Engineering Management Online Master's

Testimonials

The Master’s program was a rewarding experience and was a smart investment in my career growth. It provided practical tools that I now use to optimize my daily work. The professors were outstanding, and the program helped me build valuable professional connections.

Richard Rahal (OEM' 25)

General Manager at Weber Saint-Gobain Kuwait

Returning to academia during my mid-career was a challenge, but This Master's program offered what I was looking for academically. The skillset I developed became invaluable, allowing me to navigate the complexities of my role with greater confidence and insight.

Houssam Ghanem (OEM '25)

Associate Principal Program Manager at Dar al Handasah (Shair and Partners)

Motivated by AUB's strong reputation and its high employability rate in the region, I was eager to join the program. It significantly improved my management approach and decision-making skills in my current role.

Amin Abou Saad (OEM' 24)

Testing & Commissioning Manager at STED Saudi Co.

The program has exceeded my expectations! it is designed in a way that facilitates acquiring tools and knowledge that can be directly used to excel on the professional level.

Youssef Mourad (OEM '23)

Technical Manager at Monla Group Holding

As a working professional, enrolling in the "Masters of Engineering Management" program at AUB was an investment in my self-improvement to realize further success in my career transition. The online learning experience has been rewarding. The knowledge gained by professors, truly masters of their fields, has direct practical applications to the management world.

Jamy Zakharia (MEM '21)

Business Development Manager for Energy Transition at Petrofac

Curriculum

Core Courses

Learn to formulate and implement major goals and initiatives based on consideration of resources and assessment of the internal and external environments in which the project or organization competes. Equip yourself to deal with issues such as competitive advantages, resources allocation, economy of scale, and role of technology and technological innovation.

Acquire the basics of financial accounting, the investment process and financial markets, and gain a flavor of Financial Engineering applications such as pricing and portfolio structuring of bonds, capital budgeting, cash matching, dynamic investment management and firm valuation. This course will prepare you to handle more complex financial instruments with uncertain cash flows, such as stocks, options and futures.

Develop a coherent approach to decision making and acquire rules of thought to transform complex decisions into simpler decision situations. Gain basic techniques of modern decision analysis and modeling and learn to use probability and utility theory to represent uncertainties and preferences in those models.

Learn how to design and manage operations in an organization for a sustainable and competitive advantage. Gather theoretical and practical insights into service and manufacturing operations, in both the private and public sectors. Get introduced to topics such as forecasting, strategic operations, linear programming, aggregate planning, inventory management, MRP and ERP and scheduling.

Elective Courses

Explore technical and managerial challenges of project management and address issues related to project selection techniques, project planning, budgeting, risk analysis, resource management, project monitoring and termination. Understand how project management decisions are reached, what tradeoffs are made, and how outcomes depend on the underlying situation.

Learn to tackle issues related to the various approaches that may be suitable for the delivery of large construction projects. Understand the risks inherent in the undertaking of large projects and comprehend how certain identified risks can be addressed through the proper formation of project contracts.

Discover the emerging concept of lean performance in the construction industry. Get introduced to the origin of lean concepts, and learn their application to the design process, implementation in construction, contracting for lean performance, and value improving practices such as benchmarking, constructability, and value management.

Get introduced to the investment process and financial markets. Learn about portfolio management, the valuation of financial instruments, the pricing of a basic class of financial derivative securities (forwards, futures and options) Gain insights that can be extended to handle more complex financial instruments. Get exposed to areas such as mathematical modeling, optimization, probability, and, more generally, to finance, and operations research.

Gather theoretical knowledge and gain practical skills to analyze, visualize, and explore data. Get introduced to applied data analytics, with an emphasis on viewing data from both statistical and machine learning perspectives.

Understand construction contract conditions governing claims and disputes, with a focus on claim evolvement and administration, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods and amicable settlement.

Engage in an active discovery of risk management principles and develop an awareness of the challenges, the tools and the process of designing and implementing a risk management program, with application to industry projects.

Understand the fundamental principles underlying software management and economics through an overview of traditional software development and management strategies, contrasted with iterative and incremental development techniques covering the full spectrum of agile methods, including Scrum, extreme programming, lean and feature-driven development.

This course exposes students to the project management principles and practices. Students will acquire the necessary tools, and techniques to plan, execute, and control projects to deliver successful outcomes. The course will introduce students to project charter development, scope selection, delivery strategies, project planning, cost estimation, project controls, staffing, health/safety/environment (HSE), and quality management. The course exposes students to the principles of agile project management.

This course presents a view of managing projects from an organizational perspective. The main areas of discussion will be strategic alignment, the role of effectively managing organizational assets through an enterprise project management office, portfolio management and program management. Using specific examples and a case study approach, students will explore the importance of using organizational strategies to align projects and apply practices to create portfolios of programs and projects to efficiently leverage organizational assets.

Flexible Tuition Fees

PAY AS YOU GO

Pay for the courses you register each semester.

Base price per credit: $561

Total Program Tuition: $16,830

Corporate tuition rates are available, contact us for more information.

Instructors

Assem Abdul Malak

Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Expert in Project Risks and Management, Contract Administration, and Disputes Resolution.

Farah Dimashkieh

Lecturer and Researcher in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Expert in Contract Administration, Project Management and Controls, Claims Management, and Dispute Resolution.

Karim Zahed

Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering
Interested in research in Human Factors and Machine Learning in Healthcare and Finance

Mayssa Kalach

PhD in Civil Engineering, Construction Management
Expert in Project Management, Project Delivery Methods, Interface Management, Lean Methods and Applications, and Construction Engineering.

Hiam Khoury

Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Expert in construction project management with a niche focus on intelligent monitoring and modeling of construction resources.

Daoud Kiomojian

Manager of GCC Division, Prominent Capital Projects Consultancy
Expert in Academic and Industry Applications of Project Management.

Rayan Khraibani

PhD in Economics and Management from Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Strategy expert and Managing Partner at Mindsets

Bacel Maddah

Professor and Chair of the Industrial Engineering and Management Department
Expert in Retail, Supply Chain, and Stochastic Processes.

Imad Moukadem

PhD in Computer Science
Expert in Software Engineering, Software Architecture, and Data Science & Machine Learning.

Walid Nasr

Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Department
Expert in Queueing Theory

Maher Noueihed

Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Expert in Large-Scale Optimization and Machine Learning

Hussein Tarhini

Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Department
Expert in Supply Chain Management, Humanitarian Logistics, and Mathematical Modelling and Optimization.

Nabil Nehme

PhD in Operations Research
Director of the Engineering Economy Division, ISE, USA
International Expert in Transport and Infrastructure Economics, Financial and Supply Chain Strategy, Governance and Resilience Advisory