Undergraduate Program

Engineering Management
Engineering Management is a rapidly expanding field that combines engineering, technology, and business. Hi-technology companies in the telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and other industries utilize the concepts and tools of engineering management such as project management, quality management, engineering economics and statistical tools. These technology-based companies recruit engineering management graduates for their expertise in these tools and techniques. After only a few years many of these graduates are promoted because they can bridge the gap between business and technology.

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 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 and organizations, and provides the skills and knowledge needed to enable you to assume professional positions of increasing responsibility.

Mission
The mission of the EM Program is to provide an education based on a strong engineering core, complemented by studies in business, technology, systems, and management, to prepare the graduate to work at the interface between technology/engineering and management, and to be able to assume positions of increasing technical and managerial responsibility.

The objectives of the EM program can be summarized as follows:

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

Engineering Management (EM) students are in high demand for entry level positions in today's information based society. For the latest salary survey read the article published in The Insturmentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA). The financial services, manufacturing, consulting, and pharmaceutical industries hire EM graduates because they possess the management and technical skills needed for the modern, high technology, interdisciplinary business world.

Engineering Management students undertake a rigorous curriculum encompassing technical and business essentials. As students, they are required to complete a traditional engineering program while attaining a solid background in the management sciences. Engineering Management students graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering degree and are eligible to take the Engineer In Training (EIT) Exam during the senior year. Many acquire their Professional Engineer (PE) license.

The Stevens Engineering Management program is fully accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and received the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) award for "Excellence in Leadership of Management of Technology in Academia," at the ASEM 1991 annual conference in Tennessee and again at the 2001 annual conference in Alabama . This is awarded to the best EM program in the United States.

Engineering Management Graduates have varying interests and skills. These include manufacturing engineering, production management, technical sales, project planning, and quality management & control. Past graduates of the program have gone to work as Project Managers, Management Engineers, Production Supervisors, Technical Sales Representatives, Manufacturing Engineers, Consultants, Account Executives, Industrial Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Business Analysts.

Included are example study plans to help you map your academic career at Stevens. In completing your study plan, be sure that all course requirements are accounted for using the information here and in the Stevens Undergraduate Catalog. Because the core curriculum for all engineering students is the same, it is possible to change from another discipline to Engineering Management with little or no loss of credits up to your Junior year. If you are a transfer student, you should discuss your study plan and past courses in depth with an Engineering Management professor to determine credit acceptability and avoid complications.

There are several key people in the Department of Management and Engineering Management available to tell you more about Engineering Management and help you with your study plan. You should review this package with Kate Abel, the Director of the Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management Program. You may also contact one of the professors listed below.

• Dr. John V. Farr, P.E., is Director of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Previously, was Director of Engineering Management Program at the United States Military Academy.
  
  
• Dr. Donald N. Merino, P.E., was responsible for establishing the Engineering Management program at Stevens. His professional background makes him a valuable source of guidance.
  
  
• Dr. John Mihalasky came to Stevens from New Jersey Institute of Technology where he was the Director of the Masters in Engineering Management Program. He is the instructor for the Engineering Management laboratory and senior design courses.

Dr.'s Merino and Mihalasky are Fellows of the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM). Dr. Farr is also a member of ASEM. Dr. Merino has received the highest ASEM award, the Bernard R. Sarchet Award. Dr.'s Mihalasky and Merino have both received the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Management Division award.

Please review these web pages and arrange to meet with one of the representatives mentioned below.

Cordially,

Dr. Kate Abel
Lecture/Program Director
of BEEM Program
Systems Engineering and
Engineering Management
BURCHARD B-510
(201)216-8647 or fax(201)216-5541

Dr. John Farr
Director and Professor of
Systems Engineering and
Engineering Management
Burchard 508
(201) 216-8103 or fax (201) 216 - 5541

Ms. Elaine Chichizola
SEEM Assistant Director
(201) 216-8025 or FAX (201) 216-5541

Required Courses for EM Minor
EM 301 Engineering Cost Estimation
EM 275 Project Management
EM 270 Engineering Management     EM 360 Total Quality Management 

EM Minors are expected to take the following courses as part of their Engineering Curriculum:

Other Important Links

• Student Awards
• ASEM Student Chapter
• 2001-2005 Salary Survey

Required Humanities Core
Mgt 243 Macroeconomics
Mgt 244 Microeconomics