Engineering project management is a dynamic profession and you’ll need to be up to date with new developments in the philosophies, methods and tools for planning and executing projects. These developments are particularly important to industries engaged in developing new products, systems or capabilities.
The MSc Engineering Project Management is designed to give you the understanding and knowledge to employ management and technical tools, and the skills and confidence to spearhead and manage the development of new products and projects within the technological industries. You'll learn to identify business issues and develop systematic, original and creative intellectual skills to formulate solutions. The research you undertake as part of your individual project will give you an opportunity to explore your particular area of interest in greater depth.
Students on the MSc Engineering Project Management degree have the option to take a work placement after they have completed all the taught units.
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Bournemouth
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Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB
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Subjects
Industry
Product Design
Project Proposal
IT Project Management
Design
Product Development
Project
Planning
Engineering
Project Management
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Core units
Units are taught intensively, usually over 4.5 days, with assessment normally taking place 5-6 weeks after the unt has been delivered.
Project Management: Learn the methods and techniques of planning and designing development projects and how they're used. You'll also gain knowledge about human factors with regards to such projects.
Knowledge Transfer: Gain a deep knowledge of the methods and processes of technology transfers, and evaluate the benefits and failings of these transfers. You'll learn to source knowledge and use its added value for business, and be able to choose the level of knowledge required, evaluate its cost to the business and long-term benefits.
Design Management: Develop a critical understanding of modern design management, the design process, product development, project planning, the integration of total quality and decision-making analysis.
Competitive Product Development: Business issues in competitive product development on domestic and global scales. You'll gain an understanding of marketing and modern tools and processes required for competitive product design and manufacture.
Business Innovation & Enterprise: Learn how to identify and exploit a company’s strengths. You'll evaluate external opportunities that exist, together with conceiving strategies to overcome internal weaknesses and the threats that might be imposed by the industry environment.
Research Methods: Develop key research skills in areas such as literature reviews, analysing research findings, project proposals, planning, experiment design and analysis, and dissemination. This unit will prepare you for writing a project proposal and for conducting and disseminating your Master's Project.
Individual Master's Project: You'll critically investigate, report and engage with complex issues. You'll present an analytically rigorous and well-argued case, gaining problem-solving skills by applying your knowledge across the discipline. Finally, you will present a reflective, integrated discussion of your research's conclusion, development and practice activity and its implications for the future. Projects worth 120 credits must be linked to an industrial research project.
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