The academic mission of the program is to enhance the skills of practicing professionals by providing advanced knowledge and skills that are needed to manage the development, manufacturing and distribution operations of pharmaceutical companies.

Specific learning outcomes include the ability to:

• Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to identify, formulate and solve problems.
• Integrate, model, continuously improve, control, and if necessary, redesign and enterprise activities
• Perform data analysis and optimization for enterprise decision-making.
• Facilitate systems engineering and project management.
• Function on multidisciplinary teams.
• Understand and exhibit professional and ethical responsibility.
• Communicate effectively.
• Possess the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.