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Session 2342

DEVELOPING AN “IN-HOUSE” GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT – A CASE STUDY

Dr.Z.J.Herbsman1, Dr.E.E.Middleton 2, and C.Cosma 3 1&3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Florida/ 2 Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District

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The engineering management profession these days is facing a major problem. In most cases, engineers leave universities after completing their Bachelor’s degree, and a few years later, after accumulating practical experience, they express the desire to continue their education towards an advance degree (mainly a Master’s degree) in their area of specialization. These engineers, who are typically employed full time, are only able to continue their education if a suitable graduate program is available locally during evenings or weekends. This scenario is very rare and more often the only other option these engineers have is to become full time students at a university for a period of 1 - 2 years. This option is very expensive and in most cases unfeasible for financial and logistical support people.

One of the solutions to this problem is to offer an “in – house” graduate degree. An organization that can provide financial and logistical support to such a program can offer the degree “in – house”. This solution will enable engineers to work full time and at the same time get their degree without having to give up their job. As for the organizations offering convenient access to advanced education, can help them to recruit top people, as well as motivate existing employees.

The paper will describe such a program developed at University of Florida and is offered in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Jacksonville district. This program which started in 1995, has 35 students (army professionals) and is very successful. The program was using three different lecturing tools: · Professors traveling to organization’s location to teach graduate classes there; · Graduate courses offered on videotape (FEEDS); · On – line courses (Internet). The paper will analyze the conclusions drawn from seven years of conducting this program and will discuss some problems that had to be overcome. The authors believe that such a program

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Herbsman, Z., & Cosma, C. (2002, June), Developing An "In House" Graduate Program In Engineering Management A Case Study Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10730