Programme Specifications

Programme summary

1. Programme Aims

This programme is aimed at:

• Educating engineering management graduates ready to play a substantial role in industrial  companies through a substantive base of knowledge and understanding at the forefront of the discipline of engineering and manufacturing.

• Providing a foundation for graduates wishing to progress to professional engineering management status.

• Providing a high quality educational experience for students in a programme of study which combines wide ranging aspects of engineering design and technologies, management models and methodologies, marketing, finance, and business in engineering.

• Preparing graduates to apply organisational and project management, team building, and leadership skills in engineering.

• Developing analytical and transferable skills that will enable graduates to gain employment in a wide variety of professional roles and to take an ethical approach in making a valuable contribution to society.

2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:

• UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) – ‘Subject Benchmark Statement for Engineering’, (Feb.2015). 

• Engineering Council (UK). ‘UK-SPEC, UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence’, 3^rd Edition, Jan.2014. 

• Engineering Council (UK). ‘The Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes’, 3^rd Edition, May 2014. 

3. Programme Learning Outcomes

3.1 Knowledge and Understanding

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• engineering principles and the ability to apply them to analyse key engineering processes;
• ability to apply quantitative, analytical, modelling and computational methods in order to identify, classify and describe the performance of systems and components and to solve engineering problems and to implement appropriate actions;
• requirement for engineering activities to promote sustainable development and ability to apply quantitative techniques where appropriate;
• ability to work with information that may be incomplete or uncertain and quantify the effect of this on the design;
• ability to evaluate business, customer and user needs, including considerations such as the wider engineering context, public perception and aesthetics;
• engineering and business problems, identifying any constraints including environmental and sustainability limitations; ethical, health, safety, security and risk issues, intellectual property; codes of practice and standards;
• commercial, economic and social context of engineering processes;
• management techniques, including project management, that may be used to achieve engineering objectives, including the planning and managing the design process, including cost drivers, and evaluate outcomes;
• relevant legal requirements governing engineering activities, including personnel, health & safety, contract, intellectual property rights, product safety and liability issues;
• risk issues, including health & safety, environmental and commercial risk, and risk assessment and risk management techniques.

3.2 Skills and other attributes

a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• appreciate the broad range of influences and activities within the engineering processes and explain their significance;
• evaluate technical and commercial risk and make decision based on available information;
• address human factors considerations in engineering processes and design;
• analyse engineering problems to assist in the management of engineering processes;
• identify solutions to engineering problems from a sustainable/environmental standpoint;
• contribute to the innovation development of a new product and its introduction to the market.

b. Subject-specific practical skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• use the design and manufacturing processes to plan and manage engineering  projects;
• plan and implement re-organisation of a company for increased effectiveness;
• make effective use of graphical and modelling techniques for design development and communication;
• adopt strategies for non-quantifiable engineering issues;
• select suitable computer based techniques for engineering management problems;
• generate new ideas and develop and evaluate a range of solutions;
• knowledge of characteristics of particular materials, equipment, processes or products;
• knowledge of relevant legal and contractual issues;
• understanding of appropriate codes of practice and industry standards;
• awareness of quality issues and their application to continuous improvement;
• understanding of, and the ability to work in, different roles within an engineering team.

c. Key transferable skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able:

• plan and monitor multi-disciplinary projects;
• appreciate the central role of management within engineering;
• communicate effectively and make presentations of a technical/business nature to achieve maximum impact;
• identify methods to assist in innovation, team-working and engineering communication;
• demonstrate competence in using computer based engineering techniques;
• adopt systematic approach to integrating design requirements, materials and structures;
• use time and resources effectively;
• exercise initiative and personal responsibility, which may be as a team member or leader.

4. Programme structure

4.1  Part A – Introductory Modules

4.2  Part B - Degree Modules

4.3    Part I – Optional Placement Year

In order to be considered for the award of DIS or DPS students will need to complete a minimum of 45 weeks in an approved placement and meet the specified report submission for the award.  In order to be considered for the award if DIntS students will need to complete 45 weeks approved overseas placement.  This may be industrial or academic study or a combination of the two.  Students should note that consideration of these awards is only on successful completion of their degree programme.

4.4    Part C - Degree Modules 

Students MUST choose ONE optional module (10 credits).

All optional module choice is subject to availability, timetabling, student number restrictions and students having taken appropriate pre-requisite modules.

 4.5    Study Overseas 

Students may choose to study Part C – Semester 1 at an approved Overseas Higher Education Institution.  The mix of subjects of the learning programme must be approved in advance by the Programme Director.  The proposed programme of learning will include work on an Individual Project. 

5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award

In order to progress from Part A to Part B and from Part B to Part C and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX.

Students may choose to receive the award of BSc or BEng.

6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the Purposes of Final Degree Classification

Candidates’ final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Part B and Part C, in accordance with the scheme set out in Regulation XX.  The overall average percentage marks for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40: Part C 60, to determine the degree classification.