CurriculumEngineering Management Minor Program
ATTENTION: The Engineering Minor (EM) application deadline for students to start in Winter 2026 has been extended to December 1, 2025.
PLEASE NOTE: All new Engineering Minor students must take MEM 402: Engineering Management in Winter 2026. This course will be offered remotely on Mondays, 6:00PM – 9:00PM CST.
One particularly popular combination is a major in any engineering field with a three-course minor in engineering management, or EM Minor, offered through the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Program within the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences.
Students must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 in their EM Minor courses to earn the EM Minor. Once completed, an Engineering Management Minor notation will be added to the student's transcript.
The EM Minor consists of taking a total of 3 credits:
- Two required course credits as indicated below.
- A one-credit elective course chosen from the list below*.
Required Courses (2 Credit Hours)
- MEM 402 – Engineering Management (taken in the Winter quarter)
- MEM 407 – Decision Tools for Managers (requires statistics, taken in the Spring quarter)
Elective Courses (1 credit hour)
(This course is taken in the Fall quarter)- MEM 410 - Managerial Analytics
- MEM 411 - Marketing Analytics (Formerly MEM 490: Marketing Analytics)
- MEM 412 - Operations Excellence
- MEM 414 – Supply Chain Management
- MEM 415 - Computer Simulation for Risk and Operations Analysis (requires strong statistics background)
- MEM 416 - Business Process Change Management
- MEM 417 - Product Development
- MEM 420 - Organizing for Innovation
- MEM 426 – Project Management
- MEM 429 – Negotiations for Engineers
- MEM 430 – Product Management
- MEM 490 - Digital Transformation: Evolving Product, Vision and Business Strategies
- MEM 490 - Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
*NOTE: The MEM program, at the discretion of the director, can update the elective course list as new courses are added to the MEM curriculum. No outside course substitutions will be allowed.
Enrollment Considerations:
- Each course is subject to availability
- Students must have approval from their departmental advisor to participate in the EM Minor program
- Students must complete a post-calculus, probability, and statistics course before starting the EM minor program
- EM minor students may only enroll in one MEM course each quarter and space is limited
- MEM students are given enrollment priority in MEM courses
Check the current MEM course offerings
Application to Program:
To apply, please fill out the Engineering Management Minor Program Application. This application must be reviewed and signed by your advisor. Once completed, the application must then be submitted by clicking on the SUBMIT APPLICATION HERE button below and following the instructions.
*This application is for students that plan to start the EM minor in Winter 2026. The application will close on December 1, 2025. Admission decisions will be released on December 8, 2025.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about the engineering management minor option, please email the Master of Engineering Management program.
