Engineering Management (MSEM

include motor control, power systems, chemical processes, and micro-electro-mechanical systems.

GECE 671 Design of Electrical Machinery

3 credits A design-oriented course which emphasizes realistic characteristics and specifications applicable to AC and DC motors and generators leading to an individual design project.

GECE 672 Digital Image Processing

3 credits Prerequisite: GECE 572 This course presents strategies to process digital image data. Topics covered will include the representation and perception of images, the use of operations in the spatial and spatial-frequency domains to segment, enhance, filter, and restore digital images as well as transformations of images for multi-resolution analysis. Algorithms will be implemented and evaluated in Matlab/Simulink.

GECE 673 Control of AC Drives

3 credits This course introduces the concept of AC drives. Various types of converters and inverters suitable for AC drives and the related control issues are presented and studied. The modeling and dynamical aspects of AC machines will be examined prior to the detailed discussion of the control issues and techniques such as vector control and field orientation, etc.

GECE 680 Digital Communication

3 credits This is a graduate course in the analysis of digital communication systems. Methods to understand and analyze digitally modulated signals are presented. Optimum receiver designs, synchronization issues, and coding strategies for different channel models are developed. Communications over fading, multipath and bandlimited channels is studied using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) schemes and Spread Spectrum (SS) approaches.

GECE 681 Optical Devices and Systems

3 credits This course is an introduction to electroptics. This includes wave propagation, interaction with both iso and anisotropic materials, modulation techniques, lenses and lens systems and optical sources and detectors. Subsystems are considered initially but typical optical systems and applications are considered.

GECE 690-699 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

1-3 credits Special courses developed from study interest in all areas of Electrical Engineering or Embedded Software. Brief description of current content to be announced in schedule of classes. Graduate courses in the 600 series are open to graduate students only.

Engineering Management

Director: David Gee, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTION

The graduate program in Engineering Management is designed to provide advanced studies for the graduate engineer who wishes to continue preparation in the profession as an engineering manager or project director/leader. The program provides continuing education in advanced engineering and business/management subjects for the working engineer who acknowledges the need to stay abreast of the rapidly changing technological and business world. Emphasis is placed on the development of the engineer’s capacity for independent study and continued professional growth.

Students in the program accrue multiple benefits including enhanced technical knowledge together with a firm understanding of the business aspects in which a company must master. Required core engineering courses include project management, risk management, and reliability. Required core business courses include the technological environment of business and staples from business administration and/or business analytics. After completing the program, students will have gained new insight including how management perceives engineers. Your new expertise will provide a boost to your technical abilities as well as to enhance your skills as an effective leader and decision maker.

DEGREE OFFERED

The Master of Science in Engineering Management is administered by the department of Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Business.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

1. Applicants must have earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited program or its equivalent, with a GPA of 2.5 or better. 2. Applicants without the appropriate engineering degree may be admitted and required to take additional course work as determined by the program director. 3. Applicants must submit the following: • Completed application • Transcripts for all prior college coursework • Three recommendation letters • TOEFL/other scores if English is not the first language.

CURRICULUM

The student will be assigned an initial academic advisor. The advisor and the student will select appropriate courses to satisfy the program’s degree objectives and will obtain approval for the curriculum through the academic approval process. The candidate must maintain a 3.0 GPA to continue for the degree.

A total of 30 credits will be required, including three core courses (9 credits) from business, four core courses (12 credits) from engineering, and three elective courses (9 credits).

Required Courses – Business: 3 courses (9 credits) including:

GMBA 615 Technological Environment of Business

Select two courses from the Business Administration (MBA) – Online program or Business Administration (MBA) – Business Analytics program.

Visit the graduate catalog for Business Administration (MBA) to view GMBA course options. Many of these courses have Peregrine Academic Leveling Course (ALC) material prerequisites. Any ALC prerequisite must be completed before starting the GMBA course. Note, ALC Foundations of Quantitative Research Techniques and Statistics (QUANT) will be automatically satisfied for Eng. Mgmt students.

Required Courses – Engineering: 4 courses (12 credits) from the list below:

GENG 621 Reliability Engineering GENG 622 Risk Management GENG 623 Decision Making Under Uncertainty GENG 624 Project Management

Elective Courses: Upon approval by their academic advisor, select 3 courses (9 credits) from among the following disciplines:

Engineering – GENG, GME, GBME, GENV, GECE, GCYSEC, GCIS 6xx level course, GMBA

Five-Year Accelerated B.S./M.S.

The five-year Bachelor of Science/Master of Science degree in Engineering Management is designed to allow outstanding undergraduate students the opportunity to earn both an undergraduate and a graduate degree within five years. Admission into the accelerated Five-Year B.S./M.S. program will be based on several factors, including past academic performance and considerations of overall aptitude and maturity. Students in the second semester of their junior year (or one semester before reaching senior standing) with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA, can apply for this program. Students accepted into this program should plan to complete specific first- year graduate courses during the senior year, and in the following summer term, with completion of all degree requirements in the following academic year. Students admitted to the five-year B.S./M.S. program may apply up to 6 graduate credits towards completing the B.S. degree.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

GENG 621 Reliability Engineering

3 credits Reliability modeling, prediction, testing, physics to failure, and reliability design techniques are studied. Hardware and software systems. Identification of weak link for reliability improvement. Quality system reliability using advanced testing methods.

GENG 622 Risk Management

3 credits Introduction to project risks management and engineering ethics for engineering decision making. Integrated models for technical, schedule, and cost risks. Management of cost-risk contributions. Identification and control of critical paths for the project schedule. Implementation of integrated risk management with computer simulation methods.

GENG 623 Decision Making Under Uncertainty

3 credits Introduction of general techniques for dealing systematically with uncertainty in engineering decision problems. Computer simulation models, sensitivity analysis, and subjective probability assessment for engineering judgment. Probabilistic design criteria, the value of information, utility analysis with risk aversion, and trade-off under uncertainty are studied.

GENG 624 Project Management

3 credits The course will cover the skills necessary to manage large and small projects in terms of planning and controlling techniques, coordinating and directing techniques, and negotiating techniques. Roles and responsibilities of the project manager and tools and techniques used in managing projects will be discussed along with preparing project records and reports.

All GME courses are listed under the Mechanical Engineering section of this catalog.

For all other engineering courses, please visit the appropriate departmental section of this catalog.

All GMBA courses are listed under the Business Administration section of the catalog.