Planning your degree
Part-time students usually take 1-2 courses per term. Full-time students take a minimum of 9 credits (2 courses + seminar). To help you plan, contact our front office or your advisor. Use the course planning tool, which provides a multi-year projection of what courses will be offered. Our Resources tab at the top covers many topics including advising, registration, credit transfers, and others.
What you will learn
Our courses cover four broad topic areas. The M.S. and Ph.D. program are designed to have all areas represented, while our graduate certificates focus on particular areas.
Decision and Analysis
Making informed, data-driven decisions is central to successful management. Courses in this area provide foundational knowledge on how to analyze data and structure decision problems and cover hands-on exercises and applications. These courses are the fundamental “toolbox” for any engineering manager.
Project Management
Many engineers enter management roles as project or program managers. Courses in this cluster prepare students for this responsibility and hone the skills of those already active in the field. The content aligns with but goes beyond the curriculum of Project Management Institute, which certifies project management skills. ETM does not offer PMI certification. This curriculum closely aligns with the Graduate Certificate in Project Management.
Course offerings
ETM 522 Communication and Teambuilding
ETM 544 Organizational Project Management
ETM 545 Project Management - Fundamentals
ETM 546 Project Management Tools
ETM 560 Total Quality Management
Innovation, Product Management, and Business Development
Engineers with product responsibility are tasked with turning ideas into successful products and business value. Courses in this area cover a range of skills, such as user-centered innovation, determining requirements, managing product development, planning the product life cycle, and developing new business opportunities.This curriculum closely aligns with the Graduate Certificate for New Product Development.
Course offerings
ETM 549 Management of Technology Innovation
ETM 547 New Product Development
ETM 543 New Product Planning and Trend Foresight
ETM 555 Technology Marketing
ETM 561 Technology Entrepreneurship
ETM 556 User-Centered Innovation
Managing the Technology Life Cycle
In high-tech, products are the result of integrating existing, newly developed, and externally sourced technologies. Companies need to keep track of hundreds of constantly evolving technologies and invest wisely in the ones that will be critical to their future business. Courses in this cluster provide the knowledge to make these decisions.This curriculum closely aligns with the Graduate Certificate in Strategic Management of Technology
Course offerings
ETM 527 Competitive Strategies in Technology Management
ETM 526 Strategic Management of Technology
ETM 531 Technology Assessment and Acquisition
ETM 534 Technology Roadmapping
ETM 533 Technology Transfer
ETM for Undergraduates
ETM offers two courses for undergraduate students as part of the University Studies Cluster in Design Thinking, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.
Course offerings
ETM 347U Introduction to Product Design
ETM 356U Introduction to Human Centered Design (soon to be called Introduction to Service Design)