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Engineering and Technology Management Program
etm.wsu.edu
Carpenter Hall 533
509-335-5595
Program Director, L. Magpili; Faculty: Associate Professors, K. Bachman, J. Jones; Adjunct Instructors, R. Crick, R. Johnson, J. Rogers, A. Tahani, A. Villagra.
Washington State University's Engineering and Technology Management (ETM) program prepares engineers and industry professionals to make strategic and operational decisions to become leaders in the management of engineering, technology, operations, and projects. The graduate-level courses provide practicing engineers and technical professionals with the knowledge, tools, and skills enabling innovative thinking, technical decision-making, and effective leadership. A Masters of Engineering and Technology Management (METM) degree requires 27 semester credits (9 courses) of course work and three credits of a final capstone experience. The program is interdisciplinary, with course offerings in engineering management and technology-related business managment.
The ETM program is specifically tailored for those who want to advance their careers while still working full time. Offered 100% online, the courses are designed with an innovative blend of live instruction, video streaming and web conferencing technologies that allow courses to be delivered to students around the world. Convenience and quality for students and their employers are at the forefront of ETM goals. Each course session is streamed live through Zoom, giving students the ability to interact with faculty and peers in the class in real time. Integrated audio, video, file sharing, and messaging platforms allow discussions to be conducted and serve as collaborative tools for team projects, breakout discussion groups, and student presentations. All classes, including course materials and Zoom recordings of the class sessions, are archived as well and are available for review during the semester.
Students can pursue a dual degree with Engineering and Technology Management and other graduate programs such as Electrical Power Engineering PSM and PharmD. For students interested in a modular approach or wishing to develop depth in a specified area, the ETM program offers six concentrations and six graduate-level certificates. Graduate certificates can be completed in a shorter duration with 3-4 required courses.
List of Graduate Certificates
- Constraints Management
- Industrial Leadership
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Management
- Six Sigma Quality Management
- Systems Engineering Management
Admission Requirements
Students who apply to the Master of Engineering and Technology Management degree program are generally employed in an engineering or technical field and have earned a bachelor’s degree from an accredited school with a minimum GPA of 3.0. Prospective students must provide at least one academic or professional reference (not required for admission to the certificate program), a resume showing relevant work experience, and a three- to five- paragraph personal statement outlining the significance of the ETM Master's degree to their career goals and work history. For questions about the on-line certificates or master’s degree program, please contact the ETM office at (509) 335-5595 or by email etm@wsu.edu.
Program Mission
The mission of the Engineering and Technology Management Master’s Degree Program is to empower graduates to develop as successful professionals with advanced technical and management skills that allow them to advance to leadership roles in globally competitive industries.
Student Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the WSU Voiland School of Engineering and Architecture Program in Engineering and Technology Management is to prepare students for high-level professional development in positions that require an understanding of management principles in engineering, projects, and organizations.
Objective 1: Provide graduates with current management knowledge and tools.
- Communicate effectively with logical, clear, and organized thinking, to a broad range of audiences.
- Clearly articulate ideas in group settings to a range of audiences.
- Demonstrate effective writing skills.
- Demonstrate active listening skills and foster open communication.
- Behave ethically and professionally in fulfillment of responsibilities with consideration of global, economic, environmental, societal, and organizational impacts.
- Identify and articulate ethical issues.
- Make decisions consistent with societal and organizational standards.
- Demonstrate a desire for and ability to acquire and apply new knowledge through effective lifelong learning strategies, to address current local, national, and global challenges.
- Anticipate the local and global impact of decisions.
- Remain current in technological development.
- Remain cognizant of current issues, local, national, and international.
Objective 2: Provide graduates with the expertise and confidence to assume leadership positions in technical environments.
- Demonstrate the ability to successfully establish, lead, manage and work in multidisciplinary teams.
- Provide leadership, motivation, and feedback to team members.
- Prioritize and identify critical issues.
- Make relevant contributions to team success.
