Many engineers in this position are often promoted to leadership positions within their businesses. In these roles, they are called upon to exercise managerial skills, which are often undeveloped in members of technical professions. At the same time, engineering professionals are facing the need to update their worn undergraduate degree in their chosen professional fields. By choosing one over the other, a professional can greatly reduce their opportunities for management responsibility or promotion.
Many professionals prefer to obtain both degrees but are reluctant because of time and expense.
Our degree provides you sufficient depth in management to provide necessary and critical skills for successful middle management and also sufficient depth in engineering to update a worn undergraduate degree. It achieves integration in lieu of a comprehensive exam by requiring an advanced engineering project. The business management component of this degree provides you competencies in finance, marketing, accounting, and further enhances your management skill base with analytical thinking and decision-making through a foundation considering ethics, values, social responsibility, professional behavior, teamwork and leadership. In addition to day hours, courses are offered in the evenings and late afternoons to accommodate the schedules of working professionals. Those students whose backgrounds differ significantly from that ordinarily expected of a traditional engineering graduate may be required to complete prerequisite undergraduate courses.