入学要求：
学术要求： Applicants are expected to hold an appropriate honours degree at 2.1 standard or the equivalent from a university recognised by the University of York in a subject with a significant Electronics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics content. Experience of having worked in industry is an advantage but is not essential.
英语要求：IELTS 6.0 (6.5 preferred)
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 International Students: £15,600
课程特征 Course Features：
The MSc in Engineering Management is a one year full-time taught programme aimed at ambitious graduate engineers who aspire to higher level management positions, especially of a technical nature. The programme develops those areas of management that graduates require in their progression towards a management career but firmly anchored in a technical context.
The programme benefits from the knowledge and expertise from our Engineering Education and Management Research Group.
It is intended to provide students with a good understanding of the techniques and issues in modern engineering management, with an emphasis on those skills that will be immediately required in first line management roles. It provides students with:
A sound understanding of aspects of management relevant to the technical manager
Opportunities to apply management thinking to real technology issues
Develop management skills applicable to your employability prospects and career development
Gain experience of exploiting technological opportunities within large firms or as an entrepreneurial activity
课程内容 Course Content：
Programme Content
The programme aims to allow technically qualified students to develop their engineering management knowledge and skills within a technical context and with a specialist management emphasis. The content of the programme is divided into three types, core management modules (students take all these modules), technical modules (of which students choose only one) and modules linked together as a specific management stream.
In addition to the ‘technical’ subjects covered within the modules, there is an emphasis on the development of generic or transferable skills within this programme, in particular creativity and innovation, capacity for analysis, problem formulation and solving, planning and time management, communications (written and oral), team working and interpersonal skills, research skills and activity management.
The programme modules are:
Core Management Modules (students take all these modules):
1.Project Management
2.Management and Marketing of Technology
3.Law for Engineering Management
4.Ideation
5.Enterprise
6.Accounting and Finance
7.Corporate Governance and Human Resource Management
8.Literature Review
9.Project
Technical Modules (choice of one from the following list):
Options currently include the following modules, additional technical modules are likely to become available.
1.Personal and Mobile Communications
2.Embedded Computer Systems
3.Wireless and Satellite Networks
4.Electronics for Medicine
5.Sensors and Instrumentation
Specific Management Stream:
International Enterprise
1.Managing Across Cultures
2.International Finance
3.International Business
Please note that the detailed module contents are subject to change. The information provided here describes the current contents of the modules that we intend to include in the MSc.
Core Management Modules (students take all these modules):
1. Project Management
This module goes back to basics and introduces project management as a tool for use in individual project work, the programme group project and for future professional lives. It covers project management in a classical way by starting with capturing customer requirements and forming requirement specifications; and understanding the activities required to bring this requirement to reality through work breakdown structures and activity matricies. It looks at project plan preparation including common project charting techniques, Bar Chart, Gantt charts and PERT and critical path analysis.
Having covered the basic mechanics of understanding projects and producing a project plan, it then looks at project management techniques including value added and risk management.
The module is taught in two half-day workshop sessions and is supported by an extensive on-line resource. Assessment is in the form of a written assignment for the module, but competence in project management is key to the success of the group project and the application of geed management practices is also assessed as part of this activity.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Analyse a product and produce a detailed engineering specification for it
Produce a work breakdown structure for the activities
Produce a project network and analyse its critical path
Explain how risk can be managed through project management
2. Management and Marketing of Technology
Often technology is the lifeblood of businesses, large or small. The ability to manage and market technology is crucial to success in the modern, competitive world. Through this module an understanding of technology development will be gained together with the ability to analyse the impact it will have on the firm’s competitive business environment.
The management of change cannot happen without understanding of the management of change. This module explores the foundations of change management including the nature of change in organizations, hard and soft changes, soft management change systems, sources of resistance and managing transitions.
The module is taught through lectures and supporting workshop sessions. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the place of technology management in the modern world
Analyse and critique a past technological innovation
Understand the change implications of a technological innovation on an organisation
Produce a marketing plan for a new technology based product or service
3. Law for Engineering Management
The objective of this module is to introduce students to the laws that will impact them as an employed Engineering Manager or as an entrepreneur. In particular the module explores the UK and European Legal systems, laws applicable to engineering businesses large and small and the laws of trading.
The module is a problem based learning module involving a mixture of lectures to introduce methods and theories and group sessions. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the implications of legal instruments on the engineering business and the implications of non-compliance
Evaluate the difference in legal implications in business formation in the UK compared to another Country
4. Ideation
This module lays a foundation in the tools and techniques that underpin the ability to generate good quality ideas that are appropriate for the firm or business context and to be able to present the new ideas in a convincing way to key stakeholders. It includes idea generation techniques alongside an understanding of the innovation process to ensure that idea selection is undertaken sympathetically to the firm’s needs or developmental ability.
The module involves a mixture of lectures to introduce methods and theories and workshops with individual and group activities to develop idea generation competences. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Generate ideas in a new area
Design a selection approach for a new application area to allow the better ideas generated to be identified
Define the appropriate stakeholders
Communicate an idea through a written proposal
Communicate an idea through an ‘elevator pitch’
5. Enterprise
This module is designed to allow students, in small groups, to explore a genuine and new business opportunity. The opportunity will not have been investigated before and hence exposes the need for confidentiality agreements, opportunities for intellectual property protection, real investigation of marketing potential and investigations into the practicalities and realities of exploitation of it or variants of the new product or technology.
