CERTIFICATES

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EMP offers seven engineering and management professional certifications:

Professional certification from EMP provides an effective means for working professionals to gain the knowledge and skills they need to assume new management responsibilities. Our certificates provide a highly focused foundation in specific technical and management methods and teach best practices and tools that can be immediately applied to the work environment. Our distance learning program gives students the ability to manage the demands of their professional and personal lives while studying from wherever they live, work or travel. Course credits earned may also be applied toward a Masters degree in Engineering Management.

Professionals with a baccalaureate degree and one year of professional experience are eligible to enroll in a certificate program.

Benefits

 

Engineering Entrepreneurship (12 hours). This certificate is offered in partnership with the nationally-renowned Deming Center for Entrepreneurship. It provides the student with the essential knowledge, understanding and skills to successfully practice entrepreneurship in a start-up venture or within a larger corporation (intrapreneurship). The focus is on how to launch, lead and manage a viable business starting with concept validation to commercialization and business formation. The program culminates with the development of a business plan for a project you choose that you then pitch to business community leaders and venture capitalists. The following courses may be taken in any order with the exception of EMEN 5825 which is the capstone and must be taken as the final course in the certificate program.

Project Management (9 hours). This certificate is designed around the Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and builds a foundation for the preparation of PMP certification. The certificate can be completed in one calendar year.

Managing Innovation (12 hours). Innovation has become essential to every company's survival and well-being. Innovation takes many forms including product, process, and business model innovation. Individuals who understand and can manage innovation and creativity have great career opportunities. This certificate provides proven concepts and tools for managing the creation and development of new products and processes, and the innovation process of strategy formation, portfolio development, and project execution in both hardware and software environments.

Performance Excellence in Technology Management (12 hours). This certificate provides a cutting-edge model for Business Performance Excellence (BPE). BPE is a facilitating system enabling companies to successfully execute their improvement program efforts, such as Six Sigma, to increase profitability. In addition to cost reduction, the application of quality principles and allocated cost accounting enables identification of revenue generating "sweet spots" for profit optimization.

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Managing Applied Research in Technology (12 hours). This certificate provides engineering managers with the tools to effectively and efficiently manage applied research in areas such as sustaining engineering, customer and supplier evaluation, quality improvement and problem solving, new process and facility start-up, the design of complex and interdependent systems and cost reduction analysis. Methods taught include advanced experimental design, sample sizes, use of powerful parametric and nonparametric analyses and data mining.

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Quality Systems for Product & Process Engineering (12 hours). This certificate provides engineering managers with the technical expertise needed to manage initiatives in quality improvement, problem-solving and reliability improvement. Upon completion, students are certified as Green Belts for Six Sigma programs.

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Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making (9 hours).
Engineers and scientists can think systemically, visualize complex technical and human interactions and resolve conflicting viewpoints. This certificate develops technical professionals so that they may apply these talents more broadly and play a leadership role in their organizations. Students develop the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and learn the ethical decision-making processes they need to make real-world decisions. There are two core courses.

The third course is chosen by the student from the following list. Each of these courses provides grounding and context for the different situations in which technical professionals work.

Engineering Management (12 hours). The certificate provides a broad-based view of the key principles and concepts that are important for technical managers, including finance and accounting, leadership and management, quality management and project management. The certificate requires four courses selected from the five core courses in the Engineering Management graduate curriculum.

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