ETM Survey

Conducted by
Portland State University - Engineering and Technology Management Department

 
RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (ETM)

Responses:
Institution Dartmouth College 
Department: Program Office 
Contact Person: Susan Rivers 

1 University System: Quarter
2 Title of ETM program: Master of Engineering Management
3 Date of establishment: 1989
4 Academic base: Program in the School of Engineering
5 Degree (s)/ Certificate (s) offered by your ETM program: 
  
B.S. in:
M.S. in: Engineering Management
M.Eng. in:
Ph.D. in:
Dr. of Eng. in:
Other:
Certificate:
6 Nature of financial support for a typical ETM student (check all that apply):

  • Assistanship from Department or University
  • Personal Funds
  • Fellowships from Thayer School of Engineering

    		•
    7 Type (s) of collaboration between your ETM program and industry:

  • ETM students conducting projects in industry
  • Faculty consulting to industry
  • Student interns in industry
  • Adjunct faculty (Part-Time faculty members employed in industry)
  • Collaborative research projects with industry

    		•
    8 Type(s) of collaboration between your ETM programs and international organizations:

    9 Offers short courses? :  No
    10 Approximate figures for current teaching methods:

  • 100% in the classroom.

    • 11 Methods used in distance delivery of courses:

    12 Optional: Approximate percentage change in ETM enrollments.

    Year Undergraduate Graduate
     

    +%

    -%

    		+% -%
    '97-'98 to '98-'99
    14%
    '98-'99 to '99-'00
    70%
    '99-'00 to '00-'01
    13%
    '00-'01 to '01-'02
     

    13

    Optional: Please indicate the background of the current ETM faculty in each of the following areas:
     
    Number of ETM Faculty: ENGINEERING/SCIENCE
    Background     		BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT
    Background     		SOCIAL SCIENCE
    Background     		OTHER
    Background     		TOTAL
    Tenure stream
    3
    0
    0
    0
    3
    Adjunct
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Affiliated (in other depts.)
    0
    5
    0
    0
    5
    Visiting
    1
    0
    0
    0
    1
    Other
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
     

    TOTAL ETM FACULTY

    9
     

    14 ETM- related professional organizations to which the ETM faculty members belong:

  • INFORMS

    		•
    15 Research areas in which ETM faculty and graduate students have been engaged in the last five years:

    Biomedical Engineering Design Entrepreneurship Fluids Operations Research

    16 Sources of research/funding for ETM program:
  • University funding
    		•
    17 Potential Engineering/Technology Management research areas emerging in the next five years: 

    Stochastic Systems Simulation


    18 Professional meetings where papers have been presented by ETM faculty and/or students. 
    Meetings

    INFORMS National Conference (Miami, 11/01)

    19 Please list the journals in which your ETM faculty have published (check all that apply):

  • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
  • Management Science, Advances in Consumer Research

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    20 Related books published by ETM faculty:
     
    Author Title Publisher Year
    David F. Pyke, M. Eric Johnson   Teaching Supply Chain Management   POMS   2000  
    David F. Pyke, E.A. Silver and R. Peterson   Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling   Wiley & Sons   1998  

    21 Offers an undergraduate degree in ETM: No
    22 Average years for students to complete the Bachelors degree requirements:  
    23 Approximate number of ETM graduates with the Bachelors degree since the program was initiated: 
    24 Approximate figures for your current undergraduate ETM enrollments. 

    Undergraduate Student Demographics

    Full-time students (number): 0
    Part-time students (number): 0
    Total Number: 0
    Female (percent): 0% Male (percent): 100%
    International (percent): 0% U.S. Students (percent): 100%
    Average Age: 
    25 Requirements in the undergraduate ETM curriculum:

    Total required credits for the Bachelors degree: 
    26 Representative titles of the management courses in undergraduate curriculum:

    27 Please list representative projects recently completed by your ETM students at undergraduate level (Undergraduate thesis, capstone projects, course projects, etc.)

       

    Project Title Year
    28 Offers a Masters degree: Yes
    29 How many years does an average ETM student take to complete the Masters degree requirements? 
      
      Number of years
    Full-time 1.5
    Part-time 3
    30 Please give approximate number of ETM students currently enrolled at the Masters level. 
     
    masters level Student Demographics
    Full-time students (number) 34
    Part-time students (number) 1
    Total Number  35
    Female (percent): 11% Male (percent): 89%
    International (percent) 23% U.S. Students (percent): 77%
    Average Age 25
    31 Approximate number of ETM graduates with the Masters degree since your program was initiated: 200
    32 Number of credits of coursework beyond the B.S level that are required for the Masters degree: 
      
      # Credits
    Core Courses (common requirements for all) 11
    Elective Courses 1
    Total credits 12
    33 Please list representative projects recently completed by your ETM students (Masters theses, capstone projects, course projects, etc.)

       

    Project Title Year
    Development of a Web-Enabled Strategic Analysis Tool   99-00  
    Windstar Vehicle Cariants   99-00  
    The Design and Fabrication of an Emergency Epinephrine Injection Device   99-00  
    Business Considerations of Microfabricated Inductors   99-00  
    Low Complexity Noise Monitoring   99-00  
    Power Consumption Estimation for Large-Scale Circuit Design   99-00  
    Emerging Market Debt Security Selection   99-00  
    Biomass Ethanol:Commercial Opportunities in Ghana   99-00  
    Thermal Regulation of Chip-Scale Packaged Devices During Test   99-00  
    Development of a Quiet High-Speed Air-Turbine Dental Drill   99-00  
    Venture Capital Fund Data Management System   99-00  
    A Reporting System to Improve Communication Betwn the Engineering and Collaborative Research Groups   99-00  
    Design of a Magnetic Resonance Elastography Device for Breast Cancer Imaging   99-00  
    34 Please describe your curriculum at the Masters level by indicating the topics covered in the courses taken by ETM students
    (Check all that apply):      
  • Accounting
  • Economic Analysis
  • Behavioral Science
  • Capstone (Master thesis or project)
  • Case Studies
  • Creativity Management
  • Communication
  • Competitive Strategies
  • Decision Analysis
  • Engineering (courses in the standard CE, EE, ME, etc., curricula)
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Management
  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology
  • Innovation Management
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Manufacturing Management
  • New Venture Management
  • Operations Research
  • Productivity Analysis
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Projects (Individual/Group)
  • Public Policy
  • Quality Management
  • Resource Management
  • Simulation
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Strategic Management of Technology
  • Team Building
  • Technology Management
  • Technology Marketing
  • Technical Organizations
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    35 Offers a Doctoral degree in Engineering/Technology Management: No
    36 Number of years that ETM students take to complete the doctoral degree requirements beyond the Masters degree? 
     

     

    Number of years

    Full-time

    Part-time

    37 Number of credits of coursework that are normally required for the Doctoral degree beyond the Bachelors level (not including the dissertation): 
    38 Awarded any Ph.D.'s so far: 
    39 Please describe representative doctoral dissertations completed under the supervision of ETM faculty. 
      
    40 Steps of the Ph.D. program:
      
    Coursework
    Preliminary Exam
    (Qualifying Exam)
    Comprehensive Exam
    Proposal Defense
    Dissertation Defense
    Other
    42 Additional Comments