Wayne State University, located in Detroit, Michigan, is a Carnegie I Research university with an urban teaching and service mission. It is a constitutionally autonomous public university within Michigan’s system of public colleges and universities. The university is organized in fourteen colleges and schools ranging from colleges of Engineering to Science, Medicine to Law, and from Business to Pharmacy, and Arts. The academic programs of the College of Engineering are organized into two divisions: Engineering and Engineering Technology, in agreement with their missions and goals.

The Division of Engineering Technology was created in 1973 to offer primarily upper division programs to graduates of technical associate degrees at community colleges in a wide range of technical fields. Currently, the Division offers six distinct upper-division programs, all leading to the Bachelor of Science degrees, namely Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology (EET), Computer Technology (CT), Manufacturing and Industrial Technology (MIT), Electromechanical Engineering Technology (EMT), Mechanical Engineering Technology (MCT), and Product Design Engineering Technology (PDT). The BSET degrees require 128 credits, of which 64 credits can be transferred from community colleges.

The Division of Engineering Technology also confers the bachelor degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology (GC-BASMET) for the Greenfield/Focus: Hope program, which is funded through the National Science Foundation. To support the diverse functional needs of industrial enterprises in the Detroit Metropolitan area, the DET also offers a masters degree program (MSET) in Engineering Technology.