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The first university department titled "Engineering Management" was founded at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T, formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla) in 1967. Drexel University's Engineering Management program was established in 1959. Stevens Institute of Technology is believed to have the oldest EM department, established as the School of Business Engineering in 1908. This was later called the Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM) program and moved into the School of Systems and Enterprises. Outside the USA, Istanbul Technical University has a Management Engineering Department established in 1982, offering a number of graduate and undergraduate programs in Management Engineering. In Germany the first department concentrating on Engineering Management was established 1927 in Berlin. More recently in the United Kingdom, Teesside University's School of Science and Engineering introduced an MSc Engineering Management alongside its engineering-focussed MSc Project Management. Michigan Technological University began an Engineering Management program in the School of Business & Economics in the Fall of 2012.
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