Engineering Management (ENGM)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
TED FOSTER, Graduate Program DirectorDegrees Offered
M.S. in Engineering Management (ENGM)Certificate in Engineering Management (EMAN)
Program Description
The Master of Science in Engineering Management focuses on advanced engineering developments and the management of enterprises and government programs specializing in engineering activities. The engineering focus allows students to broaden their knowledge and skills in a specific engineering discipline. The management focus allows students to obtain knowledge and skills dealing with specific aspects of managing engineering organizations. The outcomes of the degree in engineering management are high-level skills in both a specific engineering discipline and the management skills to further the progress and success of organizations involved in that engineering discipline.
The aim of the M.S. in Engineering Management (ENGM) is to provide students with a basic and focused set of advanced business/ management skills coupled with advanced skills in a specific technical area commensurate with students’ interests and likely technical employment. The combination of these advanced skills and knowledge will help students assimilate and integrate practical technical experience to the management of technology-based enterprises or government functions. Although not required for participating in this program, it is expected that students are, or intend to be, employed in a technology-oriented enterprise or government program.
For more information on the engineering management programs, contact Ted Foster at 410.455.1564 or tfoster@umbc.edu or visit www.umbc.edu/engm.
Degree Requirements
Students must complete 10 courses (30 credits) distributed as follows:
- Four courses in an engineering track
- Six management courses
Engineering Track
The following is a list of tracks, or options, that are available. Other tracks may be developed from existing graduate courses to suit the individual student, as long as they are coherent and focused so that the student develops expertise in a particular area, rather than breadth with little depth in several subject areas. Before enrolling in any of the courses in the engineering tracks, students must meet the prerequisites for the course or receive permission of the instructor of the course. Some of the courses in the tracks listed below are offered on a two-year rotation. Students must take four courses in one of the following tracks.
The descriptions of all the courses listed below may be found in the Graduate School Catalog under the respective department headings. The individual departments offering these courses may be consulted for further information.
CHEMICAL/BIOCHEMICAL REGULATORY ENGINEERING *ENCH 660: Regulatory Issues in Biotechnology
ENCH 662: Good Manufacturing Practices for Bioprocesses
ENCH 664: Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Biotech Products
ENCH 666: Biotechnology GMP Facility Design, Construction and Validation
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
ENCH 610: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
ENCH 630: Transport Phenomena
ENCH 640: Advanced Chemical Reaction Kinetics
ENCH 682: Biochemical Engineering
COMPUTATIONAL THERMAL FLUID DYNAMICS *
MATH 404: Partial Differential Equations
ENME 631: Advanced Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer
ENME 645: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
ENME 651: Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics I
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Four computer science courses from the following list of eight courses:
CMSC 611: Advanced Computer Architecture
CMSC 621: Advanced Operating Systems
CMSC 635: Advanced Computer Graphics
CMSC 645: Advanced Software Engineering
CMSC 661: Principles of Database Systems
CMSC 665: Introduction to Electronic Commerce
CMSC 671: Principles of Artificial Intelligence
CMSC 681: Advanced Computer Networks
DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
Four mechanical engineering courses from the following list of seven courses:
ENME 600: Design with Advanced Technology
ENME 605: Advanced Systems Control
ENME 610: Systems Optimization
ENME 611: Advanced Manufacturing Processes
ENME 662: Linear Vibrations
ENME 664: Dynamics
ENME 812R: Special Topics in Mechanical Systems (Analysis and Control of Robotic Manipulators)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Four electrical engineering courses from the following list of eight courses:
ENEE 630: Solid-State Electronics
ENEE 631: Semiconductor Devices
ENEE 680: Electromagnetic Theory
ENEE 683: Lasers
ENEE 601: Signal and Linear Systems Theory
ENEE 610: Digital Signal Processing
ENEE 620: Probability and Random Processes
ENEE 621: Detection and Estimation Theory
CIVIL ENGINEERING
ENCE 610: Environmental Chemistry
ENCE 612: Environmental Physico-Chemical Processes
ENCE 614: Environmental Biological Processes
One ENCE elective approved by environmental engineering department chair
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Four information systems courses from the following list of nine courses:
IS 603: Decision Technology Systems
IS 620: Advanced Database Project
IS 629: Human Factors in Information Systems
IS 636: Structured Systems Analysis and Design
IS 651: Network Design and Management
IS 707: Application of Intelligent Technologies
IS 729: Online Communities
IS 731: Electronic Commerce
IS 765: Project Management
MECHATRONICS *
Four mechanical engineering courses from the following list of five courses:
ENME 605: Advanced Systems Control
ENME 811M: Special Topics in Mechanical Design (Mechatronics Systems Design)
ENME 812E: Special Topics in Mechanical Systems (Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversions)
ENME 812P: Special Topics in Mechanical Systems (Analog and Digital Electronics)
ENME 812R: Special Topics in Mechanical Systems (Analysis and Control of Robotic Manipulators)
STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
(Joint with Civil and Mechanical Engineering)
MATH 404: Partial Differential Equations
ENME 677: Applied Elasticity
ENME 760: Advanced Structural Dynamics
ENME 815P: Special Topics in Solid Mechanics (Applied Finite Element Design)
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING **
ENEE 660 Systems Engineering Principles
ENEE 661 System Architecture and Design
ENEE 662 System Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
ENEE 663 System Implementation, Integration and Test
ENEE 671 Service Oriented Architecture
* A student who completes the chemical/biochemical regulatory engineering, mechatronics or computational thermal fluid dynamics track will earn the post-baccalaureate certificate in that area.
