2014-2016 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) 
    
    Dec 02, 2024  
2014-2016 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (with addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Business and Technology Management, B.S.


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Academic and Administrative Program Director: Bohdan Hoshovsky

Goals and Objectives

The Bachelor of Science in Business and Technology Management (BTM) Program is anchored on certain overarching themes, including:

  • Achieving prowess through innovation, technology management and entrepreneurship.
  • Leading based on a broad understanding of technology’s role in the modern enterprise.
  • Developing a global perspective of modern value creation.
  • Committing oneself to service to the community.
  • Adhering to the highest ethical standards.
  • Obtaining practical exposure-through internships, speakers, on-site visits in New York City, etc.-to the latest best practices in management, especially as related to technology and innovation management and entrepreneurship.

BTM is oriented toward current and future arenas where high growth occurs. The program assumes that modern business leaders must be deeply familiar with technology and innovation. Those who have such knowledge are likely to have a distinct advantage and prosperous and satisfying careers. When appropriate, these leaders also can leverage entrepreneurship in diverse venues. The BTM Program prepares students to become such leaders.

BTM also provides students with relevant professional management education and effective approaches related to technology, innovation and information management and entrepreneurship. In other words, BTM creatively fuses modern business administration with state-of-the-art technology management.

The BTM Program also offers rigorous training in the qualitative, quantitative and innovative aspects of technology and innovation management. All courses nurture a broad managerial background along with specific application of ideas and practices relevant to the world of technologically innovative goods and services.

The art and science of management also demand that practitioners communicate ideas effectively. Therefore, as central components of the BTM learning experience the program emphasizes spoken and written presentations in individual, team, classroom and field internship settings.

Students completing BTM are prepared to succeed in a variety of positions-such as technology project leaders, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technology finance controllers, technology, finance and IT analysts for various organizations, consultants in professional-services firms, marketing and business-unit managers for new products and services, and a variety of other exciting roles. BTM graduates work in large and small companies and they excel at jobs that require a cross-functional understanding of both technology and the motivational, financial, innovative and international challenges that need to be met for innovation to succeed. BTM students are also well prepared for advanced professional studies in management, such as in a MS in Management, MOT, or MBA program, as well as more scholarly and research oriented programs, such as PhD studies.

Pedagogy

Management courses are taught using a variety of pedagogical methods.
These include:

  • Theory-led teaching
  • Case-method education
  • Project-based and team-based teaching
  • Action learning in the field

Experiential-Based Learning

Teaching based on exposition of theory is often relevant to technology management classes. Case-method teaching emphasizes real-world business experiences and challenges students to draw general principles from many examples. Project-based and team based education is experiential; students learn by doing, much as they would in a natural sciences laboratory class. Learning by doing in the field is also encouraged. It is very common in management courses for all pedagogical approaches to be employed.

Course Distribution

The BTM Program requires 127 or 128 credits for graduation. Key characteristics* of this curriculum include:

  • 56 credits in management
  • 32 credits in courses in humanities and social sciences
  • 12 credits in courses in mathematics
  • 8 credits in “restricted” electives chosen from math, science, social sciences and humanities
  • 7 credits in science
  • 4 credits in computer science
  • 4 credits in a “technical” elective
  • 1 credit in the Engineering and Technology Forum
  • 3 or 4 credits Free Elective

*Please see the Typical Course of Study for the BS in BTM Program at the end of this section.

Currently, all required management courses for the BS in BTM are each 4 credits except for two courses at 2 credits. This current curriculum accommodates 4-credit courses in humanities and social sciences, as well as a 3-credit course in the sciences.

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 = first year, 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
“9” thesis

Thus, MG-UY 3304 Introduction to Supply Chain Management  is a 4-credit junior-year course focusing on external relationships.

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Degree Requirements
To remain in good standing, candidates for the degree BS-BTM must satisfy the following requirements, in addition to NYU Tandon requirements for a minimum term and cumulative 2.0 GPA in all courses:

  • An average of C (2.0) or better in all MG courses must be maintained.
  • A course in which the grade of I is received may not be used to satisfy any prerequisites until the incomplete is resolved.

Honors Capstone
(Including Thesis and Honor’s Thesis)
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.

Information

Curricula and prerequisite changes, new courses, special sections and other special announcements are posted in the Department of Technology, Management and Innovation office suite and on the program’s website at http://engineering.nyu.edu. Students are responsible for keeping informed, tracking their progress and are encouraged to visit the BTM Program Director regularly.

