技术塑造了现代生活的方方面面。熟悉当前和新兴技术的特性，功能和局限性对于政府，企业和个人生活中的明智而有效的决策和实践必不可少。在各个级别和所有学科中，工业，政府和教育界的职业越来越多地依靠发现和抓住机遇并解决技术通常带来的问题的能力。技术的发展确实正在重新定义这些职业，并改变了工作场所本身。管理现代技术需要综合利用来自许多领域的工具：科学与工程，计算机与信息，经济学与法规，心理学与社区价值观，设计与评估。技术系统管理硕士学位为所有领域的专业人员以及规划此类职业的人员提供了用于管理特定技术系统和改善其性能
Technology shapes every facet of modern life. Familiarity with the characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of current and emerging technologies is indispensable to wise and effective decisions and practices in government, business and personal life. At all levels and in all disciplines, careers in industry, government and education ever more turn on the ability to see and seize the opportunities, and address the problems, that technology often presents. Technological developments are indeed re-defining these very careers, and changing the workplace itself. Managing modern technologies calls upon a synthesis of tools drawn from many areas: science and engineering, computers and information, economics and regulation, psychology and community values, design and assessment. The Master's Degree in Technological Systems Management provides professionals in all fields, and persons planning such careers, with state-of-the-art concepts, analytical tools and practical skills for managing specific technological systems and improving their performance. Students may opt to pursue one of these four areas of focus areas: Educational Technology, Energy and Environmental Systems, Global Technology Management, or Energy, Technology, and Policy.