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Minor in Engineering Management

Offered by: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Administrative Contact: CE Undergraduate Major Coordinator, 221 Hollister Hall, 607.255.3412. www.cee.cornell.edu

Eligibility

Students in all Majors may participate in this Minor. (CE Majors may not use courses to fulfill the Minor requirement and simultaneously as a Major-approved Elective or as a Design course.) ORE Majors have some specific restrictions and requirements as noted below.

Educational Objectives

This Minor focuses on giving engineering students a basic understanding of engineering economics, accounting, statistics, project-management methods, and analysis tools necessary to manage technical operations and projects effectively. The Minor provides an important set of collateral skills for students in any engineering discipline.

Requirements

At least six (6) courses (minimum of 18 credits), chosen as follows:

Required Courses (3)

CEE 323: Engineering Economics and Management
or
OR&IE 451: Economic Analysis of Engineering Systems

OR&IE 350a: Financial and Managerial Accounting

CEE 304b: Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering
or
ENGRD 270: Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
or
ECE 310: Introduction to Probability and Random Signals

Additional Courses (choose any three)c

CEE 406: Civil Infrastructure Systems

CEE 492: Engineers for a Sustainable World: Engineering in International Development

CEE 593d: Engineering Management Methods: Data, Information, and Modeling

CEE 594d: Economic Methods for Engineering and Management

CEE 595: Construction Planning and Operations

CEE 596: Management Issues in Forensic Engineering

CEE 597: Risk Analysis and Management

CEE 598: Introduction to Decision Analysis

NBA 507: Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers
or
M&AE 461/ENGRG 461/OR&IE 452: Entrepreneurship for Engineers
or
BEE 489: Engineering Entrepreneurship, Management, and Ethics

Academic Standards

At least a grade of C in each course in the Minor.

Notes

a.    ORE Majors must substitute NCC 556: Managerial Finance or NBA 500: Intermediate Accounting for OR&IE 350.

b.    T&AM 310: Introduction to Applied Mathematics I cannot be substituted for CEE 304.

c.    Other courses approved by petition in advance.

d.    This course is not accepted for ORE Majors.

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