The request to establish three Concentrations and revise the curriculum of the Master of Science in Engineering Management

Date: June 3, 2013
To: College of Engineering
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: May 9, 2013
Approved by: Graduate Council
Implementation Date: Spring 2014

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Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Program

Cameron 206

704-687-3535 1953

http://seem.uncc.edu

Graduate Program Director

Dr. S. Gary Teng

Dr. Ertunga C. Ozelkan

Graduate Faculty

Badrul Chowdhury, Professor

Steven Gardner, Adjunct Professor

Churlzu Lim, Associate Professor

Agnes Galambosi Ozelkan, Adjunct Professor

Ertunga Ozelkan, Associate Professor and Director

Yesim Sireli, Associate Professor

S. Gary Teng, Professor and Director

The Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management program prepares professionals for careers in managing projects, programs, systems, and organizations. Industrial, research, consulting, and commercial firms now demand engineering managers with both cutting-edge technical competence and the management skills necessary to forge linkages with the systems and business sides of these organizations. These managers must be able to form and manage high performance teams and manage business and technological operations. The program of study is necessarily multidisciplinary, combining elements of advanced study in various engineering disciplines with studies of business and system operations and organizational behavior.

Additional Admission Requirements

In addition to the general requirements for admission to the Graduate School, the Engineering Management program seeks the following from applicants to the Master’s Master of Science program in Engineering Management:

  1. Either a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related technical or scientific field, or a bachelor’s degree in business, provided relevant technical course requirements have been met.
  2. Undergraduate coursework in engineering economics, calculus, and statistics.
  3. An average grade of 3.0 (out of 4).
    1. Either a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related technical or scientific field, or a bachelors degree in business, provided relevant technical course requirements have been met. It is expected that some students in the second category will have a major in business and a minor in engineering.
    2. Undergraduate coursework in engineering economics (SEGR 2106 at UNC Charlotte).
    3. Integral and differential calculus (MATH 1120 and 1121 at UNC Charlotte).
    4. Statistics (STAT 1220 or STAT 3128 at UNC Charlotte).
    5. An average grade of 3.0 (out of 4) on items 2, 3, and 4 above.

Documents to be Submitted for Admission

  1. Transcript(s) showing a baccalaureate degree in engineering, engineering technology, or a scientific discipline, or a baccalaureate degree in business administration from an accredited college or university.
  2. A satisfactory score on the General Test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). (depending on the student’s background, the Graduate Management Admission Test, GMAT, may be substituted in certain cases).
  3. Written descriptions of any relevant and significant work experience.
  4. If the applicant’s native language is not English, an overall score of 575 (paper-based test), 230 (computer-based test), or 90 (Internet-based test) in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Early Entry Program

Undergraduate students with a GPA of 3.2 and higher and with at least 75 semester hours completed toward a baccalaureate degree in Systems, Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical engineering, or Engineering Technology at UNC Charlotte may be admitted to the MS Engineering Management Program as an Early Entry student provided they meet all other requirement of admission except the first item of the admission requirements.

Degree Requirements

Thirty semester hours of approved graduate work within one of two options:

Option 1

Successful completion of 30 semester hours of graduate-level coursework.

Option 2

Successful completion of 24 semester hours of graduate-level coursework and 6 hours of thesis research.

The curriculum consists of six core courses and four additional courses (or two courses with the thesis option) selected from an approved list of electives. Students are expected to complete a Plan of Study that identifies a concentration such as Energy Systems, Manufacturing Management, Technology Management, Systems Engineering Management, Lean Six Sigma or Logistics and Supply Chains Management.

Required Core Courses (12 Credits)

  1. EMGT 6980 Industrial and Technology Management Seminars (1)

(EMGT students must have three credits in this course.)

