The Engineering Management Minor is a leadership-focused course of study that emphasizes real-life experience and engineering practice, not just theory. A Tufts engineering degree combined with an Engineering Management Minor will give you a competitive edge and equip you to make significant contributions as soon as you enter the workplace. The minor in Engineering Management is available for all engineering undergraduate students at Tufts.

Students who have completed the necessary requirements to earn the minor in Engineering Management should complete the appropriate minor certification form:

Minor Certification Form Before F09 (PDF) (for students who began the Engineering Management Minor coursework before the Fall 2009)
Minor Certification Form F09 and After (PDF)  (for students who began the Engineering Management Minor coursework in the Fall 2009 term or after)

The completed minor certification form should be mailed or delivered to:
Tufts Gordon Institute
200 Boston Ave., Suite 2400
Medford, MA 02155

For inquiries related to the minor in engineering management, contact Mary Viola, Program Director, Engineering Management Program at mary.viola@tufts.edu or 617-627-4622.

Requirements:
Five courses are required for this minor. All five courses in the minor must be taken for a grade. Course descriptions are available at http://uss.tufts.edu/stuServ/bulletin.

Four are designated:
(PLEASE NOTE that there have been some recent changes to the minor requirements and course numbers, as indicated below):

• EM051 – Engineering Management (EM051 replaces ES052, ME054)
• EM052 – Technical and Managerial Communications (EM052 replaces ES051)
• EM153 – Management of Innovation
• EM054 – Engineering Leadership

One must be selected from the School of Engineering Elective Options or the General Course Elective Options listed below:

School of Engineering Elective Options

• Comp171 - Human Computer Interaction
• Comp180 - Software Engineering
• ME102 - Inventive Design
• ENP161- Human Factor Product Design
• ME108 - Modern Quality Control
• ES152 - Engineering Systems: Stochastic Models
• ES56 - Probability and Statistics
• CEE53 - Engineering Economics
• CE185 - Legal Issues in Engineering
• CBE110 - Introduction to Optimization

General Course Elective Options

• EC3 – Principles of Accounting (Free Elective)
• PS104 – Public Administration (Free Elective)
• PSY17 – Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Social Science Elective)
• SOC122 – Organizational Behavior (Free Elective)
• ELS103, ELS105, ELS107 – (Social Science Elective)
  (note: ELS107 only as alternate to EM054 – Engineering Leadership, with permission)
• DR0027 – Public Speaking (Humanities Elective)
• PSY0006 – Psychology of Leadership (Free Elective)
  (note: PSY0006 only as alternate to EM054 – Engineering Leadership, with permission)
• PSY53 – Engineering Psychology (Free Elective)
• SOC114 – Sociology of Leadership (Social Science Elective)