Program Overview

MS in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management

Carnegie Mellon University’s MS in ETIM degree program shapes engineers and scientists into world-class leaders in innovation and technology management. Our multi-disciplinary professors and peers teach the specialized business skills, frameworks, and technical acuity necessary to both create and capture value from innovative technologies.

In addition to the base program, we offer dual degree options, a part-time track for local professionals, and a unique new degree program that combines the ETIM curriculum with the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Program Overview

A problem well defined is a problem well on its way to being solved. In Carnegie Mellon’s ETIM program, you’ll learn how strategic business and technology frameworks are used to respond to challenges, incubate ideas, and commercialize them. You’ll develop the skills to recognize, assess, and leverage the innovation ecosystems in which tech businesses operate.

Lead Smart: Frameworks for Success

You’ll learn how to use strategic business and technology frameworks to respond to challenges, incubate ideas, and commercialize them.

Lead Forward: Pathways to Success

Using ETIM Career Tracks, we’ll help you tailor your learning to your career objectives and leverage the strength of Carnegie Mellon University’s entire academic ecosystem.

Career Tracks

• Analytics: Play a vital role in innovation management by transforming data from all areas of business operations into actionable insights.
  • Learn how to identify and describe an organization’s current and future-state business processes.
  • Help stakeholders envision a better future and how their work must change to support it.
• Consulting: Diagnose and articulate clients’ business and technology needs and apply the best framework to address their emerging challenges.
  • Learn how to describe the current, future, and end state of technology within an organization and bridge its technology plan with its business operations.
• Entrepreneurship: Validate the market readiness of technologies.
  • Assess and prioritize the feasibility of options.
  • Establish optimal timeframes to design, develop, and implement technologies to an appropriate readiness level.
  • Learn to develop agile business models capable of responding to sudden market changes and how to use nuanced knowledge to raise capital.
• Product Management: Develop, design, and implement product and technology roadmaps.
  • Diagnose market dynamics, analyze marketability and financial feasibility, and execute the complete Stage-Gate Process.
  • Learn to manage a product portfolio in alignment with an organization’s business strategy and market segments.
• R&D Technology Management: Optimize an organization’s portfolio of technologies for risk, reward, stability, and growth based on strategic business objectives.
  • Develop technology portfolios to meet short, intermediate, and long-term needs.
  • Learn to create integration plans that adapt to organizational, economic, political, and technological shifts.

Graduate Outcomes

Graduates go on to work at companies like:

• Aetna
• Amazon
• Dell
• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Intel
• Johnson & Johnson
• McKinsey & Company
• Microsoft
• Moderna
• Moody's
• Nissan
• Procter & Gamble
• PPG
• Uber
• UPMC
• Walmart

Alumni Testimonials

• Hope Dohner ’17: As a people analyst at Google, I work on recruiting, headcount planning, and management. Every day, I use the cross-functional communication skills I developed in the MS in ETIM program to work with my fellow analysts, program managers, and business leaders.
• Jonathan Dyer ’19: As the lead of the Responsible AI Technical Initiative at Northrop Grumman, I leverage skills I learned in ETIM daily. I use the presentation skills I gained in the prototyping course to lead demonstrations of our capabilities.
• Aishwarya Ramachandran ’15: As Technology Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, I deliver solutions that drive transformation, improve productivity, and streamline business operations for our clients. I use the skills I honed through the MS in ETIM program coursework every day in my line of work.
• Pablo Santaeufemia ’15: As CEO and Cofounder of Bridge for Billions, a for-profit social enterprise that serves as a digital ecosystem for entrepreneurship, I connect early-stage entrepreneurs to global growth opportunities.
• Julie Deng ’21: As a senior product manager in the Amazon Music ML & Personalization team, I work with engineering, science, and product teams across the organization to understand customer preferences and build a more engaging streaming experience by bringing personalization everywhere to everyone.