Engineering Management (ENGM)

TED FOSTER, Graduate Program Director

Degrees Offered

M.S. in Engineering Management (ENGM)
Certificate in Engineering Management (EMAN)

Program Description

The Engineering Management Program at UMBC combines a practical business approach with an in-depth technical track and emphasizes how to manage people and complex projects. The aim of the program is to provide students with a basic and focused set of advanced business/management skills coupled with advanced skills in a specifc 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 for 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

Core Management Courses	[12]
Elective Management Courses	[6]
Engineering or Information Technology Track	[12]
	30 credits

Required Core Management Courses (12 credits)

ENMG 650: Project Management Fundamentals
ENMG 652: Management, Leadership and Communication
ENMG 656: Engineering Law and Ethics
ENMG 658: Financial Management for Science Professionals
or
ENMG 662: Financial Decision-Making in Engineering

Elective Management Courses (6 credits)

Elective courses can be taken at UMBC or UB.

UMBC Management Courses:
ENMG 654: Leading Teams and Organizations
ENMG 659: Strategic Management
ENMG 660: Systems Engineering Principles
ENMG 672: Decision and Risk Analysis
ENMG 690: Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship

The University of Baltimore offers applicable management courses. Up to two of these courses can be applied to the M.S. in Engineering Management with the consent ofthe program director. Please consult the University of Baltimore Graduate Catalog or Web site to determine the prerequisites for the University of Baltimore courses. The procedure for enrolling in the University of Baltimore courses is described at www.umbc.edu/ registrar/Inter-institutional.htm.

Students should consult the graduate program director at UMBC about other courses which may be applied to their program of study.

Engineering or Information Technology Track (must have 12 credits)

The following is a list of tracks, or options, that are available.

Before enrolling in any of the courses in the engineering or information technology 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. To achieve technical depth in a discipline, students are advised to take four courses from one of the following tracks. However, students may be allowed to take courses from multiple tracks after consultation with the graduate program director.

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 ENGINEERING
Four computer engineering courses from the following list:

CMPE 640: Advanced VLSI Design
CMPE 642: Principles of Mixed Signal Design
CMPE 645: Computer Arithmetic Algorithms and Implementation
CMPE 646: VLSI Design Verification and Test
CMPE 650: Digital Systems Design
CMPE 691: Special Topics in Computer Engineering

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
One ENCE elective approved by environmental engineering department chair:
ENCE 610: Environmental Chemistry
ENCE 612: Environmental Physico-Chemical Processes
ENCE 614: Environmental Biological Processes

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.

Program Admission

Students are required to have a B.S. degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or other physical science that provides the appropriate background to meet the prerequisites of the courses in their chosen engineering track.
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 2.9 International students with undergraduate degrees from a non-U.S. university must submit GRE and TOEFL scores.
Minimum Graduate Record Exam (GRE) score of 1230. Verbal Reason should be at least 500 and Analytical Writing at least 4.5. TOEFL Scores: Minimum scores 597 (Written), 247 (computerized), 99 (iBT). Scores must be less than 2 years old. iBT Score Breakdown: Writing (23), Listening (23), Reading (25), Speaking (28), (A score of 23 is acceptable if you have two years of experience in a supervisory or management position in the U.S.).

Students not meeting these basic requirements may be admitted provisionally. All original application documents must be sent directly to the Graduate School, not to the graduate program.

Financial Assistance

Because the MS in Engineering Management is a professional degree rather than a research degree, student fnancial aid is not available from the program. International students need to be aware that they must provide their own support for full-time enrollment in this program. For details on international student fnancial requirements, see the International Education Services Web site (www.umbc.edu/ies/).

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.

Required Certificate Courses
Students must complete four of the following courses:

ENMG 650: Project Management Fundamentals
ENMG 652: Management, Leadership, and Communication
ENMG 656: Engineering Law and Ethics
ENMG 658: Financial Management for Science Professionals
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 2.9 or higher (on a 4-point grading system) on the last two years of bachelor’s degree course work and any previous graduate courses.
Students not meeting these basic requirements may be admitted provisionally.

Note: GRE scores are not required if you earned an undergraduate degree from an accredited U.S. university and maintained at least a "B" average.

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 Principles [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 from their Electrical Engineering advisor to apply his course to the MSEE degree.

ENMG 690
Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship [3]
This course offers an overview of innovation and its role in entrepreneurial ventures, both in new companies and within existing corporations. Additionally, the basics of entrepreneurship with specific emphasis on technology-based business start-up will be investigated. For the purposes of this course, technologies include IT, engineering and bio-tech. The course covers where to find innovative ideas and how to determine if a business idea is feasible, along with a high- level discussion of the critical success factors in new venture start-up.