Engineering Management Opportunities

Employment & Career Options

New Jersey and New York are centers for the financial services, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, information technology and telecommunications industries of the world.

 

The Stevens Engineering Management degree is designed to provide the necessary skills to young engineers to be successful in these technology driven industries that are the main stay of the 21st century economy.  By combining engineering, management, technology and business we have developed a unique program to educate some of the brightest engineers for whom skills in Engineering Design, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Operational Effectiveness, Technical Marketing, Project Management, Financial and Business Analysis, Supply Chain Management and Quality Management are of high priority.

 

Engineering Management graduates have varying interests and skills.  These include manufacturing, financial services, logistics, engineering, technical sales, project planning and management and quality management and control.  Typical job titles of past graduates of the EM program are: Project Managers, Management Engineers, Production Supervisors, Information and Operations Specialists, Logistics Manager, Technical Sales Representatives, Manufacturing Engineers, Consultants, Systems Engineers and Analysts, Account Executives, Industrial Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Business and Technology Analysts, Investment Banking or Financial Analyst

 

Engineering Management graduates are in demand in varied industries such as the following services, technology, manufacturing and Research and Development arenas.  Within these arenas are listed companies that have hired Stevens Engineering Management graduates within the past five years:

  • Consulting – Accenture, Deloitte & Touche, Pershing
  • Financial – JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Deutche Bank, ING, MetLife, Lehman Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney, UBS
  • Pharmaceutical/ Chemical/ Health – Bristol Myers Squibb, Euromed, J&J, Ethicon, L’Oreal, Merck, Schering Plough, Unilever Best Foods, Wyeth
  • Construction – Hovnanian, J Fletcher Creamer, Sordoni Services
  • Defense – Hamilton Sunstrand, Lockheed Martin
  • Energy – PSE&G, ConEdison
  • Telecom – AT&T, Bell Atlantic, IBM, Omnipoint Communications
  • Systems – BAE Systems, Johnson Controls, Mitre
  • Manufacturing – Teva
  • Miscellaneous – General Electric, UPS

The average starting salary for Engineering Managers varies from year to year, but normally is one of the higher starting salaries for engineers at Stevens.  In 2004, Engineering Management graduates had the highest average starting salary of all engineering disciplines graduating from Stevens.

 2004                            2005                            2006                            2007

$54,700                       $52,900                       $55,100                       $55,600

 

Opportunities in the EM Program

Four Plus One Program

The School of Systems and Enterprises offers a unique four plus one program designed for Stevens undergraduate engineering and science students who wish to jointly pursue a Masters of Engineering in Engineering Management (MEEM) or Systems Engineering (MESE) degree concurrently with their undergraduate degree. Admission criteria to the program are junior standing, a formal interview, and a Grade Point Average (GPA) of at least 3.2. The advantage of the 4+1 program is an Undergraduate and Graduate Degree in 5 years or less.

Cooperative Education

The Cooperative Education program at Stevens provides “real-world experience” to students while they pursue their education.  The success of the program is built on the capabilities and enthusiasm of the co-op students and the challenging work assignments provided by the co-op employers.  About 50% of EM students are enrolled in the Co-operative Education Program. 

 

At Stevens, we believe that cooperative education is first and foremost a powerfully effective educational process.  Co-op is built on a theory/practice model of learning that unfolds through five increasingly sophisticated work assignments.  In addition to the educational benefits, co-op helps student clarify and test their career goals and earn money to pay part of their college expenses.

Senior Design

Senior Design is the culmination of an engineering management education, typically spanning the three semesters in junior and senior year. The scope of the project is decided in discussion between a sponsor and the Stevens senior design coordinator. A suitable project is one that provides value to the sponsor, is appropriate to the time scale, and meets the academic requirements of the program.

 

Sponsorship provides a context for the project that can afford the students a meaningful bridge to the "real world" of professional work. In keeping with this, our goal is to have students work on cross-disciplinary teams so that they gain experience in the type of environment that they will experience in their careers.

 

Sponsored Senior Design can significantly benefit both the students and the sponsoring organization. Recent industrial sponsors have been United Parcel Service, Ethicon, New Jersey Department of Agriculture, United States Postal Service, the City of Elizabeth (NJ), Century 21, and Medina Consultants.

Engineering Management Honor Society

Stevens Institute of Technology is the Beta chapter of Epsilon Mu Eta, the Engineering Management Honor Society.  In addition to being eligible for engineering honor societies such as Tau Beta Pi, excellent academic and community service allows consideration for membership into the Engineering Management Honor society as well.

American Society for Engineering Management

The American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) exists to help its members to develop and improve their skills as practicing managers of engineering.  Stevens has a chapter of ASEM which holds regular events for students on campus.  Some of these events include resume writing workshops, career panel discussions, and visits with the US Military Academy at West Point’s chapter of ASEM.

Concentration in Information Systems Engineering

The School of Systems and Enterprises and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering jointly offer an Information Systems Engineering (ISE) concentration under the Engineering Program in the undergraduate curriculum.

 

The goal of the ISE concentration is to produce graduates with a broad engineering foundation who can be effective in the analysis, design, construction, implementation and management of information systems.  A student can choose either a focus area in Information Systems Management or Network Information Systems.

Awards

  • The Hans J. Lang Award for Excellence in Cost Engineering and Engineering Economics
  • The Fredrick Winslow Taylor Award
  • The Humphreys/Ennis/Lesser Award
  • The John Mihalasky Award

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