Master of Science in Product Development

该奖项资助了马萨诸塞州理工学院产品开发创新工程研究中心、罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和底特律慈善大学（UDM）之间的联合教育项目。 该联盟正在开发一个产品开发领导计划，将授予产品开发理学硕士学位。 MS将是工程和管理之间的决斗学位，旨在帮助经验丰富的技术专业人员进入产品开发领导和管理职位。 该项目的最终目标是在全国许多大学部署产品开发硕士学位，以便对美国产品开发人员产生重大影响。 每个提供这种学位的机构，包括目前参与该项目的三个机构和以后加入的机构，都必须有共同的愿景、概念定义和语言。 三所学校之间的成功合作将确保麻省理工学院的产品开发硕士学位与UDM的产品开发硕士学位相当，而UDM的产品开发硕士学位又与RIT的产品开发硕士学位相当。 硕士学位课程为期24个月，将允许注册的学生继续在他们的公司工作。 学生将在他们就读的校园上课，并通过远程学习完成大部分课程。

This award funds a joint education project between the Engineering Research Center for Innovation in Product Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). This consortium is developing a Product Development Leadership Program that will confer a Master of Science degree in Product Devlopment. The MS will be a duel degree between engineering and management, and is designed to help experienced technical professionals move into product development leadership and management positions. The ultimate goal of this project is to deploy the MS in Product Development degree in many universities across the nation in order to have a significant impact on the American product development workforce. Each institution offering such a degree, including the three institutions currently involved in the project and those to be added later, must share a common vision, definition of concepts, and language. A successful collaboration between the three schools involved will ensure that an MS in Product Development from MIT is comparable to one from UDM, which is in turn comparable to one from RIT. The Master's degree program is 24 months long, and will allow enrolled students to continue to work at their companies. Students will attend classes at the campus in which they are enrolled for short periods of time, and will complete most of the course work through distance learning.