- Demonstrate problem-solving abilities and rational effective decision making under uncertainty by applying the principles and core concepts of ETM.
- Identify core issues and problems.
- Show ability to find innovative solutions.
- Constructively challenge current assumptions and practices.
- Be able to make sound decisions under uncertainty
- Understand the financial implications of engineering decisions
Objective 3: Increase the graduate’s value to an employer.
- Apply the principles and core concepts of ETM to real-world problems to develop optimal, affordable, sustainable solutions in real-world situations.
- Create and execute plans in a technical environment.
- Manage limited resources and constraints.
- Adapt professional life to the global environment.
- Prepared to advance to higher levels of management
- Demonstrate the ability to understand, analyze, and improve organizational practices through the use of current technology, analysis, and design to address evolving business and customer needs.
- Apply measurement and analytical tools to improve process systems.
- Apply measurement and analytical tools to increase the quality of products and/or services.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and assistance to coworkers when implementing changes.
- Understand the financial and legal workings of organizations
Courses
The online catalog includes the most recent changes to courses and degree requirements that have been approved by the Faculty Senate, including changes that are not yet effective. Courses showing two entries of the same number indicate that the course information is changing. The most recently approved version is shown first, followed by the older version, in gray, with its last-effective term preceding the course title. Courses shown in gray with only one entry of the course number are being discontinued. Course offerings by term can be accessed by clicking on the term links when viewing a specific campus catalog.
Engineering Management (E_M)
403 Managing Variability Using Statistics 3 Managing variability and uncertainty using statistics for engineering decision-making involving risk. Credit not granted for both E M 403 and 503. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
426 Constraints Management 3 Identifies factors that block improvements in any system; effective breakthrough solutions; continual systems improvements for manufacturing, administration, projects. Credit not granted for both E M 426 and E M 526. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
430 Applications of Constraints Management 3 Understanding and applying proved solutions developed by the theory of constraints in areas of production, project management, finance, and distribution. Credit not granted for both E M 430 and E M 530. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
438 Lean Tools for Systems Improvement 3 Integration of the best of Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints to accelerate the continuous improvement process. Credit not granted for both E M 438 and 538. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
460 Integrated Supply Chain Management 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Concepts and techniques for design and managing manufacturing and service, operations intended to develop a world class organization. Credit not granted for both E M 460 and 560. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
464 Project Management Foundations 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Project management fundamentals including traditional methods, agile practices, key terminology, project manager responsibilities, project scope and life cycle components, stakeholders, communication plan, work breakdown structure, risk identification, and project control using MS Project.
470 Systems Improvement: Integrating TOC, Lean, and Six Sigma 3 Leveraging Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma to achieve integrated systems level improvement. Credit not granted for both E M 470 and 570. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
480 Quality Control and Reliability 3 Quality analysis, modeling process, product quality, statistical process control, process capability studies; sampling concepts, reality models, predictions, design testing. Recommended preparation: an undergraduate course in statistics. Credit not granted for both E M 480 and E M 580. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
485 Design of Experiments 3 Design for quality improved products; processes and services using designed experiments, including robust/parameter design. Recommended preparation: Undergraduate statistics. Credit not granted for both E M 485 and E M 585. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
490 Leading Design and Innovation 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Techniques and tools to optimize cost, quality, time to market, and to improve comprehensive product design, manufacturability and service components. Credit not granted for both E M 490 and E M 590. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
503 Managing Variability Using Statistics 3 Managing variability and uncertainty using statistics for engineering decision-making involving risk. Credit not granted for both E M 403 and 503. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
505 Finance for Technical Systems 3 Time value of money, capital budgeting, accounting principles, cost, valuation, risk, cost accounting and sensitivity analyses: concepts for engineering decision-making.
508 Legal Concepts for Engineering and Technical Managers 3 Basic legal obligations of engineering/technical managers; identify, minimize and recognize risks and liability; contemporary legal environment and business law.
522 Leading People and Organizations 3 Strategies of supervision with practical application techniques presented to create individual and organizational motivation.
