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M.Eng. in Engineering Management

The Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Engineering Management degree combines technical depth with business skills. Students can specialize in various tracks and engage in a capstone project. The curriculum emphasizes leadership, business advancement, and industry disruption.

Format

In-Person

Note: This page provides a general overview. For complete and accurate information, please consult the M.Eng. Student Services Coordinator. For current course offerings and information, refer to the Cornell University Registrar: Courses of Study.

Degree Requirements

Our program requires completion of 32 credit hours consisting of coursework in major and supporting areas, and a project. This generally corresponds to nine regular courses and two, one-credit seminars. The M.Eng. degree can be completed in two semesters.

Required Coursework

  • ENMGT 5900

    Project Management (Fall or Spring, 4 credits)

  • ENMGT 5910*

    Engineering Management Project (Fall or Spring, 4 credits)

  • ENMGT 5930

    Data Analytics (Fall, 4 credits)

  • ENMGT 5940

    Economics and Finance for Engineering Management (Spring, 4 credits)

  • ENMGT 5980

    Decision Framing and Analytics (Fall, 3 credits)

  • ENMGT 6090

    Professional and Leadership Development Seminar (Fall, 1 credit)

  • ENMGT 6091

    Seminar: Project Management (Spring, 1 credit, non-graded)

*ENMGT 5910 may only be taken in the second semester of your program (or third semester for students who opt for a three-semester program).

Additional Required Course

Students are also required to take one of the following 3-credit courses in Organizational Behavior.

  • ENMGT 5960

    Negotiations and Contracts for Engineering Managers (Fall or Spring, 3 credits)

  • ENMGT 5990

    Contemporary Challenges for Engineering Managers (Fall, 3 credits)

  • ENMGT 6020

    Managing a Culture of Innovation (Fall, 3 credits)

Capstone Project

All students must complete a capstone project and register for ENMGT 5910 in their final semester. Management responsibilities in a technical environment, and increasingly in many business environments, are often focused on projects, where a combination of resources must be brought together to achieve a specific outcome within both schedule and budget constraints. The importance of projects is reflected in this program through a strong focus on project management – the combination of people skills and technical skills necessary for successful project completion. Project topics and sponsors are presented to students in ENMGT 5910 early in the semester. Students rank their preferences and teams are formed. Some project sponsors require Assignments of Intellectual Property Rights and/or Non-disclosure Agreements in order to participate in their projects.

Electives

In addition to the required courses, each student’s program must include 9-credits worth of electives selected to provide a track area of specialization.

To help meet these requirements, we have put together seven track areas of specialization plus a “build your own track” tied to common career paths of Engineering Management degree graduates.

Specialization Tracks

  • Consulting
  • Analytics
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Real Estate and Construction Management
  • Sustainability and Renewable Energy
  • Entrepreneurship and Product Management
  • Infrastructure in a Changing World
  • “Build your own”

You are welcome to mix and match courses from different headings or choose courses aligned with your own interests to best serve your professional goals. Any 5000 or 6000-level Cornell Engineering non-seminar, technical, 3-credits or higher course may be considered. A complete list of pre-approved electives for each track is in the Engineering Management On-Campus Handbook.

