Professional Certifications from the Engineering Management Program
Overview
The Engineering Management Program offers graduate certificates for technical professionals seeking to expand their knowledge base in specific competency areas. The certificates focus on the development of critical competencies in the following areas: project management, research and development, performance excellence, quality systems and engineering, operations and logistics, and managing applied research.
CAETE, the Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology education, is the distance learning and professional studies arm of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. CAETE provides a convenient and flexible education opportunity for working professionals. Courses are delivered via the Internet and CD-ROM. Distance learning education has proven attractive to the nation’s top companies and their employees. Graduate include working professionals from industry leaders such as Lockheed Martin, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Ball Aerospace, Seagate, Raytheon, Sun Microsystems and many more.
Benefits
- Develop critical competencies in 12 – 18 months
- Courses delivered both on campus and via asynchronous, distance learning
- Graduate credit earned can apply toward a master degree in engineering management
- Highly interactive, web-based learning fits your schedule
- Professors with extensive real-world experience in technology-based organizations
- Interaction with an industry-diverse and world-wide student body
Professional Certificates
- Entrepreneurship (12 credits)
Whether students work in start-up ventures or within large corporations, the graduate entrepreneurship certificate program is geared toward working professionals that desire to play a more significant and influential role in business leadership. The graduate curriculum prepares students through courses in management, finance, and high-technology marketing, and culminates in a capstone entrepreneurial business plan preparation course offered by the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship.
EMEN 5051 Entrepreneurial Management & Leadership
EMEN 5025 Entrepreneurial Finance
EMEN 5090 Entrepreneurial Marketing
EMEN 5825 Business Plan Preparation
- Engineering Management (12 credits)
Provides a broad-based view of the key principles and concepts important for technical managers, including finance and accounting, leadership and management, quality management, and project management. The certificate requires four courses selected from the five core courses in the engineering management graduate curriculum.
EMEN 5010 Introduction to Engineering Management
EMEN 5020 Finance and Accounting for Engineers
EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems
EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy and Value Creation
EMEN 5050 Leadership and Management
- Leadership and Ethical Decision Making (9 credits)
Develops the knowledge and skills needed to lead and provides the ethical decision-making processes required to make real-world decisions. There are two core courses:
EMEN 5050 Leadership and Management
EMEN 5080 Ethical Decision Making
The third course is chosen by the student from one of the following:
EMEN 5010 Introduction to Engineering Management
EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy and Value Creation
EMEN 5825 Entrepreneurial Business Plan Preparation
- Managing Applied Research in Technology (12 credits)
Provides tools to effectively manage applied research in areas such as sustaining engineering, customer and supplier evaluation, quality improvement, problem solving, new process and facility start-up, and the design of complex systems reduction analysis.
EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement
EMEN 5900 Research Methods
EMEN 5610 Advanced Statistical Methods for Engineering Research
EMEN 5620 Data Mining & Screening Experiments for Engineering Research
- Managing Innovation (12 credits)
Includes product, process, and business model innovation. Provides proven concepts and tools for managing innovation strategy formation, portfolio development, and project execution in both hardware and software environments.
EMEN 5300 Management of Research and Development
EMEN 5400 Principles of Product Management OR EMEN 5430 Software Product Management
EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems
EMEN 5900 Research Methods
- Performance Excellence in Technology Management (12 credits)
Provides a cutting-edge model for Business Performance Excellence (BPE). BPE enables companies to successfully execute improvement program efforts, such as Six Sigma, to increase profitability and identify revenue generating “sweet spots.”
EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy and Value Creation
EMEN 5041 Advanced Topics in Value Creation
EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement
EMEN 5050 Leadership and Management
- Project Management (9 credits)
Designed around the Project Management Institute (PMBOK), it builds a foundation and provides preparation for the PMI Certificate.
EMEN 5030 Project Management Systems
EMEN 5032 Advanced Topics in Project Management
EMEN 6830 Project Management Capstone OR EMEN 5050 Leadership and Management
- Quality Systems for Product & Process Engineering (12 credits)
Provides the technical expertise to manage initiatives in quality improvement, problem-solving and reliability improvement. Upon completion, students are certified as Green Belts for Six Sigma programs.
EMEN 5040 Quality, Strategy and Value Creation
EMEN 5042 Methods for Quality Improvement
EMEN 5900 Research Methods
EMEN 5043 Advanced Topics in Quality Systems/Engineering (available summer ’07)
- Six Sigma Certifications
Completion of the Quality Systems certificate results in a Green Belt certification
Completion of the Quality Systems and Applied Research certificates (six courses total) can result in a Black Belt certification.
Completion of the Quality Systems, Applied Research and Performance Excellence certificates (eight courses total) can result in a Master Black Belt certification
Admission
- An undergraduate degree in any academic field
- An undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.75
- Appropriate professional work experience
- Demonstrated proficiency in writing
- Two professional letters of recommendation.
Application
- Visit the Engineering Management web site to explore application and admission details
- Contact the Engineering Management office for academic advising
Full-time Faculty
Wayne Kirschling, DBA, MBA, served for 15 years as president of a series of high-tech companies in the semiconductor equipment, aviation, and medical industries. His expertise is in Research and Development and Operations Management.
Barbara Lawton, PhD, Lockheed Martin Professor and Program Chair, has held senior management positions in start-ups and Fortune 500 companies and focuses on leadership and managing change.
Jeffrey Luftig, PhD, Deming Professor of Management, is a statistician with specific expertise in Business Performance Excellence (BPE) and has consulted for Fortune 100 and 500 firms in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Australia.
Adjunct Faculty
Mary Ceynowa, MA, is a licensed psychologist and has over 20 years of experience in leadership assessment and development and succession planning in a broad base of industries.
Stacy Dumas , MS, is Big Tree Corporation's Chief Information Officer and Director of the PMO. She is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in driving program management effectiveness, IT, and business alignment.
Bob Kois, MBA, PMP, has over 20 years of project management experience and is a “Global Registered Education Provider” for the Project Management Institute.
Frank Moyes, MBA, started Cambridge Computer Graphics and has broad management nd operations experience, both domestically and internationally.
Steve Ouellette, ME, is the Director of the Statistics Division of the Center for Mathematical and Statistical Solutions at CU-Boulder. He brings 10 years of statistical consulting experience in technology-based organizations to his teaching.
Ray Wilson, MBA, has over 20 years of global management and operations experience in senior management positions with small, middle market, and Fortune 500 companies, both in the U.S. and overseas.
For Further Information about these Certificate Programs
Contact the Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program directly about certificate requirements and to obtain an application.
Bonnee Basso, Program Administrator
Engineering Management
University of Colorado
433 UCB
Boulder , CO 80309-0433
Phone: 303-492-2570
Fax: 303-492-1443
E-mail: cuemp@colorado.edu
Web site: emp.colorado.edu