** A student who completes the above four systems engineering courses, plus ENEE 670: System Engineering Project will earn the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Systems Engineering.
Management Courses
UMBC offers a set of management courses that are specifically designed for prospective engineering managers. Students may take these courses or management courses at the University of Baltimore or a combination of management courses from both institutions, with the permission of the graduate program director.
UMBC MANAGEMENT COURSESENMG 650: Project Management Fundamentals
ENMG 652: Management, Leadership, and Communication
ENMG 654: Leading Teams and Organizations
ENMG 656: Engineering Law and Ethics
ENGM 658: Financial Management for Science Professionals
ENMG 659: Stragetic Management
ENMG 660: Engineering Principles
ENMG 662: Financial Decision-Making in Engineering
ENMG 672: Decision and Risk Analysis
The University of Baltimore offers the following management courses that can be applied to the M.S. in Engineering Management. Please consult the University of Baltimore Graduate Catalog or Web site to determine the prerequisites for the University of Baltimore courses.
ACCT 504: Introduction to AccountingECON 504: Economics
ECON 640: Global and Domestic Business Environment
FIN 504: Financial Management
MGMT 506: Operations Management
MGMT 600: Leading With Integrity
MKTG 504: Marketing Management
OPRE 504: Business Statistics
University of Baltimore courses can be taken at the University of Baltimore campus or online. The procedure for enrolling in the University of Baltimore courses is described at www.umbc.edu/registrar/Interinstitutional.htm.
Students should consult the UMBC program director at UMBC or University of Baltimore about other courses which may be applied to their program of study.
Program Admission
Students are required to have a B.S. degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or other physical sciences that provides the appropriate background to meet the prerequisites of the courses in their chosen business and engineering tracks. Students must have taken an introductory economics course, equivalent to ECON 101: Principles of Microeconomics at UMBC, or they must enroll in and pass ECON 101 with a grade of "B" or better before enrolling in graduate economics courses at UMBC. Students should have an overall grade point average of 3.0, or higher, on a 4-point grading system on all previous graduate course work and the last two years of undergraduate course work undertaken for their bachelor's degree. Students with an undergraduate degree from an accredited U.S. university do not have to submit GRE scores if their grade point average is at least a "B." However, international students with undergraduate degrees from a non-U.S. university must submit GRE and TOEFL scores. Students not meeting those basic requirements may be admitted provisionally on the condition that they fulfill appropriate remedial requirements. Courses taken to fulfill remedial requirements will not be counted toward the M.S. in Engineering Management. All original application documents must be sent directly to the Graduate School, not to the graduate program.
Financial Assistance
Student financial aid is not available. International students need to be aware that they must provide their own support for full-time enrollment in this program.
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Engineering Management (EMAN)
The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program in Engineering Management is designed to provide students with business skills to complement existing technical skills. This program is designed for engineers employed in technology-oriented enterprises or government programs. All of the courses in the certificate program can be applied to the Master of Science in Engineering Management. Management classes are conveniently scheduled in the early evening at the UMBC campus.
Certificate CoursesENMG 650: Project Management Fundamentals
ENMG 652: Management, Leadership, and Communication
ENMG 654: Leading Teams and Organization
ENMG 658: Financial Management for Science Professionals or
ENMG 662: Financial Decision-Making in Engineering
Program Admission: To apply for admission to the Certificate in Engineering Management program, a student should have:
- A B.S. degree (in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or other physical sciences) that provides the appropriate background to meet course prerequisites
- An overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher (on a 4-point grading system) on the last two years of bachelor's degree course work and any previous graduate courses.
