Engineering Management Online Master's

The Program

Leveraging the expertise of our world-renowned professors and their deep understanding of engineering and business in MENA region, the OEM program delivers a practical experience with a strategic focus on project management that prepares you to design and manage optimized systems and work processes.

As the leading Engineering Management program in the region, the OEM program delivers a transformative experience that will widen your perspectives along the interface of technical and management expertise and accelerate your career growth.

Your Journey to Leadership Starts Here!

The Master's in Engineering Management - Online (OEM) is a unique immersive management experience tailored for engineers and architects. Coupling analytical and scientific tools with business management skills, the OEM program prepares you for strategic leadership positions within large projects and organizations.

Unique Benefits Tailored to Your Needs!

Gain a competitive edge while continuing to pursue your career goals.

Leverage the diverse expertise of our world-renowned professors.

Attend biweekly virtual seminars with industry leaders and academicians.

Join our prestigious network of alumni and experts.

Maximize the valuable advising and support of our Career Services Center.

Engage in hands-on, real-world projects that directly apply to your current work environment.

Who Is This Program For?

You are

Engineers and managers in technical industries seeking to enhance your knowledge and gain practical expertise in the field of management
Architects aiming to enhance your project management skills and transition into the business side of architecture

You have

An undergraduate bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture (BE or its equivalent).
An average of 3.2 or higher GPA on the AUB Scale (or equivalent) in the last two years of study. This requirement may be waived for applicants with strong work experience.
The English Language Proficiency Requirement (ELPR), for more information check out this link.

What Skills Will You Gain?

An interdisciplinary approach to managing engineering projects in diverse sectors.

State of the art methods in project management, finance, risk analysis, and information management.

Skills in leadership, critical thinking, and cross disciplinary collaboration and teamwork.

Proficiency in performance optimization of complex systems across diverse industries.

Testimonials

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

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.

Noura El Hassan

Full-time lecturer in the Industrial and Engineering Management (IEM) Department
Expert in Financial Engineering and Markov Decision Processes

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.

Hussein Tarhini

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

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.

The Program

Unique Benefits Tailored to Your Needs!

Who Is This Program For?

What Skills Will You Gain?

Testimonials

Curriculum

Core Courses

Strategic Management of Technology

Introduction to Financial Engineering

Probability and Decision Analysis

Operations Management

Elective Courses

Project Planning Scheduling and Control

Project Deliverance and Contracts

Lean Engineering Concepts

Financial Engineering I

Applied Data Science

Disputes Resolution on Projects

Project Risk Management

Agile Software Project Management

Project Management Principles and Practices

Program and Portfolio Management

Flexible Tuition Fees

Choose Your Ideal Study Plan!

Next Start Date

Join a global network of engineering & architecture leaders!

Deadline to apply is August 12, 2025! Hurry!

Instructors

Assem Abdul Malak

Farah Dimashkieh

Noura El Hassan

Mayssa Kalach

Hiam Khoury

Daoud Kiomojian

Rayan Khraibani

Bacel Maddah

Imad Moukadem

Walid Nasr

Maher Noueihed

Hussein Tarhini

Hussein Tarhini

Assem Abdul Malak

Farah Dimashkieh

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