526 Constraints Management 3 Identifies factors that block improvements in any system; effective breakthrough solutions; continual systems improvements for manufacturing, administration, projects. Credit not granted for both E M 426 and E M 526. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
530 Applications of Constraints Management 3 Understanding and applying proved solutions developed by the theory of constraints in areas of production, project management, finance, and distribution. Credit not granted for both E M 430 and E M 530. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
538 Lean Tools for Systems Improvement 3 Integration of the best of Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints to accelerate the continuous improvement process. Credit not granted for both E M 438 and 538. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
540 Operations Research and Analytics for Managers 3 Applying linear, integer, goal programming; network optimization; queuing analysis; dynamic programming; simulation; Markov analysis; and forecasting to engineering management decisions.
560 Integrated Supply Chain Management 3 Concepts and techniques for design and managing manufacturing and service, operations intended to develop a world class organization. Credit not granted for both E M 460 and 560. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
564 Project Management 3 Technical tools, Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT), cost/schedule control systems, behavioral issues and organizational structure.
565 Introduction to Systems Management 3 Design manufacture, operation of complex system development for engineering managers; project planning, organizing, and controlling tools for engineering system constraints.
566 Trade-off Analytics: Exploring the System Tradespace 3 Problem-solving methodologies based on system concepts and design applications for complex, large-scale technical systems pertinent to program managers.
567 System Supportability and Logistics Management 3 Supportability and logistics engineering and management in a system life cycle, from concept to retirement.
568 Risk Assessment and Management 3 Risk management strategies and techniques for the design and management of engineering and technology systems.
570 Systems Improvement: Integrating TOC, Lean, and Six Sigma 3 Leveraging Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma to achieve integrated systems level improvement. Credit not granted for both E M 470 and 570. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
575 Managing Innovation: Strategy and Performance 3 Management of high technology organizations; planning, measurement, and human factors in improving high technology organizations; productivity, motivation and performance systems.
580 Quality Control and Reliability 3 Quality analysis, modeling process, product quality, statistical process control, process capability studies; sampling concepts, reality models, predictions, design testing. Recommended preparation: an undergraduate course in statistics. Credit not granted for both E M 480 and E M 580. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
585 Design of Experiments 3 Design for quality improved products; processes and services using designed experiments, including robust/parameter design. Recommended preparation: Undergraduate statistics. Credit not granted for both E M 485 and E M 585. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
587 Managing Human Factors for Safety and Productivity 3 An integrated approach to time-and-motion studies, human factors, and ergonomics to design work that simultaneously improves both productivity and safety.
590 Leading Design and Innovation 3 Techniques and tools to optimize cost, quality, time to market, and to improve comprehensive product design, manufacturability and service components. Credit not granted for both E M 490 and E M 590. Offered at 400 and 500 level.
595 Advanced Topics in Engineering Management I V 1-3 May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 credits. A wide range of current high-interest engineering management topics.
596 Advanced Topics in Engineering Management II 3 May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 credits. A wide range of current high-interest engineering management topics.
600 Special Projects or Independent Study V 1-18 May be repeated for credit. Independent study, special projects, and/or internships. Students must have graduate degree-seeking status and should check with their major advisor before enrolling in 600 credit, which cannot be used toward the core graded credits required for a graduate degree. S, F grading.
701 Master's Independent Capstone Project and /or Examination V 1-6 May be repeated for credit. Capstone project or final examination for professional master's degree under the Graduate School. The credits will include a balloted evaluation of the student's completion of the program's capstone/examination requirements by the program's graduate faculty. Students must have graduate degree-seeking status and obtain approval from their major advisor/committee chair before enrolling for 701 credit. S, U grading.
702 Master's Special Problems, Directed Study, and/or Examination V 1-18 May be repeated for credit. Independent research in special problems, directed study, and/or examination credit for students in a non-thesis master's degree program. Students must have graduate degree-seeking status and should check with their major advisor/committee chair before enrolling for 702 credit. S, U grading.