{"410911":{"#nid":"410911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Continued Progress in Proposed Professional Master\u2019s Degree in Manufacturing Leadership","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProgress continues in IPST\u2019s collaboration with Georgia Tech Professional Education to develop an online professional master\u2019s degree in manufacturing leadership.\u0026nbsp; This is a unique degree program designed to prepare promising engineers with 3-5 years\u2019 experience for advancement in manufacturing leadership and management positions.\u0026nbsp; The four-quadrant program combines advanced technical education in an elective manufacturing field with three core components in business and finance, manufacturing excellence, and leadership\u2014four areas critical to the rising professional in the manufacturing environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecent marketing studies suggest that there is enthusiastic demand among company manufacturing executives for candidates with such preparation.\u0026nbsp; Because the program would mostly be conveyed in an online format, students would be able to continue their employment while enrolled.\u0026nbsp; This design is intended to facilitate students\u2019 bringing their real-world experience to the program, and gaining insights and approaches to challenges they are facing in their jobs.\u0026nbsp; As one young engineer surveyed put it, \u201cThis would be so much more useful to me than a traditional MBA, because it\u2019s designed around manufacturing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe degree development team, led by GTPE director Leo Mark and IPST director Norman Marsolan, expects to have a proposal to the Georgia Board of Regents in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Continued development of online Manufacturing Leadership degree"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-05 09:05:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:29","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"410901":{"id":"410901","type":"image","title":"Degree","body":null,"created":"1449254204","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:44","changed":"1475895139","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:19","alt":"Degree","file":{"fid":"202284","name":"131209_degree.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131209_degree_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131209_degree_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":23383,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/131209_degree_0.jpg?itok=owsMOQWg"}}},"media_ids":["410901"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"356","name":"degree"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, Marketing \u0026amp; Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@ipst.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}