Northwestern University - Master of Engineering Management

 

Curriculum

A minimum number of 12 courses is required to earn the Master of Engineering Management degree. Among them are:

Required Courses (7 Courses)

MEM 402: Engineering Management

MEM 403: Accounting for Engineers

MEM 404: Financial Issues for Engineers

MEM 405: Marketing Issues for Engineers

MEM 407: Decision Tools for Managers

MEM 424: Leadership and Organizational Behavior*

MEM 437: Strategic Management for Engineers

Advanced Engineering Methods for Management (2 Courses)

You must select at least two from this list of advanced engineering courses. These courses differentiate MEM from other business programs because they rely on your engineering or quantitative background. These are courses that will help you get in-depth knowledge in the field you want to pursue in the future.

MEM 410: Managerial Analytics

MEM 412: Operations Excellence

MEM 414: Supply Chain Management (offered every other year)

MEM 415: Computer Simulation for Risk & Operations Analysis (offered every other year)

MEM 416: Business Process Change Management

MEM 417: Product Development

MEM 420: Organizing for Innovation

MEM 426: Project Management

MEM 490: Product Management

ENTREP 495: NUvention Medical (Two course sequence, only one can be applied to AEM requirement)

ENTREP 490: NUvention Transportation

ENTREP 473: NUvention Web (Two course sequence, only one can be applied to AEM requirement)

ISEN 430: NUvention Energy

ENTREP 475: NUvention Analytics

MSIT 423: Data Science for Business Intelligence

Electives (3 Courses)

You choose three electives from a variety of courses within MEM and programs within Northwestern University (limit of two courses from outside the engineering school). These courses give you the flexibility to tailor the program to meet your needs. You may choose courses from:

MEM Electives:

MEM 419: Technical Entrepreneurship

MEM 429: Negotiation for Engineers

Other Schools/Departments have limited courses available:

Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences

Kellogg School of Management

Learning and Organizational Change Program from the School of Education and Social Policy

Master of Science in Analytics

Master of Science in Information Technology

Master of Project Management Program

https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/engineering-management/curriculum/

Bruce Ankenman

Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Director, Segal Design Institute

Contact: 2133 Sheridan Road, Ford G311, Evanston, IL 60208-3109

Affiliations: Master of Engineering Management Program

Education

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

M.S. Manufacturing Systems Eng., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Waterloo, WI

B.S. Electical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH