The initiative offers graduate education to Portland’s high-tech work force in the Wilsonville corridor. Courses will be taught in the evening and near the workplace of prospective students (e.g. Xerox, FEI, Novellus, FLIR). The target group constantly renews and expands its knowledge to keep up with the rapid pace of high-tech industries. Because of long work hours and long commutes, graduate education on campus is typically not an option. By serving students where they work and live, ETM will provide superior value, increase its enrollment, and grow tuition income. The existing resources plus adjunct faculty which will be paid from the tuition income of the proposed program will constitute the resources. The administrative support and TA/RA stipend will also be paid for from the tuition generated by this program after the PSU portion is deducted. CRITICAL: The program is contingent upon PSU's approval. It has been approved by the Dean of MCECS and forwarded to the Provost.

ETM proposes the formation of TMRC (Technology Management Research Institute) and SDL (Strategic Decisions Laboratory)to conduct technology management research with industry/university/government collaboration. PSU, Portland General Electric (PGE) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) propose the creation of a Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), which will be a part of TMRC. There is a myriad of renewable energy development projects in place in the country now. The central concept of RISE is to conduct research to perform technology assessment for the evaluation of emerging energy technologies from technological, economic, environmental social and political perspectives. TMRC proposal has been submitted to the university as a PSU Center to be eventually converted to an NSF Center. RISE Concept Paper has been submitted to Congressman David Wu, upon his request, to be forwarded to the Department of Energy. SDL is in place in the department.

Our PhD program in T.M. has close to 50 students. The objective is to graduate world-class PhDs, and to grow the visibility of the department within the global academic community. ETM faculty systematically involves PhD students in grant proposal writing process, and helps them start publishing early in their program. This provides a solid preparation for their careers,increases PSU’s visibility through publications, and creates a culture in which students feel responsibility not only to do research, but also to help find funding for it, and to publish the results. Since ETM does not have a "home base" for research funding in agencies such as NSF, the department is concurrently working on creating a steady revenue stream through tuition via the Southside initiative. The success of the PhD initiative depends heavily on PSU's approval of the Southside initiative.

ETM annually organizes PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology), which brings together 600-700 technology management researchers, high level executives, and government officials. PICMET (Portland International Center for Management of Engineering & Technology) was established as an independent non-profit organization in 1991. It is not a university center, but it is headquartered in the ETM Department and managed by the ETM Faculty. The primary activity of the Center is an annual conference which is held in Portland in odd-numbered years and in international locations in even numbered years. PICMET is of great strategic importance to ETM, because it improves visibility of the department, helps to form partnerships with funding agencies, publication venues, and industry, exposes faculty and students to the global Engineering Management community on an ongoing basis and helps to attract international students and world-class faculty.

We have four new graduate certificate programs. The first one (Management of New Product Development) was approved by the Faculty Senate; the others (Technology Management, Technology Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management of Technology)are at the Graduate Council now. The admission requirements to these programs are identical to admission to our MS program. Students will be able to complete the graduate certificate requirements either as part of their MS studies, or as stand-alone programs. Since the proposed programs will utilize our existing courses, no new resources are needed at this time. In the future, if vthe demand builds up to a high level, new faculty and administrative resources will be needed.