Program Requirements
Admission Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in engineering (or a degree in math, computer science or a physical science coupled with at least two years experience in engineering after the completion of their undergraduate degree).
- One course in calculus based probability and statistics. This course requirement may be completed after admission into the program.
Curriculum Requirements
The MS in engineering management comprises 11 required courses for a total of 32 credit hours and 3 credit hours of elective requirements.
Please note: if you were admitted into the program prior to Fall 2016, please refer to previous requirements.
- EM 500 Management for Engineers (3)
- EM 505 Systems Engineering (3)
- EM 520 Production and Operations Engineering I (3)
- EM 525 Total Quality Management and Six Sigma (3)
- EM 570 Enterprise Information Systems (3)
- EM 580 Management of Product and Process Design (3)
- ACC 505 Developing and Interpreting Financial Information (3)
- And choose 3 courses from the list below:
- FIN 531 Finance Fundamentals and Value Creation (3)
- MKT 515 Marketing Management (3)
- OB 510 Organization Behavior (3)
- HRM 561 Human Resource Management (3)
- BE 530 Economic Analysis: Firm & Consumer (3)
EM 591 Capstone Project (2)
Take one class from the list below :
- IMSE 511 Design and Analysis of Experiments
- IMSE 501 Human Factors and Ergonomics
- IMSE 505 Applied Optimization
- IMSE 514 Multivariate Statistics
- IMSE 515 Fundamentals of Program Management
- IMSE 516 Project Management and Control
- IMSE 517 Managing Global Systems
- IMSE 519 Quantitative Methods in Quality Engineering
- IMSE 5205 Engineering Risk-Benefit Analysis
- IMSE 5215 Program Budget, Cost Estimation & Control
- IMSE 538 Intelligent Manufacturing
- IMSE 545 Vehicle Ergonomics I
- IMSE 546 Safety Engineering
- IMSE 548 Human Factors
- IMSE 577 User Interface Design and Analysis
- IMSE 593 Vehicle Packaging Engineering
- IMSE 5655 Supply Chain Management
- IMSE 567 Reliability Analysis
- IMSE 581 Production and Operations Engineering II
- IMSE 606 Advanced Stochastic Processes
Additional electives from units in UM-Dearborn could also be considered with advisor’s approval.
With the approval of their graduate advisor, students may substitute a master's thesis for no more than five credit hours of graduate course work. Master’s thesis will replace Capstone Project (2) and Elective (3) requirements in the program.
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Phone:
313-593-5361
Fax:
313-593-9967