Engineering Management - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

The full Master's course comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

Full-time students will study the following modules:

Professional Development Appraisal and Continuous Review

Advanced Manufacturing

Engineering Project Management

Technical Business Operations

Leading Change

Discrete Event Simulation

Research Investigation and Methods for change

Lean Engineering

Engineering Project Management

Dissertation

For students studying on a flexible basis, whilst there is inherent flexibility to your studies, the course has four core modules:

Professional Development Appraisal and Continuous Review

Engineering Project Management

Research Investigation and Methods for Change

Technical Business Operations

You then choose from the optional module list, with help from your Programme Leader, and according to your qualification route. If you're planning to take the MSc study programme and use it to provide the academic part of your portfolio of evidence for Chartered Engineer (CEng) registration, you should check with the relevant professional institution that your module selection meets their requirements.

To achieve the MSc, you'll require eight 15-credit modules, including the core modules, and complete the 60-credit dissertation.

The course is endorsed by the Engineering Council and full time students will have preselected their modules to ensure they gain the appropriate knowledge for this body.

Dissertation

This will be a significant industry-focused piece of work that integrates your learning from the taught material and develops your abilities for in-depth study of a substantial technical or management problem within an engineering sector.

You will have academic sponsors, or if you are a part-time student normally industrial sponsors for this, to help you scope out the project in the required context.

This project activity is attractive to employers, as it provides an opportunity to deal with a real issue in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Often, your project will have a significant effect on the business sponsoring it.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

The learning methods and the structure of the course mean you'll take an integrated view of an engineering enterprise by placing technology in strategic, financial, human and operational contexts. We encourage you to read about the subjects independently, to consolidate your knowledge and understanding and broaden your understanding of the key concepts.

Taught modules are usually held over three to five consecutive days, but can include distance learning and work-based learning in some cases. You'll organise your work-based learning with your module leader, this ensures it's tailored to your needs and the learning outcomes are achievable.

For more details, see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Each 15-credit module is expected to take around 150 hours to complete. The overall course can be completed as full-time in one year, but is more normally studied part-time, taking between two and five years, as students are normally also in full employment.

Assessment is normally by assignment. At this level, we do not need to test your understanding, but rather your ability to implement your newfound skills and knowledge. Assignments will normally be around a real industrial case study, or a live project in your workplace.

For more details, see our full glossary of assessment terms.