Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Viola, School of Engineering, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

assignments to apply these new skills withintheir teams at both Tufts and in their workplace.Modules from various courses are taught throughout the program. This reinforces the learningachieved early in the program as students proceed through the course of study. As an example,the Project and Operations Management course includes 2 modules taught in the first semester, 1in the second semester, and 1 in the fourth semester. Although different instructors may teachmodules in a particular course, the faculty enforces quality control; each course has a singular“course director”. Each semester, faculty members meet to discuss common projects, integration,and overlap of modules