MSc/PGDip/PGCert Engineering Management

• A professionally accredited UK honours degree of 2:2 in an Engineering discipline, and three years relevant industrial experience (please tell us about your experience in the 'personal statement' section of your application).
• A first degree from an overseas institution that can be shown to be equivalent to a UK Honours degree of 2:1 or above in an Engineering discipline.
• A first degree from an overseas institution that can be shown to be equivalent to a UK Honours degree of 2:2 in an Engineering discipline, and three years relevant industrial experience (please tell us about your experience in the 'personal statement' section of your application).
• Appropriate academic or professional qualifications equivalent to the above which you should describe in detail in your application.

The full Master's course comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

Full-time students will study the following modules:

• Professional Development Appraisal and Continuous Review
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Engineering Project Management
• Technical Business Operations
• Leading Change
• Discrete Event Simulation
• Research Investigation and Methods for change
• Lean Engineering
• Engineering Project Management

Dissertation

For students studying on a flexible basis, whilst there is inherent flexibility to your studies, the course has four core modules:

• Professional Development Appraisal and Continuous Review
• Engineering Project Management
• Research Investigation and Methods for Change
• Technical Business Operations

You then choose from the optional module list, with help from your Programme Leader, and according to your qualification route. If you're planning to take the MSc study programme and use it to provide the academic part of your portfolio of evidence for Chartered Engineer (CEng) registration, you should check with the relevant professional institution that your module selection meets their requirements.

To achieve the MSc, you'll require eight 15-credit modules, including the core modules, and complete the 60-credit dissertation.

The course is endorsed by the Engineering Council and full time students will have preselected their modules to ensure they gain the appropriate knowledge for this body.

Dissertation

This will be a significant industry-focused piece of work that integrates your learning from the taught material and develops your abilities for in-depth study of a substantial technical or management problem within an engineering sector.

You will have academic sponsors, or if you are a part-time student normally industrial sponsors for this, to help you scope out the project in the required context.

This project activity is attractive to employers, as it provides an opportunity to deal with a real issue in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Often, your project will have a significant effect on the business sponsoring it.