UWE Bristol - MSc Engineering Management

UWE Bristol

MSc Engineering Management

This is a professional interdisciplinary course, providing all the ingredients for you to advance your career as a leader or into a senior position of leadership of technology and/or engineering businesses. The content is research-informed, industry-focused with strong leadership development.

Industry relevant experience

Engineering and the part it has to play in shaping the future is shifting at an unprecedented rate - with global challenges, technology revolution, fast innovation and a range of related issues demanding ever greater skills, awareness and agility from today's industry and business leaders.

MSc Engineering Management offers a unique opportunity for those who are eager to equip themselves with the essential capabilities and industry-relevant skills to excel as a future leader in an increasingly globally connected environment.

Exceptional interdisciplinary experience

The Masters is taught by the Department of Engineering, Design and Mathematics and the Business Business School and provides a unique opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary environment, and additionally work with leading academics and externally-recognised industry speakers.

The focus is on management within technology and engineering organisations, with a strong emphasis on the modern strategic challenges facing multinationals and SMEs, and the part that technology and engineering businesses have to play in addressing them.

Entry Requirements

  • We normally require a honours degree at 2:2 or above in an engineering or business related discipline.
  • International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent).

  • If you are an international student and do not meet the academic or English language requirements to study this course, you can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College.

Career Prospects

This courses is designed to help students with high potential accelerate their career towards senior management in the engineering and technology sectors - whether in a multinational, small and medium enterprise, or as an entrepreneur.

Depending on the subjects you focus on, you will be equipped to move into a broad variety of roles, including innovation and technology management, project and programme management, management consultancy, supply chain management, operations management, and product management, as well as general management roles.

We provide the opportunity, not just to gain knowledge in a range of relevant topics, but also to develop the necessary skills needed to apply that knowledge effectively in an increasingly challenging business environment.

Award-winning careers service

Our award-winning careers service is there to help you develop your graduate employment potential through career coaching, a vacancy service for internships, placements, graduate jobs, global opportunities, volunteering and community activity, plus support for entrepreneurs and access to employer events.

Course Details

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

The full Master's course comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credit stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.

Compulsory modules:

  • Sustainable Engineering for Global Challenges
  • Finance for non-Financial Managers
  • Strategic Analysis of Technical Operations
  • Engineering Project Management
  • Process Design and Management
  • Dissertation (Masters).

In addition, you will select two options from the following modules:

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Principles of Lean Engineering
  • Product Design and Development
  • Simulation.

*The information’s are correct at the time of publishing, however it may change if university makes any changes after we have published the information. While we try our best to provide correct information, It is advisable to call us or visit university website for up to date information.

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