>> rebecca badger: -- hello and welcome to today's information session on oregon state university's master of engineering in engineering management program offered by oregon state's college of engineering and delivered 100% online through oregon state ecampus. i'm rebecca badger and i'm joined today by amy theis and ean ng with the college of engineering's school of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering. ean is the program director for out online master's of engineering program. we will be facilitating today's information session. you'll see today's agenda for whatwe plan on covering. our presentation is about 20 minutes long which will leave plenty oftime for you to ask any questions and we can answer those at the end.we will provide an overview of the program,
curriculum, admissions process, go over tuitionand financial aid and give you an overview of oregon state university and ecampus. we give you this opportunity to ask any questions to ensure that you're fully informed about the programand you can do so by typing the questions as they come to mind in the chat box and we will address themin the end during the q and a segment. if you have a question that is personal toyou that we might need to follow up, we will be sure to do that after the session is over.you will see also there is a link we entered an update the url for the text captioningservice and enter that into the chat box if you need to access that service. now that we've taken care of the agenda, we will get started and i'm going to turn it over to ean for overviewof the program.
>> ean ng: thank you. i am ean ng, i'm theprogram director for this program. before delving into the entire program let's addressa little bit on why do you want to do this program? let's go over a little research on the shelf life of engineer. the research actually looks at how engineers progress through their career, at what point do they drop off engineering and whatnot. one thing that they found is that generally between 2-5 years into engineering career, engineers will begin to think of some type of career advancement either into a managerial position or into a technical position. to go into a technical position most engineers will get a master's degree or a ph.d. degree in their technical career, in the undergraduate degree that they did. to go into a management position which i assume most of you are since you are at this webinar, you need some kind of management-focused advanced degree. if you look around on the internet and talk to
those who have some form of advanced degree or managerial related degree, you see the three managerial-focused programs they offer around this country. the technology management, mba and engineering management. the quandary of which degree should you get will begin. the difference between these programs stems from the ultimate end goal of these programs. in technology management you look at how you manage the technology itself. you look at the life cycle of technology, the marketing of the technology, you try to predict the technology s curve. from there try to manage your research and development of this technology. the bottom line is in technology management you will be managing thetechnology itself. mba is most frequently heard and discussed advanced degree that has managerial aspect to it, and you heard a lot about here and there. the mba is focused on the general business management. it is not tailored for any specific field.
courses and mba are a wide range of topics in running a business and you might learn some material that you will not use anytime soon in your technical career.in engineering management, we focus on managing people who have highly technical skills, highly technical backgrounds and the people who are working on the technology itself. in engineering management you look at how the technical workforce, how to manage the production and how does the position making work in a technical organization? also looking a capital budgeting, how do you spend money? what type of machinery do you need to meet the requirement you have? we look at problem solving but at managerial level. solving problems that involve more than just the technical problems we are trained to do in our undergraduate degree. we solve problemsthat involve human, machine, technical constraints, budget constraints and other socio-technical constraints. at the same time look at how to satisfy the customers need
and keep organization afloat. that is whatwe do in engineering management. we manage the people that manage technology.why earn your engineering management master's degree? if you remember in the good old times when engineers and scientists or technical personnel if they are doing an outstanding job, most likelythe organization as a reward will promote them to a managerial position. they generally believe that if technically you're excellent, you should somehow miraculously know how to manage people.this general belief you have heard a lot of jokes about bad managers, bad engineers beinga manager, and that is the problem. managing technical workforce is different than managingthe technical job itself. when you manage a technical workforce, you need a differentset of skills. this is where the engineering
management program come in. we cover the basics on how to manage people with technical background. another question often heard from people iswill engineers be good managers? the answer is definitely yes. engineering education provides us with a lot of analytical and problem-solving skills that we also need to manage a technical workforce. engineering management program helps you translate the skill set that you have in managing the technical, analytical skills and problem-solving skills, we help you translate that into managing the human side. another advantage for earth engineers going into managerial position is that you have a technical background. you know what the people who are managing and what they are doing. you will be ableto tell they are not telling you what to tell you. that is the advantage of being an engineerand going into the managerial position.
