Engineering Management

Many of today's highly competitive global businesses require people who have a solid technical background coupled with business and liberal education.

Engineering management offers an interdisciplinary approach to address the complexities in today's workplace. This program also provides a diverse academic background, including engineering, business, science, mathematics, and the liberal arts. The curriculum is designed to help you develop engineering and business expertise, social awareness, cultural perspective, and interpersonal communication.

The program leads to a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science.

Graduates are qualified to fill operational positions in areas such as production supervision, quality assurance, business planning, purchasing, and technical sales and service.

Distinctive Features at Miami

This interdisciplinary program has been developed in cooperation with industry to provide a strong technical background combined with business management skills.

Students receive experience in working on solutions to actual industry/business problems through course work and participation in co-op and internship opportunities.

Teamwork is emphasized as essential for the problem-solving skills that are required in engineering. Students learn to work together with fellow students and faculty and to become a contributing member of a team.

The placement rate for our graduates is consistently near 100 percent, with one of the highest salary averages for Miami graduates ($44,200 in 2000).

Your Program of Study

This interdisciplinary program offers a core of course work both in engineering and business, giving you a strong technical background coupled with business management skills. In addition to the core curriculum, you select a technical specialty in one of the areas of manufacturing engineering, paper science and engineering, or environmental science.

Technical Specialties

Manufacturing engineering focuses on designing, analyzing, and applying manufacturing processes to produce quality products. These skills are critical to success in a global economy.

Paper science and engineering provides a solid foundation in the papermaking process and related chemical engineering.

Environmental science addresses the environmental issues affecting business and industry today, concentrating on understanding ecological principles and engineering methods for cost-effective prevention and control of pollution.

Work Experience

You can gain valuable work experience and financial assistance by participating in our co-op or summer internship programs. This professional experience will make you more valuable to prospective employers.

Laboratories and Computing Facilities

Engineering management majors use lab facilities in both manufacturing engineering and paper science and engineering. Laboratories replicate industry settings with the Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems lab (CIMS) used in the manufacturing engineering department and the pilot Fourdrinier paper machine used in the paper science and engineering department.

Student Organizations

Through honorary and professional organizations, students develop leadership skills, interact with professionals in their field, and take part in educational activities which have significance beyond the campus. Student organizations available at Miami include:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Association of Women in Computing (AWC)
• Omega Rho - Operations research honorary
• Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
• Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Student National Technical Association (SNTA)
• Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI)
• Women in Math, Science, and Engineering

After You Graduate

Miami graduates find jobs with manufacturing and technical companies and serve as consultants to other types of businesses. Job possibilities include technical sales and service, product development, materials and maintenance management, environmental management, manufacturing associate, process consultant, or other manufacturing-support positions. For each of the technical specialties within engineering management, the opportunities are many and varied.

Some companies that have hired recent graduates include Accenture, Avery Denison, Cincinnati Machine, Cincom Systems, Pittsburgh Tube Co. and Westvaco Corporation.

For More Information

For general information about Miami University, please contact:

Office of Admission
301 S. Campus Ave.
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056-3434
513-529-2531 (v/t)
www.muohio.edu/requestinfo

For specific information on the Engineering Management major, please contact:

Dr. Osama Ettouney, Chair
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
56 Engineering Building
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
513-529-2650
ettounom@muohio.edu
www.eas.muohio.edu/egm