Is Engineering Management Really an Engineering Field of Study?
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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12
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--40484
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https://peer.asee.org/40484
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405
Paper Authors
Jena Asgarpoor University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Dr. Jena Asgarpoor is a Professor of Practice at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and the Director for the Master of Engineering Management Program in the College of Engineering. Dr. Asgarpoor received her Ph. D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Engineering Management, from Texas A&M University in College Station where she had previously earned a B.A. in Political Science (Summa Cum Laude). Prior to UNL, she was a professor at Bellevue University for 26 years, where in 1994 as part of her teaching portfolio she developed and taught the first fully online asynchronous web-based course offered by that institution. Her interests lie engineering management, quality management, pedagogy, and assessment of teaching and learning particularly in the online space. She is active in the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). In recent years she has served as Secretary, President, and Past-President of the Council of Engineering Management Academic Leaders (CEMAL) and is currently serving as Treasurer and Co-Program Chair for the Engineering Management Division (EMD), and Outreach Liaison for the Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) of ASEE. Dr. Asgarpoor was recently elected as the 2022-2023 Secretary for the American Society for Engineering Management.
Neal Lewis University of Nebraska - Lincoln
NEAL A. LEWIS, CPEM, received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri–Rolla and his MBA in 2000 from the University of New Haven. He has over 25 years of industrial experience at Procter & Gamble and Bayer. He is a faculty member of the online Master of Engineering Management program at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Previously, he taught at UMR (now Missouri S&T), Marshall University, University of Bridgeport, University of New Haven, Fairfield University, and Oregon State University. He has over 100 publications and presentations, including 3 books, 4 best paper awards at conferences, the 2009 Grant award (TEE), and the 2005 Eschenbach award (EMJ). Neal is a Fellow and Associate Executive Director of ASEM.
Abstract
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) started the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) in 1980 to facilitate the organization, collection, and reporting of fields of study and program completions. While engineering management was previously listed under CIP 14 for “Engineering”, in 2000 it was moved to CIP 15 “Engineering/Engineering-related Technologies/Technicians”. In effect, the federal government views engineering management programs as Engineering Technology. This paper explores the status of CIP codes for engineering management instructional programs, the uses of CIP codes in higher education, the procedure to obtain a new CIP Code, and reasons why the engineering management community may want to return to a CIP 14 code.
Asgarpoor, J., & Lewis, N. (2022, August), Is Engineering Management Really an Engineering Field of Study? Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40484
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