the benefit of oregon state's engineering management program, this program is entirely online. the way we design the program is for workingprofessionals and we understand you have your job demand. we understand you may not be ableto spend 40 hours a week on coursework. we so we design it in this way. throughout the programyou will not be asked to get online at a certain fixed time. as long as you have consistent internet, you can get online twice a week and do what you need to do and you will be fine in thisprogram. another important point about the programhere at osu we practice what we teach. the first thing we did with this program was standardize the deadlines for your assignments. once you get into this program, the next two or three yearsyou can think of monday 10:00 pm pst as the absolute
drop dead deadline. meaning, you can plan your life knowing that every monday you have some form of assignment due. and monday at 10:00 pm is when all ofyour graded assignment will be due. we standardize it for you to make your life easier.another point about our program is that our faculty who develop and teach the courses,we are doing active research in engineering management. we have active industry research, even though i cannot tell you which companies we are working with because of the nea but we're actively doing that research in engineering management with a lot of local organizations. the results from what we did and research results, we translate that and incorporate that into our engineering management program.we are responsive to our customer and in this case it's the students needs. based on the past summer,the course offering we did we realize summer
is not a good time to offer a mathematicalintensive course. even though you are working professionals, you have family commitmentsand when the kids get out of school, they want to go to a summer program. you're a workingprofessional and don't have a summer off and it's not easy to find and do a mathematicalintensive course. we are looking to reorganize this part and in the next few years we can get itdown so it can be easily done for working professionals.the curriculum, to complete a master's degree at oregon state university, you will needto complete a 45 graduate degree credits. if you were to take one course per quarter, this will take you threeyears to complete a degree. oregon state university, unlike a lot of universities,we operateon what we call quarter system. there are
four quarters in a year and each quarter is10 weeks in terms of learning and one week for the final exam.the pace for the quarter system is a lot faster. a lot of students have taken only one courseper quarter and in engineering sometimes some courses have a lot heavier load than the others.you are looking at about 10-12 hours a week of work for one course. this includes thetime you need to do assignments, read the material you need, do research, participatein discussion board. we strongly recommend working professionals to take one course perquarter so you can get the most out of this program.in terms of curriculum, we group our courses in two major groups. the first one is managementcore and this is 15 credits and any student
that wants a degree in engineering managementfrom osu must take these four courses. of these courses, the introduction to management for engineers and scientists is a required course and prerequisite of all the courses you take for the program. the other group is called elective courses. we have 30 credits of elective courses. you can pick and choose which one you like.however, if you want to do this program 100 percent online, at this point in time, these30 credits are those that we have that are offered entirely online. a quick feature of one of the faculty, this is dr. ganapathy natarajan and he goes by gana. he will be the firstperson you interact with when you enroll in this program because he is the one who isteaching introduction to management for engineers and scientists. he has been teaching engineering management for quite awhile. he is a certified professional engineering
manager for an american society for engineering management. and some of his current research looks at sustainability. sustainability in manufacturing, sustainability in in small/medium enterprise,and he also looks into critical thinking and self-reflection for engineering students, that's his research area. in terms of admission, we require that all students that we accept into this program must have a stem degree background which is either science, technology, engineering or mathematics background. it is important tohave a strong math background. if you do not have that and you come from a stem degree,we can work on some leveling courses for you. when you apply, go to the graduate schoolwebsite under the planned course of study and select industrial engineering and ecampus online, that particular course of study. engineering management, in itself, generally is not as big as othertypes of engineering.
engineering management is housed under whatwe call industrial engineering department. that is how it works in the engineering programsacross the country. when you apply, make sure you have reference letters. you need three referencesand make sure you clear it with them before you put your name in so two of them will writea reference letter for you because we look at the reference letter. and for the gre scores, if your degree is not from any undergraduate program in the us or is not abet accredited, you need thegre score. otherwise, you do not have to worry about the gre score.>> amy theis: thank you so much. this is amy theis. i want to share information about thetotal financial investment for the master in engineering management. our tuition forthis academic year is $576 per credit. most
courses are about four credits and you arelooking at $2,304 for one course. as dr. ng mentioned, frequently people take the course one term.you might not have found our website and that's why we want to address, when you see anything that says additional fees that would be charged to you. i want to share with you there is an applicationfee for the graduate school. students are responsible for textbooks, supplemental resources they use in class like they are in any other institution. the only other fee is matriculationfee that is $350 charged to you of your first term enrolling in classes here. andthat is a fee that all oregon state university students pay that are seeking a degree with us.this program is eligible for financial aid. i have the resources listed here. we havea financial aid office here at oregon state university
and you connect with them at the website orphone number listed here. if you have any questions about your award letter or lookingfor general information about federal aid or any other types of scholarship, i encourageyou to start first with studentaid.ed.gov. that website really houses all of the eligibility requirements and what to do and if you don't meet eligibility requirements as well as youhave great resources to search for national scholarships, state scholarships and thingslike that. now i'm going to have rebecca badger talkto you about our university. >> rebecca badger: thank you. for those whoare not familiar with oregon state university, we wanted to share a few facts about our university.osu is accredited by the northwest commission
on colleges and universities. we have morethan 30,000 students and we're located in corvallis, oregon. we have two branch campuses, onein newport on the coast of oregon and bend where osu cascades campus is located.we are internationally recognized public research university and one of only two land, sea,space and sun grant institutions in the nation. you might wonder what does that mean for youas an osu student and what it means, as ean referenced earlier, it means our faculty are incorporating that leading edge knowledge they are getting through research and applying that directlyinto the courses. our students are learning from the latest discoveries in science andtechnology. we think that is very exciting. osu ecampus, that is the group that deliversthis program online. we offer 20 undergraduate
degrees and 23 graduate programs. we havestudents studying all over the world. in 2005, we were ranked number 5 in the nationfor undergraduate bachelor's degree. that is something we are particularly proud ofas it speaks to the quality of the programs here at oregon state and our faculty.our students that are taking courses online through oregon state ecampus experience thesame rigorous curriculum and taking classes from the same faculty who teach here as our on-campus students do. >> amy theis: i want to add quickly to thatrebecca. we were voted number 5 in 2015. >> rebecca badger: that is a good point. thisyear we were ranked number 5 in the nation by us news report. that's a little bit aboutoregon state ecampus. at this point we have
covered everything we were hoping to sharewith you today. what we would like to do is open it up for questions. if you have a questionfor ean or amy, you can type it into the chat box and we will take questions as they comein. like i mentioned at the beginning if thereis something specific you are wondering about your particular situation, you can go aheadand type it into the chat box and we can follow up with you afterward as needed. we will takeany questions that you might have at this point. there might be something you heardabout the program or the curriculum that you are curious to learn more about. or maybe youare ready to apply and get started and you want some additional insight as to how that process works.
