From Engineering Management EM to Technology Engineering Management TEM

The first MSc EM program was realized in Turkey in the year 1934. The first idea for a postgraduate Engineering Management MSc program at TU Wien came up in 1992 in cooperation with Oakland University in Rochester (MI). The main goal has been to educate managers for SMEs as well as Department Heads of large companies from the producing industry. After some discussions and visits a general cooperation agreement between Oakland University and TU Wien was signed on January 25, 1995, in the Rectors office of TU Wien. The main points were an international faculty, a two-week stay at Oakland University with lectures and company visits and the participants received an MSc degree in Engineering Management and an Academic record from Oakland University as well as a certificate from TU Wien. On October 20, 1995, the first program was launched with 11 participants in Austria. The following programs up until 2005 took place in different locations in Lower Austria and Vienna. Since 2007 this program has been running in the framework of the Continuing Education Center (CEC) of TU Wien. During these past 26 years, the topics were continuously adapted to incorporate the latest developments in technology and economics. Until now there are more than 220 graduates mostly with a technical background. Nearly, all of them are currently worldwide in higher management positions in the industry or founded their own, successful companies. Usually, the contents of the lectures were adapted according to the latest developments by the members of the international faculty. According to the rapid development of their experience, we recognized that EM has to be changed in TEM. In 2023 the Engineering Management Program was established in Kosovo at UBT with the name International Engineering Management which was an innovation-based solution for countries in transition and a direct support for capacity building according to best practices in Europe and the USA. This model, an American - European based education was a prototype for the entire development of UBT as a new University