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Engineering Management - Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Engineering Management provides an interdisciplinary approach for addressing the complexities of today's world. Highly competitive global businesses require employees with a solid technical foundation, business expertise, an entrepreneurial mindset, and the leadership skills afforded by a broad liberal education.

Choose a Concentration:

The Engineering Management program includes courses in engineering, business/entrepreneurship, science, mathematics, and the liberal arts. It is designed to develop your engineering and business expertise, social awareness, and interpersonal communication skills. Students earn a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree. The curriculum consists of Miami’s general education plan, an engineering core, the choice of either an entrepreneurship or general business track, and the choice of a technical specialty in one of the following:

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Electronics and Computing

The Electronics and Computing concentration curriculum provides a foundation in electrical and computer engineering while developing the skills necessary to manage the development of products, including computers and other electronics. Graduates can have an impact on the needs of a global society whose reliance on electronics and computing is ever-increasing.

For more information, contact: Yong Lin liny13@MiamiOH.edu or the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Room 260 Garland Hall, (513-529-0740).

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Environmental Engineering

The Environmental Engineering concentration curriculum provides a foundation in environmental engineering while developing the skills necessary to achieve practical and economical solutions to environmental challenges pertaining to industry and society. Graduates will have an impact on our global progress toward achieving a sustainable society.

For more information contact: Cathy Almquist almquic@MiamiOH.edu or the Department of Chemical, Paper and Biomedical Engineering, Room 64 Engineering Building, (513-529-0760).

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Manufacturing Engineering

The Manufacturing Engineering concentration curriculum addresses product and process design. It requires the ability to plan the practices of manufacturing; to research and develop tools, manufacturing processes, machines and equipment, and control strategies; and to integrate the facilities and systems so that quality products can be produced at a competitive cost.

For more information contact: Kumar Singh singhkv@MiamiOH.edu or the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Room 56 Garland Hall, (513-529-0710).

Paper Science and Engineering

The Paper Science and Engineering concentration curriculum provides a foundation in paper science and engineering while developing the technical knowledge, skills, and talents required to achieve practical solutions to challenges in the paper industry or for a company allied to the paper industry. Graduates will have an impact on innovation and progress toward sustainability in the pulp and paper sector.

For more information contact: Cathy Almquist at almquic@MiamiOH.edu or the Department of Chemical, Paper and Biomedical Engineering, Room 64 Engineering Building, (513-529-0760).

Choose a Track

Students can choose between the Entrepreneurship Track or the General Business Track.

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Entrepreneurship Track

The Entrepreneurship concentration curriculum provides students with with immersive, practice-based learning opportunities in startup and venture capital, social entrepreneurship and impact investing, corporate innovation and technology commercialization, and creativity and entrepreneurial thinking. Distinguishing features include small class sizes and instructors with startup and corporate innovation experience that deliver personalized learning, an interdisciplinary focus that engages students from every undergraduate major across campus, immersive, practice-based experiential learning opportunities, and integration with entrepreneurial ecosystem builders across the U.S. Graduates will learn how to innovate, create value, and elevate their impact on society.

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General Business Track

Highly competitive global businesses require employees with a solid technical foundation, business expertise, an entrepreneurial mindset, and the leadership skills afforded by a broad liberal education. Engineering Management graduates are qualified to fill technical positions that require interaction with business aspects such as operations, purchasing, human capital, accounting, and marketing. Examples of such positions include consultant, operations supervisor, technical sales, supply chain manager, environmental protection, technology analyst, quality control engineer, and many others.

Common Learning Outcomes

Students in any of the Engineering Management concentrations will attain the following outcomes by the time of graduation:

  1. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  2. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
  3. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
  4. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

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