Elective Tracks
Customize your degree to match your career goals
As a Duke Master of Engineering Management student, you select the courses to support the job role and career goals you have in mind.
Duke MEM Online's elective tracks help guide the choice of your four electives, by grouping courses by the skills needed to prepare you for your potential job role.
Each course reflects and supports our learning culture, which we call Professionalism and the Five Principles.
Our elective tracks are:
- Customer Experience and Product Design
- Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Product Management
- Technology Development and Commercialization
You can also create your own custom track, or pursue an engineering discipline-focused track, with our "Build Your Own" option.
"For me, Duke MEM Online was a win-win. I remained fully engaged at work, but still made lifelong friendships and attended the beautiful campus of Duke!"
Myron Fletcher '18
Rocket Propulsion Test Engineer
Boeing
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Customer Experience and Product Design
Designing and improving products to meet or exceed customer expectations, and to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy
Potential Job Roles
Dependent upon experience
- Customer Experience Analyst
- Customer Success Analyst
- Quality Engineer
- Software Engineer
Distance Courses
- EGRMGMT 542: Competitive Strategies
- EGRMGMT 560: Project Management
- EGRMGMT 575: Software Quality Management
- EGRMGMT 576: Design Thinking and Innovation
- EGRMGMT 578: Designing Customer Experiences
- EGRMGMT 587: Data Visualization
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Preparation for roles using data analysis to improve, accelerate and transform a business, or even to disrupt an industry
Potential Job Roles
Dependent upon experience
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Financial Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Data Scientist
Distance Courses
- EGRMGMT 534: Quantitative Financial Analysis
- EGRMGMT 585: Fundamentals of Data Science
- EGRMGMT 587: Data Visualization
- EGRMGMT 588: Machine Learning Principles and Applications
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Designing, operating and improving the supply systems required to create or deliver an organization's primary products and services
Potential Job Roles
Dependent upon experience
- Operations Data Analyst
- Supply Chain Data Analyst
- Associate Supply Chain Manager
- Project Manager
- Program Manager
- Process Engineer
- Industrial Engineer
Distance Courses
- EGRMGMT 560: Project Management
- EGRMGMT 562: Operations Management
- EGRMGMT 563: Supply Chain Management
- EGRMGMT 580: Decision Models
Product Management
Preparation for planning, forecasting, producing, and/or marketing at all stages of the product life cycle
Potential Job Roles
Dependent upon experience
- Associate Product Manager
- Product Management Analyst
- Product Development Engineer
- Associate Offering Engineer
Distance Courses
- EGRMGMT 532: Advanced Finance for Technology-Based Companies
- EGRMGMT 542: Competitive Strategies
- EGRMGMT 576: Design Thinking and Innovation
- EGRMGMT 572: Innovation Management
- EGRMGMT 590.XX: Managing Product Development
Technology Development and Commercialization
Preparation for job roles tasked with transforming innovations into solutions, frameworks, processes and workflows
Potential Job Roles
Dependent upon experience
- Business Analyst
- Business Technology Analyst
- Associate Consultant
- Strategy Analyst
Distance Courses
- EGRMGMT 532: Advanced Finance for Technology-Based Companies
- EGRMGMT 542: Competitive Strategies
- EGRMGMT 560: Project Management
- EGRMGMT 572: Innovation Management
- EGRMGMT 574: Commercializing Technology Innovations
- EGRMGMT 576: Design Thinking and Innovation
Build Your Own
Design an elective track to fit your goals
Choose from among the courses listed in the tabs above, and from the list below, to customize a focus area of study to suit your career needs.
The Duke Master of Engineering Management Online program (Duke MEM Online) was previously known as the Distributed Master of Engineering Management program (d-MEMP).