Length 1 year full-time ,18 months January starters An exciting collaboration between the University’s Business School and School of Engineering, this course aims to give engineers a deeper understanding of business issues. You will study a number of engineering units to help keep your business skills and knowledge in an engineering context. The flexible nature of the course means you can choose any advanced engineering units. The business units cover the key components of business management and give engineers valuable knowledge and insights into how people and organisations behave, an understanding of financial issues facing business and know-how to improve your management skills. You will carry out a research project which can be academic or industry-based. This course starts in September 2016 and January 2017. Please note that January starters sit their examinations in May the following year, making the course duration 18 months.

Engineers with a strong grasp of modern management techniques and tools are highly sought after by industry. They can work high up in the operational level of a company to implement lean and high value manufacturing techniques. The industries you will be able to enter are wide ranging and include production, process, transport and power. You will also be well placed to pursue further study such as PhD or an Engineering Doctorate. Our engineering Masters programmes are designed to meet the needs of an industry which looks to employ postgraduates who can learn independently and apply critical thinking to real-world problems.