Engineering Management (EM) is a rapidly expanding field that combines engineering, technology, management and business. High-technology companies in the telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, consulting, information technology and other industries utilize the concepts and tools of engineering management such as project management, quality management, engineering economics, modeling and simulation, systems engineering and statistical tools. These technology-based companies recruit engineering management graduates for their expertise in these tools and techniques.

    Recent studies show that most engineers will ultimately take on managerial positions, and that most will spend a considerable part of their professional careers in a management or supervisory capacity. In a recent survey conducted by the American Association of Engineering Societies, it was found that within ten years of the start of their careers, more than 50 percent of engineers find themselves in technical management positions, often without the benefit of formal training in management.

    The Engineering Management program combines a strong engineering core with training in accounting, cost analysis, managerial economics, quality management, project management, production and technology management, systems and engineering design. The course selection offered by this major exemplifies the Stevens interdisciplinary approach to developing strong problem-solving skills. The program prepares you for careers that involve the complex interplay of technology, people, economics, information and organizations. The program also provides the skills and knowledge needed to enable students to assume professional positions of increasing responsibility in management or as key systems integrators.

    The mission of the Engineering Management Program is to provide an education based on a strong engineering core, complemented by studies in business and management, to prepare the graduate to work at the interface between technology and management, and to be able to assume positions of increasing technical and managerial responsibility. The objectives of the Engineering Management program can be summarized as follows:

• EM graduates have a strong general engineering foundation and are able to use modern technological tools while working on complex multidisciplinary problems.

• EM graduates will have assumed leadership positions in their chosen areas of work using knowledge gained from their engineering management education.

• EM graduates effectively work in teams on projects to solve real world problems. This effort can involve information research, the use of project management tools and techniques, and the economic justification of the solution that is effectively communicated in a written or oral project report/business proposal that is presented to the client.

• EM graduates possess the ethics, knowledge, skills, and attributes to define, design, develop, and manage resources, processes, and complex systems needed to work in a multidisciplinary team environment.

• EM graduates apply the management tasks of organizing, staffing, planning, financing, and the human element and have the tools to continue sustained intellectual growth in the corporate or academic world.

    The Engineering Management Program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).  A typical course sequence for Engineering Management follows: