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Master of Science in Engineering
Offered by Purdue University through the GM Technical Education Program
The GM Technical Education Program (TEP) has partnered with Purdue University to offer GM technical professionals a Master of Science in Engineering degree program (MSE). This high-level, flexible graduate-engineering program is strategically aligned with the Corporation's systems and integration engineering functions. The MSE degree program is a significant education enabler for building and strengthening GM's technical depth.
Purdue's top-ranking School of Engineering grants this 30 credit hour degree, which is available through distance learning students at GM locations worldwide. Purdue offers GM employees strategically aligned minors specific to GM's core competencies and competitiveness.
Within this framework, GM professionals can tailor the program to his or her professional and job-related needs, providing for maximum employee and corporate benefit. The MSE program provides a focused engineering education in which employees select from a wide range of advanced integration and systems engineering course options. In addition, the degree permits up to 12 credits (generally 4 courses) to be taken from other leading national and international institutions. This unique transfer credit feature allows for maximum curriculum flexibility and technical strength. GM employees are given the option of selecting courses from many different leading universities. This allows the professional to combine, for example, Design for Manufacturability courses from Stanford University, Integrated Vehicle Systems courses from The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, or Environmental Engineering courses from Chalmers University (Sweden) in alliance with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and the University of Tokyo with the technically rich Purdue course groupings. Numerous top-ranked and "best in subject" universities partner with the GM Technical Education Program and Purdue University to deliver these courses.
GM employees participate in this corporate-sponsored degree through the GM Technical Education Program. Details on the GM-specific plans of study are available at the TEP site locations.
Degree Strengths
- Degree program from top-tier engineering research university (ranked amongst the top 10 Graduate Schools in Engineering - latest U.S. News and World Report annual ratings) with global influence
- Strategically aligned minors designed to deliver job-related education that produces corporate results
- Liberal transfer credit degree feature allows the professional to choose courses from a variety of top-tier universities
- The program can be completed in 2 to 3 years
- Sponsored by GM executive leadership; tuition, fees and computer software funded by GM
- Available at the TEP sites located globally at many GM facilities
- Customer-focused counseling and academic services provided by the TEP
- Courses may be completed on ½ company time and ½ personal time
- Convenient, flexible and accessible education
Application and Registration Information
Employees apply to the MSE program and register for courses through their local GM Technical Education Program site office. To begin the application process, please contact your local TEP Site Administrator for a personal counseling appointment or call 586-947-0782 for more information. All degree application and course registration forms are obtained from and submitted to the local site office. The MSE course offerings are located in the TEP Catalog.
MSE and an MBA
The MSE is a component of the GM Technical Education Program's Dual Degree Program. This innovative program, the first of its kind in the world, delivers two stellar graduate degrees - a technical degree and a management degree - combined in one GM job-related plan of study.
The Dual Degree Program is developed on the conviction that for all firms in all future markets, sustainable competitive advantage will be constructed on a technological foundation. The firms that will lead in global markets will be those that design competitive strength around technical competencies within a business construct. The dual degree builds essential technical competencies and strategic management capabilities within GM. The Dual Degree Program equips the GM professional with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the increasingly complex, technology-based business world of today and the future.
The MSE is the technical foundation and specialization for the business-oriented coursework of the capstone MBA degree. As a result, the employee can earn the MBA by completing as few as 36 additional credits beyond the MSE. The Indiana University, Kelley School of Business offers the capstone MBA degree to GM employees through the GM Technical Education Program.
This contemporary program integrates global and strategic management concepts with technical functions and issues. It is a focused, rather than general, MBA program aimed at increasing GM's technological capability within a technically sophisticated, multinational business environment. With an effective application based approach, the program's total learning experience develops pioneering leaders capable of transforming GM's future.
MSE/MBA Degree Strengths
- Innovative Education - a technical MBA program
- Degree from top-tier ranking university - U.S. News and World Report and Business Week annual ratings and Wall Street Journal International ratings
- Technical professionals can earn MBA degree in 2 to 3 years
- AACSB accredited business school and programs
- Degree delivered via enhanced Internet courses and two short live courses (residency requirement met onsite at a GM location)
- Job-related and application-based education that delivers high-quality corporate results
- Top GM leadership sponsorship and operating budget commitment
- Available at TEP sites (U.S., Canada & Mexico) located on-site at GM facilities
- Interact with professionals within GM and from other global companies
- Customer-focused counseling and academic services provided by TEP staff
- Courses completed on 1/2 company time and 1/2 personal time
- Convenient, flexible and accessible education
Application and Registration Information
After completing the MSE degree, Employees apply to the MBA program and register for courses through their local GM Technical Education Program site office. To begin the application process, please contact your local TEP Site Administrator for a personal counseling appointment or call 586-947-0782 for more information. All degree application and course registration forms are obtained from and submitted to the local site office.
About Purdue University
Founded in 1869, Purdue University has grown into a world-class institution of more than 65,000 students and 3,500 faculty members. Purdue is a highly respected research institution with an annual research budget over $200 million. Research is conducted at Purdue's more than 400 research laboratories at the West Lafayette campus. As one of the 10 largest and most highly respected universities in the United States, Purdue remains committed to its founding principle of serving the people.
U.S. News and World Report annual ratings consistently rank Purdue University's School of Engineering amongst the top 15 Graduate Schools in Engineering in the country. In these national ratings, Purdue's Engineering Schools of Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering and Computer/Electrical Engineering rank amongst the top 10 schools in their respective engineering specialization.
With nearly 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 1,900 graduate students Purdue's renowned Engineering School is fully accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In recent years, Purdue has consistently had the largest enrollment of women engineers in the United States. More than 60,000 living Purdue alumni possess engineering degrees and one of every 50 engineers in the United States is a Purdue graduate. In addition, more CEOs have graduated from Purdue engineering than any other program in the United States.
In 1958, Engineering Professional Education at Purdue University granted the first Master of Science in Engineering degree. Since this time 1,600 professionals have received the MSE degree. In 1986, Purdue University and General Motors Corporation partnered to offer the MSE degree to qualified GM employees.
The MSE degree program is available to corporations through Purdue's Engineering Professional Education program. GM employees can participate in this distinguished graduate-engineering program through the GM Technical Education Program.
About Indiana University's Kelley School of Business
Founded in 1920, the Kelley School of Business (KSB) at Indiana University consistently ranks in the uppermost tier of national business school ratings. Business Week Magazine rated Indiana University's business school third on its annual list of "Where the Best Teachers Are" and second on its annual list of "Schools That Are Best at Responding to Student Concerns". With more than 73,000 living alumnae, 8,000 current students and 160 tenured or tenure track faculty, KSB is one of the largest schools of business in the United States.
Kelley School of Business faculty have distinguished themselves by achieving excellence in teaching, research and service to the University. While maintaining their primary commitment to teaching, the faculty regard research as an important mission. Many have earned international reputations for their research contributions and interaction with business, government and not-for-profit organizations.
The primary focus of the Kelley School of Business is the business firm, believing it to be one of the key institutions in our society. The School's overall mission is the creation, transmission and preservation of knowledge about the management of organizations.
GM's "technical capstone" MBA program is offered through the Kelley School of Business - Kelley Direct OnLine MBA Program. Kelley Direct specifically focuses on effective learning for working professionals. The program can be easily accessed, the pace of learning is flexible and courses operate mainly in an asynchronous learning environment. Pedagogy emphasizes high levels of interactivity between students and faculty and among faculty. Faculty who teach in the Kelley Direct MBA program are the same faculty who teach in the School's full-time and part-time residential programs.
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