Start Date between Sept 22 - July 25

This module seeks to introduce students to the essential skills in enterprise and business planning that are needed to be effective Engineering managers. This includes legal, financial, commercial and marketing issues that are encountered in modern businesses and organisations. The material covered has a particular focus on the planning of new enterprises and exploiting new business opportunities.

Decision making is a key management function. Participants will obtain an understanding of the thinking processes that underlie their own and others’ judgement and decision making in individual and group decision making situations. Participants will gain knowledge processes of operations, risk and quality management and learn to recognise the judgmental errors and decision biases that commonly arise, and strategies for improving decision making within areas of operations, risk and quality management.

Leaders and managers of any engineering activity, be this in the private or public sector, need to make responsible, ethical decisions that protect the safety and health of an organisation’s employees, users of the organisation’s products and the wider public. Operating with a strong regard for safety and health protects not only people, but also the organisation’s reputation and future. There can be a substantial, positive return on investment in safety and health, for example through avoiding productivity and property losses, impact on future insurance premiums, uninsured costs, fines etc. This module provides the tools and ways of thinking needed to address safety in the context of an engineering enterprise.Increasingly, it is recognised that companies need to engage in good “corporate citizenship” and undertake activities, beyond those required for regulatory compliance, to achieve some form of positive social or environmental impact. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) implies that a company’s focus is not exclusively on profit, but also people (human rights, labour practices, consumer issues, fair operating practices and community involvement/development) and the planet (supporting a sustainable future). This module helps students to make responsible decisions in their future careers.

This module is designed to help students develop and demonstrate the skills required to carry out a substantial individual project in a chosen aspect of Engineering Management. Core skills for conducting the individual project are first developed through guided online learning.

This module seeks to deepen students’ understanding of innovation practice in a business context. It provides insight into a range a range of tools which can support their innovation process. Students will learn to understand the impact of innovation and the challenges of delivering innovation in an Engineering environment. Students will learn to use reflective practice to critically evaluate current innovation practice. They will understand the contextual nature of innovation and how product, people and process have an impact on innovation.

This module seeks to deepen students’ understanding of innovation practice in a business context. It provides insight into a range a range of tools which can support their innovation process. Students will learn to understand the impact of innovation and the challenges of delivering innovation in an Engineering environment. Students will learn to use reflective practice to critically evaluate current innovation practice. They will understand the contextual nature of innovation and how product, people and process have an impact on innovation.

This module seeks to introduce students to the essential skills in enterprise and business planning that are needed to be effective Engineering managers. This includes legal, financial, commercial and marketing issues that are encountered in modern businesses and organisations. The material covered has a particular focus on the planning of new enterprises and exploiting new business opportunities.

Decision making is a key management function. Participants will obtain an understanding of the thinking processes that underlie their own and others’ judgement and decision making in individual and group decision making situations. Participants will gain knowledge processes of operations, risk and quality management and learn to recognise the judgmental errors and decision biases that commonly arise, and strategies for improving decision making within areas of operations, risk and quality management.

Leaders and managers of any engineering activity, be this in the private or public sector, need to make responsible, ethical decisions that protect the safety and health of an organisation’s employees, users of the organisation’s products and the wider public. Operating with a strong regard for safety and health protects not only people, but also the organisation’s reputation and future. There can be a substantial, positive return on investment in safety and health, for example through avoiding productivity and property losses, impact on future insurance premiums, uninsured costs, fines etc. This module provides the tools and ways of thinking needed to address safety in the context of an engineering enterprise.Increasingly, it is recognised that companies need to engage in good “corporate citizenship” and undertake activities, beyond those required for regulatory compliance, to achieve some form of positive social or environmental impact. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) implies that a company’s focus is not exclusively on profit, but also people (human rights, labour practices, consumer issues, fair operating practices and community involvement/development) and the planet (supporting a sustainable future). This module helps students to make responsible decisions in their future careers.

This module is designed to help students develop and demonstrate the skills required to carry out a substantial individual project in a chosen aspect of Engineering Management. Core skills for conducting the individual project are first developed through guided online learning.