Information Engineering and Management

This Master of Science programme is given within the Dept. of COMPUTER AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING at the School of Engineering in collaboration with Jönköping International Buisness School.

This is a two years Master’s programme that aims at bringing together students with business and technology background to provide them with knowledge on approaches where information technology is a driving force for successful business operation.

Information systems and business applications are essential part of businesses processes nowadays. However, information systems are not isolated, rather they function in a business context of an enterprise and operated by the enterprise personnel. Only when all parts of this complex socio-technical system work well it brings the business most benefit. Achieving this requires understanding of two perspectives: management of business processes as well as engineering of information systems to support them. Thus, this master’s programme offers two specialisations.

In an economy with an increasing part of knowledge-intensive services and products, the importance of software solutions for competitiveness of modern enterprises will increase even more. These software systems support all kinds of tasks emerging in an enterprise. This is why IT specialists with a sound background in systems architecture or software management, even in times of reduced IT budgets, have good job opportunities.

The specialisation Information Engineering and Management aims at building up specialist competence in the software area. Development of software solutions for business purposes has been a major objective of information technology during the last decades. Addressing this task requires on the one hand a deep understanding of requirements and frame conditions in the organization and, on the other hand, a solid background in methods, technologies and systems for software development and information modelling.

The specialisation Information Engineering and Management of this Master’s programme was developed for graduates with a Bachelor of Science in the field of Computer Engineering. The education will prepare you for work in development departments in large enterprises as well as in small and medium-sized companies. You will be able to work in various positions, e.g. project manager for system development, system analysts, system developer, service and maintenance or customer service. If you are interested in a career in research contexts, the programme will provide a solid basis for future research work.

The other specialisation, Business Development, is described on the website of Jönköping International Buisness School, see www.jibs.se.

The School of Engineering, Jönköping University, is a member of the prestigious collaborative between leading engineering schools worldwide - the CDIO Initiative™. The CDIO Initiative is an innovative educational framework to conceive and develop a new vision of engineering education and for producing the next generation of engineering leaders. More information, see http://www.cdio.org/