Directions: An institution shall use this form to propose a new bachelor’s or master’s degree program. In completing the form, the institution should refer to the document Standards for Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs, which prescribesspecific requirements for new degree programs. Note: This form requires signatures of (1) the Chief Executive Officer, certifying adequacy of funding for the new program; (2) a member of the Board of Regents (or designee), certifying Board approval, and (3) if applicable, a member of the Board of regents or (designee), certifying that criteria have been met for staff-level approval. Note: An institution which does not have preliminary authority for the proposed program share submit a separate request for preliminary authority. That request shall address criteria set in Coordinating Board rules Section 5.24 (a). Information: Contact the Division of Academic Affairs and Research at 512/427-6200 for more information.
Administrative Information
1. Institution: University of Houston Clear Lakehttp://www.uhcl.edu
2. Program Name – Master of Science in Engineering Management
3. Proposed CIP Code: 14.9999.01 06
http://www.txhighereddata.org/Interactive/CIP/
4. Brief Program Description – Describe the program and the educational objectives:
The Engineering Management (EMGT) program is the study of the application of business and engineering principles to the planning and operational management of enterprises and organizations. This includes budgeting, costing, quality control, efficient resource allocation and utilization, product production and distribution, human resource management, systems and plant maintenance, scheduling, storage and security, organization planning, acquisition, and logistics. Engineering principles refer to an instructional program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the solution of practical problems.
The educational outcomes and competencies of EMGT will be to provide potential engineering managers for the aerospace, petrochemical and scientific companies in the Houston, and Clear Lake bay area. The individuals live in this area that contains a workforce supporting local Aerospace, Petrochemical, and the Medical Industries. These potential engineering managers are individuals who have engineering and scientific degrees desiring to move into supervisory and management positions. The potential engineering manager can fast track into management without obtaining a Masters of Business Administration (MBA). For a scientist or engineer, most MBA programs would require several years of undergraduate prerequisite courses prior to acceptance.
The EMGT program includes multiple curricula with the following educational objectives. Two existing concentrations in the School of Science and Computer Engineering that will support the EMGT program are the programs of Software Engineering (SWEN) and Systems
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Engineering (SENG). The concentration in the School of Business (BUS) that will support the EMGT program is Management of Technology (MGMT).
The SWEN program uses the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code 14.0903.00 titled Computer Software Engineering. SWEN prepares graduate candidates to apply scientific and mathematical principles to the design, analysis, verification, validation, implementation, and maintenance of computer software systems using a variety of computer languages. This also includes instruction in discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, computer science, managerial science, and applications to complex computer systems.
The SENG program uses CIP 14.2701.00 code titled Systems Engineering. SENG prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of total systems solutions to a wide variety of engineering problems. This also includes the integration of human, physical, energy, communications, management, and information requirements as needed, and the application of requisite analytical methods to specific situations.
The MGMT sub-plan concentration in BUS uses the CIP 52.9291.00 (Texas) code titled Business Administration and Management. BUS contains program, concentrations, and sup-plans that prepare individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. MGMT includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, accounting and other quantitative methods, purchasing and logistics, organization and production, marketing, and business decision-making.
5. Administrative Unit – The Engineering Division in the school of Science and Computer Engineering.
6. Proposed Implementation Date – The Fall Semester 2007
7. Contact Person – Provide contact information for the person who can answer specific questions about the program:
Name: Dr. Yvette Bendeck
Title: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs E-mail: Bendeck@uhcl.edu
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Program Information
I. Need
Note: Complete I.A and I.B only if preliminary authority for the program was granted more than four years ago. This includes programs for which the institution was granted broad preliminary authority for the discipline.
A. Job Market Need – Provide short- and long-term evidence of the need for graduates in the job market.
The Clear Lake Bay Area contains a large workforce supporting local Aerospace, Petrochemical, and Medical Industries. Many of these individuals have engineering and natural science degrees with a significant number desiring to move into supervisory and management positions within engineering or natural science environments. Acquiring the additional skills necessary to function successfully in a management role is an issue facing most technical people at some point in their career. On August 20, 2004 Dr, Jay Gogue, University of Houston (UH) System Chancellor, and Dr. William Staples, President of the UHCL, met with the 8 leaders of local companies that employ over 6000 professional and technical staff. These industry leaders clearly expressed the need for an Engineering Management program to help educate their workforce.