  1. Three One to two courses from the following:
  • EMGT 6142 Quality & Manufacturing Mgmt (3)
  • EMGT 6901 Advanced Project Management (3)
  • EMGT 6902 Legal Issues in Engineering Mgmt (3)
  • EMGT 6904 Product and Process Design (3)
  • EMGT 6906 Processing Systems Simulation (3)
  • EMGT 6930 Capital Cost Estimating (3)
  • EMGT6920 Logistics Engineering and Management (3)
  • EMGT6924 Lean Six Sigma Practice and Management (3)
  • EMGT 6950 Engineering Systems Integration (3)
  • EMGT 6955 Systems Reliability Engineering (3)
  • EMGT 6985 Engineering Management Project (3)
  1. One to two courses from the following:
  • EMGT 6905 Designed Experimentation (3)
  • EMGT 6906 Processing Systems Simulation (3)
  • EMGT 6910 Technological Forecasting and Decision-Making (3)
  • EMGT 6912 Techniques and Intelligent Tools for Engineering Decision Support (3)
  • EMGT 6915 Engineering Decision and Risk Analysis (3)
  • EMGT 6952 Engineering Systems Optimization (3)
  • EMGT 6955 Systems Reliability Engineering (3)
  1. Two courses from among the following:
  • MBAD 6141 Operations Management (3)
  • MBAD 6161 Org Leadership & Behavior I (3)
  • MBAD 6164 Executive Communications (3)
  • MBAD 6195 Strategic Mgmt of Technology (3)

Note: Students are required to have adequate preparation prior to taking the required MBAD (Master in Business Administration) courses. Traditionally, this consists of at least completing courses in engineering economics, foundations of economics, and mathematics through differential and integral calculus. Students are advantaged by having completed courses in foundations of accounting and statistics.

Concentrations (12 credits)

The students can sign-up for the following optional concentrations

Energy Systems Concentration

The students need to take the following four courses

  • EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems (3)
  • EMGT 5962 Energy Markets (3)
  • EMGT 5963 Energy Systems Planning (3)
  • EMGT 5964 Case Studies in the Energy Industry (3)

Lean Six Sigma Concentration:

The students need to take the following three required courses

  • EMGT6924 Lean Six Sigma Practice and Management (3)
  • EMGT6926 Lean Supply Networks (3)
  • EMGT 6905 Designed Experimentation (3)

Plus one of the following

  • EMGT 6901 Advanced Project Management (3)
  • EMGT 6904 Product and Process Design (3)
  • EMGT 6142 Quality & Manufacturing Mgmt (3)

Logistics and Supply Chains Concentration:

The students need to take the following two required courses

  • EMGT6920 Logistics Engineering and Management (3)
  • EMGT6926 Lean Supply Networks (3)

Plus two of the following

  • EMGT 5963 Energy Systems Planning (3)
  • EMGT 6142 Quality & Manufacturing Mgmt (3)
  • MBAD 6193 Global Business Environment (3)
  • MBAD 6208 Supply Chain Management (3)

Based on department approval, students may request to take other Graduate Courses related to their selected concentration. Students are responsible for fulfilling the prerequisites of the courses they plan to take from other graduate programs.

Interdisciplinary Elective Courses

Depending on the degree and concentration options selected, the students would need to fulfill the remaining credit hours by taking elective courses.

(four courses or two courses with thesis option) Any course from the following Engineering Management Program course list including the ones below can be taken as an elective course or approved by your advisor from other graduate programs.

  • EMGT 5090 Special Topics (3)
  • EMGT 5150 Leadership For Engineers (3)
  • EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems (3)
  • EMGT 5962 Energy Markets (3)
  • EMGT 5963 Energy Systems Planning (3)
  • EMGT 5964 Case Studies in the Energy Industry (3)
  • EMGT 6090 Special Topics (3)
  • EMGT 6142 Quality & Manufacturing Mgmt (3)
  • EMGT 6901 Advanced Project Management (3)
  • EMGT 6902 Legal Issues in Engineering Management (3)
  • EMGT 6904 Product and Process Design (3)
  • EMGT 6905 Designed Experimentation (3)
  • EMGT 6906 Processing Systems Simulation (3)
  • EMGT 6910 Technological Forecasting and Decision-Making (3)
  • EMGT 6912 Techniques and Intelligent Tools for Engineering Decision Support (3)
  • EMGT 6915 Engineering Decision and Risk Analysis (3)
  • EMGT 6920 Logistics Engineering & Mgmt (3)
  • EMGT 6930 Capital Cost Estimating (3)
  • EMGT 6950 Engineering Systems Integration (3)
  • EMGT 6952 Engineering Systems Optimization (3)
  • EMGT 6955 Systems Reliability Engineering (3)
  • EMGT 6985 Engineering Management Project (3)
  • EMGT 6924 Lean Practice and Management (3)
  • EMGT 6090 6926 Lean Supply Networks (3)
  • EMGT 6090 Financial Management for Global Engineering Operations (3)

