Technology Management Ph.D.
Admission Requirements
Application Materials
- Resume or CV including any supervised field experiences, student teaching, or practicum.
- Statement of Purpose: Describe your educational goals and career objectives in 1 - 2 pages (upload as a pdf in the application). Explain how the Department of Engineering and Technology Management will contribute to them.
- Contact Information for Three References.
- Submit an essay (1-2 pages) responding to the prompt below. You must write your essay and upload it in your application as either a PDF or Word document.
- Ph.D. Essay Prompt: Describe your research interests, including what types of models you envision, and what kind of data you might need in your Ph.D. research.
Timeline
(Step-1): Admission to the program;
(Step-2): Successful completion of the equivalent of at least 60 credits of coursework beyond the Bachelor's degree distributed as follows:
- CORE: Select five courses from the list below and a minimum of one per group.
- Group-1: ETM 520 Management of Engineering and Technology, ETM 549 Management of Technology Innovation;
- Group-2: ETM 545 Project Management, ETM 555 Technology Marketing;
- Group-3: ETM 526 Strategic Management of Technology, ETM 527 Competitive Strategies in Technology Management;
- Group-4: ETM 531 Technology Assessment and Acquisition, ETM 533 Technology Transfer.
- SPECIALIZATION: at least 20 credits from courses supporting the proposed research area, including Communications and Team-building, Strategic Planning, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Management, Total Quality Management, Technology Forecasting, Managing Intellectual Capital, Ethical Issues in Technology Management, Technology Entrepreneurship, Project Management Framework, Project Management Tools, R&D Management, New Product Development, Managing New Technology Introduction, Human Side of Technology Management, Mgmt-544: Technology Management, Mktg 548: Product Management and Innovation, MIM 524: Global Sourcing and Supply, Psy 578: Leadership and Group Effectiveness, Psy 615: Advanced Industrial/Organizational Psychology, PA 545: Organization Development, PA 555: Program Evaluation and Management, PA 598: Value-based Management, Ec 531: Urban Economics, Ec 532: Environmental Economics.
- METHODOLOGY: at least 20 credits from the following courses: Decision Making, Advanced Engineering Economics, Benchmarking Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Operations Research, Manufacturing Systems Simulation, Research Methods for Engineering and Technology Management, Technology Forecasting, Decision Support Systems: Data Warehousing, Project Management Tools, Strategic Intelligence, Psy 621: Univariate Quantitative Methods, Psy 622: Multiple Regression & Multivariate Quant Methods, Psy 623: Factor Analysis & Covariance Structure Modeling, Psy 593: Decision Making Laboratory, Mth 667, Mth 668, Mth 669: Stochastic Processes and Probability Theory-I, II, III, Mth 692: Research Methodology and Design, Stat 451, Stat 452: Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists-I, II, Stat 564: Applied Regression Analysis, SySc 514: System Dynamics, SySc 625: Agent Based Simulation, SySc 627: Discrete System Simulation, SySc 629: Business Process Modeling and Simulation, USP-655: Structural Equation Modeling, USP 656: Multilevel Regression, Ec 586: Project Evaluation, Ec 570: Econometrics. The student may also choose additional courses in other academic units throughout the university, approved by their adviser, if such courses are supportive of their proposed research areas.
(Step-3): 12 project credits of ETM 606 supervised by Engineering & Technology Management faculty culminating in the preparation of a research paper evaluated by the Engineering & Technology Management faculty as being at the level of acceptable papers for a national or international conference on Engineering and Technology Management.
(Step-4): Successful completion of a comprehensive examination to demonstrate mastery of the Engineering and Technology Management field, including the defense of the research paper described in step 3 above.
(Step-5): Selection of the dissertation adviser from the Engineering & Technology Management faculty and formation of the Ph.D. committee including one member appointed by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
(Step-6): Development of the dissertation proposal and its approval by the Ph.D. committee resulting in the advancement to Ph.D. candidacy.
(Step-7): Registering for at least 27 dissertation credits while conducting research after successful completion of the comprehensive exam.
(Step-8): Preparation of at least one publishable paper for a research journal or a recognized refereed technical conference proceedings based upon the dissertation research.
(Step-9): Defense of the dissertation.