Engineering Management MSc module details
Entrepreneurship and Strategic Decision Making
In this module, you will gain in-depth perspectives on entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making as an activity to teach you how to solve problems and thus arrive at the decisions that make-or-break organisations and industries. This module has practical components that provides you with the opportunity to use different problem-solving techniques to develop your commercial awareness and decision-making skills.
Digital Transformations
This module covers the opportunities in transforming environmental aspects around us including businesses and, to demonstrate the great potential of Information Systems (IS) in digitalisation to support such a level of transformations. The module covers different areas of digital transformation such as:
- Digital business strategies through the context, theories, services, processes involved in managing information systems within an organisation.
- Working culture in a digitized environment
- Knowledge as the main driver for digitalization
- Digital innovations and technologies like eCommerce information systems within an organisation
You will develop a conceptual understanding and then examine the process of the eCommerce information systems.
Engineering Business Environment and Research Methods
This module enables you to understand and reflect upon the role of business in a rapidly changing, globalised world. It identifies opportunities and threats for industry arising from environmental policy, legislation, and societal change, and explores how businesses respond to future environmental challenges. This module benefits practitioners in industry, and future academics exploring the sustainability of engineering businesses. The module also teaches you self-direction, and originality in problem solving. The research methods and associated study skills parts of the module provides you with the skills to successfully complete your dissertation or research project.
Resource Efficient Design and Manufacturing
This module provides you with an understanding of resource efficient design in both industrial and non-industrial contexts. You will be introduced to a whole systems perspective as well as energy management techniques and circular economy principles applicable to manufacturing. It will encourage you to analyse each stage of the life cycle of products or processes in terms of their impacts on resource use and how these impacts can be identified and mitigated. Through practical activities, and the use of case studies, you will develop the skills and expertise at each stage of the design process to effectively facilitate and manage resource efficient design and sustainable manufacturing.
Individual Project
The Individual Project introduces you to the discipline of independent research conducted in a restricted timeframe. It will involve self-organisation, application, analysis, and presentation of work. The topic will be chosen from a list provided by staff, grouped by discipline, or chosen by you and agreed with your dissertation supervisor. The project may involve practical work or be entirely desktop based.