<p>Son is in both CIT and Tepper at CMU, both Ross and Engineering School at UMich and Industrial and Systems at GA Tech. Just learned about the GA Tech Management School’s T&M [Technology and Management] program with the Engineering School. Also digging more into GA Tech’s Co-Op option and their International Plan. </p>
<p>Manufacturing, operations analysis, systems efficiency [lots of math] is his passion with upper management in Manufacturing a long term goal. </p>
<p>Appreciate any insights from those who have attended these programs or worked with / hired individuals who had.</p>
<p>If he were to attend CMU, would CIT or Tepper be his primary school? I ask because if he is in CIT, given that there is no Industrial Engineering major, the majority of his coursework in CIT will really be focused on the technical aspect of whatever his primary major is - be it ECE, Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, or Materials. I’m assuming at CMU he would be trying to do a double major - so pretty much all of his elective space would be doing Tepper courses, I presume (I don’t know much about Tepper, just CIT really), which would obviously be more business focused. However, if he’s really interested mostly in the Industrial Engineering and Business side of things, it seems like a lot of his time at CMU might be devoted to intense coursework in an engineering discipline he isn’t as interested in? </p>
<p>Tepper might be a better fit in some ways, but that might lack the focus on manufacturing, etc.</p>
<p>CMU is a great school, and both Tepper and CIT are very, very strong, but if I’m clear on his interest, may or may not be the best fit.</p>
<p>Well Georgia Tech is ranked #1 for Industrial and Systems engineering so if that’s what he wants to get into then that would probably be the best option.</p>
<p>Also, the Technology and Management option at Georgia Tech is a fairly young program, but it’s an amazing opportunity for the people involved - they have seminars and special classes that are all kept small so that there is far more interaction with the professors, and in conjunction with the Industrial Engineering degree, truly prepares people to be leaders both at and after Tech.</p>
<p>It’s not only the classes, but Atlanta is 4th in the country in Fortune 500 HQ’s. The T&M program coordinates projects with high-level managers and executives from those companies, who then turn around and frequently hire T&M graduates and put them in select positions within their companies. </p>
<p>It’s not often that you get to meet, interact with, then present to a vice president at a global leader. Since the classes are small, it’s easy to stand out, especially when you’re introduced to the VP as a “future leader of industry.”</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for the insights on T&M. In talking with its Director, she tells me that T&M was designed using the model / concepts of Penn’s M&T [except with the focus of the T&M students ending up in industry rather than as consultants on Wall Street]. My son wants to start out in manufacturing or industry. </p>
<p>As for CIT, he has been accepted into Mechanical and selected that due to the manufacturing subset of the Mechanical program. He too questions if the Mechanical side will detract somewhat from the Industrial focus; still he is also compelled to CMU’s excellence in Robotics and the overall ‘out of the box’ think that emulates from that institution [although those traits may be more on the computer engineering, computer science and robotics side of the house than mechanical…]</p>
<p>ekb242 and BanjoHitter - if either of you hail from Tech; do you know if its possible to obtain a BSE in ISyE with T&M minor, Co-Op and International Study / Work-Abroad / International Plan [all in five years - including summers?]?</p>
<p>I haven’t done a detailed analysis, so you’ll want to talk to program directors of each of the groups. However, here’s my quick take to give you a starting point when talking to the programs:</p>
<p>First, that combination seems to only work if you have an international co-op. Those are pretty rare to find unless you hold an international passport. Second, I’m not sure how T&M and Co-Op would work together. T&M requires students to take certain classes in the Spring and Fall of their 4th and 5th years. Co-op would require two of those semesters workings. I’m not sure T&M would let you miss alternating semesters and make them up later.</p>
<p>Whatever you take, you need to be aware of the supply/demand factor of your interests. You need to make sure that when your skill set is “searched upon”, a whole bunch of results come back.</p>
<p>Reputation of school, GPA and all of that does matter somewhat, but NOTHING beats good 'ole supply and demand. </p>
<p>You want you mate to “want” you but you want your job industry to “need” you.</p>
<p>I haven’t looked at the CMU course catalog in a few years (former engineering student there), but I seem to recall most of the MechE classes being in supply chain management and those sorts of things instead of more traditional IE. Personally, from what I saw of the MechE department while there, the people with the best class offerings and whatnot tended to be those with a robotics slant.</p>
<p>If he wants, though, he could combine one of the main five engineering programs at CMU (civil, chemical, ECE, mechanical, or materials) with something from the business school. It might work out well if he took the supply chain management types of classes and then picked up a minor from Tepper.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech’s IE program has a Supply Chain and Logistics track that probably makes more sense, especially when combined with a T&M minor from the College of Management.</p>
<p>I can’t vouch for the program in the 5-year question, but I can vouch for the fact that I’m doing international plan, co-op, two minors, and computer engineering, along with a host of other extracurriculars, and will be out of here in 4.5 years It takes planning, but it’s definitely doable!</p>
<p>Do you have an international co-op or were you able to do that with study abroad? I can’t imagine that it’s possible to study abroad that much and still maintain the course-load to graduate in 4.5 years.</p>
It takes planning, but it’s definitely doable!</p>