Engineering Management or Operations Management: What are They and Which is Best for You?

    Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM until 1:00 PMCentral Standard Time UTC -06:00

    For an organization that sells (i.e., private company) or provides (i.e., public organization) technology driven products and services to be successful, engineering managers need to understand operations management (OM) and operations managers need to understand engineering management (EM).  Companies and public organizations use different names for their EM and OM organizations. Many organizations have an organizational component called EM, R&D, Technology Development, Innovation, Product Development, etc.  Engineering managers usually have undergraduate engineering degrees.  An M.S. in Engineering Management provides the skills for engineers to become project managers and engineering managers.  Many organizations have different names for operations, including supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, and distribution to name a few.  Operations managers have a wide variety of undergraduate degrees. An M.S. in Operations Management provides the skills to lead and manage operations.  This presentation compares and contrasts the two master’s degree programs and is designed to help you identify the best program for you.

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    About the presenter:
    Dr. Gregory S. Parnell is a Professor of Practice, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas and is Director of the M.S. in Operations Management (largest graduate program at the university) and the M.S. in Engineering Management programs.  His research focuses on systems engineering, decision analysis, and risk analysis.  He is editor of Trade-off Analytics: Creating and Exploring the System Tradespace (2016), lead editor of Decision Making for Systems Engineering andManagement, (2nd Ed, 2011), and lead author of the Handbook of Decision Analysis (2013).  He is a fellow of the International Committee for Systems Engineering, the Institute for Operations Research/Management Science (INFORMS), and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS).  He is a Past President of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society and the MORS. He joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 2013. He previously taught at West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Air Force Institute of Technology.  He received the Frank P. Ramsey Medal, Decision Analysis Society, 2014, and the INFORMS Steinhardt Prize in 2020. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a retired Air Force Colonel.

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