B. Student Demand – Provide short- and long-term evidence of demand for the program.
Employment: Engineering and natural sciences managers held about 233,000 jobs nationally in 2004. About 27 percent worked in professional, scientific, and technical services industries, primarily for firms providing architectural, engineering, and related services; computer systems design and related services; and scientific research and development services. Manufacturing industries employed 37 percent of engineering and natural sciences managers. Manufacturing industries with the largest employment include those producing computer and electronic equipment; transportation equipment, including aerospace products and parts; chemicals, including pharmaceuticals; and machinery manufacturing. Other large employers include government agencies and telecommunications and utilities companies.
Job Outlook: Employment of engineering and natural sciences managers is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through the year 2014. This is in line with projected employment growth in engineering and most sciences. However, many additional jobs will result from the need to replace managers who retire or move into other occupations. Opportunities for obtaining a management position will be best for workers with advanced technical knowledge and strong communication skills. Because engineering and natural sciences managers are involved in their firms’ financial, production, and marketing activities, business management skills are also important. Projected employment growth for engineering and natural sciences managers should be closely related to the growth of the occupations they supervise and of the industries in which they are found. NASA for example finds it more efficient to contract engineering and science management services to outside companies and consultants, creating good
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opportunities for managers in management services and management, scientific, and technical consulting firms.
Earnings: Earnings for engineering and natural sciences managers vary by specialty and by level of responsibility. Median annual earnings of engineering managers were $97,630 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $78,820 and $121,090. Median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of engineering managers in May 2004 are shown below:
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing $116,400 Navigational, measuring, electro-medical, and control instruments
manufacturing
$107,160
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing $103,570
Federal government $97,000
Architectural, engineering, and related services $96,020
Median annual earnings of natural sciences managers were $88,660 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $64,550 and $118,210. Median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of natural sciences managers in May 2004 are shown below:
Scientific research and development services $106,530
Federal government $81,460
A survey of manufacturing firms, conducted by Abbot, Langer & Associates (http://www.abbott-langer.com), found that engineering department managers and superintendents earned a median annual income of $89,232 in 2004, while research and development managers earned $90,377.
In addition, engineering and natural sciences managers, especially those at higher levels, often receive more benefits—such as expense accounts, stock option plans, and bonuses—than do non-managerial workers in their organizations.
This table explains how to interpret the key phrases used to describe projected changes in employment. It also explains the terms used to describe the relationship between the number of job openings and the number of jobseekers. The descriptions of this relationship in a particular occupation reflect the knowledge and judgment of economists in the Bureau’s Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections.
Changing employment between 2004 and 2014
If the statement reads: Employment is projected to:
Grow much faster than average Increase 27 percent or more Grow faster than average Increase 18 to 26 percent Grow about as fast as average Increase 9 to 17 percent Grow more slowly than average Increase 0 to 8 percent
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Opportunities and competition or jobs
If the statement reads: Job openings compared with jobseekers may be: Very good to excellent opportunities More numerous
Good or favorable opportunities In rough balance May face, or can expect, keen
competition Fewer
C. Enrollment Projections – Use this table to show the estimated cumulative
headcount and full-time student equivalent (FTSE) enrollment for the first five years of the program. (Include majors only and consider attrition and graduation.)
Based on the local workforce demographics the EMGT program is sustainable at a FTSE 60 student level because it targets a large Clear Lake Bay Area workforce of 35,766 engaged in professional, scientific, management, technical services and Information services occupations. UHCL is located adjacent to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Flight Center in Clear Lake City.
YEAR 1 2 3 4 5
Headcount 15 32 44 56 70
FTSE 10 26 37 48 60
II. Quality
A. Degree Requirements – Use this table to show the degree requirements of the program. (Modify the table as needed; if necessary; replicate the table for more than one option.)
