Minor in Engineering Leadership
About the Minor
By completing a minor in Engineering Leadership, students will gain practice in self-reflection, mentorship, management, and communication. Students will customize their minor by choosing from one of four available tracks: entrepreneurship, leadership, management, and technology. A culminating project focused on solving engineering problems in the local community will connect students’ technical knowledge with service to others.
Admission Requirements
This program is currently open to students in engineering disciplines, which include programs from the College of Engineering, College of Computing and Informatics, School of Biomedical Engineering, and students in the Business & Engineering program in the LeBow College of Business.
Program Requirements
| Required Courses | ||
| EGMT 404 [WI] | Introduction to Engineering Management Communications | 3.0 |
| EGMT 462 | Introduction to Engineering Management | 3.0 |
| EGMT 470 | Engineering Leadership Capstone | 2.0 |
| ORGB 320 | Leadership: Theory and Practice | 4.0 |
| Elective Tracks: Students must choose one of the following elective tracks. Substitutions may be made in any of these tracks with prior approval from the Department. | 12.0 | |
| Management Track | ||
| Business Law I | ||
| Engineering Economic Analysis | ||
| Introduction to Systems Engineering | ||
| Introduction to Project Management | ||
| Entrepreneurship Track | ||
| Leading Start-Ups | ||
| Building Entrepreneurial Teams | ||
| Entrepreneurship & New Technologies | ||
| Global Entrepreneurship | ||
| Innovation in Established Companies | ||
| Leadership Track | ||
| Organizational Behavior | ||
| Team Development and Leadership | ||
| Negotiations and Conflict Resolution | ||
| Essentials of Project Leadership and Teamwork | ||
| Technology Track | ||
| Introduction to Technology Innovation Management | ||
| Designing Innovative Organizations | ||
| Competing in Technology Industries | ||
| Technology Management | ||
| Systems Engineering Analysis | ||
| Optional (these courses may be substituted for any of the above elective options) | ||
| Survey of Mentorship | ||
| Survey of Leadership | ||
| Total Credits | 24.0 | |
Writing-Intensive Course Requirements
In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid “clustering” these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.
A "WI" next to a course in this catalog may indicate that this course can fulfill a writing-intensive requirement. For the most up-to-date list of writing-intensive courses being offered, students should check the Writing Intensive Course List at the University Writing Program. Students scheduling their courses can also conduct a search for courses with the attribute "WI" to bring up a list of all writing-intensive courses available that term.