GCEM Advising

GCEM Eligibility

Any graduate student at the U is eligible to earn the Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management. This creates two pathways to earn this certificate, and both are available on-campus and online.

Pursue the certificate as a nonmatriculated student (not admitted to a particular U graduate program), but still allowed to take graduate classes.

Apply and be admitted to a specific graduate masters or doctoral degree

Transfer Coursework

At most 3 hours of courses from another institution can be transferred to fulfill the requirements. These hours will most likely satisfy the Related Engineering Management Electives. A student wishing to transfer a class from another institution should email the Program Director with the request. An affirmative response by the Program Director in an email formalizes the transfer credit applying toward the certificate requirements.

Nonmatriculated Status

The GCSE can be completed and awarded as a nonmatriculated student. However, students should be aware that at most 15 hours of nonmatriculated course work can be applied toward any masters degree. Furthermore, all nonmatriculated courses that are applied to a graduate degree must have been completed within 3 years of being admitted to the relevant graduate degree.

Prerequisites

To help assure success in the program, students should have the following background

• Completed at least one bachelor degree
• One year of calculus
• One semester of probability and/or statistics
• It is encouraged that students have had at least one computer programming course.

Mastering the Prerequisite Material

Many students entering the program will have passed the prerequisite courses years in the past and may have forgotten the bulk of the material. The following advising notes provide classes where students can gain sufficient mastery of the prerequisite material. Furthermore, these graduate classes can also be used to fulfill the GCEM requirements.

Individuals meeting the statistics requirement but feeling weak in their statistical knowledge should take either SIME 6000 or SIME 6060 early in their coursework.

Individuals that have no computer coding experience or feel weak in this area should take SIME 6000 early in their coursework.

Any relevant calculus topics will be covered, when necessary, in their respective courses.

Course Section Numbers

The U uses standard section numbers for enrollment. The U considers on campus and online as two separate campuses.  Students admitted to one cannot see the classes from the other "campus."  Thus, the section a student enrolls in is very important.  While registering for courses, online students should not use the U's scheduler tools. Online courses are offered without times, and these courses may never show in the scheduling tools. Online students should search for the desired course name/number and make sure that they enroll in the correct section.

• 001-010 sections are for on-campus students wishing to attend the lectures in person
• 090 sections are for on-campus students wishing to enroll in an online version of the course (never have an in class lecture or activity). Many on-campus courses do not offer these sections. There is also no guarantee that a student could earn a degree using only 090 sections. Furthermore, 090 sections are not scheduled with the same regularity as the other sections on this list. See the current U's semester's on-campus schedule for existing 090 sections.
• 290 sections are for students wanting to take classes online only.  These students have typically been admitted to an online certificate, bachelors, masters, or Ph.D. program.

If your company has created a contract for online education, then the section is 030-039.