ETM Program Mission and Goals
The broad purpose of the ETM program is expressed in the mission statement as follows: “Graduates of the engineering technology management (ETM) program must demonstrate that they have an understanding of the relationships between the management tasks of planning, organization, leadership, quality control, and the human element in production and service organizations coupled with an understanding of management systems. They must be capable of demonstrating the integration of management systems in a variety of different technology environments.”
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The Mission Statement, Educational Objectives, Goals, and Program Outcomes are included in the ETM Assessment and Continuous Improvement Plan.
Mission Statement
The primary purpose of the Engineering Technology Management (ETM) program is to provide a high-quality education for students. Graduates of the engineering technology management (ETM) program must demonstrate that they have an understanding of the relationships between the management tasks of planning, organization, leadership, quality control, and the human element in production and service organizations coupled with an understanding of management systems. They must be capable of demonstrating the integration of management systems in a variety of different technology environments. Our goal is to develop and maintain a nationally recognized quality ETM program possessing accreditation by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of the ABET.
The ETM program builds on the metropolitan focus of the institution, which stresses the importance of understanding this emphasis within a local, state, national, and global perspective. The ETM program is designed for a diverse group of students possessing one or more of a number of technology associate degrees offered by local, regional and national colleges and universities. Through inter-institutional articulation agreements, traditional and non-traditional students will be served regionally.
The program will be offered through on-site instruction including comprehensive programming at the University Center of Greenville. It is essential that the laboratory course components be traditional on-site sessions. However, to serve a wider metropolitan student body, lecture content is provided through distance learning. In addition, select ETM subject matter will be offered through continuing education to our graduates and other working professionals to promote advanced learning and enhance the ability of local industry to compete in the global marketplace.
The ETM program faculty will provide leadership in promoting the Upstate’s economic, social, and cultural development through its teaching, professional service, scholarly activities, and creative endeavors. Faculty will serve in professional/student organizations that support students and graduates seamlessly from their freshman year at a technical college through senior year at USC Upstate and beyond.
ETM faculty are committed to forging and maintaining partnerships with local businesses. Local industry will be served by the ETM program faculty and students through industry projects interwoven with traditional coursework for an enhanced experiential learning process.
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Program Educational Objectives
Program Educational Objectives are broad statements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve ABET. The ETM program is designed to achieve the following objectives. Associated career and professional accomplishments identitifed in parenthesis.
- Graduates will be prepared to effectively incorporate economic, non-economic, and technical considerations in the systems decision making and problem solving processes.
- Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage projects.
- Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage the quality of products and services.
- Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage teams.
- Graduates will be prepared to effectively communicate with management and technical personnel.
- Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage their career.
These objectives are achieved by achieving the Student Outcomes.
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Student Outcomes
Student outcomes describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that students acquire in their matriculation through the program ABET. They describe the specific skills, values, and attitudes students should be able to exhibit that reflect the broader goals (USC Upstate Assessment Committee). The expected student outcomes grouped by Program Educational Objective are as follows:
1. Graduates will be prepared to effectively incorporate economic, non-economic, and technical considerations in the systems decision making and problem solving processes.
- Ability to account for economic factors in engineering and management decisions and practices.
- Ability to analyze and design work processes.
- Ability to apply systems decision theory to complex problems.
- Ability to troubleshoot or methodically find the root cause of a problem.
- Ability to apply information from professional resources to solving problems.
- Ability to account for ethical, social, environmental, and other non-economic and non-process factors in engineering and management decisions and practices.
2. Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage projects..
- Ability to identify and organize project tasks.
- Ability to schedule projects.
- Ability to monitor and control projects.
- The ability to identify project risks.
- Ability to manage project closure.
3. Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage the quality of products and services.
- Ability to apply quality control and assurance methods.
- Ability to use total quality and other quality management techniques.
- Ability to perform measurements and statistical analysis.
- An understanding of quality standards.
- Ability to change a quality process.
- Ability to train others to implement a quality control and assurance method or process.
4. Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage teams.
- Ability to motivate and empower team members.
- Ability to diagnose and solve team problems.
- Ability to effectively run a meeting.
5. Graduates will be prepared to effectively communicate with management and technical personnel.
- Ability to develop and deliver effective technical and managerial presentations.
- Ability to develop effective technical and managerial written communication.
- Ability to effectively participate in meetings.
- Ability to develop a persuasive proposal.
6. Graduates will be prepared to effectively manage their career.
- Awareness of and an ability to use appropriate resources to stay current in engineering technology management.
- Awareness of and an ability to participate in professional development activities.
- Recognition of the need for lifelong learning.
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The Engineering Technology Management program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 - telephone: (410) 347-7700.