Master of Engineering in Engineering Management
Major: EMDegree Awarded: MEng.
Unit: SP
Program Webpage: http://www.louisville.edu/speed/industrial/
Program Information
The Master of Engineering with specialization in Engineering Management (MEngEM) is a professional degree offered by the Speed School of Engineering. It is a part-time, evening degree program open only to those students who have graduated from an ABET-accredited engineering degree program.
Admission
A requirement for admission to the program is that the applicant possess a bachelor's degree in engineering from a college or university offering programs which are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. In addition, it is expected that the student be actively engaged in full-time professional employment during the period of enrollment in the degree program.
Prerequisite Requirements
The assumption is made that entering students are reasonably competent in a computer programming language such as Visual Basic, C, C++ or Java.
Curriculum
Degree Requirements
The following core of graduate course credits are required for the MEngEM:
- EM 513- Operations Management (3)
- EM 525- Project Management (3)
- EM 561- Engineering Statistics I1 (3)
- EM 582- Management of Human Systems (3)
- EM 628- Engineering Management (3)
- EM 670- Engineering Financial Management (3)
- EM xxx- Engineering Management electives2 (6)
Thesis Options
- EM 697- Engineering Management Thesis (6) or
- EM 699- Engineering Management Project (3) and EM xxx, Engineering Management electives2 (3)
TOTAL = 30 semester credits
Advising
Entering MEngEM candidates will be advised by the MEngEM Program Coordinator, Dr. William E. Biles. The candidate should select a thesis/project advisor prior to registering for his or her third semester.
1 If a student has previously taken a Probability and Statistics course comparable to EM 561, he or she is required to take EM 661 – Engineering Statistics II
2 Electives may be selected from Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, or any of the engineering disciplines offered in the Speed School of Engineering. Six credits of courses in one of the programs in Business Administration may also be selected.
Departmental Faculty
| John S. Usher Professor Chair |
| William E. Biles Professor Clark Professor of Computer-Aided Engineering |
| Sunderesh S. Heragu Professor Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics |
| Suraj M. Alexander Professor |
| Gail W. DePuy Professor |
| Gerald W. Evans Professor |
| Herman R. Leep Professor |
| Scherrill G. Russman Professor and Assistant Dean |
| Mickey Wilhelm Professor and Dean |
| Naira Campbell-Kyureghyan Assistant Professor |
| Lijian Chen Assistant Professor |