Streamlined Admissions Process
A bachelor's degree from a U.S. regionally accredited institution (or international equivalent) and a minimum GPA of 2.7 is required. The GRE/GMAT is not required.
Lead technology centered organizations
M.S. in Engineering Management
Advance Your Career with a Master of Science in Engineering Management
Elevate your engineering expertise with a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of St. Thomas. Develop the skills to excel in today’s complex engineering landscape with this innovative program, which blends technical expertise with essential management skills, empowering you for leadership roles.
Flexible courses and night classes built for working professionals.
Designed with the working professional in mind, our program offers evening classes and the option to pursue your degree part-time or full-time. Balance your education with your career and take your skills to the next level. The M.S. in Engineering Management is a 10 course (30 credit) program.
Industry-driven curriculum offers you real-world skills to use immediately in your job.
Our curriculum is rooted in real-world applications and industry best practices. Learn from experienced faculty and industry leaders who provide insights and strategies that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Choose your path with specialized STEM-approved concentrations to advance your career.
Customize your learning experience with concentrations that align with your career goals. Explore topics such as project management, systems engineering, and data analytics to gain a competitive edge in the job market.
Why choose St. Thomas?
- Industry-Relevant Skills: Our program is designed in collaboration with industry experts, ensuring you acquire the skills that employers are looking for.
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with a network of professionals, alumni, and faculty to propel your career forward.
- Immediate Impact: Graduate with the confidence and expertise to make significant contributions to your organization and the industry.
- STEM-approved: All our graduate programs are STEM-approved.
Contact
Brad Reinboldt
Program Director
Email
bpreinboldt@stthomas.edu
Benefits for Your Career
Collaborative, Cross-Functional Focus
The program’s approach is integrative and designed to provide you a holistic perspective to bridge the organizational gap frequently found between technology and business. We emphasize a collaborative view with a team-centric perspective to multi-disciplinary problem solving. Courses span all critical functional silos, providing a framework by which students gain valuable insights into all critical functional areas, allowing them to develop professionally and meaningfully contribute to the organization’s market success while also providing for the world’s greater common good.
Applications Oriented, Industry-focused Curriculum
Our program is industry-based and structured to be applied to solve the real-world obstacles today’s businesses face. We expect you'll bring your own work experiences to class and apply what you learn on the job to course lectures, making for an academic environment richer and more productive for all. Likewise, we want you to use your course assignments and research projects to address real workplace issues, enabling you to quickly apply your learning to your current career challenges.
Instructors with Extensive Industry Experience
Faculty members in our program bring considerable academic credentials and many years of industry experience to the classroom. These executives, managers, and engineers share a passion for teaching and improving the professional success of students and the market attainment of the organizations and businesses for which they work, whether local or globally. To that end, they emphasize hands-on learning, promote interaction among students, and encourage the free exchange of ideas.
Collaborative, Cross-Functional Focus
The program’s approach is integrative and designed to provide you a holistic perspective to bridge the organizational gap frequently found between technology and business. We emphasize a collaborative view with a team-centric perspective to multi-disciplinary problem solving. Courses span all critical functional silos, providing a framework by which students gain valuable insights into all critical functional areas, allowing them to develop professionally and meaningfully contribute to the organization’s market success while also providing for the world’s greater common good.
Applications Oriented, Industry-focused Curriculum
Our program is industry-based and structured to be applied to solve the real-world obstacles today’s businesses face. We expect you'll bring your own work experiences to class and apply what you learn on the job to course lectures, making for an academic environment richer and more productive for all. Likewise, we want you to use your course assignments and research projects to address real workplace issues, enabling you to quickly apply your learning to your current career challenges.
Instructors with Extensive Industry Experience
Faculty members in our program bring considerable academic credentials and many years of industry experience to the classroom. These executives, managers, and engineers share a passion for teaching and improving the professional success of students and the market attainment of the organizations and businesses for which they work, whether local or globally. To that end, they emphasize hands-on learning, promote interaction among students, and encourage the free exchange of ideas.
Flexible Graduate Programs To Help You Meet Your Educational Goals
Our evening class schedules allow both industry professionals and career changers to achieve their educational goals. And each class meets just once per week.
Admission Requirements
Convenient Schedule
Our programs serve working professionals with busy lives. You choose how quickly you move through the curriculum. And you may start in any of our three starts: fall, spring or summer.
Coursework and Degree Requirements
To complete the requirements for the M.S. in Engineering Management, students must successfully complete 10 graduate courses (30 credits) and maintain a minimum GPA of 2.7.
All students in this master's program are required to complete eight (8) required courses and two (2) related electives.
Students with a bachelor's degree in areas of study other than engineering (or similar) are required to consult closely with the program director before selecting their two related electives.
See course descriptions in the Graduate Programs in Engineering (ETLS) course catalog.
STEM approved program.
Required Courses (8 courses = 24 credits):
- ETLS 525 Engineering Economics
- ETLS 551 Organizational Performance Excellence
or ETLS 640 Lean Six Sigma - ETLS 552 Supply Chain Synchronization & Forecasting
- ETLS 601 Program/Project/Team Management
- ETLS 660 Engineering Leadership
- ETLS 657 Product Lifecycle Management
- ETLS 755 Strategic Engineering Management
- ETLS 858 Engineering Capstone
Related Electives (2 courses = 6 credits.)
After consulting with the program director, choose two elective courses. The electives listed below are suggested to best fit to this master's degree program. Contact the program director if a different graduate engineering course best fits your goals.
Examples of elective courses recommended for M.S. in Engineering Management students include the following:
- ETLS 504 Excellence in Operations
- ETLS 506 Statistical Methods for Manufacturing Quality
- ETLS 611 Foundations of Sustainability
- ETLS 671 Human Aspects of Technical Management
- ETLS 853 Managing Intellectual Property
Please note suggested course sequences assume a fall semester start. Please talk with your advisor if you have questions or starting in other semesters.
- Semester 1: ETLS 525/ETLS 551 or ETLS 640
- Semester 2: ETLS 552/ ETLS Elective
- Semester 3: ETLS 601/ETLS 657
- Semester 4: ETLS Elective/ETLS 660
- Semester 5: ETLS 755/ETLS 858
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Learn from Expert Faculty
Brad Reinboldt
Brad Reinboldt is the current program director of the M.S. in Engineering Management program at St. Thomas. Brad has over 20 years experience in the information systems arena with expertise in the computing, networking, and storage sectors. He has held development and technical management roles in companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion-dollar organizations. This includes high-speed memory subsystem designer for IBM mainframes, product engineer at Seagate Technology in disk drive head design, and more.
Kathleen Holmes
Kathleen Holmes is a learning professional with over 20 years of experience in leadership development and coaching. Much of her career has been spent working with high-potential leaders and executives around the globe. She spent 14 years at Microsoft developing leaders across engineering and other functional organizations at all levels in their career.
Thomas Becker
Mr. Becker has been an adjunct faculty at St. Thomas since 2001. Tom is responsible for courses in Supply Chain Synchronization, Lean Manufacturing and Logistics. He developed and implemented graduate-level courses relating to Total Quality Management, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance, Quality Function Deployment and others. Tom is an experienced financial analyst and realtor.