Two relevant gGraduate courses from other programs may be taken as elective courses for the engineering management degree with approval of the SEEM program director. Courses completed from other departments as part of the MSEM concentrations would count towards the two allowed electives. Students are responsible for fulfilling the prerequisites of the courses they plan to take from other graduate programs.

The following are recommended MBAD courses for electives:

  • MBAD 6141 Operations Management (3)
  • MBAD 6161 Org Leadership & Behavior I (3)
  • MBAD 6164 Executive Communications (3)
  • MBAD 6195 A Strategic Management of Technology (3)

Note: Students are required to have adequate preparation prior to taking the required MBAD (Master in Business Administration) courses. Traditionally, this consists of at least completing courses in engineering economics, foundations of economics, and mathematics through differential and integral calculus. Students are advantaged by having completed courses in foundations of accounting and statistics.

Admission to Candidacy Requirements

Each student is required to submit a Plan of Study to the Department’s Graduate Director. Upon completion of a substantial amount of the graduate work, each student must file an Admission to Candidacy form to the Graduate School by the filing date specified in the University Calendar.

Application for Degree

Students preparing to graduate must submit an online Application for Degree by the filing date specified in the University Calendar. If a student does not graduate in the semester identified on the Application for Degree, then the student must update his/her Admission to Candidacy and submit a new Application for Degree for graduation in a subsequent semester.

Proposed Catalog Copy of Courses

(Only affected course descriptions are listed below)

EMGT 5090. Special Topics. (1-6) Directed study of current topics of special interest. May be repeated for credit. (On demand)

EMGT 5150: Leadership Skills for Engineers (3) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Overview of the skills needed to practice the most popular leadership styles in industry today. The first half of the course covers an introduction to the different styles of leadership and how they are applied by Engineers within an organization. The second half of the course covers the critical leadership skills and competencies needed to build and lead powerful teams in a global environment.

EMGT 5961: Introduction to Energy Systems (3) Prerequisite: Junior standing, Basic math, economics, or consent of instructor. Overview of energy systems: energy types, generation, conversion, storage, transportation/transmission, and utilization. Principles, physical structure, processes, and utilization of fossil fuel, nuclear, and renewables for transportation, thermal, and electrical energy generation are discussed along with associated performance metrics. The course also provides an introduction to environmental impacts of energy production, life-cycle analysis, energy efficiency concepts and metrics, transmission systems, grid reliability, and the impact of smart grid technologies. All topics are presented in the context of industry standards as well as federal and state regulations.

EMGT 5962: Energy Markets (3) Prerequisite: Basic math and economics or consent of instructor. SEGR 4961/EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems or ECON 5181 Energy and Environmental Economics. Corequisite: If students have not completed SEGR 4961/EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems or ECON 5181 Energy and Environmental Economics, they should enroll in one of these courses concurrently with this one. Energy and power systems in regulated and competitive environments and implications on business decisions for firms in these industries. Topics include: mechanism of energy markets; comparative market systems; determination of prices under different market structures; gas, oil, coal, and electricity market architecture; electricity market design; dispatch and new build decisions; smart grid and renewable energy in electricity markets; risk and risk management in energy including demand and price volatility and use of financial derivatives; and the impact of financial market trends and current and proposed policies on the energy industry.