Typical Course of Study for the Bachelor of Science in Business and Technology Management


See Footnotes 14 and 15

Freshman Year


Fall Semester: 16 Credits


Spring Semester: 14 Credits


Sophomore Year


See Footnotes 11

Fall Semester: 16 Credits


Junior Year


See Footnotes 11

Fall Semester: 18 Credits


Spring Semester: 16 Credits


Senior Year


See Footnotes 11

Fall Semester: 16 Credits


Spring Semester: 15 or 16 Credits


Total credits required for graduation: 127 or 128


Footnotes


1a Students who are placed through the Mathematics Placement Exam or by a Mathematics Advisor, into MA-UY 914  Pre-Calculus or MA-UY 954  Pre-Calculus, must successfully complete the course before progressing to MA-UY 1054  Calculus I with Pre-Calculus. A more advanced Calculus I course may be substituted only with written permission by an NYU Tandon Mathematics Advisor.

1b MA-UY 1052 Calculus II with Pre-Calculus is no longer offered and is replaced with MA-UY 1154  Calculus II with Pre-Calculus. A more advanced Calculus II may be substituted only with written permission by an NYU Tandon Mathematics Advisor.

2 Follow latest NYU Tandon School of Engineering & Expository Writing and TCS Humanities and Social Science (HuSS) Elective Requirements as stated per the NYU Tandon School of Engineering bulletin.

3 Approved science electives are CM-UY 1004  or CM-UY 1014 BMS-UY 1004  and PH-UY 1013  or PH-UY 1213 . EG-UY 1001  and EG-UY 1003  are NOT an approved as science electives for BTM. Any science course replacement requires approval by the BSBTM Program Director.

4 PL-UY 2144 Ethics and Technology  is mandatory for all BTM majors and counts toward HuSS credits.

5 Restricted Electives are courses in math, science, Humanities and Social Sciences (HuSS) ONLY. Computer Science courses may not be counted as Restricted Electives. Restricted elective HuSS courses follow the new 4-credit approved Humanities and Social Sciences electives.

6 Students with a 3.6 GPA or better in major at the end of junior year may substitute MG-UY 4514 Honors Capstone Project in Technology, Innovation and/or Information Management and Entrepreneurship I  (4 credits) or the Bachelor’s Thesis in Management (4 credits and with permission by the Dept. Chair) for MG-UY 4404 Entrepreneurship  . They may also substitute MG-UY 4524 Honors Capstone Project in Technology, Innovation and/or Information Management Or Entrepreneurship II  (4 credits) or MG-UY 4904 BS Thesis in Business and Technology Management  (4 credits and with permission by the Dept. Chair) in Management for MG-UY 4204 Management Science  . The Bachelor’s Thesis in Management may take longer than 1 semester to complete and students must follow all thesis guidelines.  

7 Technical Electives can be chosen from computer science, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, bio-molecular sciences, digital media, and undergraduate finance (FIN-UY) courses from the Department of Finance and Risk Engineering. Technical Electives do not count towards the General Education requirements.

8 The TCS STS Cluster BTM Manadatory Technology Subset can ONLY be fulfilled by any ONE of the following 4cr TCS Cluster 2: Science, Technology and Society (STS) courses listed below (as writing (W) or non writing courses):

Please note that the above TCS electives may also be used as normal (BTM) HuSS electives.

9 A Free Elective is defined as any three or four credit course within NYU.

10 Students must select, remain in and complete a BTM Concentration. Current BS BTM Concentrations are Technology Innovation and Strategy Concentration (Strat Concen) & Technology and Innovation in Finance Concentration (Fin Concen). 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.

11 Students may participate in an internship experience through CP-UY 2011  and/or CP-UY 2021  or MG-UY 4603 , for a maximum of 3 total internship related credits which will only count as a Free Elective.

12 ECON-UA 2 Economic Principles II (Microeconomics) replaces the prior EC-UY 2524  Managerial Microeconomics.

13 With written permission from the NYU Tandon Dept. of Mathematics, MA-UY 2054  Applied Data Analysis may be substituted with MA-UY 2224  Data Analysis.

14 Grandfathering rules may apply.

15 This chart is for incoming Fall 2014 BTM Freshmen and onwards.

Note: THIS CHART IS ALSO USED FOR ADVISEMENT AND BS BTM DEGREE REQUIREMENT AUDIT CHECKLIST. ALL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO REVISION.

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