Open AccessThe Ms Mba Dual Degree Program: An Integrated Engineering And Business Approach To Product Development
Author(s) -
Arnold Lumsdaine,
Frank Speckhart,
Geoff Robson,
Kenneth B. Kahn,
M. Keyhani,
Dan Fant,
Rapinder Sawhney
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
2006 annual conference and exposition proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/1-2--1211
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , product (mathematics) , new product development , multidisciplinary approach , dual (grammatical number) , engineering management , business plan , computer science , entrepreneurship , product design , graduate degree , engineering , marketing , business , medical education , mathematics , sociology , mechanical engineering , art , geometry , literature , social science , medicine , finance
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville initiated the innovative dual degree program in the fall of 2001. Its focus is to integrate the skills and knowledge of students studying both engineering and business, and to direct those skills to product development. It permits students, in 23 months, to obtain a Master of Business Administration [MBA] degree and a Master of Science [MS] degree in an engineering discipline. It is expected that, by the completion of the program, student teams will have developed a concept, a business plan, a marketing plan and a prototype for a marketable product. The vision of the MS-MBA dual degree is not merely to allow students to receive two graduate degrees in a compressed time frame, but to tightly integrate the two degrees, so that multidisciplinary student teams develop an industrial product from concept-to-market.
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