Applicable.
Designed for working professionals, the MEng degree is centered on relevant topics and allows students to combine classroom experiences with workplace challenges.
Prepare for career advancement by studying topics including organizational structure and development, statistics, risk, process and economic analyses, project management, evaluation procedures, business theories and practice.
Acquire effective administration and management skills for the engineering workplace.
Provide your employer with a win-win situation. You enhance your skill set. They benefit from a highly trained professional who will help lead them into the future.
About the Degree
The Master of Engineering (MEng) with a concentration in Engineering Management is a professional practice orientated advanced degree offered through UNL's College of Engineering and Graduate Studies. The degree program and its core courses are delivered by the faculty of the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The degree is supported by additional courses provided by the College of Business Administration.
The program is designed for individuals who have at least one degree in engineering or significant engineering practice and a degree in a related field. The non-thesis Master of Engineering is geared toward the working professional. The area of concentration in Engineering Management focuses on administration and management in all areas of the engineering profession.
The degree program requires a total of 36 semester credits consisting of 18 credits in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering (IMSE) and 9 credits in Management or Business Administration. The remaining 9 credits may be taken from engineering, management or business. All courses are 3 semester credit hours and are set up in accelerated 10-week sessions.
The degree program for Internet delivery is intended to provide the student with scheduling flexibility and access to an established advanced engineering degree program. Although the Master of Engineering as a degree wasn't established at UNL until 1999, the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering and the College of Business Administration have been cooperating and delivering a distance education engineering management focused graduate degree program since 1984.
The faculty is experienced and knowledgeable in their areas of expertise and the distance education processes. The Master of Engineering is expected to provide the technical and academic background to well prepare a student to function in a decision-making role. The student will gain knowledge in such areas as: organizational structures and development, statistics analysis, risk analysis, economic analysis, project management, process analysis techniques, evaluation procedures, and business theories and practices.
The Master of Engineering program requires two years of engineering work experience as a prerequisite. The academic prerequisites are: (1) a B.S. in engineering or quantitative area, (2) at least one academic year of Calculus, (3) a Calculus-based probability and statistics course, (4) an engineering economy course, and (5) at least one engineering science course such as statics, thermodynamics, or electrical circuits. For prerequisite (3), IMSE 321 will be available from UNL in 2004 by Internet delivery. For prerequisite (4), IMSE 206 is available from UNL by Internet delivery or a student may take GRBA 811, Finance, in their program of study.
The curriculum for the area of concentration in Engineering Management consists of the following courses.
Required IMSE courses are:
Engineering Management I (IMSE 805)
Decision and Risk Analysis (IMSE 806)
Engineering Management II (IMSE 905)
Quality Control (IMSE 822)
Elective IMSE course topics:
Logistics
Ergonomics
Project Management
TQM/Six Sigma
Elective Business/Management course topics:
Accounting
Finance
Managerial Economics
Marketing
Organizational Behavior
Decision Making
E-Commerce
Other course topics for Internet delivery in engineering and business/management are under development.
