The Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management at ALHOSN University is a one-year course oriented program designed to train highly qualified personnel in an environment that combines engineering and management theories and practices to contribute to the growing body of engineering knowledge.
The Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management is specifically designed to prepare engineers and scientists from various fields to manage complex systems in the UAE and Gulf region countries. The program provides technical and managerial skills to integrate various resources including people, machines, information and processes to better satisfy customer needs.
Graduates from the program will be trained for technical decision-making and for increased leadership responsibility in a multi-disciplinary environment. Students will be prepared to play leadership roles in industry and government.

The academic objectives of the Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management program are:

• To prepare graduates for technical or management positions.
• To train graduates on techniques and provide them with skills required to manage, plan and control technical aspects of engineering projects.
• To provide graduates with skill, confidence and business knowledge to manage technical operations.
• To provide graduates the expertise that will enable them to advance in their careers.

The specific educational outcomes that support the objectives of the Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management program are to graduate students who are able to:

• Develop and expand knowledge and skills in engineering and management.
• Understand the role, duties, and responsibilities of the members of the team, including the working relationship between technicians and professionals.
• Provide opportunities for continuing professional development.
• Understand processes from the transformation of an idea or need into a completed project.
• Demonstrate communication skills to be successful in employment environment.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills in the employment environment

In order to be granted admission to the MEM program, an applicant must satisfy the general admission requirements to a graduate program at ALHOSN as well as the following MEM program specific requirements.

1. Applicants to the MEM Program must hold a bachelor degree in engineering (civil, building, mechanical, electrical, petroleum and architecture) or equivalent, or, a bachelor degree from a quantitative discipline including: mathematics, physics, chemistry, or equivalent.
2. Qualified applicants requiring prerequisite courses may be required to take such courses in addition to their regular graduate program. Specifically,  (Students with no prior background in probability and statistics will be required to take MEM 501 Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers. Students with no prior background in engineering economy will be required to take MEM 502 Fundamentals of Engineering Economy).

The GCEM curriculum requires a minimum of 18 credit hours in total broken down as follows:

0. Foundation Requirements (0 CH):
   00 credit hours of fundamental courses
1. Program Requirements (18 CH):
   06 credit hours of core courses
   09 credit hours of elective courses
   03 credit hours of Research Project Report

In other words, the Master of Engineering Management program includes two (2) fundamental courses (MEM 501 and MEM 502), two (2) core courses (from MEM 601, MEM 602, MEM 603, and MEM 604), one (1) Research Project Report (MEM 698), and three (3) elective courses. The three (3) elective courses may all be chosen from the MEM electives list (MEM 605, MEM 606, MEM 607, MEM 608, MEM 609, MEM 610, MEM 611, MEM 612, MEM 613, MEM 614, MEM 615, MEM 616) or may be a combination of one (1) course from the MEM electives list above and the equivalent of six (6) credit hours from the MBA electives list (ACT 501, FIN 501, MKT 501, IBS 611, MGT 603, MGT 611, MGT 652). The preceding is a description of the GCEM study plan as of October 2010.
The following table shows a typical student schedule for completing the GCEM program in two (2) semesters.

Course No	Course Title	Lect.	Lab.	Tut.	Credits
First Semester (Fall)
MEM 601	Advanced Engineering Economics	3	0	0	3
MEM 602	Project Managements	3	0	0	3
MEM lmn	MEM Elective 1	3	0	0	3
	Total	9	0	0	9
Second Semester (Spring)
MEM lmn or XYZ lmn	MEM Elective 2 or MBA Elective 1	3	0	0	3
MEM lmn or XYZ lmn	MEM Elective 3 or MBA Elective 2	3	0	0	3
MEM 698	Graduate Project - 1	3	0	0	3
	Total	9	0	0	9
	Minimum Credit Hours:				18

Course No	Course Title	Credit Hours
Fundamental Courses
MEM 501	Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers	3
MEM 502	Fundamentals of Engineering Economy	3
Core Courses
MEM 601	Advanced Engineering Economics	3
MEM 602	Project Management	3
MEM 603	Statistics and Decision Analysis	3
MEM 604	Information Technology Applications to Engineering Projects	3
MEM Elective Courses
MEM 605	Legal Issues And Contract Administration	3
MEM 606	Planning and Control	3
MEM 607	Advanced Planning and Control	3
MEM 608	Project Cost Estimating	3
MEM 609	Applied Operations Research	3
MEM 610	Project Acquisition and Control	3
MEM 611	Fundamentals of Facility Management	3
MEM 612	Business Practices in Construction	3
MEM 613	Project Quality Management	3
MEM 614	Topics in Engineering Management	3
MEM 615	Product Design and Development	3
MEM 616	Operations Management	3
MBA Electives
ACT 501	Financial Accounting	2
FIN 501	Financial Management	2
MKT 501	Marketing Management	2
IBS 611	International Business	3
MGT 603	Strategic Management	3
MGT 611	Managing Human Resources	3
MGT 652	Entrepreneurship	3

Courses are offered during the Fall, Spring, Summer 1 and Summer 2 semesters. To accommodate the schedules of working professionals, the programs are offered in the evening, with opportunities to take classes on Thursdays. Students, who are employed full time, are advised to take nine semester hours or fewer during any four-month period.

E-mail: meng@alhosnu.ae