Engineering Design with Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The nature and scope of strategic, marketing and operations management issues of relevance to the engineer in a commercial environment.
• The nature of systems engineering and its main stages (Requirements analysis, design synthesis, verification)
• The application of design processes and of structural and mechanical design in specialised applications.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Select appropriate components to meet specific design needs
• Apply strategic, marketing and operations management concepts to real situations

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Tailor technical reports to given design specifications
• Recognise, inform and respond to strategic, marketing and operations issues in the context of engineering business.
• Communicate intricate design concepts orally and graphically
• Work as part of a design team.
• Produce designs in a variety of application areas

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Undertake mechanical engineering design projects in a specialist application area.
• Relate strategic, marketing and operations management understanding to propose engineering-based design and business development.
• Appreciate the role of computers in realistic design situations

• Flow battery for electrical energy storage or Design for bioengineering applications.
• Introduction to Systems Engineering.
• Strategic Management.
• Marketing Management.
• Operations Management.

Teaching methods include

• Lectures
• Guest external presentations
• Design feedback sessions
• Case studies

Learning activities include

• Individual research for design projects
• Team work for preparing team design
• Team work preparing management presentation

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Presentation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Written feedback on each assignment, including feedback on team management presentation plus verbal feedback on initial design performance
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.