Master of Engineering Management

I'm already involved in management. What I hope this program does for me is kind of catapult me further ahead in that career path with the sound business practices and different approaches to problem solving and just overall management of a business and strategically placing us for our competitive industry would really move me forward in guiding the company in the future. Help these professionals that come into this program by making them more upwardly mobile in terms of again the specific technical skills, the managerial skills, and the commercial business skills. Windsor is the manufacturing automotive capital of Canada. Lots of engineering companies in the area and they have employees that do need this training and a program to advance their studies and continuing education for them. This is what today's market demands. You're not just sitting behind a computer and designing a product or programming software. You need to understand the human factor of the project that you're running. To be able to communicate with engineers of different backgrounds, you need to be able to communicate with people in the sales and the marketing department. One of the advantages that I have is that I spent 12 years working as a professional engineer and I'm able to bring both my practitioners' expertise. We spend a lot of time talking through the different problems that they have, but also in terms of how to address them, how to make sure that they're addressing both the technical and also the social people problems that exist within the workplace. The reason I enrolled in the MEM program was one, to get a competitive advantage because in today's industry you need more than just a bachelor's degree. This specific program was a good mixture of business and engineering.