Business and Technology Management, B.S. | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Business and Technology Management, B.S.

Technology Management and Innovation
Bachelor of Science
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Business and Technology Management

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

The Business and Technology Management BS program requires 127 or 128 credits for graduation. To remain in good standing, you must satisfy the following requirements, in addition to the School of Engineering requirements for a minimum term and cumulative 2.0 GPA in all courses:

  • An average of C (2.0) or better in all MG-UY courses
  • A course in which the grade of I is received may not be used to satisfy any prerequisites until the incomplete is resolved
  • 52 credits in management
  • 24 credits in courses in humanities and social sciences
  • 12 credits in courses in mathematics
  • 12 credits in “restricted” electives chosen from math, science, social sciences and humanities
  • 7 credits in science
  • 4 credits in computer science
  • 1 credit in the Engineering and Technology Forum
  • 15-16 credits in Free Electives

See the Typical Course Schedule below for an example of what your schedule might look like as a student in the BTM program.

This current curriculum accommodates 4-credit courses in humanities and social sciences, as well as a 3-credit course in the sciences and a 3 credit Free Elective.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

Full Management Minor requirements and contact info via the Tandon Bulletin.

 

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.

The TMD Minor is open to all NYU students including students in the Tandon SOE BTM* major.

 

Full TMD Minor requirements and contact info via the Tandon Bulletin.

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.

 

Full TMD Minor requirements and contact info via the Tandon Bulletin.

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.

MG-UY 1002 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2014 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2104 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2204 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2024 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2304 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2704 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3002 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3204 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3214 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3304 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3404 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3714 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3724 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3734 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4004 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4204 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4214 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4404 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4114 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4113 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4112 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4111 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4504 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4514 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4524 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4603 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4904 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 444X Please refer to the bulletin for more information

Sample Course Schedule

This schedule lists specific courses you are required to complete during your 4 years at the School of Engineering.

See footnotes 14 and 15 below.

Total credits required for graduation: 127 or 128

Fall Semester: 15 Credits

MA-UY 1324 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

or

MA-UY 1024 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

    see footnote 1a below

EXPOS-UA 1 Please refer to the bulletin for more information (Humanities and Social Sciences 1)

    see footnote 2 below

MG-UY 1002 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

EG-UY 1001 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

Spring Semester: 15 Credits

MA-UY 1424 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

or

MA-UY 1124 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

    see footnote 1b below

[COURSE:CS-UY 1114]

EXPOS-UA 2 Please refer to the bulletin for more information (Humanities and Social Sciences 2)

    see footnote 2 below 

 Science Elective (2)                                                      4 Credits

    see footnote 3 below

 

Fall Semester: 16 Credits

MG-UY 2204 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2024 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2104 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

   CAM/STS/SEG/TCS Cluster Elect (Humanities and

    Social Sciences 3)                                                       4 Credits

    see footnote 2 below

Spring Semester: 16 Credits

MG-UY 2304 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 2524 Please refer to the bulletin for more information (Humanities and Social Sciences 4)

    see footnote 12 below

MG-UY 2014 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MA-UY 2054 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

    see footnote 13 below

 

Fall Semester: 18 Credits

MG-UY 3204 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 3002 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
STS-UY 2144 Please refer to the bulletin for more information (Humanities and Social Sciences 5)

    see footnote 4 below

   Free Elective                                             4 Credits

    see footnote 7,9 below 

Spring Semester: 16 Credits

MG-UY 3404 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

  Select a BTM Concentration by choosing 1 out of the following 2 courses:

     see footnote 10 below

MG-UY 3304 Please refer to the bulletin for more information For Technology Strategy Concentration

    or

MG-UY 3214 Please refer to the bulletin for more information For Finance Strategy Concentration

   Restricted Elective(1)                                                4 Credits

    see footnote 5 below 

MG-UY 3224 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

   Free Elective                                              4 Credits

    see footnote 9 below

 

