Engineering Management

Master of Science

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Quick Facts

Credits Required: 30

Cost Per Credit: $1200.00

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Program Details

While the University of Arizona's Engineering Management Master of Science is modeled on a distance executive MBA program, it also offers a multidimensional focus. The curriculum prepares you to capture opportunities in the field with an in-depth understanding of the technical and financial elements essential to successful projects.

In the management curriculum, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the decision-making and technical elements that go into technology-based ventures, learning to shape and manage advanced projects of varying sizes and scales. Adopt current best practices to optimize processes and guide technical teams toward their goals while staying on schedule, maintaining a budget, and complying with regulations.

Through a blend of engineering, mathematics, and business electives, you’ll build a customized, flexible plan of study that suits your career goals. Learn vital concepts in areas such as quality and reliability engineering, optimization, law, simulation modeling, supply chain management, and statistics. In addition, you can gain hands-on experience by completing an optional formal project on a problem that interests you.

Take courses from internationally respected faculty, including academic researchers who work at the cutting edge of their fields and experts who spearheaded achievements in the private sector. You’ll benefit from the same course material and career development services as on-campus students, and you'll gain a nuanced perspective on strategies for maintaining operational efficiency in an innovative engineering environment.

Earning your online MS in Engineering Management will give you the knowledge and hands-on research experience you need to take advantage of these opportunities. Apply your understanding of complex processes to direct the teams of multidisciplinary experts who will create the future of technology and industry.

*The exact number of units required may vary depending on the program pathway. Please consult the program’s catalog page for detailed information.

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100% online coursework.

Internships (SIE 593) and Independent Study (SIE 599/699) cannot be used towards completion of this program.

*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.

Courses

This program requires 15 units to be completed. Core courses include:

Topics covered in this course include patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, product liability contracts, business entities, employment relations, and other legal matters important to engineers and scientists. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper on a current topic.

Learn the principles of the engineering sales process in technology-oriented enterprises. Focus on selling strategy, needs analysis, proposals, technical communications, electronic media, time management, and ethics. Learn the practical application of concepts through the study of real-world examples. Graduate-level requirements include a term paper on a course topic selected from a short list of topics, other graded components of the course, and the creation of a PowerPoint presentation for the class.

This course covers the application of principles of probability and statistics to the design and control of engineering systems in a random or uncertain environment. Emphasis is placed on Bayesian decision analysis. Graduate-level requirements include a semester research project.

This course focuses on the scope, time, cost, performance, and quality concerns of engineering projects characterized by risk and uncertainty. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing process are addressed. You’ll design and complete a project from concept through completion. Project management software is utilized. Graduate-level requirements include completing a more complex project which will include more tasks and will be characterized by greater risk and uncertainty.

Learn financial modeling and simulation of new technology ventures. Topics include Pro Forma financial statements construction, time value of money, accounting, valuation, and technology ownership issues. Entrepreneurship issues related to forming a company will be discussed. This course is intended for graduate students in science or engineering with little or no prior background in engineering economics.