Mark Polczynski, engineering director of the Master of Science Engineering Management Program at Marquette University, is in need of local companies to form partnerships with the program for long-term projects and future semesters.
"Our program offers three courses per semester from the College of Engineering," Polczynski said. "Our courses are very practical and heavily project oriented."
The Engineering Management Program offers students real world, industry-based projects that allows them to exercise their ability to generate innovative and technical solutions, and to transfer solutions into industry-usable products and services.
According to Polczynksi, students in the program are typically working engineers.
"The student teams are very capable, they have relevant industry and job experience, and can usually go in to a project with an intelligent eye and understanding of the industry,” Polczynski said.
Last fall, teams from Marquette performed some reliability projects with local manufacturers. Students from the program spent a few days with the company, observing processes the company was having problems with and then issued a written reliability report, and offered suggestions to correct them, Polczynksi said.
Another group of students looked at the way LED lighting could be applied to residential living and offered the company suggestions.
"It usually comes down to the company having a specific project, and not having the people or resources to handle it themselves," Polczynski said. "Our students can come in, offer professional and reliable advice from an outside perspective."
The Marquette program has, in the past, worked with Brass Light Gallery, Milwaukee; Cooper Power Systems, Waukesha; North American Clutch Corp., Milwaukee; Astronautics Corporation of America, Milwaukee, as well as many local private inventors.
"What we are really looking for is a long-term working relationship with local businesses in the industry," Polczynski said. "We are always looking for projects and ways to integrate our students further into the community, and now that we have some veterans in the program, I’d really like to take the next step and open it up to some even larger industry projects."
The program began around four years ago, and focused at first on a lot of in-campus related projects and research.
If interested in learning more about the Master of Science Engineering Management Program at Marquette University contact Polczynski at Mark.polczynski@marquette.edu
