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Online Cost Engineering
Short course
In Bedfordshire ()
Description
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Type
Short course
Course structure This is an online course with case studies and mentoring bespoke to your business for individual study to develop problem-solving skills and to embed the learning. There is online tuition and mentoring from industry experts and facilitation from Cranfield as well as bespoke assignments for each module. Through assignments Cranfield will award credits on successful completion. Six weeks duration. In weeks one to five you will typically spend three hours in online study and up to four hours on assignments and mentoring sessions. In week six your time is dedicated to your final project and review with your mentor.
Reviews
Subjects
- Mentoring
- Project
- Engineering
Course programme
- Understanding of economic product, system development, and cost as a business driver.
- Awareness of managing cost drivers such as those associated with non-recurring cost, and unit production.
- Coverage of principles, modelling techniques, whole life costing, cost of hardware development and manufacture, cost of software development, and cost of through life support.
- Ability for critical evaluation of cost and value management, knowledge management for cost engineering, affordability engineering, and risk analysis.
Core content
Module – 1 Cost as a Business Driver
Module – 2 Understanding Cost Drivers
Module – 3 Target Costing
Module – 4 Costs of Supply
Module – 5 Whole Life Cost
Module – 6 Project work: cost estimating and reduction
Online Cost Engineering