Curriculum

The Engineering and Management Program takes five years to complete, one more year than a regular engineering program.  In each year of the program students are required to take a mix of engineering, business, economics, and integrative engineering and management courses.  Students take three integrative engineering and management courses which combine technical and business considerations.  These courses teach skills such as making presentations to, and writing reports for, middle and upper level management, as well as to technical audiences.  Such reports require the positioning of technical issues within a management context.  Courses include discussions of how firms can develop new technical products like Blackberries and jet airliners which provide benefits to their customers and provide a financial return to the firm.  The final capstone course requires students to do a major project with a business which contributes to the solution of a technical/business problem.  The final written and oral reports provide integrated analyses of business and technical issues.
Students are required to take 15 business and economics courses in the following subjects, with the numbers of courses in brackets:

The numbers of courses from business, economics, and engineering and management, in each of the five years, are as follow:

Engineering courses are spread over the five years in a pattern that complements the offerings in economics, business, and engineering and management, to provide students with a reasonable course load in each year.  Some engineering departments vary slightly from the pattern shown above to accommodate the academic requirements of their fields.
Overall, the program includes the following percentages of courses: