What is Engineering Management?
Engineering Management combines management and leadership tools with engineering and technology methods to improve business systems. Engineering managers have the analytical, quantitative, and critical skills to make informed business decisions, and also have the management and leadership skills to successfully implement such decisions in diverse teams.
Why Engineering Management?
Engineers tend to be very successful and many wish to be promoted into leadership and management roles. Undergraduate engineering curricula is crowded, and there is minimal room to take courses in leadership and quantitative decision making. Many engineers pursue an MBA, but engineers wishing to stay more technical pursue a Masters in Engineering Management.
Pursuing your Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) at the U
There are 18 hours of core credits in the U’s MEM degree, 6 hours of engineering electives and 6 hours of general electives. Nine of the core hours focus on critical management knowledge, which includes the primary topics of management, leadership, project management and product development. The remaining nine core hours teach engineering decision making with topics in production efficiency, financial analysis and mathematical decision making. The remaining 12 credit hours are electives where students can seek out a broad range of topics or gain deep knowledge in an area. The goal is for students to use this flexibility to complement the core topics to allow students to become extremely successful in their chosen careers.
The MEM is offered both on-campus and online. Despite slightly different tuition mechanisms, the cost of a 3-credit online graduate course is set each year to be equivalent to the cost of a graduate student taking exactly 3 credits of Price College of Engineering graduate courses as a Utah resident. The primary reason that the U can offer such a tuition is a result of to the Utah Legislature’s continued funding of Systems Engineering programs. Thus, the U’s online MEM program offers a top tier education from an R1 university at an affordable price.
We hope that you choose to join us in the pursuit of your promising career in Engineering Management. Our courses and programs were tailored for success. For additional information, check relevant sections in this website or contact us directly.
MEM Director's Welcome
As a high school student in Utah, I had to pursue a masters at Stanford before I ever even heard the words Systems Engineering or Engineering Management. My primary motivation for moving back to Utah is to create and support top teir SIME educational programs. My overarching goal is to help Utah residents pursue degrees and learn about these incredible fields earlier in their careers than I did.
I began my online teaching career in 2001 by snail mailing vhs tapes to students and using Polycom with a television that had channels selected by dials to simultaneously instruct Kansas State University on-campus students and U.S. Army students at Fort Leavenworth. Online education has drastically changed, and I enjoy offering SIME knowledge with modern online tools.
My goals extend beyond Utah, and I would like to teach SIME topics to the world. I believe that SIME knowledge empowers people to make better decision, which improves their lives and their employer's effectiveness. If you cannot attend the U's SIME courses on campus, I hope you are able to pursue this SIME knowledge through the U's online programs.
If you have any questions, please reach out, and I will happily answer your questions, todd.easton@utah.edu.