Coursework

Certificate

Students in this program will be required to take two courses each semester of Engineering Leadership and Scientific Foundations of Engineering.

Engineering Leadership
GSE G121 and GSE G122

The Engineering Leadership course includes topics in four areas: product engineering, market assessment, engineering excellence, and engineering leadership. Product engineering includes topics in system design and engineering, multi-disciplinary integration, product development process, and project management, including scheduling, cost control, and program risk. Market assessment includes topics in engineering economics, translational research, business plans, intellectual property, and product risk assessment and mitigation. Engineering excellence covers topics in manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, quality control, and volume production. Engineering leadership covers issues of team-building and management, conflict resolution, leadership styles, ethics, organizational behavior, and morale.

Scientific Foundations of Engineering
GSE G131 and GSE G132

The Scientific Foundations of Engineering course will revisit, at a higher and more unified level, the physics underlying electrical and mechanical engineering practice, including mechanical and electrical properties of materials, thermal and fluid properties of matter, wave phenomena, and quantum physics. The mixing of examples from mechanical engineering (elasticity, vibration, and acoustics) and examples from electrical engineering (optics and spectroscopy) as illustrations of the same fundamental physical laws will be a characteristic of the course. Chemical and biological concepts will be introduced as time permits and linked to the microscopic atomic physics of matter. Conceptual understanding will be emphasized, but with enough rigor that the mathematical similarities in different phenomena can be appreciated and applied to other related problems.

Master’s Program

Students pursuing a Masters in Engineering Leadership will be required to take four graduate-level courses in addition to the two courses listed above. Please visit www.coe.neu.edu/gse/grad_areas.html for information about the different graduate courses available to Gordon Fellow Candidates.