Program Details
Department: Systems Engineering and MBA
Modality:
Concentrations: n/a
Semester Hours: 60
Total Years: 3 years
The mission of the Dual Degree MS in Systems Engineering/MBA program is to educate working engineers and scientists in the engineering and business disciplines that will make them leaders of highly complex technical endeavors within their sponsoring organizations.
The dual degree MS/MBA program confers two degrees upon its graduates: an MBA and an MS in Systems Engineering. Taking the dual degree program saves the student several courses compared to the two programs taken separately.
The dual-degree program is designed to be completed in approximately three years. Typically, the Systems Engineering classes are completed first, followed by taking the required classes in the MBA program.
Learning Outcomes
For the Systems Engineering M.S.
- Apply the fundamental principles of systems engineering to complex problems
- Become leaders of innovative technology projects and business
- Develop multidisciplinary skills to architect, design, and manage complex systems throughout their life cycle
- Apply principles of project management and lean engineering to improve operational efficiency
- Develop technical skills to model, analyze, and design integrated engineering systems
For the M.B.A.
The program learning outcomes are to create leaders who can:
- Bring an ethical and diverse perspective to their management of organizations, teams, and individuals through a deep understanding of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and SDG’s (Sustainable Development Goals) and what it means to lead “business for good” and create societal impact.
- Demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset, through creative approaches to managing change, innovation and opportunities emerging on the business landscape. Leaders with this mindset can pivot and understand the importance of strategic agility.
- Apply financial savvy and “know-how” to ensure that the business can operate profitably while making a triple bottom-line impact.
- Build a deep understanding of brand, markets, and customers to analyze and apply principles related to the value chain of product and service development from conception to implementation.
- Utilize advances in technology and operations to impact organizational effectiveness and manage technological change to ensure value creation in the firm.
- Develop organizational and interpersonal skill sets and competencies to effectively lead people and organizations.
- Advance their critical thinking skills and abilities and demonstrate strategic and systems thinking for identifying organizational opportunities and solving business challenges.
- Demonstrate significant advances in communicating and collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders within and across organizations and communities in which they do business.
- Apply a global perspective to understand and manage opportunities and challenges faced by business in a globally connected world.
Program Admission
Applicants for the Engineering/MBA Dual Degree program will submit the standard application for their chosen engineering program of study. After receiving acceptance and completing the first year of their engineering degree, students are granted admission to the dual degree program and may begin enrolling in MBA courses provided they are in good academic standing (minimum GPA 3.0) and receive approval from their respective program director.
Visit Seaver College of Science and Engineering for more information and to apply.
Current LMU engineering graduate students should contact the Director of Academic Affairs for Graduate Business Education to discuss enrolling in the dual degree program.
Questions?
Graduate Business Education
310.258.8707
CBAGrad@lmu.edu
mba.lmu.edu
Graduation Requirements
Students enrolled in the Dual Degree MS/MBA Program are jointly advised by their academic advisor for Systems Engineering in Seaver College and the MBA Program Director in the College of Business Administration. It is recommended that incoming students take 12 semester hours of Systems Engineering courses per fall and spring semester and complete the MS in year one of the dual-degree program, then begin the MBA curriculum in year two.
Dual degree students will take a total of 24 semester hours of Systems Engineering courses and 36 semester hours of MBA courses.
The overall minimum GPA required for graduation is 3.0. Students who receive a grade of less than “B” in any 500-level course or a grade of less than “C” in any 600-level course will not have the course count toward their degree.
When the course requirements outlined below are completed, the student should submit an application for degree to be awarded both the MBA and the MS in Systems Engineering.
Suggested Curriculum Flowchart for the MS in Systems Engineering/MBA Dual Degree Program
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Semester Hours |
| 9 |
| Systems Engineering | |
| Systems Thinking: Major Tech Changes/Impacts | |
| Advanced Systems Engineering and Program Management | |
| Model Based Systems Engineering | |
| Systems Architecture | |
| Systems Engineering Modeling and Analysis | |
| 9 |
| Project Management | |
| Engineering Leadership and Integrity | |
| Lean Engineering and Management | |
| Agile Development and Project Management | |
| Introduction to Cybersecurity | |
| Business Law for Engineers | |
| Engineering Economics and Finance | |
| Advanced Systems Engineering and Program Management | |
| Manufacturing Processes and Quality Systems | |
| New Product Design and Development | |
| |
| 3 |
| Engineering Leadership and Integrity | |
| Lean Engineering and Management | |
| Engineering Economics and Finance | |
| Manufacturing Processes and Quality Systems | |
| SYEG 695 | Preparation for Capstone Project | 0 |
| SYEG 696 | Graduate Capstone Project | 3 |
| 24 |
| MBAA 6011 | Leadership and Organizational Dynamics | 3 |
| MBAA 6021 | Financial and Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| MBAA 6031 | Ethics and the Entrepreneurial Mindset | 3 |
| MBAA 6041 | Marketing Management | 3 |
| MBAA 6061 | Global Strategic Management | 3 |
| MBAA 6071 | Corporate Finance | 3 |
| MBAA 6081 | Business and Performance Analytics | 3 |
| MBAA 6091 | Technologies in Business Management | 3 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 36 |
| Total Semester Hours | 60 |