To be admitted to the EMGT program a candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering or science. The candidate must be approved by the graduate admission committee to ensure that the appropriate industrial or existing managerial background knowledge base is present. The GRE is required of all students applying for admission. The candidate must submit a GRE score of 1000 (verbal + quantitative), with a verbal score of 400 or higher. GRE scores will be evaluated by the degree plans’ admissions committee and will be used as one of the indicators of the applicant’s potential for completion of the plan. It is recommended that candidate who apply for admission to a graduate plan have a GPA of 3.0 or greater (four point grade scale) on the last 60 hours of course work.
The graduate degree in EMGT requires 30 hours of graduate courses. No upper-lever 4000 credits will be allowed for the EMGT master's degree. A maximum of six hours of grades within the range of "C+," "C" or "C-" may be counted toward any graduate degree. In addition, the EMGT graduate admission committee will require that two foundation courses and their prerequisites be completed before enrolling in graduate EMGT program. The two courses are: Ordinary Differential Equations and Applications and; Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists. Industrial related experience and letters of recommendations from current employers may also be required during admission review. The EMGT faculty graduate admissions committee based upon
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program need, the guidelines stated herein, and UHCL admission requirements will decide acceptance into the program. Once admitted, the candidate must file a CPS in the first semester of enrollment.
The Engineering Management degree is composed of 24 hours of required courses. The Engineering Management “Category One Capstone Option” consists of three (3) hours of capstone project and three (3) hours of electives. The Engineering Management “Category Two Thesis Option” consists of six (6) hours of thesis research in engineering management. The following table gives the rubric, course names, SCH, and Clock Hours for EMGT “Category One Capstone Option” consists of three (3) hours of capstone project and one three (3) hour elective.
Category One Capstone Option SCH Clock
Hours
Required Courses
EMGT 5130 New Business Development 3 45
EGMT 5131 Legal Issues in Engineering Management 3 45
EMGT 5231 System Engineering Management Planning 3 45
MGMT 5032 Human Behavior in Organizations 3 45
MGMT 5636 Management of Technology 3 45
MGMT 5638 Managing Technical and Professional People 3 45
SWEN 5230 Software Project Management 3 45
SENG 5230 Systems Engineering Economics 3 45
Prescribed Electives
EMGT 6837 Engineering Management Capstone Project 3 45
Free Electives
EMGT 5230 Negotiation Strategies 3 45
TOTAL 30 450
The following table gives the rubric, course names, SCH, and Clock Hours for EMGT “Category Two Thesis Option” consists of six (6) hours of thesis research in engineering management.
Category Two Thesis Option SCH Clock
Hours
Required Courses
EMGT 5130 New Business Development 3 45
EGMT 5131 Legal Issues in Engineering Management 3 45
EMGT 5231 System Engineering Management Planning 3 45
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MGMT 5636 Management of Technology 3 45
MGMT 5638 Managing Technical and Professional People 3 45
SWEN 5230 Software Project Management 3 45
SENG 5230 Systems Engineering Economics 3 45
Prescribed Electives
EMGT 6839 Master Thesis Research in Engineering Management
6 90
TOTAL 30 450
B. Curriculum – Use these tables to identify the required courses and prescribed electives of the program. Note with an asterisk (*) courses that would be added if the program is approved. (Add and delete rows as needed. If applicable, replicate the tables for different tracks/options.)
The EMGT curriculum is composed of 30 hours of course work of which 24 will be core courses. The six hours of electives may be either a 3 hour course elective with the Capstone Project, or 6 hours of Thesis. The following table gives the rubric prefix and number, the required courses and, the SCH hours.
Prefix and
Number Required Courses
SCH
EMGT 5130 New Business Development* 3
EGMT 5131 Legal Issues in Engineering Management* 3
EMGT 5231 System Engineering Management Planning* 3
MGMT 5032 Human Behavior in Organizations 3
MGMT 5636 Management of Technology 3
MGMT 5638 Managing Technical and Professional People 3
SWEN 5230 Software Project Management 3
SENG 5230 Systems Engineering Economics 3
The following table gives the rubric prefix and number, the prescribed elective courses and, the SCH hours.
