Professional Skills Courses

As aspiring future technical leaders, MEM students take 9 credits of coursework in professional skills which develops and enhances their profile in communication, management, entrepreneurship, leadership, and other essential business topics.

These professional skills courses, combined with technical interdisciplinary engineering courses, prepare students to be thought- and people- leaders in the technical fields of their choosing.

Popular Professional Skills Courses include:

  • CE 59601 Entrepreneurship & Business Strategy
  • ENGR 50200 Engineering Leadership
  • ENGR 59600 Social Innovation and Business
  • MGMT 56810 Corporate Consulting Experiential Learning
  • MGMT 59000 Student Managed Venture Fund
  • MGMT 650 Strategic Management
  • MGMT 660 Introduction to Operations Management
  • MGMT 66100 Management of Operating Systems
  • MGMT 67000 Business Analytics

Additional Course Options

Depending upon your career and academic goals, you can incorporate other professional skills courses into your curriculum plan. The following list offers a sample of popular courses available each year.

  • BME 595 Entrepreneurship in BME
  • ChE 597 Engineering Applications in Marketing Management
  • ECE 595 AI, Ethics, and Society
  • ECE 695 Communication for Engineering Leaders
  • MGMT 522 New Product Development
  • MGMT 562 Project Management
  • MGMT 565 Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
  • MGMT 566 Global Supply Chain Management
  • MGMT 571 Data Mining
  • MGMT 586 Python Programming
  • MGMT 590 Launching Global Leaders
  • MGMT 683 Technology Driven Business
  • MGMT 688 Developing a Global Business Strategy
  • MGMT 690 Storytelling with Data