while we are waiting for people to form theirquestions, ean are there questions that you typically get from students that might be helpful? whatare some more common questions you hear from people who are interested in this program?>> ean ng: the most common questions i get, i definitely understand where is it comingfrom. when you go to graduate school regardless of where you go, they ask you have an undergraduategpa of 3.0. anything less than that will be questioning a lot. for this particular programwe ask for the 3.0, however, i understand for a lot of engineering students in undergraduate degreemay not be motivated to do as well and that is common in engineering. if your gpa is lessthan 3.0, make sure your reference letter is very strong. get people who know you, your boss, your immediate supervisor
or people who work around you or work withyou write a reference letter because that counts. we need to see you are dependableand self-motivated and we need to see that you can succeed in this program, before weaccept students in. we want to make sure our students succeed, we don't just accept anybody for the sake ofaccepting. we want to make sure you can succeed. if your undergraduate gpa is not 3.0 or abovemake sure you have a good recommendation letter. that is one of the more common questions iget. >> rebecca badger: thank you. you guys justhosted an event this past weekend for students in the program to come to campus and get achance to meet each other in person. maybe you can talk a little bit of opportunitieslike that for students who are in the program
to connect with others and the benefit ofthat. >> ean ng: we generally have this meet andgreet twice a year. we try to do that in the corvallis campus and later on if there is a need wemight do it in the portland area. it was a very fun event. we had a number of studentscome in. they've been taking classes with other friends for a while and people theymeet online. it was an experience for them to meet each other and say hello and put aface to the name. they get to meet the professors who are teaching courses. when we teach, wedon't get to meet you in person. that was a fun event. and it changes quite a bit ofthe dynamics in class as well. this is what we found out from the event. >> rebecca badger: thank you.>> amy theis: i think we have a question coming
in. there's a person on the line curious who is curious, as a corvallis resident, what kind of on-campus elective courses are available to satisfythe curriculum requirements for the online program?>> ean ng: if you are on campus or in corvallis it depends because we need to sit down andsee what classes you want to take. we have a lot of classes in the industrial engineeringdepartment in that area you can take to satisfy that. for example, the class on lean manufacturing,we have an on-campus section and ecampus section. the same thing applies for project management, we have an on-campus and an ecampus version of those two courses. if you want to take it in person you can.and there are some other ie classes you can look at taking that to satisfy it. the most wecan allow is up to 15 credits of nonengineering
management courses to satisfy that requirement.>> rebecca badger: great. we will see if any other questions come in. we must have beena really good job of answering everybody's questions upfront in your presentation ean.there is one question it looks like. >> amy theis: the next question is are someof the credit classes transferable to a pmp certificate?>> ean ng: at this point we are not working with project management professional societyon that. however, if you are certified pmp, we can waive that requirement to take the project managementclass. you need to take another class to make up for that but no other credit is transferableto any type of certificate at this point. >> amy theis: thank you so much and we'veadded the resources to the screen. you can
find out more about how to apply, when toapply. you can look at the website for a specific degree program and more information.>> rebecca badger: it looks like we don't have any more questions coming in. if there's something that comesup after this session and you want to reach out directly to ean or our ecampus office,please feel free to do that. we look forward to hearing from you. and thank you so much for attending.before we go, we have one more question. >> amy theis: the question is do you haveto begin the program at a certain time or can you start during any quarter in the academic year?>> ean ng: you can start during any quarter of the academic year. we make sure to offer the introduction to engineering management for scientists and engineers in every quarter. as long as you start by taking that course, that will be fine. in terms of the application,
regardless of which quarter you get in, istrongly recommend you have the application completed in at least eight weeks before youwant to begin. even though graduate school will take it in three days, i strongly recommend eight weeks, that will allow you in that time to get what resources you need. >> rebecca badger: good question. thank youall for attending today's information session about oregon state's master of engineering inengineering management program. we will be sending and you will receive an e-mail tothe link to the recording within 24 hours of this session. again if you have any questions,please feel free to reach out to us. thank you so much.
