MGTSC-BS - Management Science and Engineering (BS)

The Management Science and Engineering undergraduate program provides students with the fundamentals of engineering systems analysis to plan, design, and implement complex economic and technical management systems. The program builds on foundational courses in calculus and linear algebra. You complete core courses in mathematical modeling, systems analysis, organization theory, optimization, probability, statistics, ethics, computer science, and economics, leading to a senior capstone project. Through the core, you are exposed to the breadth of faculty interests and prepared to study different areas of application of the department’s methodologies. To personalize your exploration, you select additional courses from other application areas of the department, with greater emphasis on one of them. The major is designed to allow you to explore all three undergraduate areas of the department in greater depth:

1. Finance and Decision: focuses on designing and analyzing financial and strategic plans

2. Operations and Analytics: focuses on algorithms, theory, designing and analyzing manufacturing, production, and service systems

3. Organizations, Technology, and Policy: focuses on understanding, designing, and analyzing organizations and public policy, particularly technology-based issues

The major prepares you for various career paths, including investment banking, management consulting, facilities, and process management, or graduate school in industrial engineering, operations research, business, economics, law, medicine, or public policy.

Students with ten AP Mathematics Calculus BC/IB credit units begin with CME 100/MATH 51. Students with six AP Mathematics Calculus AB/IB credit units are expected to start with MATH 21 and may skip MATH 19 and 20. Students without AB/IB credit, who have already studied the material in MATH 19 or MATH 20, may begin with MATH 20 or MATH 21 and petition to waive the skipped courses. Otherwise, students are expected to take MATH 19, 20, and 21.

AP/IB credit for Chemistry, Computer Science, and Physics may be used.

The department expects undergraduate majors in the program to demonstrate the following learning outcomes. These learning outcomes are used in evaluating you and the department’s undergraduate program. Students are expected to:

• Apply knowledge of mathematics, social science, and engineering

• Design and conduct experiments

• Design a system and its components to meet desired needs

• Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems

• Use techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

• Function on multidisciplinary teams

• Communicate effectively

• Recognize the need for and demonstrate an ability to engage in life-long learning

• Obtain the background necessary for admission to top graduate engineering or professional programs

• Understand professional and ethical responsibility

• Obtain the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context

• Obtain knowledge of contemporary issues pertinent to the field of management science and engineering