The MS-MBA dual degree program: an integrated engineering and business approach to product development

Arnold Lumsdaine; Frank Speckhart; Geoff Robson; Kenneth Kahn; Majid Keyhani; Dan Fant; Rapinder Sawhney

The MS-MBA dual degree program: an integrated engineering and business approach to product development

Arnold Lumsdaine, Frank Speckhart, Geoff Robson, Kenneth Kahn, Majid Keyhani, Dan Fant, Rapinder Sawhney

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Abstract

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville initiated the innovative dual degree program in the fall of 2001. Its focus is to integrate the skills and knowledge of students studying both engineering and business, and to direct those skills to product development. It permits students, in 23 months, to obtain a Master of Business Administration [MBA] degree and a Master of Science [MS] degree in an engineering discipline. It is expected that, by the completion of the program, student teams will have developed a concept, a business plan, a marketing plan and a prototype for a marketable product. The vision of the MS-MBA dual degree is not merely to allow students to receive two graduate degrees in a compressed time frame, but to tightly integrate the two degrees, so that multidisciplinary student teams develop an industrial product from concept-to-market.

Original language	English
Journal	ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	113th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, 2006 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: Jun 18 2006 → Jun 21 2006

Keywords

Dual degree
Entrepreneurship
MS-MBA
Multidisciplinary
Product development

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The MS-MBA dual degree program: an integrated engineering and business approach to product development

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