Financial Assistance
Student financial aid is not available. Because this program is designed primarily for working professionals, graduate assistantships are not available. International studetns must provide their own support for full-time enrollment in this program. For details on international student financial requirements, see the International Education Services Web site, www.umbc.edu/ies/.
COURSE LISTING
Descriptions of the courses in the engineering concentrations may be found elsewhere in the UMBC Graduate Catalog. The individual departments offering these courses may be consulted for further information.
ENMG 650
Project Management Fundamentals [3]
In this course, students learn the fundamentals of managing projects in a systematic way. These fundamentals can be applied within any industry and work environment and will serve as the foundation for more specialized project management study. Principles and techniques are further reinforced through practical case studies and team projects in which students simulate project management processes and techniques.
ENMG 652
Management, Leadership, and Communication
In this course, students learn effective management and communication skills through case study-analysis, reading, class discussion and role-playing. The course covers topics such as effective listening, setting expectations, delegation, coaching, performance, evaluations, conflict management, negotiation with senior management and managing with integrity.
ENMG 654
Leadership and Team Development
In this course, students analyze leadership case studies across a wide range of industries and environments to identify effective leadership principles that may be applied in their own organizations. Students learn how to influence people throughout their organization, lead effective teams, create an inclusive workplace, use the Six Sigma process, implement and manage change and develop a leadership style.
ENMG 656
Engineering Law and Ethics
This course provides a comprehensive overview of all important legal principles affecting engineers, engineering sciences and corporate management, with a focus on the intersection of these legal principles with business ethics. The student will learn how to think through and process legal problems consistent with ethical norms, and how to analyze business risks in light of operative legal constructs, taking into consideration ethical issues, to arrive at a range of correct business decisions. Throughout the class, the student will learn substantive legal principles including an overview of constitutional, contract, tort, corporate and regulatory law. Students will work in groups during certain exercises, role play in real and hypothetical case studies, and make a final presentation of a comprehensive legal and ethical engineering problem.
ENMG 658
Financial Management for Science Professionals
This course is focused on financial decision making and the common financial management practices of science and engineering organizations. Both the practices and theory of business financial strategy are explored with an emphasis on concepts most useful to scientists and engineers. The course covers the fundamentals of setting up, reading, and analyzing financial statements and reports in a science-based business, project budgeting, profit planning, return on investment, risk and return, strategy and options. Students will analyze case studies from biotechology and other science-based industries.
ENMG 659
Strategic Management [3]
This course in intended to integrate the learning from the previous management courses and to focus it on the perspective and problems of the Chief Executive Officer and other organizational strategic managers. The theme of the course is that any organization improves its chances of sustained success when its managers formulate an action-oriented strategic business plan based on the strategic management process. Case studies are included to illustrate the concepts and their applications.
ENMG 660
Systems Engineering Fundamentals [3]
This is a first-semester, required graduate course for Systems Engineering (SE) majors that covers the introduction to systems engineering. The course will address: (1) systems engineering principles; (2) systems engineering methodologies; (3) integration of technical disciplines; and (4) systems engineering management. The goal of this course is to provide the beginning graduate student with the foundational framework to understand requirements and capabilities-based design and how the traditional systems engineering process may need to adjust to accommodate these philosophies. The content of the course will result from the decomposition of system life cycle phases to illustrate the many engineering specialties and disciplines that are required to systematically engineer, deploy and sustain complex systems for missions to be performed in aerospace and electronics domains. The intent is to achieve a balance between understanding the system engineering process and its execution under differing design or acquisition philosophies. Prerequisite: B.S. degree in EE or related field.
ENMG 662
Financial Decision-Making in Engineering [3]
This course examines decision-making in engineering organizations based on comparisons of the investment worth of alternative courses of action with respect to their costs and/or incomes. The early part of the course focuses on the conventional mathematics of money. This mathematics is then applied to consideration of practical investment decisions, such as replacement, public sector investments, service industry investments, and decision making under incertainty. The course presents the overlapping aspects of accounting, finance, and investment analysis. Prerequisites: ENMG 658 or basic course in Economics or Accounting.
ENMG 672
Decision and Risk Analysis [3]
This course provides an overview of decision and risk analysis techniques, focusing on how to make rational decisions in the presence of uncertainty and conflicting objectives. It covers modeling uncertainty, the principles of rational decision-making, representing and solving decision problems using influence diagrams and decision trees, sensitivity analysis, Bayesian decision analysis, deductive and inductive reasoning, objective and subjective probabilities, probability distributions, regression analysis, defining and calculating the value of information, modeling risk attitudes and utility functions. Concepts will be illustrated through case studies and practiced by students through homework. Note: MSEE students need permission fromtheir Electrical Engineering advisor to apply his course to the MSEE degree.