Business and Technology Management, B.S.
The School of Engineering's Bachelor of Science in Business and Technology Management (BTM) is oriented toward current and future high growth areas. This STEM based program acknowledges that modern business leaders must be deeply familiar with technology and innovation, and work in diverse venues. The BTM program will give the business leaders of tomorrow distinct advantages towards securing prosperous and satisfying careers.
The BTM degree will provide you with a relevant professional management education and effective approaches related to technology, entrepreneurship, managing professionals and information. The BTM program also offers rigorous training in the qualitative, quantitative, and innovative aspects of technology and innovation management. In short, BTM creatively fuses modern business administration with state-of-the-art technology management.
Management requires that the effective communication of ideas, so the BTM learning experience also emphasizes spoken and written presentations in individual, team, classroom, and field internship settings.
At the Tandon School of Engineering, not only will you learn in the classroom, but also through studying real-world cases, as well as active learning in the field.
Students completing BTM are qualified for a variety of positions — such as technology project leaders, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, finance and technology analysts, consultants in professional firms, marketing and business-unit managers for new products and services, and a variety of other exciting roles.
Curriculum
BTM Concentrations
Students in this degree program may direct their study in one of two areas of concentration, which focus on particular issues and strategies that apply to business and technology management:
- Technology Innovation and Strategy enables students to develop effective skills for conducting strategic analysis addressing marketing, logistics, channel and operations managements issues, as well as relevant best business practices in the technological arena.
- Technology and Innovation in Finance prepares students to understand financial theory and how firms use modern finance for strategic and tactical decision-making.
Candidates who choose the Technology Innovation and Strategy concentration must complete both MG-UY 3304 (Introduction to Supply Chain Management) in their 6th semester and MG-UY 4004 (Management Strategy in Technology Sectors) in their 7th semester. Students electing the Technology and Innovation in Finance concentration of study must complete both MG-UY 3214 (Advanced Corporate Finance) in their 6th semester and MG-UY 4214 (Financial Strategy) in their 7th semester.
Honors Capstone (Including Thesis and Honor's Thesis)
When available, students who earn a 3.6 cumulative GPA or better in MG-UY courses through their junior year of study qualify for honors senior project capstone courses. These students are also free to not elect this project sequence.
As part of the Honor’s Capstone course, students who earn a 3.6 cumulative GPA or better in MG-UY courses through their junior year qualify for an optional MG-UY 4904 BS Thesis in Business and Technology Management and follow the guidelines as outlined in the Academic Policies and Degree Requirements section of this catalog. They are advised to meet with the BTM Program Director before completing their junior year.
Transfer Students
Courses at other schools may or may not be granted transfer credit and require an evaluation of the content and level of material covered. Periodic reevaluation of courses at other institutions may lead to a variation in the number of credits granted from year-to-year. Thus, students completing the same program, but in different years, may receive different amounts of transfer credit. Transfer students must present their records for evaluation at least 2 weeks before the regular registration period for their first semester.
NYU Cross School Minors
Management
You may obtain an undergraduate NYU Cross School minor in management by completing 14 credits of Tandon MG-UY management courses with an overall GPA of at least 2.0 in the classes, one of which must be MG-UY 1002 Foundation of Management. Additionally, you must take at least 8 of the 14 credits at the Tandon School of Engineering. BTM students may not enroll in this minor.
Technology, Management and Design
As Design Thinking is ubiquitous throughout the technology landscape regardless of industry, company structure, location and size, the 16 credit Technology, Management and Design (TMD) minor’s course offerings provide a contemporary, useful and applicable set of technology management tools and inculcates a design-thinking mindset. The TMD minor provides a multi-disciplinary complement, not only for STEM, but for many other disciplines taught at NYU.
TMD prepares students for the professional dual ladder model of “engineering and management” - ascending career positions through the dual rungs of technological prowess+skills, and managerial expertise. As such, TMD “graduates” will be prepared to climb the career ladders facing them and be poised for successes in diverse professional environments. With companies’ increasing demand for creative, innovative and collaborative employees, students taking the TMD minor will have the opportunity to develop key skills for their future career: collaboration skills, project experience and a portfolio of innovative techniques. Career prospects range across industries such as technology, finance, healthcare, public service and others.
Engineering Innovation
The Engineering Innovation Minor (EIM) focuses on intra & entrepreneurship as a lever for Tandon SOE students to gain vital soft and hard skills to define their value at their future employment opportunities. The EIM Minor is open only to matriculated Tandon Students (or those in NYU pursuing and completing a dual (secondary) degree in Tandon).
This minor tasks Tandon SOE students with conceptualizing and pursuing the development of a commercially viable ventures during the minor with the purpose of learning the skills required to bring products and services from concepts to market, while also building a portfolio of projects. These goals are supported through the EIM’s required core Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship course’s acumens actualized in the NYU Tandon Future Labs (FLE) internship(s) alongside the Future Labs’ portfolio of companies. The portfolio’s companies are early stage and in the process of executing on their go-to-market strategies. Completed freshman engineering credits from the Tandon General Engineering Department are required. A required EIM “boot-camp” acquaints and acclimatizes students to the worlds of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, while preparing students outside of these worlds academically with soft and hard skills which will be needed for the student to survive and thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. An EIM Elective supports further specialization.
Course Numbering
BTM courses are numbered with the following schema:
- The first digit of a course number corresponds to the year in which a BTM student would take the course (1 = freshman, etc.)
- The second digit reflects the primary nature of the course material. Courses numbered with a second digit of “0” are focused primarily on processes in management
“1” are oriented toward organizational behavior
“2” are quantitative in nature
“3” describe a firm’s relationships with external forces
“4” study innovation
“5” are capstone courses
“6” are Internship and Service courses
Thus, MG 3304 Introduction to Supply Chain Management is a 4-credit junior-year course focusing on external relationships.
**NOTE: The GRE Exam requirement for application to M.S Management of Technology and M.S. Industrial Engineering is waived for NYU Tandon B.S. Business and Technology Management graduates who meet all other NYU Tandon School of Engineering requirements for admission.
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