Mechanical Engineering & Management
Why a MSc in Mechanical Engineering and Management
The School of Engineering offers a suite of Engineering & Management MSc programmes aimed at students with an Engineering background, but with little Management experience. The programme has a lot in common with the MSc in Mechanical Engineering programme including design engineering and other Mechanical Engineering disciplines. In addition to providing an in-depth area in engineering, the programme aims to give graduate engineers with little or no Management experience, the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills needed for modern engineering or technology management.
The overall objectives of the course are
- to understand management principals and practices in engineering environment
- to evaluate engineering information, and subsequent application of business and management
- to combine engineering and management knowledge and skills in projects and problem solving
The programme is split into two semesters and a summer session. One semester will be based in the School of Business & Management and is aimed at developing knowledge and skills of management principles and techniques. An applied approach is adopted, with an emphasis on an informed critical evaluation of information, and the subsequent application of concepts and tools to the core areas of business and management. During the other semester there will be a combination of compulsory and optional courses that will combine to provide the required credits in Mechanical Engineering. In the summer session, a project will be undertaken by MSc students. The topic of the project can be either in Management, or Mechanical Engineering, in which case the topic will usually be closely allied with the research interests of the Discipline.
In the most recent independent survey of research quality, the Research Assessment Exercise for 2008, the School of Engineering had 88% of its research activities classified as being of international standard, including 55% classified as world-leading or internationally excellent.
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For further information, please contact eng-csa@glasgow.ac.uk