People skills and knowledge of business fundamentals can position engineers for the creation and delivery of more effective solutions. Teamwork, communication, and collaboration are skills that you’ll need as you interface with others—especially when you’re tasked with delivering sophisticated solutions to clients or customers.
Understanding how core business functions “work” and how stakeholders measure success will help you gain support and resources to turn your engineering ideas into reality. With the Dyson business minor for engineers (DBME), you’ll begin to understand how managers think and how finance, marketing, accounting, and operations can affect business decisions.
The DBME is open to students majoring in certain engineering subjects within Cornell’s colleges listed below.
All undergraduate majors in the College of Engineering are eligible. However, there is a difference in requirements for students majoring in Operations Research and Engineering (ORIE) and ORIE students must pursue the DBME-ORIE option.
All courses must be taken for a letter grade and a grade of a C or better is required.
This minor requires 3 credits in microeconomics. We recommend taking this course before taking the minor’s core courses and require it to be completed by your sixth semester. A letter grade of a C or better is required.
The minor’s core requirements (13.5 credits) must be fulfilled by taking courses in the five areas listed below, which includes 3 credits that are related to your career goals. Please note that 7 credits must be AEM courses.
A letter grade of a C or better is required.
Introduction to Basic Business Concepts (3 credits)
One of the following courses is required:
Accounting Principles (3 credits)
One of the following courses is required:
*Students in the ORIE major must take ORIE 3150, which will satisfy both the DBME accounting principles requirement and a core ORIE requirement. In addition, they must also take an additional course (3 credits) from the list of courses below.
One of the following additional courses is required for ORIE students:
Finance (3 credits)
One of the following courses is required:
Capstone Course (1.5 credits)
The following course is required:
Career Goals (3 credits)
The remaining 3 credits for the DBME should align with your career goals. Given the breadth of Engineering careers, there is a wide range of courses under the topics of accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, management, and marketing. Please use the AEM Concentrations within Dyson as your guide to select your course based on your career goals. Any College of Business Course (AEM, HADM, NBA) upper level course (3000+) from this list is acceptable. Please note that these many of these courses may give preference to Dyson majors and have specific prerequisite courses outside of the minor.
*Note: ORIE majors may not use the following courses to fulfill this requirement