Prefix and
Number Prescribed Elective Courses SCH
EMGT 5230 Negotiation Strategies* 3
EMGT 6837 Engineering Management Capstone Project* 3
EMGT 6839 Master Thesis Research in Engineering Management* 6
C. Faculty – Use these tables to provide information about Core and Support faculty. Add an asterisk (*) before the name of the individual who will have direct
administrative responsibilities for the program. (Add and delete rows as needed.)
Name of Core Faculty and Faculty Rank
Highest Degree and Awarding Institution Courses Assigned in Program % Time Assigned To Program
Nan Muir Bodensteiner Associate Professor
PhD. In Business Administration University of Texas at Arlington
MGMT 5636, MGMT 5638 25% James B. Dabney Assistant Professor PhD. In Mechanical Engineering Rice University SENG 5230 25%
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Associate Professor University of Southwestern Louisiana
New Faculty in Year 07
Ed Dupnick
Assistant Professor
PhD. In Systems Engineering, Strategic Management Minor, University of Arizona
EMGT 5130, EGMT 5131, EMGT 5231
100%
New Faculty in Year 08 PhD. In Engineering
Management, Engineering or, Engineering related
Management
EMGT 5230, EMGT 6837, EMGT 6839
100%
Name of Support Faculty and Faculty Rank
Highest Degree and Awarding Institution Courses Assigned in Program % Time Assigned To Program
James C. Helm PhD. In Industrial Engineering Texas A&M University
Division Chair of Engineering
10% Kevin C Wooten PhD. In Industrial and
Organizational Psychology Tulane University
MGMT 5032 5%
Robert W Bobst PhD. In Chemical Engineering Oklahoma University
MGMT 5636 5%
D. Library – Provide the library director’s assessment of library resources necessary for the program. Describe plans to build the library holdings to support the
program.
The Alfred R. Neumann Library contains a total collection of 444,689 volumes, plus 1,920,000 microforms, over 40,000 electronic books, over 100 research and information databases and approximately 1,000 current serials.
A significant part of our collection in the field of engineering was acquired from the Scientific and Technical Information Center of NASA Johnson Space Center. The Neumann Library continues to serve Johnson Space Center with a book collection, back files of journals, and interlibrary loan service.
The business collection of Neumann Library supports the Master’s in Business Administration accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The library holdings in the subject of business administration were reviewed within the past few years as part of the AACSB International accreditation of the master’s degree program in business administration.
The Neumann Library has an extensive collection of serials and books in computer science and engineering. Degree programs in Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.
Since master’s degrees in Environmental Science and Environmental Management are offered at UHCL, the library carries a large collection in environmental engineering.
Research Databases: In addition to the databases named above, the library has the following databases that will support teaching and research in the field of Engineering Management.
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ACM Digital Library: Provides citations, selected abstracts and reviews, and over 69,000 full-text and full-image articles for all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals, magazines, conference proceedings and some ACM co-sponsored publications on topics in computer science and related fields. Also includes Table of Contents for journals and magazines (from 1954) and conference proceedings (from 1986). This is updated weekly.
ACS Publications: American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications provides online full text, full image access to most of the ACS print journals and their supplementary materials. Coverage includes articles from year of first issue (some begin as early as 1879) up to the current issue.
Applied Science Full Text: Provides indexes, abstracts, and selected full text for more than 560 core English-language scientific and technical publications in the following subject areas: engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management. In addition to journals such as American Journal of Physics, American Scientist, Chemical & Engineering News, Electronics World, Environmental Science & Technology, and Geophysics, it also includes special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Index coverage begins in 1983, abstracts in 1993, and selected full text in 1997. These publications are updated monthly.
Business and Company Resource Center: Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 2,800 research and trade journals in management, economics, financing, accounting, international business and related fields. Some coverage begins as early as 1965, with full text and selected images provided for over 2,260 journals, some dating as early as 1990. This database also includes Country Monitor and Industry Yearbook Reports from Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA), 35 country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Dun & Bradstreet Company Directory, and Wall Street Words.
