Within two months of graduating the OEM program, my OEM degree and experiences allowed me to land an Engineering Manager role that I had been pursuing for the past few years. Without OEM, this would not have been possible and I’m extremely grateful for the experience.

I have only just begun my journey through the OEM Program. Already the course load has proven stimulating and has improved my capabilities. I am confident that the program is going to open doors and allow me to climb the career ladder at a faster rate.

I highly recommend joining OEM!  It not only introduced me to some great friends,  but also enhanced my career journey.  In fact, after graduating,  I started my first people leadership role that allowed me to put all my new skills/learnings to the test.

OEM gave me life-long friends and the knowledge to progress in my career. I traveled internationally with my OEM study buddy and will be watching her get married next year, so the connections and friendships that you make in OEM are very special.

All of the hard work has started to pay off and I have started to reach some of the goals I hoped to achieve through the program. I just started a new position at NGC as a Section Manager, and I correlate that success directly to the OEM and MBA programs. I know I wouldn’t have had the same opportunity without the OEM program, and I couldn’t be any happier that I chose this program with UF. I am very proud of my experience with the program and I am very proud to be a UF alumnus.

The knowledge imparted by UF’s experienced and passionate OEM professors has paid dividends year after year in both my professional career and personal life.  It was well worth paying out of pocket.  I look forward to signing back up for my MBA in 2022!

I feel as though the OEM Program helped to catapult my career out of a stagnant phase and into a new industry. I feel comfortable operating with a number of different teams discussing topics ranging from engineering calls to key business decisions.

My time in the OEM Program was a period of substantial personal and intellectual growth. I thoroughly enjoyed the introduction to topics that I had never seen in my undergrad engineering coursework: marketing, accounting, finance, supply chain/logistics, and much more. The courses I took as a part of the OEM program molded me into a smarter engineer, endowed me with a tiny bit of business savvy, and educated me greatly as a consumer. Hardly a class session went by without some epiphany about the way the business and consumer world works.

The OEM Program wasn’t just a great opportunity for me to grow professionally, but a great opportunity to grow personally. Both the course content and the group work helped prepare me for my new role. It was a wonderful milestone in my career, and without a doubt, helped me get to where I am now.

I understand so much more about how my company runs the business. Decisions that didn’t make sense to me previously,  now do, based on information learned in accounting,  supply chain, etc.  I am comfortable leading a team outside of just engineering!

As an engineer,  the concurrent OEM & MBA program really opened my eyes to another way of thinking. The exposure to different MBA subjects helped to broaden my skill set. The investment was well worth it and has helped to propel my career to where I am today.

The OEM Program presented a great opportunity for advancement, since after working many years as an engineer I saw the need for a change…  After graduating from OEM in 2007, I continued working in engineering for a few more years, taking on more and more management level positions.  The OEM coursework was highly relevant.  It prepared me for the past 6+ years of manufacturing operations management, and I recently became Director of Manufacturing.

OEM was one of the highlights of my life.  I really enjoyed the camaraderie both with our studies and our after-school bonding the class of 2004 had together.  It advanced my career and I developed some great relationships with several of my classmates.

I joined OEM 20 years after I had earned my B.S.  After earning the OEM degree, I was promoted into engineering management. I led a group of engineers for 15+ yrs.  I have now moved back to a systems engineering role, leading development teams to design new products.

The OEM Program set the trajectory for completion of my consulting career as the engineering leader of a major office in a global engineering company. Ultimately,  it led to my current role and the evolution of our current curricula and programs.

The OEM program was exactly what I was looking for when I decided to go back to school. I felt it was a better option than a pure MBA program because of its technical content, and the one-weekend-a-month schedule fit in better with my busy lifestyle. The professors are world class and the content provides an excellent balance of business and engineering topics. Also, the opportunity to work with other engineers in the area on group projects led to insights and contacts that I will value forever. Without it, I feel I would not have been able to move on to the position that I have today.

OEM has been incredibly beneficial for my career and it seems like just a few days have passed, rather than a couple of decades. The curriculum mix is a perfect foundation for those with a more technical background (in my case, math and physics) to build success on the managerial ladder in technical fields.

The OEM Program is great. It has a perfect mix of relevant classes and excellent instructors from business and engineering aspects. OEM was a critical transition into the business challenges of engineering, and gave me a better all-around understanding of the operation of my company. Following OEM, I completed the 12-month MBA program at UF. The OEM program was the bridge I needed to make this possible.  It showed me I could manage the program while still working full time and traveling extensively.  Perhaps most importantly, It set me on a continuous learning path that I follow daily.  I subsequently completed a masters in environmental sustainability at Harvard, also while working.  I would not have attempted that without the experience OEM afforded me.  It literally changed my life.  Thank you, OEM!