Pre-Approved Consulting Electives

  • CEE 6640

    Microeconomics of Discrete Choice

  • CHEME 5710

    Lean Operations Design and Process Optimization

  • ENMGT 5300

    Technology Strategy and Roadmapping for Engineering Managers

  • ENMGT 5400

    Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Managers

  • ENMGT 5500

    Digital Marketing for Engineering Managers

  • ENMGT 5960

    Negotiations and Contracts for Engineering Management

  • HADM 6130

    Entrepreneurial Management

  • NBA 5000

    Intermediate Accounting

  • NBA 5020

    Managerial Accounting and Reporting II

  • NBA 5025

    Managerial Accounting and Reporting II

  • NBA 5060

    Financial Statement Analysis

  • NBA 5090

    Advanced Financial Statement Analysis

  • NBA 5110

    Financial Modeling

  • NBA 5130

    International Finance Cases

  • NBA 5140

    Ethics and Corporate Culture

  • NBA 5245

    Introduction to Macroeconomics

  • NBA 5420

    Investment and Portfolio Management

  • NBA 5550

    Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Options

  • NBA 5690

    Management Consulting Essentials

  • NBA 5780

    Consulting Problem-Solving Process

  • NBA 5980

    Behavioral Finance

  • NBA 6090

    Digital Marketing

  • NBA 6200

    Marketing Research

  • NBA 6390

    Data Driven Marketing

  • NBA 6430

    Managerial Spreadsheet Modeling

  • NBA 6560

    Valuation Principles

  • NBA 6630

    Managerial Decision Making

  • NBA 6650

    The Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

  • NBA 6730

    Derivatives Securities Part I

  • NBA 6740

    Derivatives Securities Part II

  • NBA 6410

    Supply Chain Strategy

  • NBA 6820

    Negotiation 1: Negotiation Essentials

  • NBA 6880

    Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring

  • NBA 6921

    Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Strategy

  • NBA 6930

    Strategy and Tactics of Pricing

  • NCC 5500

    Financial Accounting

  • NCC 5530

    Marketing Management

  • NCC 5560

    Managerial Finance

  • NCC 5580

    Managing Operations

  • ORIE 5100

    Manufacturing Systems Design: A Consulting Boot Camp

  • PADM 5755

    Infrastructure Financing

Pre-Approved Entrepreneurship and Product Management Electives

  • AEM 5110

    Design and Innovation

  • AEM 5615

    Digital Platform Strategy

  • AEM 5650

    Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

  • CHEME 5730

    Interdisciplinary Design Concepts

  • ENMGT 5300

    Technology Strategy and Roadmapping for Engineering Managers

  • ENMGT 5500

    Digital Marketing for Engineering Managers

  • ENMGT 5920

    Product Management

  • ENMGT 5960

    Negotiations and Contracts for Engineering Management

  • HADM 6130

    Entrepreneurial Management

  • HADM 6144

    Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset (1.5 credits)

  • HADM 6800

    Law for Entrepreneurs

  • NBA 5070

    Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers

  • NBA 5100

    Social Entrepreneurship (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 5180

    Design and Innovation (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 5640

    The Business of Entrepreneurship

  • NBA 6029

    Leading Agile Innovation (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6090

    Digital Marketing (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6230

    Actualizing Your Startup – Part I (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6330

    Actualizing Your Startup – Part II (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6390

    Data Driven Marketing (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6560

    Valuation Principles (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6620

    Brand Management (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6650

    The Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

  • NBA 6820

    Negotiation 1: Negotiation Essentials (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6930

    Strategy and Tactics of Pricing (1.5 credits)

  • NCC 5530

    Marketing Management

Pre-Approved Real Estate and Construction Management Electives

  • CEE 5950

    Construction Planning and Operations

  • CEE 5760

    Behavior and Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures (4 credits)

  • CRP 5320

    Real Estate Development Process I (1.5 credits)

  • CRP 5321

    Real Estate Development Process II (1.5 credits)

  • CRP 5560

    Creating the Built Environment (1.5 credits)

  • CRP 5530

    Land Use and Spatial Planning Mode (4 credits)

  • CRP 5590

    Land Use Law

  • ENMGT 5960

    Negotiations and Contracts for Engineering Management

  • HADM 6200

    Principles of Real Estate

  • HADM 6280

    Real Estate Finance and Investments

  • HADM 6500

    Sustainable Development (4 credits)

  • HADM 6570

    Project Management for Hospitality Real Estate Development

  • PADM 5755

    Infrastructure Financing

  • PUBPOL 5130

    Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

  • SYSEN 5740

    Design Thinking for Complex Systems (2 credits)

Pre-Approved Engineering Leadership

  • AEM 5110

    Design and Innovation

  • CHEME 5710

    Lean Operations Design and Process Optimization (1 credit)

  • ENMGT 5960

    Negotiations and Contracts for Engineering Managers

  • ENMGT 6020

    Managing a Culture of Innovation

  • HADM 6835

    Leading and Managing Teams

  • ILRHR 7451

    Leadership Assessment for Managers (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 5150

    Leadership Theory and Practice

  • NBA 5640

    Designing New Ventures

  • NBA 6130

    Women and Leadership

  • NBA 6410

    Supply Chain Strategy (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6630

    Managerial Decision Making

  • NBA 6650

    The Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

  • NBA 6820

    Negotiation 1: Negotiation Essentials (1.5 credits)

  • NCC 5580

    Managing Operations

  • ORIE 5100

    Manufacturing Systems Design: A Consulting Boot Camp (4 credits)

  • ORIE 5300

    Optimization I (4 credits)

  • ORIE 5380

    Optimization Methods

  • ORIE 5580

    Simulation Modeling and Analysis (4 credits)

