EM-DE - Engineering Management

In addition to meeting the Lyle School of Engineering requirements for the D.Engr. degree, candidates are required to satisfy the following:

1. Twenty-four credit hours of engineering management. These credit hours must come from graduate-level courses in quantitative and qualitative aspects of managing in a modern technical environment. Courses in the areas of engineering management, management science, operations research, operations management, production management and other related fields may qualify.

2. Eighteen credit hours in a technical specialty. These credit hours must be taken in an engineering or other technical area consistent with anticipated doctoral work demands.

3. Nine credit hours of business/economics. These credit hours must come from courses in a graduate program. They should expand the student’s understanding of the economic issues and problems relating to the transfer and management of technology.

4. Fifteen credit hours of electives. All elective credit hours must come from graduate-level courses and must be approved by the advisory committee. These courses should, in some way, complement and strengthen the student’s degree plan.

5. Twelve credit hours of praxis. These credit hours must be taken in residence. The student enrolls for these credit hours in the course of preparing the praxis project.

6. Satisfactory completion of the preliminary counseling examination. An oral exam covering degree fundamentals. The exam should be scheduled after the student has taken courses in production systems engineering, engineering management, engineering economics, and decision analysis and operations research models, but before 24 credit hours have been completed. Questions are drawn predominantly from the graduate courses OREM 7362, OREM 8360 and OREM 8361. If the student fails the exam, they may retake it once. Since the goal of the exam is to detect weaknesses in the student’s background, the examiners may grant a conditional or partial pass. Such a pass indicates that the student’s weaknesses can be overcome by taking specific courses. In this situation, the student need not retake the exam but will be required to take one or more courses and achieve a grade of B or better.

7. Satisfactory completion of the doctoral qualifying examination.

8. Satisfactory completion and defense of the doctoral praxis.

A course may not be counted toward more than one category. The minor requirements may be satisfied by transfer credit.