Business Full Text: Provides full text of articles from over 400 leading business magazines and trade and research journals as far back as 1995, as well as abstracting and indexing of more than 800 publications as far back as 1982. They are updated daily. Business Source Premier: Full text is offered for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Titles ranging from Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and American Banker to journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Review are included, along with abstracts and indexing for approximately 7,800 periodicals. Also includes Datamonitor Company Profile reports for the world's largest 10,000 companies.
Dissertations and Theses: The authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free
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twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats. Updated monthly
IEEE CSLSP: The IEEE Computer Society Library Subscription Plan (CSLSP-e) provides full-text Internet access to 22 IEEE Computer Society journals and magazines (1988 - present) and more than 1,200 conference proceedings titles (1995 - present). Updated weekly.
Institute of Physics Online: Twenty-seven journals published by IOP.
LexisNexis Environmental: Contains bibliographic records, abstracts, and selected full text for published articles, papers, or reports containing critical, current information on all aspects of the impact of humankind and technology on the environment.
Papers First: Abstracts of papers published for conferences worldwide. Covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre since October 1993. Updated 24 times per year.
Proceedings First: Tables of contents of presented papers from conferences worldwide. Each record lists all papers presented at each conference. The proceedings are updated two times per week.
Research Insight: Standard & Poor’s Research Insight includes financial, market and descriptive data on over 7,600 publicly traded companies, 200 industry composites and 3,000 research companies, as well as international companies traded on U.S. exchanges. Includes up to 20 years of annual data, plus market data and ratios. Time series data on stock prices, dividends and earnings are entered on a monthly basis.
Journals: Beginning with the next subscription year, the Neumann Library will add six new journals specifically devoted to engineering management: Engineering Management Journal, IEEE Engineering Management Review, IEEE Transactions On Engineering Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Leadership and Management in Engineering (ASCE).
The Neumann Library’s electronic subscriptions cover approximately 35 current engineering journals. Over 500 serial volumes in engineering were added by the acquisition of the Johnson Space Center Scientific and Information Center collection. The Neumann Library also has extensive back files of more than 100 IEEE journals.
Reference Materials and Monographs: To enhance our reference sources in engineering, the Neumann Library will begin a subscription to an up-to-date online reference collection on engineering, such as EngNetBase, a searchable database of engineering handbooks.
Because the library has existing programs in business administration and software engineering, over 500 monograph titles in engineering management and related subjects, such as project management, have been acquired. There are 1665 monographs on engineering in the Neumann Library. The Neumann Library has purchased two
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collections of academic books in electronic format that include recent selections in all academic disciplines. There are 1,895 electronic books on engineering topics, all published within the last five years.
To increase the holdings that support the Engineering Management Master’s Degree, the librarians will work with faculty to increase selections in areas of engineering management, and develop a core collection of highly relevant material to support the proposed program.
Cooperative Agreements: Students and faculty have access to library materials from sister institutions within the University of Houston System, as well as institutions throughout Texas and across the world through a variety of cooperative library agreements and memberships.
This includes the Linda Hall Engineering Library in Kansas City, Missouri, which has an extensive collection of engineering materials and holds all of the journals indexed by IEEE. The Linda Hall library has an excellent document delivery program available to UHCL faculty and students. The Neumann Library Interlibrary Loan unit maintains an account with Linda Hall Library, and frequently uses this source to fill rush requests from Johnson Space Center researchers. The library is committed to subsidizing the document delivery costs in order to obtain the engineering articles and papers needed by students in this new program.
All libraries in the University of Houston System allow students to borrow books on site as well as through a shared library catalog that offers a built-in request feature that offers the user the opportunity to obtain books from within the University of Houston system libraries. Most requests within the UH System are filled in three days, since there is a daily delivery service.
TexShare, a statewide consortium of academic and public libraries in Texas, promotes resource sharing by a) providing the Texpress courier service for books and other materials, b) sponsoring a common borrowing card, and c) facilitating delivery of articles by promoting the use of scanning of print or microfilm materials for delivery via the Internet as electronic files.
