Other academic opportunities
In addition to undergraduate and graduate degree programs UB Engineering offers the following academic opportunities for students and practicing professionals.
UB Engineering offers a series of three graduate courses on engineering management.
1. Principles of Engineering Management I (EAS521)
2. Principles of Engineering Management II (EAS522)
3. Case Studies in Engineering Management (EAS590)
The first two courses are taught using the text by C.M. Chang, Engineering Management: Challenges in the New Millennium, Prentice Hall (2004), plus case materials from Harvard Business School. These two courses cover the basic management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling; they also address the issues of cost accounting, financial accounting and management, marketing management, engineers as managers/leaders, ethics, globalization, and engineering management in the new century. The third course focuses on group projects related to a large number of engineering management cases. These three courses prepare engineering students of all disciplines for leadership roles in the challenging environment of the new millennium.
Center for Technical Communication
UB Engineering’s Center for Technical Communication (CTC) is designed to build engineering students' skills in written and oral communications to better prepare them for life in today's workplace. It offers classes, self-study opportunities, workshops, and other events to help students learn the communication skills that can help them as they begin their engineering careers.
Professional engineer continuing education
UB Engineering is an approved NYS provider site for professional engineers.
UB Engineering provides PE Continuing Education in three ways:
1. Graduate courses via our distance learning system, EngiNet™ - these courses are available for-credit and not-for-credit. Most qualify as 36 contact hours of PE Continuing Education.
2. Special short courses - these are custom-designed courses that are offered from time to time on specific technical topics and are of variable length (often two or three days in length, earning approximately 16 or more contact hours).
3. Departmental seminars - seminars on technical topics that are usually one contact hour.
The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is committed to delivering distance learning graduate course offerings without boundaries to students throughout the world. We call our system EngiNet™--an abbreviation for engineering network. SEAS currently offers course work toward degree programs in Civil, Strutural and Environmental Engineering; Computer Science and Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering through EngiNet™.
Presently, courses are distributed by sharing recorded lectures with students on CD or streamed videos over the web. Homework and tests are administered so that class materials are paced throughout the semester. Finished assignments are returned by students via mail, fax, or electronic mail to the professor. Professors provide personal interaction via telephone, fax, and e-mail.
We offer win-win practical work experiences for employers and post-junior year students of engineering and the applied sciences.
The Engineering Career Institute provides job search assistance and enhances your co-op student job performance by providing classes in leadership, communication, teamwork, total quality management, and other pertinent subjects. This unique program supplements UB's strong technical curriculum and immediately increases on-the-job effectiveness.
The Co-op program enables you to gain exposure to a real employment situation, applying technical and business skills in an industrial environment. This willl enhance your prospective job opportunities at graduation.
