Introduction
The MSOE MBA is an innovative program for future leaders who want to solve business problems in a technical world. Through an integrated curriculum, you’ll develop leadership competencies using a combination of core content and field projects. With online classes and specializations in leadership and business analytics, you can tailor the MBA to fit your career goals.
The MSOE MBA is an integrative graduate program focused on strategic business functions, organizational leadership, and the effective application of business knowledge by organizational and business leaders. Built upon more than 50 years of tradition preparing engineers and technical professionals for management careers, the MSOE MBA serves students from a variety of industry backgrounds.
The program features strategic MBA content and analysis of leading-edge business cases and requires you to apply your learning to solve real problems in your business or organization. You will experience rich faculty/student interaction that is the hallmark of an MSOE education. MSOE professors possess world-class academic credentials, have substantial business leadership experience, and are outstanding educators. The innovative and integrated design of the MSOE MBA focuses your learning at the graduate level with no need for a refresher, foundation, or prerequisite steps once you are admitted.
With a specialization in leadership, you’ll focus on organizational leadership, with courses in economics, human resources, operations, and more. A business analytics specialization will prepare you to make data-driven decisions through courses in predictive analytics, data visualization, and more.
The Ramirez Fellows Program is for engineers and technical-minded professionals who want to improve the processes of tomorrow’s health care. The program provides funding support for MSOE MBA students who are pursuing a business analytics specialization and want to elevate health care delivery. It also includes an internship at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Program Objectives
The MSOE MBA is designed to develop competencies in a broad range of topics that will allow our graduates to:
Lead Organizations - organization management and administration
Lead Others - effective human resource management/development and stakeholder relationships
Lead Self - personal behavior, characteristics, traits and skills of effective leaders
Lead for High-Performance - developing a culture and climate that foster high achievement
Lead Now and for the Future - cultivating mission/vision with input from a broad representation of stakeholders
Student Outcomes
The MBA program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission in November 2013 and also mirrors the standards included in other academic accreditation agencies. MBA graduates will be able to:
Demonstrate professionalism, ethical behavior, leadership, and effective communication skills
Exhibit a global perspective and awareness of how cultural differences impact businesses
Possess the skills required to integrate concepts from accounting, finance, marketing, operations, technology, and human resources to identify and develop innovative business strategies
Utilize qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate and solve critical business problems
Evaluate, select and lead the implementation of innovative technologies and methods that support organizational strategic priorities
Demonstrate the ability to lead and facilitate cross-functional, multi-cultural teams to drive organizational effectiveness
Curriculum
The program is built on an innovative four-credit course model that integrates traditional and new MBA content in a way that mirrors application. This allows the student to apply the content of class-based case analysis, culminating with the application of new knowledge in project-based field experiences during which leadership competencies are shaped and assessed. All MBA courses are required. Students have the flexibility to take many of the courses without prerequisites. The student’s experience will culminate with an MBA project after the completion of all the required MBA courses.
Specializations
Students have the opportunity to earn a specialization as part of the MBA program. The MBA with specialization requires students to complete at least 30 credits of MBA core requirements designated with course prefix of “MB.” At least 15 of the remaining degree credits must be from the area of concentration.
MBA - Leadership Specialization
MB 6000 - Management Principles 4 credits
MB 6110 - Fundamental Statistics and Analytics 4 credits
MB 6200 - Finance and Accounting 4 credits
MB 6310 - Professional Seminar I 1 credit
MB 6320 - Professional Seminar II 1 credit
MB 6400 - Economic Analysis Decision Making 4 credits
MB 6600 - Human Resource Management 4 credits
MB 6900 - Project Management 4 credits
MB 7500 - Operations and Systems Management 4 credits
MB 7700 - Marketing 4 credits
MB 7800 - Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship 4 credits
MB 7900 - Strategy 4 credits
MB 8110 - Capstone Phase I 1 credits
MB 8120 - Capstone Phase II 1 credit
MB 8130 - Capstone Phase III 1 credit
MBA - Construction Management Specialization
CM 5020 - Project Acquisitions and Business Development 3 credits
CM 5040 - Construction Operations and Management Strategies 3 credits
CM 5045 - Lean Construction and Resource Management 3 credits
CM 7005 - Sustainable Built Environment 3 credits
CM 7050 - Construction Data and Information Management 3 credits
MB 6000 - Management Principles 4 credits
MB 6110 - Fundamental Statistics and Analytics 4 credits
MB 6200 - Finance and Accounting 4 credits
MB 6310 - Professional Seminar I 1 credit
MB 6320 - Professional Seminar II 1 credit
MB 6400 - Economic Analysis Decision Making 4 credits
MB 6600 - Human Resource Management 4 credits
MB 6900 - Project Management 4 credits
MB 8110 - Capstone Phase I 1 credits
MB 8120 - Capstone Phase II 1 credit
MB 8130 - Capstone Phase III 1 credit
MB 8900 - Integrated Field Project 1 credits
MBA - Business Analytics Specialization
MB 6000 - Management Principles 4 credits
MB 6110 - Fundamental Statistics and Analytics 4 credits
MB 6121 - Data Wrangling and Exploration 4 credits
MB 6131 - Predictive Analytics 4 credits
MB 6141 - Analytics Leadership and Strategy 4 credits
MB 6151 - Data Visualization 4 credits
MB 6200 - Finance and Accounting 4 credits
MB 6310 - Professional Seminar I 1 credit
MB 6320 - Professional Seminar II 1 credit
MB 6900 - Project Management 4 credits
MB 7700 - Marketing 4 credits
MB 7800 - Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship 4 credits
MB 8110 - Capstone Phase I 1 credits
MB 8120 - Capstone Phase II 1 credit
MB 8130 - Capstone Phase III 1 credit
Capstone
Each student completes a capstone project. The final activity has two primary objectives: 1) it is a learning experience in which the student has the opportunity to discover something about a business topic that is not readily accessible, that is not conventional wisdom, and is not found in any book or other common source, and 2) it is a means by which the student demonstrates his or her depth and breadth of learning from the MBA program. Alumni cite this opportunity as one of the most valuable components of the program in their career advancement.
About MSOE
At MSOE you will find dreamers, thinkers, makers, and doers. It is the university of choice for those seeking a community of experimental learners driven to solve the complex challenges of today and tomorrow. MSOE faculty are student-focused experts who bring real-world experience into the classroom. This approach to learning makes our students ready now, as well as prepared for the future. Partnerships with business and industry leaders enable students to learn alongside professional mentors. We challenge our students to go beyond what is possible.
As a highly ranked engineering university in the US, MSOE focuses on laboratory experience and career practice. MSOE challenges students to think outside the box and apply a hands-on approach to solving problems.
MSOE students are hard-working, creative, and have a desire to know more. Our close-knit community of only 3,000 students gives the opportunity to work hand in hand with classmates and professors and allows students to bring practical knowledge to the classroom. Overall, MSOE is the university of choice for students looking to pursue their passions and challenge the standard. MSOE will set the standard for preparing leaders to solve the diverse technical challenges of the 21st century.
