study of widely used converter circuits.

ECE 5553 – Autonomy in Vehicles – Autonomy in the context of modern vehicles; cruise control, anti-lock brake systems (ABS), steering control/lane keeping; introduction to automated highway systems (AHS). 

ECE 5554 – Powertrain Control Systems – Application of digital control system theory, from viewpoints of input-output and state variable representations, to realistic problems in automotive powertrain systems.

ENVENG 5195 – Engineering Design for Environmental Health – Students in this course will learn how to incorporate health information into the engineering design process. This material complements risk assessment by focusing on the design of engineering systems. Course will discuss balancing financial, health, performance, and other considerations. Quantitative analysis will be conducted in soil, water, air, buildings, and occupational health scenarios.

ENVENG 5600 – Science, Engineering, and Public Policy – Presents a history of the interactions between science, engineering, and public policy in the United States and in the context of global concerns (e.g. climate change, competitiveness), inquire into how various federal government, universities, & corporations conduct & fund science and engineering & explore how public sector interests & processes influence sci, engr & public policy. 

ENVENG 5170 – Sustainability & Pollution Prevention Practices – An introduction to concepts of sustainability and pollution prevention with particular application to solid waste generation, disposal and management. 

ISE 5810 – Lean Sigma Foundations – Comprehensive foundation course in Integrated Lean and Six Sigma for students pursuing Yellow, Green, or Black Belt Certification. This course covers unique modern additive manufacturing processes and addresses polymers, ceramics, metals, and hybrid materials. Applications and limitations of additive manufacturing are also discussed. 

MATSCEN 5655 – Additive Manufacturing for Bio-Medical Devices – Survey of Additive Manufacturing (AM) patient data acquisition and medical device Computer Aided Design (CAD), medical research and clinical grade AM materials and AM fabrication methods, quality assurance/management systems and regulatory (FDA) approval process.

MATSCEN 5951 – Corrosion and Failure Analysis – Covers fundamentals of environmental degradation of materials, corrosion phenomenology, and corrosion prevention strategies. Also, methodologies for root cause analysis of failed components.

MATSCEN 6735 – Corrosion Science and Materials Electrochemistry – ElectDiffusion and Interface Kinetics electrochemistry fundamentals, corrosion thermodynamics and kinetics, experimental approaches, corrosion phenomenology, corrosion control strategies, nonmetallic material degradation, electrochemistry of batteries, fuel cells, and electrodeposition.

MECHENG 5339 – Simulation Techniques for Dynamic Systems – Introduction and use of software tools for dynamic system modeling, control system analysis, and design. Application to real-world dynamic systems, with emphasis on model development and validation, parameter identification, and results presentation.

MECHENG 7236 – Powertrain Dynamics – Overview of dynamics and control of automotive powertrain systems. Emphasis on subsystem interactions. Analytical and numerical methods for dynamics of gas exchange, fueling, combustion and exhaust, and mechanical engine and transmission systems.

MECHENG 7383 – Electrochemical Energy Conversions and Storage Systems for Automotive Application – This graduate course targets graduate engineering students and professionals who would like to receive a comprehensive and general exposure to the field of electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems. Particular relevance is given to energy storage systems for electrified vehicles based upon Lithium-ion technology, covering cell materials and fundamental properties, testing procedures for performance characterization, modeling and simulation, pack design, system integration, control, diagnostics and safety. 

MECHENG 7384 – Energy Modeling, Simulation, Optimization and Control of Advanced Vehicles – Fundamentals of advanced propulsion vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV, FCV), covering motivation, architectures, taxonomy and components, energy analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, and supervisory control/energy management principles.

WELDENG 5027 – Introduction to Additive Manufacturing – This course covers unique modern additive manufacturing processes and addresses polymers, ceramics, metals, and hybrid materials. Applications and limitations of additive manufacturing are also discussed. 

WELDENG 7001 – Physical Principles in Welding Processes – Study of the application of physical principles in engineering of arc welding processes and equipment.

WELDENG 7101 – Welding Metallurgy – Comprehensive coverage of spark-ignited internal combustion engines modeling (fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and combustion). Additional coverage of compression ignition engine modeling and boosting.

WELDENG 7115 – Computational Modeling of Additive Manufacturing and Welding – Graduate-level instruction on the theory of temperature, stress, deformation and phase transformation for additive manufacturing and welding, as well as application of industry-standard simulation codes.

WELDENG 7201 – Engineering Analysis for Design and Simulation – Fundamentals of engineering analysis of heat flow, thermal and residual stresses, and fracture and fatigue with applications to design and simulation in welding and manufacturing.

WELDENG 7406 – Welding of Plastics and Composites – Theory and practice in welding of plastics and polymeric composites, including theory and analysis of welding processes, part and joint design, and process selection.

MBA 6233 – Operations Management – Operations Management is designed to provide a solid foundation and deeper understanding of how the operations function contributes to ensuring effective and efficient flow of materials and information within and outside the organization.
MBA 6273 – Data Analysis for Managers – Introduction to data analysis and statistics for business. Emphasis on achieving an application-oriented understanding of statistical inference and regression analysis and their use in decision-making.
MBA 6253 – Marketing Management – Focuses on the interrelated elements of the marketing mix, its relationship with the other functional areas of management, and marketing responses to the external environment.

PUBAFRS 5750 – The Business-Government Relationship – Government and Business are inextricably linked in the United States. Public Policies, including regulations, taxes, and programs, have a large influence on the economy and the environment in which business operates. Likewise, the health and productivity of business impacts the economy, government revenues, and the need for government services. In turn, both government and business are substantially affected by financial institutions and services. First, the course provides an introduction to the history and ideological foundations of capitalism and government. Second, it introduces the core needs of business and how these are affected by the public sector. Next, students consider the role of government in the business environment and economy. And finally, students look at the mechanisms that businesses use to influence public policy. 

PUBAFRS 5610 – Innovation, Policy, and the Global Economy – This course examines frameworks and theories of public administration, governance, and policy for science and engineering at the international level. It will critique existing theories of global knowledge development and transfer, governance, and trade through the lens of science and engineering.

PUBAFRS 5770 – Risk and Decision Analysis in Public Affairs – This course provides a comprehensive assessment of theories and tools for decision-making in the face of risk and uncertainty, giving a rigorous treatment of current issues and approaches in risk analysis through both qualitative and quantitative lenses. 

PUBAFRS 6075 – Data, Models & Evaluation – This course will provide the knowledge and tools necessary to analyze data. You will learn about the fundamentals of statistics to conduct analysis, and you will develop an understanding of program evaluation and research design in order to evaluate the quality of analyses conducted by others and communicate findings.