<p>If your goals include the normal progression from "pure scientist/engineer" to management, then your best bet would be the joint MS/MBA program. If you cannot initially do the MBA, then do the MS/MEng in Engineering Management. The Engineering Management program will allow you to get some business-like courses (like project management, quality management and economics/finance while still completing some hard-core engineering courses for your specialty.</p>
<p>It's critical that you at least get 3 or 4 business courses in your program that are very similar to the 7 areas needed for admission to an MBA program (with the 7 being accounting, finance, economics, marketing, operations or organizational management, statistics and human resources). This will give you a better shot at an MBA...PLUS you would had already proven graduate school ability.</p>
<p>I did a B.S. in Computational Mathematics and later the M.S. in Engineering Management...mainly because the MBA would require too many courses for me.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>PS: Computational Math is a $100 word for Math major with a CS concentration.</p>