Engineering Management

As the engineering industry changes, the need for managers with industry specific skills and experience grows. Prepare to lead others in the workplace and successfully manage engineering projects and processes.

At the MSc Engineering Management Master's degree from the University of Portsmouth you'll study topics across management and engineering, and develop your communication skills to improve relationships between engineers and managers. You'll explore supply chains and strategic management, alongside and engineering subjects such as renewable energy use and system ability.

By learning from lecturers with industry experience and using case studies to inform your work, you'll graduate knowing that your subject knowledge is practical and applicable in the real world.

During your final project you can explore an engineering challenge that matters to you, so you'll graduate prepared for your career in engineering design, product systems or management.

Careers and opportunities

• You'll graduate from this MSc Engineering Management Master's degree ready to respond to the rapidly-developing engineering sector. You'll have the management and engineering skills to succeed in roles across engineering, whether you want to work in project management, quality assurance or production.
• Having built your professional network throughout your degree by connecting with fellow students,lecturers and professionals, you'll be ready to develop your engineering management career after this course.
• As part of your final project you'll explore a professional aspect of engineering management. This will be a topic that interests you and can link directly to your future work — past projects in this area include cost projections of going independent of the national grid with renewable power, and a cost/benefit analysis of setting up solar farms in Nigeria.

Graduates of this course can go onto roles such as:

• business operations specialist

• project manager

• production engineer

• creative director

• quality assurance engineer

• production engineer

Modules include:

• Information Technology and Strategic Management

• Manufacturing System Design

• Operations and Quality Management

• Renewable Energy Management

• Strategies for Resource and Environmental Management

• Supply Chain Management