Program Description
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 Business Minor for Engineers (BME), you'll begin to understand how managers think and how finance, marketing, accounting, and operations can affect business decisions.
Academic Standards
Eligibility
The Business Minor for Engineers is open to students majoring in certain engineering subjects within Cornell's colleges listed below.
All undergraduate majors in Duffield Engineering are eligible.
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Biological Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Information Science
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Computer Science
- Information Science
Academic Policies
A minimum of 12 unique credits (outside of major's core requirements) must be taken to complete any/all minors. Some majors may be required to take an additional course to satisfy this requirement.
Grade Requirements
- All courses must be taken for a letter grade. Grades of S/U or SX/UX will not be accepted.
- Each course must be completed with a grade of C or better to count toward the minor.
Program Information
- Minimum Credits for Minor: 16.5
Minor Requirements
This minor includes 3 foundation credits and 13.5 core credits. From the total credits, 9 must be taken at Cornell University, and 7.5 must be SC Johnson College of Business (JCB) courses, which include any course code of AEM, HADM, NBA, or NCC.
Note: in many cases, the Cornell and JCB requirements will overlap (e.g. AEM 2241 Finance: Finance is a JCB course and a Cornell course, so it will satisfy 3 credits for each requirement).
Foundation Course
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.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
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| Introductory Microeconomics | |
| Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | |
| Intermediate Microeconomics | |
Core Requirements
The remaining 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 7.5 credits must be SC Johnson College of Business (JCB) courses.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
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| Introduction to Business Management | |
| Marketing | |
| Introduction to Management | |
| Marketing Principles | |
| Introduction to Organizations and Management | |
| Marketing Management | |
| Marketing Management | |
| Managing and Leading in Organizations | |
| Managing Operations | |
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
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| Financial Accounting | |
| Financial Accounting Principles | |
| Financial Accounting | |
| Financial and Managerial Accounting (ORIE students only) | |
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
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| Finance | |
| Finance | |
| Finance | |
| Managerial Finance | |
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| AEM 4660 | Business Simulation | 1.5 |
Career Goals (3 Credits)
The remaining 3 credits for the BME 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 that may be relevant to you. You may choose any SC Johnson College of Business (AEM, HADM, NBA, NCC) upper level course (3000+), taken for letter grade only. Please note that many of these courses may give preference to Dyson/Nolan/Johnson majors and/or have specific prerequisite courses outside of the minor.
Note: ORIE majors may not use AEM 3100 Business Statistics to fulfill this requirement.
