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Engineering and Engineering and Technology ManagementTechnology Management

A program in technical decision making

and leadership for engineering and

business professionals

Washington State University

School of EECS

Industry Advisory Board Meeting

October 2, 2007

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A Distance Education Program for Engineering and Business Professionals

Learn technical and leadership skills designed to meet today’s – and tomorrow’s – industry needs.

• develop systematic and analytic framework to support decision making.

• cultivate business and human resources management skills.

• develop skills to manage technology and technology changes.

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The Program Supports Working Professionals Engaged in Project Planning and Execution

• Increase your skills in Managing Variability Controlling Uncertainty Overcoming Obstacles Meeting Objectives

• A curriculum easily tailored to student’s needs through electives and certificate programs.

• Increase competency in a technical or business discipline.

• Focused applications relating to each student’s work environment.

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Instruction Delivered to Classrooms and Through the Internet

• Weekly instructor-student meetings video streamed and archived.

• Instructional material provided electronically.

• “Classes” in evening between 4 p.m. & 9 p.m., Mon-Thu.

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Certificate Program

Purpose

To provide an opportunity for employees to take graduate-level courses for credit in a certificate program, not a degree program.

Program Elements

• Participants must have a bachelor’s degree.

• Credits earned will be recognized as graduate-level credits.

• Certificates will be issued by the College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University.

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Certificate Program

Program RequirementsFour courses

Twelve semester hours

Certificate Options• General Engineering Management• Project Management• Six Sigma Quality Management• Manufacturing Leadership• Constraints Management• Supply Chain Management• Construction Management• Systems Management

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Engineering Management Across the Curriculum

A Concept Paper

Objective

To provide elective coursework at the undergraduate level that complements the discipline specific “engineering science” technical coursework with content supporting “engineering practice”.

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What Additional Instruction Would Make Engineering Graduates More Valuable?

Rank Competency Score

1 Better written and oral communication skills 4.62

2 Better developed leadership skills 4.49

3 Improved supervision and management skills 4.13

4 Understand how business decisions affect technical decisions 4.12

5 A working knowledge of project management 4.07

6 Understand how technical decisions affect business decisions 4.04

7 Experience working in cross-functional teams with other engineers 3.85

8 Experience working in cross-functional teams with non-engineers 3.73

9 Understand the engineer’s role in corporate competitiveness 3.72

10 Internship with a private company 3.64

The Question: When you consider hiring an Auburn engineering graduate, how valuable would it be to your company if the student had additional instruction and skills in the following areas?

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Engineering Management Across the Curriculum

A Concept Paper

Plan: An Undergraduate ETM CertificateIt is proposed to develop four new undergraduate courses in

engineering and technology management that could be used as technical electives in all engineering undergraduate curricula.

• E M 464 Project Management• E M 460 Integrated Supply Chain Management (Operations)• E M 484 Supervision and Leadership for Engineering and Technology Managers• E M 490 Design for Product Realization

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Core Courses E M 501 Management of Organizations 3

E M 505 Finance for Technical Systems 3

E M 540 Operations Research for Managers 3

E M 564 Project Management 3

Stat 430 Statistical Methods in Engineering 3

E M 591 Strategic Management of

Technology and Innovations 3

E M 702 Master’s Special Problems, Directed Study, Exam 2-4

ElectivesE M 508 Legal Concepts for Engineering and Technology Managers 3

E M 517 Simulation Modeling of Technical Systems 3

E M 520 Construction Project Management 3

E M 526 Constraints Management 3

E M 530 Applications of Constraints Management 3

E M 534 Contemporary Topics in Constraints Management 3

E M 545 Technical Decision Analysis 3

E M 555 Enterprise Resource Management 3

E M 560 Integrated Supply Chain Management 3

E M 565 Introduction to Systems Engineering 3

E M 570 Six Sigma Quality Management 3

E M 575 Performance Management in Technical Organizations 3

E M 580 Quality Control and Reliability Design 3

E M 585 Quality Engineering Using Experimental Design 3

E M 590 Design for Manufacturability 3

E M 596 Supervision for the Technology Manager 3

Master’s Degree

Graduation Requirements

Minimum 10 courses (30 credits) Core Courses: 5-6 (depending on preparation)

Plus comprehensive exam or project (2-4 credits of EM702)