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Programme Content
The programme aims to allow technically qualified students to develop their engineering management knowledge and skills within a technical context and with a specialist management emphasis.
In addition to the ‘technical’ subjects covered within the modules, there is an emphasis on the development of generic or transferable skills within this programme, in particular creativity and innovation, capacity for analysis, problem formulation and solving, planning and time management, communications (written and oral), team working and interpersonal skills, research skills and activity management.
The programme comprises the following modules:
- Introduction to Project Management for Engineering Management
- Technical Appraisal
- Management & Marketing of Technology
- Managing Across Cultures
- Law for Engineering Management
- Accounting and Finance
- Ideation
- Enterprise
- International Business
- International Finance
- Corporate Governance & HR Management
- Literature Review
- MSc Project
Please note that the detailed module contents are subject to change.
1. Introduction to Project Management for Engineering Management
Knowledge and Understanding:
Types of project. Role of project manager. Project life-cycles. Tools and techniques for project management. Quality Assurance. Engineering Ethics.
Discipline-related Skills:
Analyse a project and produce specification. Work breakdowns. Critical path analysis and risk.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Continuous assessment. (Individual project plan and analysis. Report assessed.)
Transferable Skills:
Capturing customer requirements and forming requirement specifications; work breakdown structures; activity matrices; project plan preparation; project charting techniques, Bar Chart, Gantt charts and PERT; critical path analysis; project management techniques, value added; risk management; and ethics.
2. Technical Appraisal
Knowledge and Understanding:
Deepens your understanding of a technical electronics-based topic of your choice.
Discipline-related Skills:
Identify and present an innovative opportunity within your chosen technical topic, with a detailed review.
Delivery and Assessment:
Seminar, presentation & technical report.
Transferable Skills:
Prepare a technical paper. Present findings to an audience of peers and academics at a colloquium.
3. Management & Marketing of Technology
Knowledge and Understanding:
Change management including the nature of change in organizations, hard and soft changes, soft management change systems, sources of resistance and managing transitions.
Discipline-related Skills:
Produce a marketing plan for a new technology based product or service.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Management report and marketing plan.
Transferable Skills:
Undertake market research and develop a marketing plan. Use of tools and diagrams to understand how an organisation should develop its product portfolio.
4. Managing Across Cultures
Knowledge and Understanding:
The meaning of culture; Different models for characterising cultures; Competence in managing across cultures.
Discipline-related Skills:
Analyse and compare two different cultures and the implications of culture on the organisation.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Presentation and Report.
5. Law for Engineering Management
Knowledge and Understanding:
UK and European Legal systems. Laws of trading, and those applicable to engineering businesses both large and small.
Discipline-related Skills:
Evaluate the difference in legal implications in business formation in the UK compared to another country.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Continuous assessment.
Transferable Skills:
Written communications. Group working.
6. Accounting and Finance
Knowledge and Understanding:
Foundations of accounting and finance including: company performance, investment opportunities and product costing and pricing in the business and new venture contexts.
Discipline-related Skills:
Appraise the value to an organisation of an investment opportunity. Prepare a cash flow forecast and from it derive a Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Closed-book examination.
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7. Ideation
Knowledge and Understanding:
Creativity and idea generation techniques. Approaches to idea refinement and selection. How to communicate a new idea.
Discipline-related Skills:
Communicate an idea through a written proposal and an ‘elevator pitch’.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures & Continuous Assessment.
Transferable Skills:
Public speaking though workshop presentations.
8. Enterprise
Knowledge and Understanding:
Issues of commercial exploitation, competitive environment including the setting of pricing structures & marketing options.
Discipline-related Skills:
Explore a real new/novel technology or product and advance it to the point of a genuinely workable business plan.
Delivery and Assessment:
Seminars. Presentation and Report.
Transferable Skills:
Propose an organisational form for a new venture based on an analysis of the opportunity. Prepare a full and professional business plan.
9. International Business
Knowledge and Understanding:
International trading & marketing across national borders; its role in the global economy; the international competitive business environment, theories of international trade, globalisation & international business.
Discipline-related Skills:
Analyse the legal issues associated with an international trading situation and recommend a human resource solution.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Presentation and Report.
10. International Finance
Knowledge and Understanding:
Trading across currency boundaries. Financial exchange rate risk and techniques to protect the business against exchange rate volatility.
Discipline-related Skills:
Compare available risk reduction techniques and recommend appropriate solutions for a given trading situation.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures. Presentation and Report.
11. Corporate Governance & HR Management
Knowledge and Understanding:
The process used to develop new products commercially including: an understanding novel product creation within a main stream electronics business sector. Intellectual Property protection.
Discipline-related Skills:
Describe a vision of a technology industry in 10 years time and identify a single novel feature. Explore intellectual property protection of their idea and a business plan.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures & Continuous Assessment.
Transferable Skills:
Produce a mission statement for a business and outline the key people resources required to establish it and grow it to the point they can deliver the novel technological idea.
12. Literature Review
Knowledge and Understanding:
Continue work from the Technical Appraisal, investigating the state of the art in terms of technology and published literature.
Discipline-related Skills:
Undertake a detailed and focused literature review into relevant aspects of a novel technological idea.
Delivery and Assessment:
Lectures, Private Study & Continuous Assessment.
13. MSc Project
Discipline-related Skills:
Investigation of a specified problem in Engineering Management.
Delivery and Assessment:
Tender presentation & report. Final report. Viva examination. Performance review.
Transferable Skills:
Group working. Interpersonal skills. Time management. Delegation & risk management. Placing individual work in a larger context, as in real-life companies.
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor: Prof Andy Tyrrell
Tel: (+44) 01904 324485