The Neumann Library belongs to the Amigos Bibliographic Network and through it to the international Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). This system can be used to locate books and journal articles in other libraries worldwide, and to submit requests via the shared Internet-based telecommunications system. This national and international network is composed of more than 25,000 libraries.
The Neumann Library is an associate member of the Houston Area Research Library Consortium (HARLiC). HARLiC member libraries are Rice University, Texas A & M University, University of Houston, Texas Southern University, Texas Medical Center Library and University of Texas Medical Branch. Faculties are permitted to borrow books from other HARLiC libraries.
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E. Facilities and Equipment – Describe the availability and adequacy of facilities and equipment to support the program. Describe plans for facility and equipment improvements/additions.
Facilities: The computing laboratories (labs) are maintained and upgraded every year by a SCE Systems Specialist housed in the UHCL campus Delta building. There are two computer labs that the engineering management students will use. The Windows workstation lab is in the Delta building and the advanced UNIX workstation lab is in the Delta building. Each of these two labs can be partitioned to hold a class for 30 students assigned to workstations. Other smaller labs include: a telecommunication lab in the Delta building and a robotics lab in the Delta building. The University Computing and Telecommunications (UCT) organization at the UHCL maintains additional computing laboratories for the entire student population usages. In addition to these labs the EMGT capstone students share the master students’ capstone room in the Delta building used by the Software and Systems Engineering programs. The system administrations laboratory in the Delta building is being modified with audio and visual equipment for additional teaching resources.
The Advanced NT Workstation Lab in the Delta building has available for student use the following software:
Database Clients
o Entire Oracle 8i client suite
o Oracle 8 Developer 6.0 , Designer 6.0, Discover and SQLJ
o ObjectStore OODB client
o Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Client
o Microsoft's Access 2003
CASE Tools
o Entire IBM Rational Enterprise Suite: Rose, ClearQuest, Test Factory and more.
Engineering Tools
o Extend 5
o Crystal Ball 7
o Problem Solver Premium for Excel
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
o Microsoft's Visual Studio Enterprise Version 2003: include Visual Basic, Visual C++ and C#, Visual InterDev and Visual FoxPro
o Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET Version 2005 with .NET Framework 1.1 and MSDN 1.01
o Metrowerks Code Warrior 2.0: include Java, C/C++ and Pascal, with cross compilation
o Symantec's Visual Cafe Database Edition 3.0a
o Java
o Sun's J2SDK 1.4.0
o J2EE o JDOM
The Advanced UNIX Workstation Lab in the Delta building has available for student use the following hardware and software facilities:
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o 10 SunRays (Diskless clients
o Sun Enterprise 250 Server for the 50 machines
o The latest versions of UNIX operating system and software tools.
The availability and adequacy of existing facilities that will be used for the proposed program include the Alfred R. Newman library in the Bayou building, the classrooms and labs in the Delta building.
The Alfred R. Newman library and information resources are more than adequate for the EMGT the program. The library and information resources are now available online to the faculty and students. The thesis formatting guide, sample page, formant and checking are on line. All information for the faculty and students use of the library can be obtained from the URL http://www.uhcl.edu .
SENG utilizes the class rooms and laboratories in the Delta building at UHCL. The classrooms and Labs are coordinated, scheduled, and available. One room in Delta building is dedicated to the Capstone experiences and is available based on schedule. Potentially another room might be needed in the future. All the Delta building classrooms are equipped with the most current computers, software, projection equipment and visual aid equipment. The availability and adequacy of existing facilities in the Delta building will support the EMGT program.
No planned alteration or renovations of existing facilities are perceived to be needed in the near future. The classrooms and Labs are coordinated, scheduled, and available. Equipment: No new equipment is anticipated for the EMGT program. This is because every year the computing laboratories (labs) are maintained and upgraded by a SCE Systems Specialist housed in the UHCL campus Delta Building. These are the two computer labs that the engineering management students will use. The Windows workstation and the advanced UNIX workstation labs are in the Delta building. In addition to these labs the EMGT capstone students will share the master students’ capstone room used by the Software and Systems Engineering programs. The computer hardware and software in the capstone lab is maintained and upgraded every year.
