MSUM students are doing amazing things. Our students embrace diversity, challenges, opportunities, unique experiences and continue to produce incredible results. Our students participate in student organizations, attend and present at regional and national conferences, compete at regional and national competitions, collaborate on faculty-mentored projects, gain hands-on experience through internships, help coordinate community service projects, and more. Many have won prestigious scholarships for academic excellence and many have won awards for their stellar work inside and outside of the classroom. See what the students from the Operations Management program are doing.
Jessica Meidinger, Operations Management
"Operations Management is a great opportunity for people who already have their associate's degree and want to go back into school to gain their bachelor's degree, partially because it only takes two years to gain a bachelor's degree this way. You have the technical experience already, it just gives you potential for leadership and management skills." "My favorite thing about the Operations Management program here is that they make it very seamless to get into the program and get your bachelor's degree."
Luke Prather, Operations Management
"The faculty have all been very supportive. The program has a lot of students that are technically older than average, so they’re very accommodating with how the courses are set up or even with due dates. They’re pretty much there to help you in any capacity you need.""I started out wanting to do hands-on, technical things and then I stepped back and said I can do that for a while, but now I want to be the boss or manager. This degree does give you that, and since the transfer agreements are there, you can really step into the four-year degree pretty quickly and pretty easily."
Students in Tech 428 Project Management completed their final service and industry projects at the end of Spring semester. Pam McGee (Moorhead, MN) and Ken Karr (North Hennepin Community College, MN) teach the class. As part of the course curriculum, students are required to execute a live nonprofit or industry project that applies the principles of project management taught in class. Students are required to assemble their own teams, find their own projects (nonprofit or industry), work with an executive sponsor, and execute the project. .This year was especially meaningful as together these students raised money/awareness for the Big Brother Program, Sand Hill Archery, CM Society, and Minneapolis Food Bank (Drive). In addition, three industry projects were completed—an LED Lighting Analysis for MSUM, Built a Commercial Garage, and a Business Proposal for a Drive in Movie Theatre for a local venture capitalist.
Natasha Smith talks about her experience
