Principles of
Engineering Management I & II
Graduate Courses EAS 521 & EAS 522
Dr. Carl Chang, MBA, Adjunct Professor

 


 SURVEY: Principles of Engineering Management

Please spend a few minutes to fill out this survey form. The answers you give to these survey questions will aid us in offering graduate courses to better serving the students in the future.

1. One of the key premises of the graduate courses EAS 521 and EAS 522 is that by exposing engineering graduates to broader non-engineering issues related to engineering economic, financial accounting, financial analysis and management, marketing management, as well as the basic engineering management functions of planning, leading, controlling and organizing, they will become better qualified to lead and manage. With this premise, do you

2. To succeed in the 21st century, in which technologies and marketplace are rapidly changing at an ever-faster pace, engineering managers will face major challenges. Where should a young engineering graduate place emphasis on his/her education during the graduate study program of 1.5 years to 2 years duration?

3. Internet and the e-commerce technologies have induced changes to many professions, including the engineering profession. Significant changes in engineering job functions are anticipated as the digital economy gains more and more momentum in the near future. How should an educational institution like SUNY-Buffalo proactively design its academic engineering curriculum in order to better prepare today's engineering graduates?

A. Offer and require graduate courses and intensive training in leadership.
B. Offer and require additional basic courses to emphasize the engineering fundamentals at the graduate school level.
C. Offer and require new graduate courses emphasizing innovation and creativity at the graduate level.
D. Offer and require new graduate courses emphasizing the advanced techniques of acquiring data and extracting new knowledge.
E. Offer and require new graduate courses emphasizing techniques, strategies and tactics of getting along with everyone.
F. Increase the credit-hour requirement form 30 to 36 for Masters degree (be it M.S. or M. Eng.).

 

4. In the traditional mode of in-class teaching, students and faculty have eye ball contacts and two-way direct interactions. In the EngiNet distance learning mode, students follow the lecture notes while viewing the lectures of the professor stored on compact discs, the one-way pitcher-to-catcher mode. Currently, more and more graduate courses are being offered through the Internet, supplemented by chat sessions and intranets, to encourage interactions. Knowledge transfer is gradually becoming primarily in writing form and less and less verbal.

In your opinion, students will acquire knowledge through Internet courses,


through courses offered in traditional class room settings.

 

5. As the data search, storage and analysis technologies continue to advance, more and more useful information and chunks of practical knowledge will become available to anyone, who has a means to access the Internet. This is changing the role of universities being the primary institutions of higher learning, which transfer and interpret structured knowledge packages to the young generation. In your opinion, how should universities change their roles?

A. Universities should continue their current active roles of specifying the majority of graduate courses for students to take, allowing only a small number of electives to their own discretion, even anticipating that some of these course will become obsolete shortly after the students graduate.
B. Universities should offer many optional courses and let students decide which set of 30 credits (e.g., for a Master's degree) to take, in order to account for variance in student background, prior-preparation, and career goals.
C. Universities should provide more academic councilors and advisors to assist students, when needed, in order to facilitate their process of maturing during a graduate study program and to let them taking charge of their own destiny.
 

Thank you very much for taking the time to fill out this survey.

Dr. Carl Chang