Why Engineering Systems Management?

The global economy and rapid changes in technology require an increasing number of engineers with technical expertise and modern management skills. Today's engineers are routinely confronted with broader job responsibilities, often involving organizational and managerial aspects that must be integrated with the technical aspects. The ESM program is designed to do this. It integrates the technical aspects of engineering with financial, legal and administrative skills of business and management.

The competitive nature of industry in the UAE and the Gulf region requires engineers with technical and managerial skills. Identifying, evaluating, implementing and managing the most appropriate information sources, technologies and systems demand a well-developed level of scientific management, team-building and economic skills.

The graduate program in ESM at AUS is designed for those whose goal is to work in the area of engineering management and systems engineering. The subject matters enhance the management and technical skills of all engineers, regardless of their discipline, to meet today’s demands as well as those of the future.

By the end of 2007, 72 graduates have received their degree in Master of Science in Engineering Systems Management and currently the ESM has 62 students. The program has three full time faculties, one visiting faculty and two associate faculty, all are graduated from North American universities with over twenty years of academic and industrial experience.  The American University of Sharjah dedicated to offer the highest quality program in GCC region. The library and all laboratories are state of the art.

What is ESM?

Engineering Systems Management is a multidisciplinary program dedicated to integrating management skills with technical knowledge from different engineering disciplines for the purpose of accomplishing work activities and entire projects more economically and productively. ESM encompasses:

• Integration of system elements—people, information, hardware, software, energy, economics and processes—to manage technology, work activities and projects in public and private sectors.
• Development of realistic alternatives, use of practical decision criteria and the implementation of the selected alternative.
• Identification, collection and analysis of engineering and other information to make technically feasible and financially sound rational decisions

ESM program graduates are expected to be able to: 

• Apply engineering and management decision-making processes to real-world problems using state-of-the-art modelling and software simulation approaches.
• Conduct economic and financial analysis of projects and engineering operations.
• Function as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team and communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms.
• Recognize professional and ethical responsibilities and act accordingly within a global and social context
• Engage in theoretical and applied research projects

Mission of the ESM Program

The mission of the Engineering Systems Management (ESM) Graduate Program is to significantly increase the opportunities for practicing engineers working in engineering management and in a systems engineering positions to be successful in their efforts to build effective teams, lead and manage major engineering projects, and expand economic development for private and public sectors of the UAE and the Gulf region countries.