CurriculumEngineering Management Minor Program
ATTENTION: The program will not be accepting Engineering Minor applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. Students that are currently in the program will still be able to complete the EM Minor.
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 a 3.0 in their EM Minor courses to earn the EM Minor award. The EM Minor consists of taking a total of 3 credits:
- Two required course credits as indicated below.
- A one-credit elective course OR two half-credit elective courses chosen from the list below*.
Required Courses (2 Credit Hours)
- MEM 402 – Engineering Management (offered in winter)
- MEM 407 – Decision Tools for Managers (requires statistics, offered in spring)
Elective Courses (1 credit hour)
- 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 419 - Technical Entrepreneurship
- MEM 420 - Organizing for Innovation
- MEM 426 – Project Management
- MEM 429 – Negotiations for Engineers
- MEM 430 – Product Management
- MEM 490 – Product Management for Digital Transformation
- MEM 490 – Technology Venture Capital Investing Practicum
*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
Check the current MEM course offerings
Application to Program:
ATTENTION: The program will not be accepting Engineering Minor applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. Students that are currently in the program will still be able to complete the EM Minor.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about the engineering management minor option, please email the Master of Engineering Management program.
