Business and Technology Management

Academic and Administrative Program Director: Bohdan Hoshovsky

Goals and Objectives

The Bachelor of Science in Business and Technology Management (BTM) Program is anchored on certain overarching themes, including:

• Achieving prowess through innovation, technology management and entrepreneurship.
• Leading based on a broad understanding of technology’s role in the modern enterprise.
• Developing a global perspective of modern value creation.
• Committing oneself to service to the community.
• Adhering to the highest ethical standards.
• Obtaining practical exposure—through internships, speakers, on-site visits in New York City, etc.—to the latest best practices in management, especially as related to technology and innovation management and entrepreneurship.

BTM is oriented toward current and future arenas where high growth occurs. The program assumes that modern business leaders must be deeply familiar with technology and innovation. Those who have such knowledge are likely to have a distinct advantage and prosperous and satisfying careers. When appropriate, these leaders also can leverage entrepreneurship in diverse venues. The BTM Program prepares students to become such leaders.

BTM also provides students with relevant professional management education and effective approaches related to technology, innovation and information management and entrepreneurship. In other words, BTM creatively fuses modern business administration with state-of-the-art technology management.

The BTM Program also offers rigorous training in the qualitative, quantitative and innovative aspects of technology and innovation management. All courses nurture a broad managerial background along with specific application of ideas and practices relevant to the world of technologically innovative goods and services.

The art and science of management also demand that practitioners communicate ideas effectively. Therefore, as central components of the BTM learning experience the program emphasizes spoken and written presentations in individual, team, classroom and field internship settings.

Students completing BTM are prepared to succeed in a variety of positions—such as technology project leaders, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technology and IT analysts for various organizations, consultants in professional-services firms, marketing and business-unit managers for new products and services, and a variety of other exciting roles. BTM graduates work in large and small companies and they excel at jobs that require a cross-functional understanding of both technology and the motivational, financial, innovative and international challenges that need to be met for innovation to succeed. BTM students are also well prepared for advanced professional studies in management, such as in a MS in Management, MBA, or MS in MOT, program, as well as more scholarly and researchoriented programs, such as PhD studies.

Pedagogy

Management courses are taught using a variety of pedagogical methods.
These include:

• Theory-led teaching
• Case-method education
• Project-based and team-based teaching
• Action learning in the field

Experiential-Based Learning

Teaching based on exposition of theory is often relevant to technology management classes. Case-method teaching emphasizes real-world business experiences and challenges students to draw general principles from many examples. Project-based and teambased education is experiential; students learn by doing, much as they would in a natural sciences laboratory class. Learning by doing in the field is also encouraged. It is very common in management courses for all pedagogical approaches to be employed.

Course Distribution

The BTM Program requires 128 credits for graduation. Key characteristics* of this curriculum include:

• 60 credits in management
• 34 credits in courses in humanities and social sciences
• 10 credits in courses in mathematics
• 10 credits in “restricted” electives chosen from math, science, social sciences and humanities
• 6 credits in science
• 4 credits in computer science
• 3 credits in a “technical” elective
• 1 credit in the Engineering and Technology Forum

*Please see the Typical Course of Study for the BS-BTM at the end of this section.

Currently, management courses for the BS in BTM are each 4 credits. This new curriculum accommodates 3-credit courses in humanities and social sciences, as well as 3-credit courses in the sciences.

Course Numbering

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 = first year, 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.

Concentrations

Students in this degree program may focus 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 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 practiced 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 first concentration complete MG 3304  (Introduction to Supply Chain Management) in their 6th semester and MG 4004  (Management Strategy in Technology Sectors) in their 7th semester. Students electing the Technology and Innovation in Finance concentration of study take MG 3214  (Advanced Corporate Finance) and MG 4204  (Management Science) at these points in their careers as students.

Degree Requirements
To remain in good standing, candidates for the degree BS-BTM must satisfy the following requirements, in addition to NYUPoly requirements for a minimum term and cumulative 2.0 GPA in all courses:

• An average of C (2.0) or better in all MG courses must be maintained.
• A course in which the grade of I is received may not be used to satisfy any prerequisites until the incomplete is resolved.

Honors Capstone
(Including Thesis and Honor’s Thesis)
Students who earn a 3.6 GPA or better in MG 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 GPA or better in MG courses through their junior year qualify for an optional MG 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.

Transfer Students

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-toyear. 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 two weeks before the regular registration period for their first semester.

Information

Curricula and prerequisite changes, new courses, special sections and other special announcements are posted in the Department of Technology Management office suite and on the program’s website at www.poly.edu. Students are responsible for keeping informed, tracking their progress and are encouraged to visit the BTM Program Director.

The current 128 credit BS in BTM curriculum, which comprises 4-credit and 2-credit BTM courses, continues to be under review. The BS in BTM is intended to evolve into a 128-credit curriculum comprising 60 credits of 3-credit BTM courses in order to provide a more flexible and diverse academic experience. No loss of credit for currently enrolled BTM students would occur.

Programs

• Management Minor

• Business and Technology Management, B.S.