5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

Engineering management
Engineering management is the application of the practice of management to the practice of engineering.

Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving savvy of engineering and the
organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of management in order to oversee the operational performance of
complex engineering driven enterprises. A Master of Engineering Management (MEM) is sometimes compared to a Master of
Business Administration (MBA) for professionals seeking a graduate degree as a qualifying credential for a career in
engineering management.[1]

Contents
History
Areas
Operations management, operations research, and supply chain management
Management of technology
New product development and product engineering
Systems engineering
Industrial engineering
Management science
Education
Management engineering consulting
Professional organizations
See also
References
Further reading
External links

History
Stevens Institute of Technology is believed to have the oldest engineering management department, established as the School
of Business Engineering in 1908. This was later called the Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM)
program and moved into the School of Systems and Enterprises. Drexel University established the first graduate engineering
management degree in the U.S., which was first offered in 1959.[2] In 1967 the first university department explicitly titled
"Engineering Management" was founded at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T, formerly the
University of Missouri-Rolla, formerly Missouri School of Mines).

Outside the USA, in Germany the first department concentrating on Engineering Management was established 1927 in
Berlin.[3] In Turkey the Istanbul Technical University has a Management Engineering Department established in 1982,
offering a number of graduate and undergraduate programs in Management Engineering.[4] In UK the University of Warwick
has a specialised department WMG (previously known as Warwick Manufacturing Group) established in 1980, which offers a
graduate programme in MSc Engineering Business Management.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 1/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

Michigan Technological University began an Engineering Management program in the School of Business & Economics in the
Fall of 2012.[6]

In Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland has started a complete master's degree Program in Engineering
Management.[7]

In Denmark, the Technical University of Denmark offers a MSc program in Engineering Management (in English).[8]

In Pakistan, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and
National University of Science and Technology (NUST) offer admission both at Master and Doctorate level in Engineering
Management while NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering
Sciences and Technology have been running a Master of Engineering in Engineering Management program. A variant of this
program is within Quality Management. COMSATS (CIIT) offers a MSc Project Management program to Local and Overseas
Pakistanis as an on-campus/off-campus student.

In Italy, Politecnico di Milano offers degrees in Management Engineering.[9]

In Russia, since 2014 the Faculty of Engineering Management of The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and
Public Administration (RANEPA) offers bachelor and master degrees in Engineering Management.

In France, the EPF (http://www.epf.fr/en) will offer, from January 2018, a 2 year Engineering & Management major in
English for the 4th and 5th years of its 5 year Engineering Master’s degree. The final 2 years are open to students who have
completed an undergraduate engineering degree elsewhere.[10]

Areas

Operations management, operations research, and supply chain management

Operations management is concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business
operations in the production of goods or services. Operations research deals with quantitative models of complex operations
and uses these models to support decision-making in any sector of industry or public services. Supply chain management is
the process of planning, implementing and managing the flow of goods, services and related information from the point of
origin to the point of consumption.[11]

Management of technology
The Management of Technology (MOT) theme builds on the foundation of management topics in accounting, finance,
economics, organizational behavior and organizational design. Courses in this theme deal with operational and organizational
issues related to managing innovation and technological change.[11][12]

New product development and product engineering

New product development (NPD) is the complete process of bringing a new product to market. Product engineering refers to
the process of designing and developing a device, assembly, or system such that it be produced as an item for sale through
some production manufacturing process. Product engineering usually entails activity dealing with issues of cost, producibility,
quality, performance, reliability, serviceability, intended lifespan and user features. Project Management techniques are used
to manage the design and development progress using the phase-gate model in the product development process. Design for
manufacturability (also sometimes known as design for manufacturing or DFM) is the general engineering art of designing
products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 2/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

Systems engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design
and manage complex systems over their life cycles.

Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering which deals with the optimization of complex processes, systems or
organizations. Industrial engineers work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, man-hours, machine time, energy and
other resources that do not generate value.

Management science
Management science uses various scientific research-based principles, strategies, and analytical methods including
mathematical modeling, statistics and numerical algorithms to improve an organization's ability to enact rational and
meaningful management decisions by arriving at optimal or near optimal solutions to complex decision problems

Education
Engineering management programs typically include instruction in accounting, economics, finance, project management,
systems engineering, industrial engineering, mathematical modeling and optimization, management information systems,
quality control & six sigma, operations management, operations research, human resources management, industrial
psychology, safety and health.[13][14]

There are many options for entering into engineering management, albeit that the foundation requirement is an engineering
degree (or other computer science, mathematics or science degree) and a business degree.

