Curriculum designed to prepare engineering and technical leaders.

Tufts Gordon Institute’s M.S. in Engineering Management is a fully accredited degree program that consists of a defined sequence of classroom sessions (Classroom Learning) combined with real-world project-based activities (Experienced-Based Learning). The classroom sessions are interactive, intense and intimate, and provide you with the broad base of knowledge you need to manage within a functional area as well as across functional lines. Project activities give you valuable experience in leading teams and working with others on issues of relevance to technology-based organizations. Moreover, the real-world focus of our curriculum allows you to immediately apply what you learn to your job.

Tufts Gordon Institute requires each student to complete the following 10- credit degree program (10 credits are equivalent to 40 semester hours of study). Please note that Tufts University uses a 1-credit per course system.
 

Classroom Learning: A Modular Approach Unlike most graduate programs, students in the M.S. in Engineering Management degree program at Tufts Gordon Institute do not complete an entire course over a single semester. In our program, the content of each of the six core courses is broken down into a series of integrated modules. At any given time, you will study several modules from several different courses simultaneously. This format is designed to let you gain exposure to important topics early in your studies, and build upon what you have learned as you move through the program. The number of classroom hours dedicated to each module varies, depending on the amount of time required to learn the specific material. This format allows us to modify or update the curriculum by improving the module contents, adding or deleting a specific module, or changing the number of sessions allotted to the module. It also gives us the flexibility to hire faculty members to teach the individual modules based on their expertise in the particular topic.

Curriculum: Course EM 210 Quantitative Methods Course EM 220 Product & Process Development Course EM 230 Project and Operations Management Course EM 240 Strategic Management Course EM 250 Humanistic Perspectives of Engineering Leadership Course EM 260 Engineering Leadership

 

Experienced-Based Learning: There’s No Substitute for Real-World Projects. Experienced-based learning challenges you to apply what you have learned in the classroom to real-world problems, and requires you to demonstrate your ability to be a technical leader. The team practicum and the individual leadership project are the two elements of experience-based learning.

Curriculum: Course EM 270 Team Practicum Course EM 280 Individual Leadership Project

Optional Courses

Gordon Institute students may take up to three courses from the general Tufts University course catalog in addition to the courses defined in the Institute's curriculum. These electives are not required to earn the Master's degree in Engineering Management, but are an excellent way for a student to further develop their knowledge in a particular area of study. Students may take the elective courses during any of the four academic semesters they are enrolled at the Gordon Institute.