  • ORIE 5581

    Monte Carlo Simulation (2 credits)

  • BME 5390 (Healthcare/Biomedical)

    Circuits, Signals, and Sensors: Instrumentation Laboratory (4 credits)

  • BME 6210 (Healthcare/Biomedical)

    Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery

  • BME 6650 (Healthcare/Biomedical)

    Principles of Tissue Engineering

Pre-Approved Analytics Electives

  • CEE 6648

    Sustainable Transportation Systems Design

  • CHEME 5710

    Lean Operations Design and Process Optimization (1 credit)

  • CRP 5080

    Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Planners (4 credits)

  • CS 5320

    Introduction to Database Systems

  • CS 5780

    Introduction to Machine Learning (4 credits)

  • CS 6158

    Software Engineering in the Era of Machine Learning

  • FDSC 5210

    Food Engineering Principles (4 credits)

  • INFO 5306

    Crowdsourcing and Human Computation

  • INFO 6220

    Networks II: Market Design

  • INFO 6850

    The Structure of Information Networks

  • NBA 6070

    Designing Data Products (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6340

    Customer Strategy and Analytics (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6390

    Data Driven Marketing (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6410

    Supply Chain Management (1.5 credits)

  • NBA 6430

    Managerial Spreadsheet Modeling (1.5 credits)

  • NCC 5530

    Marketing Management

  • NCC 5580

    Managing Operations

  • ORIE 5100

    Manufacturing Systems Design: A Consulting Boot Camp (4 credits)

  • ORIE 5126

    Principles of Supply Chain Management (4 credits)

  • SYSEN 5200

    Systems Analysis Behavior and Optimization

  • SYSEN 5220

    Systems Dynamics

  • SYSEN 5300

    Systems Engineering and Six Sigma for the Design and Operation of Reliable Systems (3-4 credits)

  • SYSEN 5400

    Theory and Practice of Systems Architecture

  • SYSEN 5500

    Systems Modeling Language: Fundamentals and Practice (2 credits)

  • SYSEN 5740

    Design Thinking for Complex Systems (2 credits)

  • SYSEN 6410

    Multiobjective Systems Engineering Under Uncertainty

  • SYSEN 6880

    Industrial Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning (4 credits)

Pre-Approved Sustainability and Renewable Energy Electives

  • CEE 6200

    Water Resource Systems Engineering

  • CEE 6210

    Renewable Energy Systems

  • CEE 6530

    Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineering

  • CEE 6550

    Transport, Mixing, and Transformation in the Environment

  • CEE 6560

    Physical and Chemical Processes

  • CEE 6570

    Environmental Biological Processes

  • CEE 6648

    Sustainable Transportation Systems Design

  • CEE 6880

    Applied Modeling and Simulation for Renewable Energy Systems

  • CEE 6930

    Public Systems Modeling

  • CHEME 6660

    Analysis of Sustainable Energy Systems

  • ENMGT 5200

    Economics of Energy Transition

  • MAE 5010

    Future Energy Systems

  • MAE 5020

    Wind Power

  • MAE 5430

    Combustion Processes

  • MSE 5330

    Materials for Energy Production, Storage, and Conversion

Pre-Approved Infrastructure in a Changing World Electives

  • CEE 5665

    Modeling and Optimization for Smart Infrastructure Systems

  • CEE 5735

    Mathematical Modeling of Natural and Engineered Systems

  • CEE 6210

    Renewable Energy Systems

  • CEE 6648

    Sustainable Transportation Systems Design

  • CEE 6770

    Natural Hazards, Reliability, and Insurance

  • CEE 6800

    Engineering Smart Cities

  • CEE 6930

    Public Systems Modeling (4 credits)

  • CRP 5530

    Land Use and Spatial Planning Methods (4 credits)

  • CRP 5560

    Creating the Built Environment (1.5 credits)

  • CRP 5590

    Land Use Law

  • ENMGT 5950

    Construction Planning and Operations

  • HADM 6500

    Sustainable Development (4 credits)

  • MAE 5010

    Future Energy Systems

  • NCC 5580

    Managing Operations

  • PADM 5755

    Infrastructure Financing

  • PADM 5757

    Infrastructure Project Management and Finance Practicum (.5-1.5 credits)

  • PADM 5758

    Managing Large-Scale Investment Projects (1.5 credits)

  • PUBPOL 5340

    Regulation and Infrastructure Policy

  • SYSEN 5740

    Design Thinking for Complex Systems (2 credits)