Fall Semester: 16 Credits

 Follow and complete your 2 course BTM Concentration Sequence:   

   see footnote 10 below 

MG-UY 4004 Please refer to the bulletin for more information For Technology Strategy Concentration

    or

MG-UY 4214 Please refer to the bulletin for more information For Finance Strategy Concentration
MG-UY 4404 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

    see footnote 6 below 

   Restricted Elective(2)                                                4 Credits

    see footnote 5 below

Free Elective 2                                                  4 Credits

Spring Semester: 15 or 16 Credits

MG-UY 4504 Please refer to the bulletin for more information
MG-UY 4204 Please refer to the bulletin for more information

    see footnote 6 below 

   Free Elective 3                                                      4 Credits

    see footnote 9,11 below 

   Free Elective 4                                                      3 or 4 Credits

    see footnote 9,11 below 

TCS CAM/STS/SEG Cluster Elective (Humanities and Social Sciences 6)   

 

see footnote 8 below

 

1a Students who are placed through the Tandon Mathematics Placement Exam or by a Tandon-Courant Mathematics Advisor, into MA-UY 914 Pre-Calculus must successfully complete the course before progressing to MA-UY 1324 Integrated Calculus I for Engineers. MA-UY 1054 Calculus I with Pre-Calculus is no longer offered. A more advanced Calculus I Course than indicated by Tandon-Courant placement exam (MA-UY 1024 Calc 1 for Engineers) may be substituted only with written permission by a Tandon-Courant Mathematics Advisor.

1b MA-UY 1052 Calculus II with Pre-Calculus and MA-UY 1154 Calculus II with Pre-Calculus are no longer offered and are replaced by a more advanced Calculus II MA-UY 1424 Integrated Calculus II for Engineers course which follows MA-UY 1324 and may be substituted with MA-UY 1124 Calculus II for Engineers only with written permission by a Tandon-Courant Mathematics Advisor.

2 Follow latest NYU Tandon School of Engineering & Expository Writing and TCS (HuSS - Humanites & Social Sciences) requirements as stated per the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Bulletin. Note CAM/STS/SEG designate clusters of TCS courses, refer to TCS General Education Requirements for all TCS HuSS courses & prefixes. HUSS8 has been converted into a Free Elective.

3 BTM students are required to complete a minimum of a total of 7 credits of science electives by choosing 2 approved science elective courses from 2 different course areas as follows: course area 1: ((CM-UY 1003 with or without CM-UY 1001 (as CM-UY 1004 is discontinued) or (CM-UY 1013 with or without CM-UY 1011 (as CM-UY 1014 is discontinued)), course area 2: (BMS-UY 1003 with or without BMS-UY 1001 (as BMS-UY 1004 is discontinued)) and course area 3: (PH-UY 1013 or PH-UY 1213). Any science course replacement requires approval by the BSBTM Program Director.

4 (The prior old PL-UY 2144) STS-UY 2144 Ethics and Technology is mandatory for all BTM majors and counts towards HUSS Credits.

5 Restricted Electives are Tandon pre-approved courses in math, science, Humanities and Social Sciences (HuSS) ONLY. Computer Science courses may not be counted as Restricted Electives. 

6 Students with a 3.6 GPA or better in major at the end of junior year may request to take, when available, 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/Pgm Dir). Upon completion of MG-UY 4514 they may also request to take, when available, 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/Pgm Dir). The Bachelor’s Thesis in Management may take longer than 1 semester to complete and students must follow all thesis guidelines.  

7 The prior 4cr BTM Technical Elective has been converted into a 4cr Free Elective.

8 The TCS STS Cluster BTM Mandatory Technology Subset has been replaced by a Restricted Elective

8a. MG-UY 2004 Info. Tech. & Sys and MG-UY 3024 Data & Netwk is replaced by MG-UY 2024 Management of Business Information Systems and Data Technology. Students who have already taken MG-UY 2004 and not MG-UY 3024 must complete MG-UY 2024.

8b. MG-UY 4204 Management Science has been renumbered as MG-UY 3224 Management Science due to its move from the Fall semester of the senior year to the Fall semester of the junior year.

9 Free Electives must must follow NYU Tandon guidelines.

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) and MG-UY 4004 (Management Strategy in Technology Sectors). Students electing the Technology and Innovation in Finance concentration of study must complete both MG-UY 3214 (Advanced Corporate Finance) taken first, and then MG-UY 4214 (Financial Strategy).

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. Students are encouraged to also apply any MG-UY course including those which they do not use towards the BTM Concentration or from the TMD Minor as a Free Elective.

12 ECON-UA 2 Economic Principles II (Microeconomics) was replaced by MG-UY 2524 Microeconomics.

13 With written permission from the NYU Tandon/Courant 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 all BSBTM students Fall 2021 onward.

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

**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.