Program Overview

The MSc can provide you with a route into senior management in a broad range of careers in the manufacturing and service sectors, as well as start-up companies in functions such as operations management supply chain management, research and development and project management.

• The course incorporates three alternative pathways, allowing you to select a route that is clearly focused on your anticipated or current career path in a manufacturing company in terms of a business, technical or operations focus.
• The course incorporates the critical perspectives of entrepreneurship and wealth generation and addresses key areas of engineering and business management theory within an international context, grounding these in real-life practice through research, case studies and applied work.
• The course provides you with an opportunity to apply for a variety of roles in manufacturing companies.

Why you should study this course

• The course provides you with a career-focused learning experience.
• The syllabus includes an industrially relevant module dealing with Industry 4.0 and the engineering digital environment and addresses key areas of engineering and business management theory within an international context, grounding these in real-life practice through research, case studies and applied work.
• There is an emphasis on planning, directing, and coordinating international operations in the engineering sector.
• In addition to management content, the course has a strong engineering focus, and you will benefit from the industrial experience of academics who have worked as senior executives, operations managers, project managers or supply chain managers in such companies as General Electric, Ford and Rolls Royce, and who truly understand engineering management issues (staff may be subject to change).
• You will have the opportunity to study in our modern Engineering and Computing building4, with access to extensive facilities in our High Performance Engineering Centre.
• We aim to organise expert guest lectures (subject to availability), which have previously covered topics such as Skype lectures on VHDL from industrialists abroad, and seminars from professional bodies on a variety of current topics, from electrical vehicles, to cybersecurity