Start Date between Sept 22 - July 26

This module provides an introduction to strategic thinking and business strategy in Engineering businesses and organisations. Students will learn how Engineering organisations interpret and engage with their stakeholders and environments, develop unique capabilities, implement strategic change and set up and maintain strategic alliances in order to achieve competitive advantage. In the module, key strategic management concerns are also considered through the lenses of sustainability, social responsibility and ethics.

This module seeks to broaden students’ understanding of enterprise and business planning in an engineering context. Students will explore the foundations of establishing a successful business and identify the key concepts needed to manage this process. Students will also explore the practical aspects of business management, finance, marketing and business plan execution and will be encouraged to reflect on current practice and develop knowledge and experience in business planning.

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.

This module is designed to help students develop a critical understanding of the factors that influence human behaviour and performance in various organisational settings. It is also intended to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skills that will enable students to manage effectively people in engineering organisations.

This module is designed to help students develop a critical understanding of the factors that influence human behaviour and performance in various organisational settings. It is also intended to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skills that will enable students to manage effectively people in engineering organisations.

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 participation in a small group project based on a pre-prepared case study guided online learning.

This module seeks to broaden students’ understanding of innovation practice and the management of innovation in an engineering business context. It exposes students to a range a range of models, approaches and tools which can support their innovation process and deepen their understanding of the impact of innovation and the challenges of delivering innovation.

Students will learn how to critically evaluate current innovation methodologies and understand the contextual nature of innovation. They will be taught to appreciate how product, people and process have an impact on innovation. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on the impact of learning from the module on personal and professional development.

The module provides a foundation for exploring the relationship between organisations (public and private) and sustainability. Key issues are covered including: - the origins and evolution of sustainability at a societal and organisational level - the factors prompting sustainable practices and the business case for sustainability - key theories, frameworks and models related to sustainability - case studies outlining differing approaches/issues related to sustainability and the adoption of sustainable business practices. Through studying the module, students will appreciate the complexities associated with sustainability and be able to discuss and debate these complexities in an informed and critical manner.

The module provides a foundation for exploring the relationship between organisations (public and private) and sustainability. Key issues are covered including: - the origins and evolution of sustainability at a societal and organisational level - the factors prompting sustainable practices and the business case for sustainability - key theories, frameworks and models related to sustainability - case studies outlining differing approaches/issues related to sustainability and the adoption of sustainable business practices. Through studying the module, students will appreciate the complexities associated with sustainability and be able to discuss and debate these complexities in an informed and critical manner.

This module seeks to broaden students’ understanding of innovation practice and the management of innovation in an engineering business context. It exposes students to a range a range of models, approaches and tools which can support their innovation process and deepen their understanding of the impact of innovation and the challenges of delivering innovation.

Students will learn how to critically evaluate current innovation methodologies and understand the contextual nature of innovation. They will be taught to appreciate how product, people and process have an impact on innovation. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on the impact of learning from the module on personal and professional development.

This module provides an introduction to strategic thinking and business strategy in Engineering businesses and organisations. Students will learn how Engineering organisations interpret and engage with their stakeholders and environments, develop unique capabilities, implement strategic change and set up and maintain strategic alliances in order to achieve competitive advantage. In the module, key strategic management concerns are also considered through the lenses of sustainability, social responsibility and ethics.

This module seeks to broaden students’ understanding of enterprise and business planning in an engineering context. Students will explore the foundations of establishing a successful business and identify the key concepts needed to manage this process. Students will also explore the practical aspects of business management, finance, marketing and business plan execution and will be encouraged to reflect on current practice and develop knowledge and experience in business planning.

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.

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 participation in a small group project based on a pre-prepared case study guided online learning.