Manufacturing and Production Engineering Management MSc

Program Overview

Manufacturing and Production Engineering Management MSc

Course Overview

This postgraduate course is designed to enhance your knowledge and skills in advanced manufacturing, production systems, and industrial technologies. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of both manufacturing technologies and management principles, including Industry 4.0, lean/agile management, and quality management techniques.

What You'll Study

Modules

• Design for Sustainability (30 credits): Explore sustainable design opportunities across diverse and complex socio-environmental technical contexts. Apply complex and whole systems perspectives to understand present and future unsustainability issues, developing your competency in reflexively designing viable sustainable solutions across multiple scales and dimensions.
• Manufacturing Systems Analysis (30 credits): Gain critical skills in analyzing and optimizing manufacturing systems for competitive performance. Engage with lean, simulation, and optimization tools to diagnose operational inefficiencies and identify improvement opportunities.
• Quality Systems and Technology (30 credits): Discover how quality management serves as a strategic tool for driving continuous improvement and business excellence. Explore essential aspects of quality from design through to manufacturing, along with Total Quality Management (TQM) principles.
• AI, Automation, Advanced Technologies, and Innovation (30 credits): Explore advanced technologies and methodologies in manufacturing, including robotics, automation, and mechatronics, along with strategies for effective technology deployment.
• Master's with Professional Placement: If you successfully secure a placement in industry within your first semester, this master's with professional placement option allows you to extend your 12-month master's course up to an additional year to complete the placement before starting your final 60-credit module.
• Dissertation (60 credits): Apply and integrate the knowledge and skills developed throughout the course in a comprehensive research project.

How You'll Learn

Teaching and learning methods may include:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Presentations
• Group activities
• Workshops
• Practical laboratory sessions

Entry Requirements

• UK: An honors degree 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in a manufacturing, mechanical, mechatronic, or related discipline.
• International: An honors degree 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in a manufacturing, mechanical, mechatronic, or related discipline.
• English language requirements: IELTS 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5.

Fees and Funding

• UK: £11,200 (full-time), £1,500 professional placement fee (if placement secured)
• EU: £11,200 per year with EU Support Bursary, £1,500 professional placement fee (if placement secured) per year with EU Support Bursary
• International: £18,600 (full-time), £1,800 professional placement fee (if placement secured)

Facilities

You will have access to the following facilities:

• Rapid Prototyping facilities
• Model Shop including 3D scanners and 3D printers
• Virtual Reality suites including Powerwall and HoloLens
• Materials Science laboratory
• Traditional manufacturing facilities
• FESTO Cyber Physical Lab

Careers and Opportunities

Successful graduates may seek the following positions:

• Industrial Automation Manager
• Production Manager
• Operations Manager
• Manufacturing Engineer/Manager
• Production and Operations Manager
• Quality Manager
• Industrial Engineer

On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Critically apply the key and emerging concepts of manufacturing and production technology in an industrial and global environment.
• Solve complex problems through the application of methods, tools, techniques, and software relevant to the manufacturing and business environment.
• Critically and analytically link theory with practice and apply knowledge and technical expertise to the analysis of engineering and manufacturing issues using modern manufacturing solutions.
• Evaluate and apply appropriate philosophies, tools, techniques, and systems within the requisite legal and ethical frameworks associated with achieving operational excellence within a manufacturing and business environment.
• Apply the necessary study and research skills to support the analytical, critical, and reflective requirements of the written, oral, and group working aspects of the assessments, group research project, and individual research project.
• Contribute to a team with the necessary planning, reviewing, empathy, adaptability, drive, and leadership to achieve the required objectives, whilst observing work schedules and demonstrating a professional approach to written and/or oral presentations.
• Critically evaluate the principles of developing and proposing a strategy for leading strategic change.