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Head of Program : Ahmet Emrehan Emre

Professors : Sabri Altıntaş†*, Necati Aras, Gülay Barbarosoğlu, Taner Bilgiç, Mahmut Ekşioğlu, Metin Ercan, Ali Rıza Kaylan†, Gürkan Kumbaroğlu, Can Özturan, Handan Kepir Sinangil*, İlhan Or, Ramazan Yıldırım

Associate Professors : Nilsen Altıntaş*, Aybek Korugan, 

Assistant Professors : Mehmet Nafi Artemel, Metin Berk*, Uğur Tandoğan*
 

*Part-time

† Professor Emeritus

The Bogazici University School of Engineering in cooperation with the School of Economics and Administrative Sciences offers a program that will lead to a Master's degree in Engineering and Technology Management (ETM). This program is being offered by the Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering.

This interdisciplinary graduate program integrates engineering, technology and management knowledge and the related techniques and skills. It is structured to meet the need for engineers with a management perspective, who are expected to take leadership roles in 21st century high-tech enterprises.

The ETM program aims to prepare competent leaders in today's sophisticated high-tech enterprises in the manufacturing, government or industrial service sectors of our global economy with a commitment to the environment, quality and ethics. Technology driven companies have to integrate the system viewpoint and cope with the rapidly changing markets to ensure their survival in global competition. In such a continuously changing business environment, engineers also need to strengthen their technical and managerial skills throughout their careers.

The ETM program intends to educate engineers for leading roles in the management of the high technology enterprises. Graduates are expected to gain competence in designing, implementing, operating and optimizing high technology systems as well as trengthening their ability to work as a team, their written and oral communication skills, and also to improve their system integration perspectives. 

The major target population of the ETM program is full-time working engineers with at least two years of experience. Even though prior work experience is highly recommended, recent engineering graduates who intend to start work immediately after graduation may also apply for this program.

Students receive a Master's degree upon successful completion of the ETM graduate program. The program is structured as three-credit ten courses combined with a graduation project equivalent to a 4 credits workload. Four of these courses are core courses. The elective courses are pooled into two groups. The first group is composed of mostly management courses and the second group includes engineering technology-oriented courses. Each candidate is required to take at least three courses from each group. There is an additional compulsory one-credit communication skills course. The course work and the project add up to 35 credits in total. The program can be completed in three semesters a with regular workload. Students may select their technical elective courses to specialize in such areas as Information Technology, Quality Engineering and the other areas of interest with the guidance of their academic advisor. 

** This program is subject to additional tuition and fees.
 

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT GRADUATE PROGRAM

Total: 35 Credits / 90 ECTS

CORE COURSES (4x3+1=13 Credits)

ETM 501 Applied Statistics and Design of Experiments
ETM 502 Project Management in Engineering and Technology
ETM 512 Engineering Economics and Finance
ETM 521 Strategic Technology Management
ETM 500 Communication Skills for Engineers (1 Credit / Pass/ Fail)
ETM 581, 582, 583 Case Studies in ETM (Non-credit / Pass/ Fail)

GROUP 1 ELECTIVE COURSES (3x3=9 Credits)

ETM 522 R&D Management
ETM 532 Legal Issues in Engineering and Technology Management
ETM 541 Strategic Decision Making
Special Topics in ETM:

• Human Resources Management
• Strategic Marketing Management
• Organizational Behaviour for Engineers
• Psychology of Management
• Management of Globalization and Knowledge

GROUP 2 ELECTIVE COURSES (3x3=9 Credits)

ETM 551 Integrated Product Development
ETM 555 Design of Information Systems
ETM 561 Environmental Risk Analysis of Process Plants
ETM 562 Clean Processing Technologies
Special Topics in ETM:

• Materials and Process Selection in Engineering Design
• Supply Chain Management
• Risk Assesment and Management
• Total Quality Management
• Production/Operation Manegement
• Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
• Quantitative Methods for Decision Making
• Manufacturing Systems Simulation
• New Developments in Telecommunications Industry
• Information Technology
• Software Engineering
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Structural Design
• Highway Constructions
• Other Related Engineering Graduate Courses

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
 

ETM 500 Communication Skills for Engineers (0+0+2) 1 ECTS 1
(Mühendisler için İletişim Becerileri)
Development of oral and written communication skills; fundamentals of report writing and technical document preparation; fundamentals of preparing and delivering public speech and presentations; design of research in managerial decision making; design and presentation of survey studies.

ETM 501 Applied Statistics and Design of Experiments (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Uygulamalı İstatistik ve Deney Tasarımı) 
An overview of efficient methods of data collection and analysis in various fields of engineering and technology applications; exposition of experimental design concepts and statistical modeling tools of data analysis; role of experimental design in engineering studies; fundamental statistical concepts; comparison of more than two treatments (ANOVA analysis); factorial designs; regression and correlation analysis; response surface methodology; Taguchi's contribution to experimental design; hands-on experimental tests on engineering applications.

