Engineering Management MSc
Coventry, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Engineering Management MSc seeks to prepare you to be a successful senior manager for engineering companies operating in highly competitive international environments.
Course 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.
- You will have the option to apply for a ‘work placement’ opportunity2, designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See modules for more information.
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
Admissions
Curriculum
What you'll study
At the beginning of your course, you will be asked to select one of three pathways (Engineering Business Management, Technical, or Operations) that are in addition to the core mandatory modules. This key benefit adds specific and valuable career-focused content to your course and is based on your anticipated or current career path in a manufacturing company. Your degree course culminates with a master’s dissertation, supported by a research methods topic. Past dissertation topic examples have included: The Introduction of a Product Development Process; Industry 4.0 and its impact on AB Volvo, and Change Management Strategies to be Used by Engineering Companies Undertaking Mergers and Acquisitions.
Modules
- Financial Decision-Making and Risk Analysis
- Engineering Project Management
- Global Engineering Strategy
- Industry 4.0 and the Digital Engineering Environment
- Research Methods and Project Introduction
- Master's Dissertation
- Global Professional Development - Entrepreneurial Practice
- 1 of the following pathways and its associated modules:
- Engineering Business Management Pathway
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation for engineers
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability and the Environment
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation for engineers
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability and the Environment
- Technical Pathway
- Design Principles and Practice
- Future and Advanced Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
- Automation and Robotics
- Design Principles and Practice
- Future and Advanced Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
- Automation and Robotics
- Operations Pathway
- Global Lean and Agil
- Management of Quality
- Optimisation and Simulation
- Global Lean and Agil
- Management of Quality
- Optimisation and Simulation
- Engineering Business Management Pathway
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation for engineers
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability and the Environment
- Technical Pathway
- Technical Pathway
- Design Principles and Practice
- Future and Advanced Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
- Automation and Robotics
- Operations Pathway
- Operations Pathway
- Global Lean and Agil
- Management of Quality
- Optimisation and Simulation
- 1 of the following pathways and its associated modules:
- Engineering Business Management Pathway
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation for engineers
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability and the Environment
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation for engineers
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability and the Environment
- Technical Pathway
- Design Principles and Practice
- Future and Advanced Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
- Automation and Robotics
- Design Principles and Practice
- Future and Advanced Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
- Automation and Robotics
- Operations Pathway
- Global Lean and Agil
- Management of Quality
- Optimisation and Simulation
- Global Lean and Agil
- Management of Quality
- Optimisation and Simulation
With work placement pathway
The ‘With work placement’ opportunity2 enables you to apply in semester 1 for an optional work placement of up to 12 months, extending the duration of your master’s to 24 months. The placement provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability upon graduation. The work placement would take place in semesters 3, 4 and 5.
Please note that the optional placement modules incur an additional tuition fee of £4,000. Placement opportunities may also be subject to additional costs, visa requirements being met, subject to availability and/or competitive application. Work placements are not guaranteed but you will benefit from the support of our Talent Team in trying to find and secure an opportunity. Find out more about the work placement option.
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
On successful completion, you will be able to:
- Critically appraise the social, political, economic, and environmental impact of a manufacturing company in the context of ethical and responsible management practices
- Discriminate between different leadership practices and the associated alternatives for effective communication and team management approaches, to enable a culturally sensitive approach towards a manufacturing company’s stakeholders.
- Critically evaluate the role of managers in their task of ensuring that a manufacturing company creates sustainable value through their ability to think strategically and explore potential solutions to complex and ambiguous management, technical or operations problems.
- Explore, critically evaluate, and apply a range of sector/pathway-specific models and concepts within a practical setting.
- Develop the necessary study and research skills to support the analytical, critical, and reflective requirements of the written, oral and group working aspects of assignments, and of the individual dissertation, thereby addressing academic requirements as well as enhancing employability.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles of entrepreneurship and wealth generation.
Where our graduates work
Previous graduates have gone to work for companies including Tata, Airbus, Jaguar Land Rover, Severn Trent Water, and Volvo.