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Daniel Webster College plans to introduce a master’s degree in business administration focused on technology and innovation next spring.
The Nashua, N.H.-based school, traditionally known for its aviation expertise, wants to reposition itself as the premier science, technology, engineering and math college in southern New Hampshire, according to Fred Kocher, president of the New Hampshire High Technology Council and a member of the Daniel Webster board. Kocher said the program is a way to address the shrinking number of engineers and technicians coming out of Granite State colleges.
“We can’t expect someone else to deal with it,” he said. “The bottom line is we need to produce more students in technology and engineering.”
The school will begin offering an MBA in technology and innovation leadership in the spring 2009 semester starting with 15 to 20 students, “to essentially take the program on a shakedown cruise,” according to Daniel Webster president Robert Myers. Myers called the initiative a “niche play” into experiential learning, emphasizing team and project management to produce graduates capable of adapting to the rapidly evolving technology business environment.
Rather than base the curriculum on similar programs at schools like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School or the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Myers said the college built the program after talking to the people who would employ the graduates. The college enlisted help from local tech company CEOs and COOs, as well as the NHHTC, to shape the program.
One of those companies is TRM Inc., a Bedford, N.H., company that makes electronics components for aerospace and defense integrators. Myers said students could learn technical and project management skills by working on projects for some of its clients like Boeing Co., and Raytheon Co.
Kocher said Global Relief Technologies Inc. could also benefit from the MBA. The Portsmouth, N.H.-based company makes location technology being used, for example, to track the spread of avian flu in real time, Kocher said. The technology uses wireless systems such as cellular and satellite to gather its data, and Daniel Webster professor Jeff Smith is an expert on the subject.
The program’s curriculum is intended to be interdisciplinary and specialized, mixing in elements of organizational management, human resources, finance and marketing with a traditional MBA.
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