Engineering Management PGCert

Program Overview

Overview

The Brunel Engineering Management PGCert pathway provides a strong foundation to develop your leadership and management skills. If you’re looking for a short course that will help enhance your engineering management techniques then this is the perfect option for you.

This on-campus course can be studied either full-time or part-time. You'll learn about manufacturing systems design and economics, project management, systems modelling and simulation, and quality management and reliability. Additionally, with an eye on the future, you’ll examine the challenges new technologies pose to management in the engineering sector.

Throughout your studies you’ll have 24-hour access to industry standard specialist software for engineering design in dedicated computer clusters on campus, so you’ll have the opportunity and equipment to explore ideas and tackle problems.

With the increasing complexity of the engineering sector, job candidates with expertise in business and management as well as engineering are increasingly in demand. Your PGCert in Engineering Management will equip you with the knowledge and skills that will make you a sought-after prospect across the industry.

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Program Outline

Course content

The course is designed to provide graduates and professional engineers with specialist knowledge and skills necessary to apply key engineering management techniques in the workplace.

This course can be studied 4 months full-time or 16 months part-time, starting in September.

Year 1

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Read more about the structure of postgraduate degrees at Brunel

Careers and your future

You have the opportunity to enter a broad range of careers in the manufacturing, service and government sectors.

Our graduates are employed in a wide range of industries including Atkins, Canon Europe, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce and Unilever. Others have developed their own consultancy companies.

Assessment and feedback

Modules are assessed by combinations of formal examination and written assignments. Examinations are normally sat in January.

Read our guide on how to avoid plagiarism in your assessments at Brunel.