F. Accreditation – If the discipline has a national accrediting body, describe plans to obtain accreditation or provide a rationale for not pursuing accreditation.
The ABET Accreditation criteria can be found in the Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs document found at the ABET URL http://www.abet.org. The ABET accredits either the undergraduate or the graduate degree program, depending upon which program is being developed.
Currently the Texas Board of Professional Engineers (TBSE) (http://www.tbpe.state.tx.us) does not license Engineering Management students. The American Society of Engineering Management offers a certificate for Engineering Management programs (http://www.asem.org/members/certific.html). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (http://www.ieee.org/portal/site) has an Engineering Management Society but at this time does not offer a certificate.
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The EMGT will not seek accreditation for the program in the first five years and will evaluate the cost and need for accreditation following that time period.
III. Costs and Funding
Five-Year Costs and Funding Sources - Use this table to show five-year costs and sources of funding for the program.
Five-Year Costs Five-Year Funding
Personnel1 $1,180,917.00 Reallocated Fundsa $312,500.00 Facilities and Equipment
$15,000.00
Anticipated New
Formula Funding3,b $912,354.00 Library, Supplies, and
Materials $4,500.00
Special Item
Funding(HTL) $10,000.00
Other2 $15,000.00 Other4,c $496,691.00
Total Costs $1,215,417.00 Total Funding $1,731,545.00
1. Report costs for new faculty hires, graduate assistants, and technical support personnel. For new faculty, prorate individual salaries as a percentage of the time assigned to the program. If existing faculty will contribute to program, include costs necessary to maintain existing programs (e.g., cost of adjunct to cover courses previously taught by faculty who would teach in new program).
2. Specify other costs here (e.g., administrative costs, travel).
3. Indicate formula funding for students new to the institution because of the program; formula funding should be included only for years three through five of the program and should reflect enrollment projections for years three through five. 4. Report other sources of funding here. In-hand grants, “likely” future grants, and designated tuition and fees can be
included.
a. Reallocate position within SCE.
b. SCH estimates based on FT and PT course loads for headcount enrollment estimates (formula rate x weight =401.74). c. Total tuition and fees for years 1 & 2 and institutional tuition and course fees for years 3-5.
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Signature Page
1. Adequacy of Funding – The chief executive officer shall sign the following statement:
I certify that the institution has adequate funds to cover the costs of the new
program. Furthermore, the new program will not reduce the effectiveness or quality of existing programs at the institution.
_____________________________________________________________ William A. Staples, President Campus Chief Executive Officer Date
2. Board of Regents Approval – A member of the Board of Regents or designee shall sign the following statement:
On behalf of the Board of Regents, I certify that the Board of Regents has approved the program.
______________________________________ _______________________ Board of Regents (Designee) Date of Approval 3. Board of Regents Certification of Criteria for Commissioner or Assistant
Commissioner Approval – For a program to be approved by the Commissioner or the Assistant Commissioner for Academic Affairs and Research, the Board of Regents or designee must certify that the new program meets the eight criteria under TAC Section 5.50 (b): The criteria stipulate that the program shall:
(1) be within the institution’s current Table of Programs;
(2) have a curriculum, faculty, resources, support services, and other components of a degree program that are comparable to those of high quality programs in the same or similar disciplines at other institutions;
(3) have sufficient clinical or in-service sites, if applicable, to support the program; (4) be consistent with the standards of the Commission of Colleges of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools and, if applicable, with the standards or discipline-specific accrediting agencies and licensing agencies;
(5) attract students on a long-term basis and produce graduates who would have
opportunities for employment; or the program is appropriate for the development of a well-rounded array of basic baccalaureate degree programs at the institution;
(6) not unnecessarily duplicate existing programs at other institutions; (7) not be dependent on future Special Item funding
(8) have new five-year costs that would not exceed $2 million.
On behalf of the Board of Regents, I certify that the new program meets the criteria specified under TAC Section 5.50 (b).
__________________________________________________________________
