Graduate Certificate in Engineering
Leadership
The
Graduate School of Engineering offers a Graduate Certificate
in Engineering Leadership. The goal of the program is
to shorten the time required for students to become engineers
capable of leading multidisciplinary teams in conceiving
of a novel technological application and then driving
it to commercialization.
The
program focuses on the following elements:
Students
must complete a minimum of sixteen semester hours of graduate
coursework with a minimum QPA of 3.000. Students must
complete an eight semester hour Challenge Project as part
of their program. Each student must form an Advising Committee
comprising the Challenge Project Adviser and a minimum
of two full-time faculty members (or one full-time faculty
member and one adviser from industry or a government agency)
with background relevant to the Challenge Project topic.
An adviser with full-time faculty rank from another university
may serve as one member of the committee.
The Challenge Project shall result in a written report;
the student must present this report to the Committee
and to the relevant academic department-at-large in the
form of a seminar before final approval of the Project
is granted. The goal of the Challenge Project should be
the development of a process or product suitable for system
integration or commercialization.
Students in both programs are expected to have an adequate
background in programming and basic probability theory.
Foundational coursework in these fields is available to
students to bridge any gap in their technical backgrounds.
However, credits for these courses will not count towards
the degree.
Many of the courses for the Master’s Degree and
the Graduate Certificate programs are available on-line
via streaming video. More information is available on-line
at www.coe.neu.edu/gse/streaming_video.html.
| Course Requirements |
Credits |
| GSE G121 |
Engineering Leadership
1 |
2 |
| GSE G122 |
Engineering Leadership
2 |
2 |
| GSE G131 |
Scientific Foundations of Engineering
1 |
2 |
| GSE G132 |
Scientific Foundations
of Engineering 2 |
2 |
| GSE G440 |
Challenge Project 1 |
4 |
| GSE G442 |
Challenge Project 2 |
4 |
Students with an Electrical and Computer
Engineering or related background who complete the Graduate
Certificate in Engineering Leadership program successfully
may continue to pursue a Master of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering Leadership, as described above, in the ECE
section.
The Graduate Program Adviser for the Graduate
Certificate in Engineering Leadership program is Professor
Stephen McKnight of the ECE Department.
