MSE in Engineering Science

Concentration: Enterprise Systems Innovation and Management (ESIM)

The MSE in Engineering Science with a concentration in Enterprise Systems Innovation and Management (ESIM) program is now accepting applications.

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Program Overview

The ASU Fulton School of Engineering offers the ESIM concentration providing enterprise and technology managers a wide range of analytical and strategic methods in enterprise systems, innovation, and management.

The ESIM program examines innovation across the enterprise, including product, people, process, strategy, and service. It's primary focus is on the creation of customer value through the exploitation of present knowledge, and through exploration and experimentation that generates new knowledge.

The Enterprise Systems Innovation and Management program allows professionals the opportunity to enhance their leadership abilities, analytical thinking, and bring value to their organization and professional advancement. In today's global environment, business execution is becoming increasingly competitive. Managing resources, products, and customers across the globe magnifies the organizational challenges and requires more sophisticated systems, tactical thinking, and advanced methods of measuring, analyzing, and controlling performance. Managers must understand the underlying issues across the enterprise to impact and create business value.

ESIM Program Benefits
  • Students will have the opportunity to learn from ASU world-renowned faculty.
  • Flexible "anytime-anyplace" distance education format.
  • Acquire technical knowledge and management skills you'll need for professional advancement.
  • Learn to drive innovation across the enterprise.
  • Learn from engineers, scientists, and business oriented faculty and lecturers.
  • Advance your understanding of global leadership and entrepreneurship.
Admission Requirements

  • The MSE in Engineering Science with the concentration in Enterprise Systems Innovation and Management requires an undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.00 scale for the last 60 undergraduate credit hours.
  • The schools attended and major of study completed are also significant factors in admission. An example of undergraduate degrees of applicants might include, but not limited to the following: B.S in Business, B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Engineering.
  • Completion of a basic statistics course and calculus course is required for admission. A prerequisite course in industrial statistics and tools might be required for some students not meeting this requirement.
  • GRE is not required.
  • Provisional admission status may be considered at the discretion of the Admission Committee. Upon completion of recommended course work, provisional status students will be elevated to regular status.

Program of Study
Required courses
  • FSE 502 Introduction to Strategic Enterprise Innovation
    This course introduces students to the varieties of innovation that occur across the enterprise. Using a general systems perspective, the various innovation types are treated both independently and as an integrated whole. From product and process innovation, to management and strategy innovation, students will learn how these various forms of innovation add to enterprise value enhancement over time.
  • IEE 505 Information Systems Engineering
    Students will learn enterprise information technology systems applications. Topics include information technology, data modeling, data organization, process mapping, application and database development, and user interface development.
  • IEE 598 Design for Six Sigma
    Design for six sigma (DFSS) is a disciplined approach to product design that provides the user with a structured methodology to efficiently commercialize new technology in the form of products, processes, or services. It results in products that have predictable levels of quality, reliability, and performance, while simultaneously delivering successful financial performance. This course introduces the basic DFSS methodology and shows how to successfully deploy it.
  • IEE 552 Strategic Technological Planning
    Studies concepts of strategy, strategy formulation process, and strategic planning methodologies with emphasis on engineering design and manufacturing strategy, complemented with case studies. Presents and uses an analytical executive planning decision support system throughout course.
  • IEE 530 Enterprise Modeling
    Students will learn social, economic, and technical models of the enterprise with emphasis on the management of technical resources. Topics will include organization, econometric, financial and large scale models.
  • IEE 512 Financial Engineering
    This course will be an intensive/exploration/hands on course consisting of three phases. The first phase is a preparation where students learn the terminology and financial methods to be used throughout the semester. Examples of the topics to be covered in this phase include basics such as principles of corporations, definition of the different types of stocks, options, other derivatives and financial ratios to more advance topics such as assessment of stock volatility. The second phase will introduce more advanced financial topics such as portfolio formation, assessment and traditional portfolio theory. In the third phase of the course we will introduce more advanced Financial Engineering topics such as the application of stochastic and time series models to stock and derivatives pricing, multi-period investment and risk management.
  • IEE 593 Applied ProjectThe final or "capstone" project for the Enterprise Systems Innovation & Management (ESIM) degree program is focused on the practical application of what you've learned in the program. However, since this is an MS in Systems Science with ESIM as the focus, the student needs to do the capstone project with rigor, at least demonstrate that they truly understand the concepts we have taught.

    This is formulating a fundamental issue statement extracted from some value-adding project for a company (Section 1), digging into the ESIM literature for what exists from a lit review perspective (Section 2), formulating a game plan to attack an issue (Section 3), demonstrating that the issue has been formally addressed using ESIM principles and processes (Section 4), and creating a final section would then include lessons learned and continuous improvement game plan (Section 5).
Elective courses (Select 3)
  • FSE 503 Collaborative Innovation Management
  • FSE 598 Contracts and Negotiation in the Extended Enterprise
  • FSE 598 Intellectual Property Management
  • FSE 598 Corporate Venturing & Intrepreneurship
  • FSE 501 Technology Entrepreneurship
  • IEE 534 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis
  • IEE 535 Introduction to International Logistic Systems
  • IEE 561 Production Systems (Factory Physics)
  • IEE 571 Quality Management
  • IEE 572 Design of Engineering Experiments
  • IEE 581 Six Sigma Methodology

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