MSc Engineering Management

Program Overview

This MSc Engineering Management program broadens the knowledge and experience of engineers in engineering, technology, and management. It focuses on equipping graduates to manage technological advances in the engineering and manufacturing environment, while also developing essential "soft skills" such as negotiation, collaboration, and communication. The program includes a real-world project experience, enhancing skills, building a valuable network, and boosting employability. Graduates are prepared for a wide range of engineering management roles.

Program Outline

MSc Engineering Management via Study Centres

Degree Overview

This MSc Engineering Management program:

• Broadens the knowledge and experience of graduate and practicing engineers in engineering, technology, and management.
• Focuses on equipping you to manage the full potential of technological advances within the engineering and manufacturing environment.
• Helps you develop the "soft skills" of working with others and leading projects, such as negotiation, collaboration, effective communication, handling conflict and politics, and managing change.
• Duration and mode of delivery vary depending on the Study Centre.

Outline

Teaching methods include:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Student-centered learning

Assessment methods include:

• Individual and group assignments
• Examinations
• Presentations
• Viva voce

Core modules:

• Research Skills and Academic Literacy (15 credits): Covers research methods (qualitative and quantitative), literature surveys, data collection, data analysis, critical evaluation and appraisal of published work and data sets.
Teaches research and technical paper writing.
• Project Management and Control (30 credits): Covers project definition and feasibility, stakeholder identification and requirement gathering, measures of success and failure, financial evaluation and management, project planning, project execution, project management methodologies, quality control, etc.
• Engineering Operations Management (15 credits): Covers organizational structures, supply chain management, and value chain analysis.
• Decision Support for Management (15 credits): Covers risk analysis (definition, certainty and uncertainty, risk management methodology, risk identification and quantification), decision support applications for project management problems.
• Managing People and Project Leadership (15 credits): Covers organizational structure, team leadership, group dynamics, training and development of project team members, subcontractors, joint/multiple ventures, managing change, conflict and politics, power, decision-making, negotiation, collaboration in project teams, communication in project management, role of the project manager.
• Project Risk and Quality Management (15 credits): Analyzes the pathology of information systems and reported cases of systems success and/or failure, key factors and techniques such as post-implementation reviews and risk checklists.
Covers risk identification, analysis techniques, generic risk management frameworks, and evaluating the relationship between risks and opportunities.
• Advanced Maintenance Practice (15 credits): Assesses maintenance strategies from "run to failure" in the 1950s to the development of modern maintenance practices such as TPM, RCM, and CBM in the 1980s and beyond.
Analyzes condition monitoring and predictive maintenance technologies like vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, and acoustic emission. Covers sensor signal analysis using the latest software and intelligent systems techniques, and computerized maintenance management systems.
• Masters Project (60 credits): Real-world project with sponsor, including research and practical elements.

Assessment

Assessment methods:

• Individual and group assignments
• Examinations
• Presentations
• Viva voce

Teaching

Teaching methods:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Student-centered learning

Supportive tutors help you develop "soft skills" such as:

• Negotiation
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Handling conflict
• Politics
• Managing change

Careers

Potential career paths:

• Project Manager
• Design Engineer
• Manufacturing Engineer
• Mechanical Engineer
• Electrical Engineer
• Product Engineer
• Maintenance Engineer

Other

• The program focuses on equipping graduates to manage the complexities of technological advances in the engineering and manufacturing environment.
• The emphasis is on student-centered learning.
• Tutors are supportive and help students develop essential "soft skills."

Please note:

This is a general overview. Specific details about modules, assessments, teaching, and careers may vary depending on the Study Centre you choose.