M.S. in Technological Systems Management Concentrations
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Understanding general and specific characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of modern technologies is essential for those who need to use, manage and create them.
Leading teams and otherwise interacting in modern scientific, engineering, and educational settings requires skills specific to certain needs.
The master’s degree offers three-degree concentrations:
- Technology Management
- Resilience and Sustainability
- Education Technology
The concentration descriptions and degree requirements are listed below.
Students interested in pursuing a master’s degree in Technological Systems Management in any of the three concentrations can now complete all degree requirements (30 credits) online. Earn your degree from the comfort of your own home.
Each specialization requires 30 credits (10 courses) of classwork plus a Master’s project. The coursework includes five required courses shared across the concentrations. The Master’s project is completed under the supervision of a faculty member.
Students completing the master’s degree program will find that they can:
- use multiple quantitative decision-making techniques and to analyze the role of bias in judgements.
- manage technical and social aspects to explain complicated phenomena and demonstrate mastery of socio-technological systems.
- evaluate and criticize the ethical decisions encountered in the engineering design process.
- identify, explain, and apply basic concepts of Science, Technology, Society research.
- demonstrate concepts, analytical tools and practical skills for the purpose of managing technologies.
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For detailed program requirements and course descriptions, please refer to the Graduate School Course Catalog catalog located at this web address.
Technology Management Concentration Details
The goal of the program is to introduce students to modern technologies with an emphasis on learning diagnostic, quantitative and analytical methods and skills. The central objectives of the program are; to teach students how to use technology to conduct business, and how to apply emerging technologies to improve operations.
Required courses: EMP 501, EST 502, EST 581, EST 582, EST 590
Master’s Project (EST 598 zero credit course)
Students typically address the Master’s project in one of three ways:
1) a literature search on a technical issue in the concentration area.
2) a project that combines some form of technical training from two or more classes in the program.
3) by addressing a professional problem where there is not sufficient time or available effort to address in the working environment and which requires additional technical information.
Resilience and Sustainability Concentration Details
The purpose of the Resilience and Sustainability Concentration is to prepare future interdisciplinary professionals and leaders to address critical issues that arise from the interaction of human society and the natural environment. Students will receive rigorous training in both underlying theories and practical approaches to problems in energy and environmental systems. We emphasize quantitative and analytic skills (e.g., data analysis, probability and statistics, decision making), and deep knowledge in specific subjects (e.g., environmental assessment, environmental or energy planning, energy management). The flexible curriculum is intended to serve students with various length of working experience including mid-career professionals, for example, those who want to advance in or transfer to an energy or environmental career, or to expand their skills by introducing environmental components into their main area of expertise, new college graduates who take this program either as the final formal education in support of a professional career or as a step to Ph.D. program.
Students entering this program are expected to have a technical or scientific background, although those with an affinity for environmental studies may be considered in special circumstances.
Required courses: EMP 501, EST 502, EST 581, EST 582, EST 590
Master’s Project (EST 598 zero credit course)
Students typically address the Master’s project in one of three ways:
1) a literature search on a technical issue in the concentration area.
2) a project that combines some form of technical training from two or more classes in the program.
3) by addressing a professional problem where there is not sufficient time or available effort to address in the working environment and which requires additional technical information.
Educational Technology Concentration Details
Educational Technology is a diversified concentration, concerned with the design, implementation, and assessment of contemporary technologies to enhance education and training. The master's program creates educators and trainers who can effectively apply new technologies to enhance education and training. Graduate students develop the knowledge and techniques necessary to analyze the learning needs and goals of their audience; develop and design instructional materials and activities; and assess and evaluate those activities.
Our program emphasizes:
a) the use of modern technologies in schools, colleges and universities, business and other areas
b) research, and evaluation of educational technologies
c) alignment with national and New York state educational technology standards
d) ethical and societal issues associated with the use of technology
Selected courses are offered as traditional evening classes and as web-based syncrhronous and asynchronous distance learning coursesto reach students who find it difficult to attend classes on campus.
Master’s Project (EST 598 zero credit course)
Students typically address the Master’s project in one of three ways:
1) a literature search on a technical issue in the concentration area.
2) a project that combines some form of technical training from two or more classes in the program.
3) by addressing a professional problem where there is not sufficient time or available effort to address in the working environment and which requires additional technical information.