Undergraduate degrees

Although most engineering management programs are geared for graduate studies, there are a few elite institutions that teach
EM at the undergraduate level. Some of the ones that are accredited and/or recognized by ASEM include: West Point (United
States Military Academy), Norwich University, New York Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, George Washington University, Arizona State University, Missouri
University of Science and Technology. Graduates of these programs regularly command nearly $65,000 their first year out of
school.[15]

Outside the USA, Istanbul Technical University Management Engineering Department offers an undergraduate degree in
Management Engineering,[16] attracting top students. The University of Waterloo offers a 4-year undergraduate degree (5
years including co-op education) in the field of Management Engineering.[17] This is the first program of its kind in Canada. In
Peru, Pacifico University offers a five-year undergraduate degree in this field, the first program in this country. In Germany,
ESB Business School[18] offers a 4-year undergraduate program which consists of five semesters at ESB Business School, two
mandatory internships, one is mandatory to be in another country than Germany, and also one mandatory semester abroad.
In the annual applied university ranking of the magazine Wirtschaftswoche, the Engineering Management course of ESB
Business School is ranked on place five of all applied universities in Germany[19]. The magazine surveyed more than 500
recruiters in the German industry from which university they are most likely to recruit students and which universities satisfy
their needs regarding experience in working with projects, multilingual education, and ability to communicate most.

Graduate degrees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 3/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

Many universities offer Master of Engineering Management degrees. Missouri S&T is credited with awarding the first Ph.D. in
Engineering Management in 1984. The National Institute of Industrial Engineering based in Mumbai has been awarding
degrees in the field of Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering since 1973 and the Fellowship (Doctoral) degrees have
been awarded since 2008.

Cornell University started one of the first Engineering Management Masters programs in 1988 with the launch of their Master
of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Engineering Management. The program allows students access to courses and programs in the
College of Engineering, Johnson School of Management, and across Cornell University more broadly.

Netaji Subhas Institute of technology (NSIT, website as http://www.nsit.ac.in/ under University of Delhi)New Delhi also
provides M.tech degree in Engineering management.Admission to this program happens through GATE(Graduate Aptitude
Test in Engineering)examination.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a Master in System Design and Management, which is a member of the
Consortium of Engineering Management.

Students in the University of Kansas' Engineering Management Program are practicing professionals employed by over 100
businesses, manufacturing, government or consulting firms. There are over 200 actively enrolled students in the program and
approximately 500 alumni.[20]

Istanbul Technical University Management Engineering Department offers a graduate degree,[21] and a Ph.D. in Management
Engineering.[22]

According to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) PRISM Magazine (March 2008) the largest Master's of
Engineering Management (MEM) programs (in terms of degrees awarded for 2005–2006) are shown in the following chart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 4/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

Management engineering consulting

Large and small engineering driven firms often require the expertise of external management consultants that specialize in
companies where engineering practice and product development are key drivers of value. Most engineering management
consultants will have as a minimum a professional engineering qualification. But usually they will also have graduate degrees
in engineering and or business or a management consulting designation. It involves providing management consulting service
that is specific to professional engineering practice or to the engineering industry sector. Engineering management
consultancies, are typically boutique firms and have a more specialized focus than the traditional mainstream consulting
firms, A T Kearney, Boston Consulting Group, KPMG, PWC, and McKinsey. Applied science and engineering practice requires
a holistic approach involving a combination of management art, science, and engineering practice. There are many
professional service companies delivering services in a consultancy type relationship to the engineering industry, including
law, accounting, human resources, marketing, politics, economics, finance, public affairs, and communication. Commonly,
engineering management consultants are used when firms require a combination of special technical knowledge, and
management know how, to enhance knowledge or transform organizational performance and also keep any intellectual
property developed confidential.

Engineering management consulting is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of
integrated systems of organizations, people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials and/or processes.
Management Engineering Consultants strive to improve upon existing organizations, processes, products or systems.
Engineering management consulting draws upon the principles and methods of engineering analysis and synthesis, as well as
the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify,
predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes. Engineering management consulting can

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 5/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

focus on the social impact of the product, process or system that is being analyzed. There is also an overlap between
engineering management consulting and management science in services that require the adoption of more analytical
approaches to problem solving.

Examples of where engineering management consulting might be used include developing and leading a company wide
business transformation initiative, or designing and implementing a new product development process, designing and
implementing a manufacturing engineering process, including an automated assembly workstation. Management engineers
may specialize in the acquisition and implementation of Computer aided design (CAD), Computer-aided manufacturing
(CAM) and Computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications. Services may include strategizing for various operational
logistics, new product introductions, or consulting as an efficiency expert. It may include using management science
techniques to develop a new financial algorithm or loan system for a bank, streamlining operation and emergency room
location or usage in a hospital, planning complex distribution schemes for materials or products (referred to as Supply Chain
Management), and shortening lines (or queues) at a bank, hospital, or a theme park. Management engineering consultants
typically use computer simulation (especially discrete event simulation), along with extensive mathematical tools and
modeling and computational methods for system analysis, evaluation, and optimization.

