About the program of MEM

In the complex, competitive world of technology driven industry, skilled engineers who
understand the essential principles of business and law have a tremendous competitive advantage.
The Pratt School of Engineering at Duke Univers ity is meeting the demand for such professionals
with its one year Master of Engineering Management Program Degree. The MEM Program is
distinctive among engineering management programs in its integration of business, law and
engineering as well as its one year duration.

The curriculum, offered with the support of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the
Duke Law School, incorporates courses covering such topics as technology management,
innovation management, marketing, finance, intellectual prope rty (IP), project management,
knowledge management, patent law and business law. The balance of the curriculum is devoted to
elective graduate-level engineering courses at the Pratt School. Students may take a broad range of
technical electives or concentr ate in a specific field such as the core engineering disciplines of
Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental
Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering or Materials Science. In addition, many
students choose to focus on interdisciplinary studies such as photonics, biomaterials or
nanomaterials. Another key aspect of the program is a mandatory corporate internship that is often
used as a permanent job placement screening process by prospective employers.

If you are interested in technology leadership or a career in industrial management, high

technology management, R&D management or even technology entrepreneurship in a start -up
company, the MEM Degree may be the way to get started.

In short, the degree will jumpstart your career.

Benefits to graduates:

 More influence in your organization

 Greater job responsibility
 Higher starting salary
 Rapid career advancement

Benefits to employers of MEM Program graduates:

 Enables new engineers to consider business issues in their decision making

 Decreases training time for new engineers
  Decreases management time spent on new engineers
 Provides summer interns for a “preview” before hiring

Student Placement:

Some of the companies where students in the MEM Program have worked either as interns or full
time employees are:

Abbott Laboratories Honeywell

Accenture Husky Injection Molding Systems
Alcatel IBM
Alltel Intel Corporation
American Express John Deere
Appian Corporation Johnson & Johnson
Bank of America Lockheed Martin
Becton Dickinson Manhattan Associates
Berkshire Capital Securities Medtronic
Bloomberg L.P. Merck & Co.
The Boeing Company Merrill Lynch
Boston Consulting Group Microsoft
Boston Scientific MicroStrategy
Bovis Lend Lease Mobil Products
CapGemini Nortel Networks
Captial One Northrop Grumman
Cardinal Health Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.
CarMax Auto Superstore Parsons
CGN & Associates Philips
Cisco Systems PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Citibank Raymond James
Clark Construction Raytheon Company
Comscore Networks RTI International
Constellation Energy Group Samsung Electronics
Deloitte Consulting Sapient Corporation
Deutsche Bank SAS Institute
Discover Financial Services Schlumberger, Ltd.
DuPont SES Americom
Duke Management Company Shell
Edwards LifeSciences Skanska USA Building, Inc.
Ernst & Young LLP St. Jude Medical
Exelon Corporation Steve & Barry's
ExxonMobil Textron
Ford Motor Company UBS
General Electric U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
General Motors Wachovia Securities
GlaxoSmithKline Walt Disney World

Starting Positions:

The types of positions that our students obtain after graduation vary widely and depend on
individual interests. Some examples of their starting positions are :

Application Engineer Manufacturing Development Program Associate

Aeronautical Engineering Marketing Manager
Area Manager Marketing Strategy Associate
Automation Engineer Material Logistics Professional
Banking Analyst New Product Strategy Analyst
Business Analyst Operations Leadership Program Associate
Biomedical Engineer Patent Examiner
Civil Engineer Portfolio Analyst
Client Services Analyst Private Equity Analyst
Clinical Specialist Process Engineer
Consultant Product Manager
Data Analyst Program Manager
Design Engineer Project Manager
Development Engineer Quality Engineer
Economics Consultant Research Scholar
Electrical Engineer Risk Management Associate
Estimator Rotational Leadership Associate
Field Engineer Signal Processing Engineer
Financial Analyst Software Quality Engineer
Firmware Engineer Strategy Analyst
Forensic Analyst Stress Analyst Engineer
Global Markets Analyst Structural Engineer
Hardware Engineer Supply Base Engineer
Industrial Engineer Systems Analyst
Investment Manager Systems Manager
IT Manager Technical Consultant
Job Cost Engineer Technology Licensing Specialist
Land Acquisition Specialist Trader