ETM 502 Project Management in Engineering and Technology (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Mühendislik ve Teknoloji Projelerinin Yönetimi)
Classification of engineering and technology projects; project manager/project team/project organization/ negotiations and conflict resolution; project budgeting (cost estimation, escalations and bid preparation); project scheduling techniques; resource allocation; materials distribution and logistics; human resources management; computerized project management information systems (PIMS); project schedule and cost control; project termination and auditing; real-life project management cases.

ETM 512 Engineering Economics and Finance (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Mühendislik Ekonomisi ve Finans)
Interest/time-money relations; basic methods for economic studies; comparison of investment alternatives; techniques of financial analysis and planning; methods of financing for engineering projects; capital budgeting/portfolio analysis; depreciation/ income tax/inflation; economic studies for public projects; breakeven/sensitivity/risk analysis; case studies in strategic financial management.

ETM 521 Strategic Technology Management (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Stratejik Teknoloji Yönetimi)
Planning technological change in diversified corporations; understanding invention - the heart of technological change; implementing new technology in new products/services/ manufacturing; forecasting the economic impacts of technological change; forecasting technological change and planning research.

ETM 522 R&D Management (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Ar-Ge Yönetimi)
Necessary conditions for successful company research; R&D management in relation to corporate governance; priorities in strategic issues; human capital knowledge and know-how; managing intellectual capital; framework for R&D processes from QM perspective; R&D management methodology for better performance; patent portfolios as strategic R&D planning; R&D decision quality processes; international R&D projects; corporate technology stock model; R&D organizational processes on suspension systems of automobiles; virtual R&D organizations-pharma industry; new R&D framework for telecommunications in Taiwan.

ETM 532 Legal Issues in Engineering and Technology (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Mühendislik ve Teknolojinin Hukuksal Yönleri)
Definition of law; classification of law; basic concepts of public and private law; classification of private law; contracts; types of contracts; agency; work contract; know-how, technical assistance, trade mark, and patent license agreements; product liability and environmental law; liabilities of board members, managers and shareholders; resolution of legal conflicts; case studies covering various related contract types and conflicts.

ETM 541 Strategic Decision Making (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Stratejik Karar Verme)
Introduction to decision making-framing the decisions; multiple attribute decision making techniques (discrete and continuous alternative space); multiple objective mathematical programming; modeling uncertainty and preferences; interactive methods; analytical hierarchy process; influence diagrams; game-theory based methods; strategic decision problems from real-life cases.

ETM 551 Integrated Product Development (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Bütünleşik Ürün Geliştirme)
An overview of product and process development methodology enabling simultaneous cost reduction, increased customer satisfaction, increased quality and reduced cycle time; major phases of product and process development; competitive manufacturing strategies; concurrent engineering; design for manufacturing; quality function deployment; value engineering; product architecture; process engineering; information modeling with a special attention to the changing nature of new product introduction in high technology companies; case studies in the above topics.

ETM 555 Design of Information Systems (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Bilişim Sistemleri Tasarımı)
Foundations of computer communications and network technology (network architectures and protocols); data collection systems and devices; client-server and 3-tier architectures; data-base management systems (data-base linkages and object-oriented paradigm); information system life-cycle; business analysis methodologies; functions and behavior of engineering and technology enterprises; enterprise integration in engineering and technology management; a framework to develop a reference model for information system design; design for evolutionary systems.

ETM 561 Environmental Risk Analysis of Process Plants (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Fabrikaların Çevresel Risk Analizi)
An overview of environmental dangers of processing plants; classification of risks in materials transfer, processing, storage, as well as during waste treatment as undesired effluents, fire, explosion, floods, earthquakes, etc; analysis of the effects of these risks upon nearby communities; risk analysis noting technologies employed in the nearby industrial sites; risks resulting from geographical and meteorological conditions; study of quantitative methods to analyze the above stated points; case studies covering various technologies.

ETM 562 Clean Processing Technologies (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(Temiz Üretim Teknolojileri)
Exposition of the need to design and/or re-engineer processing plants, so as to minimize their environmental liabilities; identification, classification and evaluation of the various processing technologies with respect to their environmental effects; the use of clean and safe solvents, catalysts and additives, recycling and regeneration practices, minimizing solvent uses; design of clean, or cleaner, operations; interrelationships among various plant operations, and optimization of such relationships; economic comparisons of using clean vs. conventional technologies, followed by effluent treatment operations; case studies in various technological sectors.

ETM 581-582 Case Studies in ETM (0+2+4) 2 ECTS 1
(MTY'de Vaka Çalışmaları)
Investigation of engineering and technology management problems through factory visits and seminars. Teamwork applications and projects on related problems.

ETM 580, ETM 584-590, ETM 593-599 Special Topics in ETM (3+0+0) 3 ECTS 7
(MTY'de Özel Konular)
Special topics in Engineering and Technology Management selected to suit the interests of the individual students.

ETM 591 Project I (0+4+0) 0 ECTS 8
(Proje I )
Interdisiplinary project development by each student under the supervision of a faculty member. Special focus on designing solution procedures for real life problems.

ETM 592 Project II (0+4+0) 0 ECTS 9
(Proje II )
Interdisiplinary project development by each student under the supervision of a faculty member. Special focus on designing solution procedures for real life problems.