Professional organizations
There are a number of societies and organizations dedicated to the field of engineering management. One of the largest
societies is a division of IEEE, the Engineering Management Society, which regularly publishes a trade magazine. Another
prominent professional organization in the field is the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), which was
founded in 1979 by a group of 20 engineering managers from industry.[23] ASEM currently certifies engineering managers
(two levels) via the Associate Engineering Manager (AEM) or Professional Engineering Manager (PEM) certification exam.
The Master of Engineering Management Programs Consortium is a newly formed consortium of prominent universities
intended to raise the value and visibility of the MEM degree.[24] Also, engineering management university programs have the
possibility of being accredited by ABET, ATMAE, or ASEM. In Canada, the Canadian Society for Engineering Management
(CSEM) is a constituent society of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Canada's oldest learned engineering society.

See also
Business engineering
Construction management
Engineering law
Enterprise engineering
List of engineering topics
List of management topics
Remote laboratory

Associations

INFORMS

References
1. "MSEM vs. MBA - Gordon Institute" (http://gordon.tufts.edu/programs/m-s-in-engineering-management/msem-vs-mba).
2. "History - Engineering Management" (http://www.drexel.edu/egmt/about/history/).
3. "Geschichte und Bedeutung - vwi.org" (http://www.vwi.org/hauptmenue/beruf-studium/wirtschaftsingenieurwesen/geschic
hte-und-bedeutung.html).
4. http://www.end.itu.edu.tr/tarihce.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 6/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

5. "MSc Engineering Business Management - University of Warwick" (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/education/wm

gmasters/courses/masters_engineering_business_management).
6. "School of Business Audit Forms - The Registrar's Office" (http://www.mtu.edu/registrar/students/major-degree/audit/busi
ness/).
7. Master of Engineering Management (http://www.engr.mun.ca/graduate/course/mem.php)
8. MSc in Engineering Management (http://www.dtu.dk/english/Education/msc/Programmes/engineering_management).
9. "Studies in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering" (http://www.dig.polimi.it/index.php?id=37&L=2).
10. EPF:Engineering Management Paris Campus (http://www.epf.fr/en/studies/majors/engineering-management-major-paris-
campus)
11. University of Waterloo (http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/mgte/index.php), Management Engineering.
12. "Program Structure - Gordon Institute" (http://gordon.tufts.edu/programs/m-s-in-engineering-management/program-struct
ure).
13. U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences: Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) (http://nces.e
d.gov/pubs2002/cip2000/occupationallookup6d.ASP?CIP=15.1501) - Retrieved on October 26, 2009
14. ATMAE Membership Venn Diagram (http://atmae.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227&Itemid=48)
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20131113190247/http://atmae.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id
=227&Itemid=48) 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine.
15. Stevens Institute of Technology. "Accepted Salary Offers" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120409114519/http://www.steve
ns.edu/sit/admissions/careers/2010-Career-Outcomes.cfm). Class of 2010 Career Outcomes. Archived from the original
(http://www.stevens.edu/sit/admissions/careers/2010-Career-Outcomes.cfm) on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
16. http://www.isl.itu.edu.tr/isletmeLisansProgramlarEN.htm
17. Management Engineering (http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/mgte/index.php)
18. ESB Business School
19. https://www.esb-business-school.de/fakultaet/aktuelles/detail/artikel/bwl-absolventen-der-esb-auf-platz-eins/
20. "Key Aspects - Engineering Management" (http://emgt.ku.edu/key-aspects).
21. http://www.isl.itu.edu.tr/isletmeYuksekLisansProgramlarEN.htm
22. http://www.isl.itu.edu.tr/isletmeDoktoraProgramlarEN.htm
23. "American Society for Engineering Management - Home" (http://www.asem.org).
24. Master of Engineering Management Programs Consortium (http://www.mempc.org)

Further reading
Eric T-S. Pan|Pan, Eric T-S. Perpetual Business Machines: Principles of Success for Technical Professionals ISBN 0-
9754480-0-5

External links
Engineering Management Review - A Publication of the IEEE (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ems/emr/emronline.html)
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Journal (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=222
1)
Canadian Society for Engineering Management, CSEM (http://www.csem-scgi.org/)

Associations

Society of engineering and management systems (http://www.iienet2.org/sems//)

Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (http://www.iienet2.org//)

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Engineering_management&oldid=838075416"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 7/8
5/12/2018 Engineering management - Wikipedia

This page was last edited on 24 April 2018, at 19:33.

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site,
you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a
non-profit organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management 8/8