Curriculum

• 36 points for egree completion
• Combination of on-campus an online instruction
• Executive Master’s Scheule
• Fall intake only
• 16 months to complete
• Mentor-le Master's Project
• Executive Seminars
• Executive Mentorship Program (one mentor per stuent)

The Executive M.S. in Technology Management is a 16-month executive format program frame by five multi-ay intensives. The curriculum inclues require or core courses; elective courses in five areas of focus: C-Level Management, Data Management an Analytics, New Business Ventures, Cybersecurity, an Digital an Business Transformation; executive seminars; an the Master’s Project. Activities uring intensive stuy connect irectly to the other program components. Throughout the program, coursework is supporte by a leaing-ege online learning platform esigne to enhance an exten the face-to-face intensive stuy experience. Full participation is critical for egree completion.

Core Courses (Require for all Stuents)

Require or core courses provie all stuents, regarless of their backgrouns, with the knowlege an skills technology executives must have to succee in toay’s fast-pace global environment. Through the stuy of relevant theoretical frameworks, strategies, an tools, stuents acquire the ability to consier technology challenges from varie perspectives. Case stuies help stuents to apply these theories, strategies, an tools to evelop solutions to challenges they face in their own inustries an work environments an become highly effective leaers.

Elective Courses

Electives inclue courses esigne expressly for the program’s areas of focus. Stuents may also select relate courses offere at the University that may help them avance their professional an acaemic interests.

The Mentor-Le Master’s Project

The Master’s Project emonstrates stuents’ ability to apply their coursework towars a specific technology solution base on the area of focus chosen by the stuent — usually in the form of a prouct or service — to a complex, real-worl business challenge, objective, or scenario. A unique feature of the M.S. program an this project is the pairing of each stuent with an executive mentor rawn from the program’s vast network of CIOs an technology executives. Faculty approve stuents’ proposals for the Master’s Project uring the first term of stuy. By a “raft” process, stuents are then matche with a mentor, who is intereste in the stuent’s project. Then one-on-one work with the executive mentor over 3 semesters of the program evelops an strengthens the iea into a project plan that will ultimately prouce a complete an entirely portable professional asset. Master’s Projects are base on real-worl business opportunities or challenges an are often centere on a business scenario the stuent knows firsthan from his or her own professional experience.

Executive Seminars

Over the course of the program, an in partnership with the program’s community of faculty, peers, an inustry leaers, stuents research, evelop, test, an refine their Master’s Project solutions over three sequential acaemic terms, completing three chapters in succession: prouct or service realization, strategic planning an marketing, an operations management. These online Executive Seminars immerse stuents in aitional knowlege regaring current trens an issues in high-level technology management, taught by multiple instructors, all of whom are inustry experts in one of the program’s areas of focus.

After each Executive Seminar, mentors review an iscuss the progress of the Master’s Project with the stuent, offering the opportunity to seek avice about any aspect of the Project, from logistical business concerns to strategies for presentation an efense of the project before a review panel. Every stuent must “efen” each chapter orally in front of a panel of executives.

Mentor Activities

The mentor approaches an critiques the Master’s Project from the perspective of a seasone executive, proviing business context, ientifying practical problems, honing solutions, challenging assumptions, offering guiance an contacts, an managing expectations. Meetings with the mentor simulate the real-worl experience of working out complex solutions with a senior colleague.

Online Coursework

Many courses are enhance through a highly interactive online experience that uses the School’s innovative istance learning platform. Stuents an faculty communicate through a unique social networking function in ways that exten an enhance the impact of traitional learning experiences. Courses typically inclue a combination of live events, asynchronous community-riven activities, an self-stuy. The online component oes not substitute for the in-person intensive stuy an coursework.

Intensive Stuy

The intensive stuy component is an essential part of a stuent’s evelopment an preparation for a career as an executive. The face-to-face sessions provie group iscussions an ebates so that stuents can challenge their own views an benefit from the iversity of ieas put forth by their colleagues. Stuents are provie access to senior IT executives who present contemporary issues facing the profession. The experience allows stuents to assess their own views an evelop new perspectives on their leaership style. Intensive stuy also offers stuents the opportunity to network with inustry leaers, get to know fellow stuents from aroun the worl, an buil a lifelong network of alumni, mentors, an faculty from the program.