Modifications of Engineering Management Program at California State University Northridge

This paper discusses the structure, requirements, and teaching methods of a new Online Master of Science degree in Engineering Management (EMOL) to be offered through Tseng College, an extended learning wing of California State University-Northridge (CSUN). This new program is significantly different from the residential program currently offered by Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management (MSEM) department of CSUN in a number of aspects. To come up with our ideas for restructuring the Engineering Management (EM) program, we first conducted a benchmarking effort, by reviewing various EM programs. In this paper, the authors have summarized the results of their research about similar programs offered in leading US schools. The authors are in the processes of implementing two categories of changes: first restructuring program requirements and then modernizing the teaching and delivery methods. These two together should modernize the statuesque to bring it to the state of the art education of EM.