MSc-PgDip-PgCert Advanced Engineering and Management

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MSc-PgDip-PgCert Advanced Engineering and Management

  • Objectives It increases your career potential by improving your • knowledge and experience of engineering • technical and problem solving skills • management skills • ability to take on greater responsibility
  • Entry requirements This course is for engineers or graduates who want to become technical specialists or managers in industrial and manufacturing companies.
  • Academic title MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advanced Engineering and Management
  • Course description This course helps you understand concepts and theories behind designing, using and managing engineering products and systems. You learn to explore and apply developments in engineering and management academic thinking and industrial practice.

    You study
    • two management modules
    • two technical modules
    • four optional modules

    There is a wide range of optional modules including • business process management • lean operations • applicable artificial intelligence • computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacture • advanced computer system architecture • network applications.

    The international product development module involves working in multidisciplinary teams to develop a new product in a global market. This allows you to develop much sought after advanced technical and business skills and improves your career prospects in engineering teaching and public service. This project also develops your particular interest in a supported environment.

    Associated careers

    If you are a new graduate, this course gives you the knowledge and skills to begin a career as a technical specialist or manager. If you are already employed in engineering, it improves you career potential and can lead to roles with greater responsibility.

    It can also help towards a career teaching engineering.

    Course content

    Core management modules
    • finance and marketing • project and quality management

    Core technical modules
    • group project – international product development • sustainability, energy and environmental management

    Optional modules
    Two from • business process management • lean operations • management of strategy, change and innovation • manufacturing systems

    plus two from • advanced control methods • advanced investigatory techniques for materials engineers • advanced manufacturing technology • advanced metallic materials • advanced vibration and acoustics • applicable artificial intelligence • computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing • communication engineering • communication media • computer networks • competitive design for manufacture • competitive materials technology • control of linear systems • engineering for sustainability • digital electronics system design • digital signal processing • equipment engineering and design • finite element/finite difference analysis • machine vision • microprocessor engineering • advanced computer system architecture • network applications • object-oriented methods • operating systems • software engineering • VSLI design

    MSc
    • project and dissertation
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