ETM Survey

Conducted by
Portland State University - Engineering and Technology Management Department

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

Responses:
Institution Johns Hopkins University 
Department: Technical Management Program 
Contact Person: Samuel Seymour 

1 University System: Semester
2 Title of ETM program: Technical Management and Systems Engineering
3 Date of establishment: 1981
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: Technical Management |Systems Engineering
M.Eng. in:
Ph.D. in:
Dr. of Eng. in:
Other:
Certificate: Technical Management |Systems Engineering
6 Nature of financial support for a typical ETM student (check all that apply):

  • Tuition paid by their employer
  • Personal Funds

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

  • Faculty consulting to 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:

  • 95% Classroom
  • 5% Distance Delivery

    • 11 Methods used in distance delivery of courses:

  • Interactive TV
  • Pre-recorded video
  • Synchronous (simultaneous) a delivery on the web
  • Asynchronous (on demand)

    		•
    12 Optional: Approximate percentage change in ETM enrollments.

    Year Undergraduate Graduate
     

    +%

    -%

    		+% -%
    '97-'98 to '98-'99
    11
    '98-'99 to '99-'00
    12
    '99-'00 to '00-'01
    3
    '00-'01 to '01-'02
    13
     

    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
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Adjunct
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Affiliated (in other depts.)
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Visiting
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Other
    54
    6
    0
    0
    60
     

    TOTAL ETM FACULTY

    60
     

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

  • ASEE-EM Division
  • IEEE-EM Society
  • PDMA
  • SME

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

    A wide variety of topics in technical management and systems engineering

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


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

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

    20 Related books published by ETM faculty:
     
    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):
    Part-time students (number):
    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.)

       

    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
    Part-time 2.8
    30 Please give approximate number of ETM students currently enrolled at the Masters level. 
     
    masters level Student Demographics
    Full-time students (number) 0
    Part-time students (number) 1238
    Total Number  1238
    Female (percent): 26% Male (percent): 74%
    International (percent) 6% U.S. Students (percent): 94%
    Average Age 28
    31 Approximate number of ETM graduates with the Masters degree since your program was initiated: 870
    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) 32
    Elective Courses 8
    Total credits 40
    33 Please list representative projects recently completed by your ETM students (Masters theses, capstone projects, course projects, etc.)

       

    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
  • Capstone (Master thesis or project)
  • Case Studies
  • Creativity Management
  • Communication
  • Database Management
  • Decision Analysis
  • Engineering (courses in the standard CE, EE, ME, etc., curricula)
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Financial Management
  • Information Management
  • Innovation Management
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Knowledge Management
  • Manufacturing Management
  • New Venture Management
  • Operations Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Projects (Individual/Group)
  • Quality Management
  • R&D Management
  • Reengineering
  • Resource Management
  • Simulation
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Strategic Management of Technology
  • Team Building
  • Technology Acquisition
  • Technology Assessment
  • Technology Management
  • Technology Marketing
  • Technical Organizations
  • Technology Planning/Forecasting
  • Technology Scanning
  • Technology Transfer
    		•
    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