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About the ETM Department

ETM has gained a reputation of providing students with the best of both worlds - a firm foundation in the creation of value through engineering and technology combined with a sound management education. This integrated learning experience enables you to deliver effectively in the rapidly changing and complex world of engineering technology, while at the same time providing you with a broad knowledge for making and implementing decisions necessary for leadership, on both strategic and operational level. And you will develop a high-powered affinity for sound judgment, strong performance ethic, and life-long learning.

ETM's core requirements cover the critical areas of technical management, while enabling the students to maintain identity in their technologies. Emphasizing the value of technology, analytical decision-making, group project work, and people skills, the curriculum is designed to equip the student with a resilient base of engineering and technology management competencies. Also it helps identify the options - the particular areas that the students wish to master more extensively. The ETM department offers a variety of degree at the Master's and Ph.D. level tailored to the needs of engineers, technologists, and scientists.

We want to be clear. Today's engineering and technology management students are tomorrow's engineering and technology leaders. At ETM department we are serious about leadership. And, we are uniquely positioned to educate a new generation of such leaders. ETM's international visibility, meticulously designed programs, and one of the most livable locations in the U.S. offer the students advantages rarely available elsewhere.



Testimonials from ETM Students:

Guven Iyigun

Guven Iyigun is a corporate audit manager at Unilever for the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is charged with providing independent and comprehensive risk management recommendations to the company's Board of Directors in the area of information strategy management. Project and risk management skills are a key ingredient in his success.

"ETM impressed me with commitment to exceptional standards of performance and willingness to embrace new ideas. It gave me the perspective to analyze and understand the totality of a business situation and the ability to demonstrate flexibility of thinking which can be turned into realistic plans. I also developed an accurate and objective assessment of what needs to be done even in complex and difficult situations, and to take initiatives involving calculated risks."


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