Engineering Management

1. Engineering Core Courses: select 2 courses from a list of 6 including Engineering Project Management, Engineering Decision Analysis, Product Lifecycle Management, and Statistical Quality Analysis.
2. Management Courses: select 4 courses from a list of 8 School of Business Administration courses including Financial Management, Organizational Behavior, and Legal Environment of Business.
3. Engineering Specialty Courses: select 8 credits (2-4 courses) from over 150 courses offered in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science and Infomatics.
4. Engineering/Management Elective Course:  select 3-4 credits (1-2 courses) from a list of over 40 engineering and management courses.
5. Theory Course: select 1 course from a list of 7 including Statistical Methods in Engineering and Engineering Operations Research.

The program is intended for students with a bachelor's degree from any field of engineering (industrial and systems, mechanical, electrical, computer, etc.) - no additional courses are required. Applicants with an engineering technology, computer science, mathematics or science background will be considered for admission, but may be required to take additional preparatory courses in engineering.

Many engineers working full-time enroll in the MEM program on a part-time basis since all courses are offered in the evening, and some are also offered online. Students may enter the program at any time of the year and begin their classes in either September, January or May due to the flexible nature of the course requirements.

While all MEM students must satisfy the course requirements as listed in the OU Graduate Catalog, student may select those courses from the following concentrations if interested in focusing their studies on a particular area of interest.  Students can take any combination of these courses that satisfy catalog requirements - all are 4 credits except where noted otherwise.

  

• ISE 5560 Product Lifecycle Management
• ISE 5461 PLM Applications - Product Data Management (2 credits)
• ISE 5462 PLM Applications - Robotics (2 credits)
• ISE 5463 PLM Applications - Ergonomics (2 credits)
• ISE 5466 PLM Applications - Change Management (2 credits)
• ISE 5467 PLM Applications - Throughput Simulation (2 credits)
• ISE 5900 PLM Applications - Manufacturing Process Planning (2 credits)

• ISE 5450 Foundations of Energy Management
• ISE 5610 Energy Conservation Systems
• ME 5530 Alternative Energy Systems
• ME 6535 Fundamentals of Battery Systems for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
• ECE 5630 Hybrid and Electric Drive Systems

• ISE 5581 Lean Principles and Application
• ISE 5483 Production Systems and Workflow Analysis
• ISE 5485 Statistical Quality Analysis
• ISE 5421 Leadership Principles and Positive Engagement
• POM 5210 Operations Management (3 credits)

• ISE 5540 Occupational Biomechanics
• ISE 5441 Human Factors Engineering
• ISE 5900 Virtual and Augmented Reality
• ISE 5463 PLM Applications - Ergonomics (2 credits)

• ISE 5487 Foundations of Systems Engineering
• ISE 5488 Advanced Systems Engineering
• ISE 5520 Engineering Project Management
• ISE 5560 Product Lifecycle Management
• ISE 5461 PLM Applications - Product Data Management (2 credits)
• ISE 5466 PLM Applications - Change Management (2 credits)

Optimization and Analytics

• ISE 5430 Engineering Operations Research - Deterministic Models
• ISE 5431 Engineering Operations Research - Stochastic Models
• ISE 5435 Data Analytics
• ISE 5900 Metamodeling and Optimization in Design

Throughput Simulation

• ISE 5469 Computer Simulation of Discrete Event Systems
• ISE 5483 Production Systems and Workflow Analysis
• ISE 5467 PLM Applications - Throughput Simulation (2 credits)