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M.S.
Engineering Management
Engineering Management at CSUN
M.S. Program Curriculum
Team Venture Project Proposal
Topics
We do not educate enough
of our [engineering] students with the broad perspective and long-term
aspirations to be decision makers, strategic thinkers, opinion shapers, and
planners of our corporations - to be leaders of industry. . . This situation
leaves much of the future leadership of industry. . . in hands of people
trained mainly in business, management, finance, law and similar fields. Due
to their lack of technical backgrounds, very few of these professionals are
equipped to make long-term forecasts about technological trends. They also
lack the knowledge to make decisions on technology investment strategies and
other complex technologically related issues. In fact, many people think
that the lack of technical expertise at the executive and strategic levels
of our corporations is a primary reason for our ineptitude in the
international marketplace vis-à-vis our competitors, whose leaders tend to
have strong engineering backgrounds.
- Marshall M. Lih, National
Science Foundation
Engineering Management
at CSUN
Engineering Management as a
discipline is relatively new. The first program was established in 1915,
but by the mid-1970s, only 22 universities, including Cal State Northridge,
were offering programs. As the value of these programs became apparent,
their number began to increase rapidly.
The discipline is
well-represented by its own professional society, the American Society for
Engineering Management, and, within past 15 years, most traditional
professional societies have established management divisions.
More than two-thirds of all
engineers and other technical professionals will transition into management
positions during the course of their professional careers, positions for
which their technical background has not prepared them.
The Engineering Management
program at Cal State Northridge offers engineers and other technical
professionals the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills pertinent to the
entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial management of existing and emerging
technologies.
The flexible
interdisciplinary curriculum stresses the development of technological
decision-making capabilities, while enabling continued intellectual growth
in selected discipline areas. In so doing, it meets the growing needs for
competent technologists with relevant management expertise.
The evening classes are
enriched by the diverse industry experience and disciplinary backgrounds of
the students. Computer scientists, scientists, industrial designers,
engineers in all discipline areas, and others involved in science and
technology, bring with them to the classroom their experiences in
biomedical, aerospace, entertainment, utilities, manufacturing, construction
and other industries. The popularity of the program with international
students yields first-hand expertise in global issues pertaining to
technology management.
The Engineering Management
program is offered by dedicated faculty who hold outstanding teaching and
faculty awards, and have many years of actual engineering and management
experience in industry.
Cal State Northridge
Engineering Management program graduates have been assuming leadership roles
in industry for almost decades.
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M.S. Program Curriculum
The goals of the Engineering
Management program are to provide opportunities for:
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the development of
technical management decision-making abilities,
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the acquisition of
knowledge about the management of existing and emerging
technologies,
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the development of
technical professional employee management skills,
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the acquisition of
knowledge of engineering cost, financial, and economic analysis,
and
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continued intellectual
growth in a discipline-related area.
Standard Core (18
units):
| MSE 601 |
Engineering Statistics
(3) |
| MSE 602 |
Advanced Engineering
Management (3) |
| MSE 604 |
Economic Analyses of
Engineering (3) |
| MSE 606 |
Engineering Operations
Research (3) |
| MSE 608B |
Mgmt of Technical
Personnel (3) |
| MSE 608C |
Financial and Cost
Analysis (3) |
Approved Electives (12
units)
Elective courses are
selected in consultation with a faculty advisor. These courses are selected
to meet individual student needs for depth and breadth. Elective courses
have included numerous engineering disciplines (e.g., Civil, Automation,
Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical, Quality, and Electrical), as well as
computer science or additional engineering management courses and some
non-technical courses.
Elective courses for
Engineering Management program majors are subject to the following
restrictions:
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No more than 9 of the 12
units may be at the 400-level.
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At least 9 of the 12
units must be in engineering.
Culminating Experience
| MSE 697 |
Directed Comprehension
Studies (3) |
Directed Comprehensive
Studies should not be undertaken until the last semester of program
enrollment. This culminating experience is individually designed between
each student and his/her faculty advisor.
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Team Venture Project Proposal Topics
As part of the Advanced
Engineering Management course, students work in teams to develop
technology-based venture proposals having international components.
Among the many project
proposals developed by Engineering Management program students since early
1990s are:
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Inspiring Technologies,
introducing the Compufone, integrating voice, fax, data, whiteboard, and
video teleconferencing technologies into a homogenous desktop environment,
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EduSat, an instructional
television network,
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Yellow Bytes, a global
internet advertising system,
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Voicetec Voice-It, a voice
command infrared wireless remote control device,
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RB HUD, blade-style
sunglasses with a built-in Heads Up Display,
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Altair Competition
Composites, designing and producing advanced composite materials products
for the performance automotive and motorcycle industry,
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NavTrak, a personal
tracking system,
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SnapTech, the design,
manufacture and marketing of snap-locking composite materials piping
systems,
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Rapid Prototyping Service
Bureau, an international service for the creation of solid models from CAD
software,
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RotoBoard, a 360-degree
rotating skateboard,
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TelePort 2000, for
wireless communication between a PDA and a PC,
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Fasttrack, an e-commerce
career development undergraduate internship service,
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Baby Watch 2000, wireless
remote audio/video system to assist with child care,
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MEMS-based portable
patient monitoring system for local and remote real-time sensing of heart
rate, body temperature, and absence/presence of liquid/solid human waste,
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STOPEMCOLD, a vehicle
security system using cellular technology to remotely disable vehicles in
motion,
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Smart Space, Inc., a
complete service for wire/wireless sensing technology to control
environment, energy consumption, security and safety in industrial work
space settings,
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Specialty international
call center based in India.
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