EMGT 5963: Energy Systems Planning (3) Prerequisite: Basic math and economics or consent of instructor. SEGR 4961/EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems. Corequisite: If students have not completed SEGR 4961/EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems, they should enroll in one of these courses concurrently with this one. Recommended: SEGR 4962/EMGT 5962: Energy System Economics. Optimal planning of resources, logistics, distribution and storage in the end to end energy value chain from upstream natural gas production through mid-stream transportation & storage to downstream power generation, utility distribution and consumption. Smart Grid Optimization. Supplier and customer relationship management, contracts management. Lean-Six Sigma energy system process design. Power systems reliability and control, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, process and service quality control.

EMGT 5964: Case Studies in the Energy Industry (3) Prerequisite: Basic math and economics or consent of instructor. SEGR 4961/EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems. Corequisite: If students have not completed SEGR 4961/EMGT 5961 Introduction to Energy Systems, they should enroll in one of these courses concurrently with this one. Recommended: SEGR 4962/EMGT 5962: Energy System Economics. This course will introduce students to interpret and analyze real world business cases in the energy sector. Cases will explore the concepts behind natural monopolies, utility ownership, regulation & de-regulation, utility rates and service standards. Additionally, economic concepts such as supply & demand, market pricing, producer surplus, monopolistic pricing and ratemaking (regulatory goals, revenue requirements and the rate base and rate cases) will be applied. Some of the cases will explore decision-making strategies surrounding marginal prices, congestion management, congestion revenue, electric and gas transmission rights both in terms of physical versus financial markets, locational marginal prices (LMP), financial transmission rights in terms of revenue adequacy and auction revenue rights and typical energy trading hedging practices.

EMGT 6910. Technological Forecasting and Decision-Making. (3) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. This course covers several techniques for engineering product design, development and improvement. A variety of decision making techniques such as several forecasting methods and quality function deployment are discussed specifically in the context of systems engineering applications, based on engineering design philosophy of cross- functional cooperation in order to create high quality products. Students will learn how to use these techniques for making effective engineering decisions in a technological environment. (On demand)

EMGT 6915. Engineering Decision and Risk Analysis. (3) Prerequisites: Integral and Differential Calculus, Statistics, Probability or permission of pnstructor. This course aims to provide some useful tools for analyzing difficult decisions and making the right choice. After introducing components and challenges of decision making, the course will proceed with the discussion of structuring decisions using decision trees and influence diagrams. Decision making under uncertainty will be emphasized including maximax, maximin, and minimax regret techniques. Modeling of different risk attitudes based on risk and return tradeoffs will be analyzed through utility theory. Finally, decisions under conflicting objectives and multiple criteria will be discussed along with some introduction to game theory. (On demand)

EMGT 6924. Lean Six Sigma Practice and Management. (3) This course is aimed to provide an understanding of the lean six sigma system design principles and tools. The course discusses the lean continuous improvement cycle starting with 1. defining value using tools such Quality Function Deployment, 2. proceeds with identifying value streams using Value Stream Mapping, 3. making the value stream flow though the elimination of 7 wastes, line balancing, 5S, cellular layouts, SMED, 4. pulling resources JIT based on demand and 5. achieving perfection through Kaizen events and statistical process control. Six Sigma improvement cycles DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Measure and Control) and DMADV (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design and Verify) are also discussed and synergies with lean principles are reviewed to create a lean six sixma system. The students are exposed to industry cases from major companies that illustrate the challenges and best practices of implementing a lean six sigma system. (On demand)

EMGT 6926. Lean Supply Networks. (3) The main objective of this course is to build fundamental lean systems skills to effectively design, plan and execute lean supply networks that deliver value to customers. With the ongoing global pressure of cost cutting and quality focus, many companies have been implementing “lean manufacturing’’ concepts to survive in this competitive marketplace. While this is a good start, lean concepts need to be implemented beyond the four walls of a company across its supply chain. Lean principles do not only apply to manufacturing but to service organizations as well. This course will help you understand the principles of lean, supply chain management, and provide you with the related tools and techniques to make supply chains and companies deliver goods and services successfully. The students are exposed to industry cases from major companies that illustrate the challenges of managing lean supply networks. (On demand)