Engineering Management

Graduate certificates are also available in 10 core competency areas. Credits accrued toward a certificate can be applied toward a master’s degree. 

Graduate Certificate in Engineering Entrepreneurship  

(12 credit hours)

This certificate is offered in partnership with the nationally renowned Deming Center for Entrepreneurship in Colorado. It provides the student with the essential knowledge, understanding, and skills to successfully practice entrepreneurship in a start-up venture or within a larger corporation (intrapreneurship). The focus is on how much to launch, lead, and manage a viable business starting with concept validation to commercialization and business formation. The program culminates with the development of a business plan for a project that the student chooses and then pitches to business community leaders and venture capitalists.

• EMEN 5050 Leadership or EMEN 5020 Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers
• EMEN 5710 Applied Business Decisions
• EMEN 5090 High Technology Marketing
• EMEN 5825 Entrepreneurial Business Plan

Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management 

(12 credit hours)

The certificate provides a broad-based view of the key principles and concepts that are important for technical managers, including finance and accounting, leadership and management, quality management, and project management. The certificate requires four courses selected from the five core courses in the Engineering Management graduate curriculum.

• EMEN 5010 Introduction to Engineering Management 
• EMEN 5020 Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers
• EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems
• EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy, and Value Creation
• EMEN 5050 Leadership

Graduate Certificate in Leadership
and Management

 (9 credit hours)

Engineers and scientists can think systemically, visualize complex technical and human interactions, and resolve conflicting viewpoints. This certificate develops technical professionals so that they may apply these talents more broadly and play a leadership role in their organizations. Students develop the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and learn the ethical decision-making processes they need to make real-world decisions. :

• EMEN 5030 Project Management
• EMEN 5050 Leadership
• EMEN 5080 Ethical Decision-making

Management Consulting Certificate

(12 credit hours)

Providing a comprehensive understanding of management consulting concepts and practices, this four-course graduate level certificate prepares engineers, scientists, or other technical professionals to serve in an internal or external consultant role in various industries (e.g., aerospace, biosciences, information technology, energy, and other sectors). 

Offered through a partnership with the Institute of Management Consulting USA (IMC USA), the curriculum is based on the IMC Body of Knowledge for best practices in management consulting. This certificate prepares students for the IMC, USA Certified Management Consulting (CMC®) certification process.

• EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems
• EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy, and Value Creation
• EMEN 5050 Leadership
• EMEN 5200 Management Consulting

Graduate Certificate in Managing Applied Research in Technology 

(12 credit hours)

This certificate provides engineering managers with the tools to effectively and efficiently manage applied research in areas such as sustaining engineering, customer and supplier evaluation, quality improvement and problem solving, new process and facility start-up, the design of complex and interdependent systems, and cost reduction analysis. Methods taught include advanced experimental design, sample sizes, use of powerful parametric and nonparametric analyses, and data mining.

• EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement
• EMEN 5610 Advanced Statistical Methods for Engineering Research
• EMEN 5620 Data Mining and Screening Experiments for Engineering Research
• EMEN 5900 Research Methods

Graduate Certificate in Performance Excellence in Technology Management 

(12 credit hours)

This certificate provides a cutting-edge model for Business Performance Excellence (BPE). BPE is a facilitating system, enabling companies to successfully execute their improvement program efforts, such as Six Sigma, to increase profitability. In addition to cost reduction, the application of quality principles and allocated cost accounting enables identification of revenue generating “sweet spots” for profit optimization.

• EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy, and Value Creation
• EMEN 5041 Advanced Topics in Value Creation
• EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement
• EMEN 5050 Leadership 

Graduate Certificate in Project Management

(9 credit hours)

This certificate is designed around the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and builds a foundation for the preparation of PMP certification. This certificate can be completed in one calendar year.

• EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems
• EMEN 5032 Advanced Topics in Project Management
• EMEN 5050 Leadership

Graduate Certificate in Quality Systems for Product and Process Engineering

(12 credit hours)

This certificate provides engineering managers with the technical expertise needed to manage initiatives in quality improvement, problem-solving, and reliability improvement. Upon completion, students are certified as Green Belts for Six Sigma programs.

• EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy, and Value Creation
• EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement
• EMEN 5043 Advanced Topics in Quality Systems/Engineering
• EMEN 5900 Research Methods

Graduate Certificate in Six Sigma Practitioner

This certificate is designed to educate students in the advanced statistical tools that are used in business to solve problems and improve product and service quality. The curriculum focuses on the use of basic and advanced statistical techniques and how to use them to identify and achieve improvement opportunities in the real world. Numerous case studies from business and industry will emphasize the connection that applied statistics has to making optimal business decisions.

• APPM 5570/EMEN 5005 Introduction to Applied Statistics
• APPM 5580/EMEN 5900 Research Methods
• EMEN 5610 Advanced Statistical Methods
• EMEN 5620 Data Mining and Screening Experiments for Engineering Research

Graduate Certificate in Technology Ventures and Product Management 

(12 credit hours)

Technology venture management and product development is key to the sustained success of any high-technology business in today’s intensely competitive and global marketplace. This certificate is designed for the engineer in any size company (Fortune 500 to start-up) who wants to embrace the challenge of managing the strategy and implementation of new technology product development. Using case studies and realistic business emulation exercises, the student will gain an understanding and practice the skills required to evaluate technology, consider its viability as a product, and manage the development effort required to deliver a product that provides an exceptional customer experience.

• EMEN 5050 Leadership or EMEN 5020 Finance and Accounting for Engineering Managers
• EMEN 5090 High Technology Marketing
• EMEN 5400 Product Development or EMEN 5430 Software Project Management
• EMEN 5710 Applied Business Decisions