MSc-PgDip-PgCert Materials and Manufacturing Management

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  • Entry requirements
    Entry requirements You must be sponsored by your employer and have an honours degree in a science or engineering subject. We may accept a lesser qualification if you have significant and relevant experience in industry and can demonstrate you ability to successfully complete the course.
  • Academic title
    MSc/PgDip/PgCert Materials and Manufacturing Management
  • Course description
    This course is for people in manufacturing who want to keep up to date with technological change.

    There is a management component and a technical component that cover various aspects of materials processing and applications. These modules are of interest to anyone with an industrial background. You can choose modules to meet your own needs.

    This course improves career potential by developing management and technical expertise. Many of our former students have subsequently achieved board and senior management level in their companies.

    This part-time modular programme of short courses, coupled with a dissertation leads to a masters degree. Teaching is carried out by University staff and industry practitioners, which ensures the scheme has academic rigour and up-to-the-minute industrial relevance.

    Associated careers

    Several of our graduates have achieved board and senior management level in their respective companies. In addition, several graduates have used the degree as supporting evidence in successful applications for chartered engineer status. The individual modules have been identified by the Engineering Council as being suitable for matching sections in a delegate’s portfolio of evidence.

    Course content

    Modules
    Postgraduate certificate
    • advanced learning and study skills module • at least one materials and manufacturing module • one management module • one further option module

    Postgraduate diploma
    • advanced learning and study skills module • at least two materials and manufacturing modules • two management modules • three further option modules.

    Modules must be approved by the course management team to ensure they are appropriate to the award.

    MSc
    • postgraduate diploma plus • dissertation

    You choose modules from a wide range on offer. Complementary modules studied on other IGDS programmes allow you to design a course that satisfies your requirements.

    The masters degree requires a substantial dissertation on a company-based project.

    Management modules
    • finance and marketing • agile enterprises • strategies, structures and systems • change management and systems implementation • management of strategy, change and innovation • project and quality management • lean operations

    Materials and manufacturing modules
    • advanced metallic materials • aero engine materials • fatigue and fracture mechanics • material modelling • advanced manufacturing technology • computer simulation in manufacturing • aero engine metals • durability of engineering materials • structure and properties of alloys • reliability engineering • competitive materials technology • durability of engineering materials • heat treatment • steelmaking and continuous casting

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