The module is a process supported self-study module in that work is undertaken by the groups with the support of a process mentor who will guide the overall direction and facilitate learning of the key objectives of the module. Assessment is by a formal report, which can be an exploitation business plan and a presentation to a small audience including the idea owner.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the issues of its commercial exploitation (L2 A.2)
Analyse its competitive environment including the setting of pricing structures (L4 A.1, 2)
Distinguish between different commercialisation options and make a specific recommendation (L6 A.1, 2)
Evaluate the marketing options and make a specific recommendation (6 A.1, 2)
Analyse the required resources and provide a full justification for them (L4 A.1,2)
Propose an organisational form for a new venture based on an analysis of the opportunity (L6 A.1,2)
Prepare a full and professional business plan (L5 A.2)
6. Accounting and Finance
This module builds a solid understanding of the foundations of accounting and finance including appropriate terminology and tools and techniques that will be used to understand and analyse financial issues such as company performance, investment opportunities and product costing and pricing in the business and new venture contexts.
The module is taught using conventional lectures. Assessment is by a closed book examination.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Describe and analyse the interaction between Costs, Volume and Profit in the context of product manufacture and apply CVP analysis techniques to financial decision making
Classify the different types of assets required within an organisation to enable it to trade
Describe qualitatively the difference between incremental and zero based budgeting and how budgets are constructed within organisations
Appraise the value to an organisation of an investment opportunity
Prepare a cash flow forecast and from it derive a Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet
Appraise the value to an organisation of an investment opportunity
7. Corporate Governance and Human Resource Management
The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the different forms of Company structure and the appropriateness of each to given business operating situations. The place of company mission statements and the link to corporate values, policies and practices will be developed. An understanding of the statutory responsibilities and the human resource processes within large and small business will then be developed. The module requires the application of creativity techniques within a technical part of engineering.
The module uses lectures to introduce methods and theories. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Clearly articulate a business context and a novel technological idea that aligns with this context
Compare and discriminate between different legal forms for organisations
Formulate a mission statement for a new business and explain how it reflects corporate values
Assess the impact of statutory responsibilities on management and employees for a company
Understand how the human resource management processes within an organisation supports its mission statement and corporate values
8. Literature Review
This module develops the ability to undertake a detailed and focused literature review into relevant aspects of a novel technological idea including an exploration of the published literature of: a technological idea; commercialisation implications of the idea; the moral and ethical implications of the idea.
The module will be self-study supported by literature searching coaching. Assessment is in the form of a literature review report.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Undertake a detailed and focused literature review
Appraise and critique publications for their relevance and implications
Articulate the results of the literature review in a professional manner
9. Group Project
This group project draws together all aspects of the Engineering Management programme and allows, in small groups, the application of a broad range of knowledge and skills to a business innovation problem. Of special importance is the application of good project management and group and individual management techniques.
The Group project is a self-study activity undertaken under the supervision of an academic member of staff. Assessment is in the form of a formal report and presentation.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Work together effectively in a small group
Analyse an opportunity both technologically and commercially
Research and design a technologically and commercially appropriate solution
Summarise and articulate the proposed solution in written form
Summarise and articulate the proposed solution in oral form
Technical Modules (choice of one from the following list):
Options currently include the following modules, additional technical modules are likely to become available.
1. Personal and Mobile Communications
The Personal and Mobile Communications module describes the history of personal and cellular communications and the development of current standards. It starts with a brief overview of the early mobile phones, and the differences between the first, second and third generations. The module then considers the mobile radio communication channels and channel models, and describes how the difficulties in operating over these channels have influenced the design of mobile phone networks. TDMA, FDMA and CDMA access techniques are introduced and compared, and techniques for optimising the capacity of each, including power control, multi-user detection and dynamic channel allocation, are discussed.
The module then focuses on GSM and WCDMA as examples of second and third generation networks, describes the operation of each and explains the reasons for the development of these two very different standards. Personal communication and wireless LAN systems are then discussed, focusing on the operation of Bluetooth and 802.11 family of networks ("Wi-Fi"). The WiMAX metropolitan area network is also considered.
Finally we look at the future: how these networks might work together to provide best-access at all times, and what future technologies might bring.
The module is taught through lectures and supporting workshop sessions. Assessment is in the form of a closed-book written examination.
2. Embedded Computer Systems
The aim of this module is to consider the design and implementation of embedded systems and in particular to introduce the concepts of fault-tolerant design in electronic systems; both hardware and software, to define and characterise embedded systems and to study these aspects of real-time systems in the context of real-world case examples. Such studies will include an investigation into the concepts involved in ILP and TLP parallel processing and the exploration of the use and design of memory systems, with particular reference to hardware.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Assess the requirements for a real-time system.
Select real-time system designs and implementations.
Evaluate the limitations of real-time system implementations.
Assess the problems involved in high reliability system design.
Develop mathematical quantities related to reliability engineering.
Make informed design decisions relating to increasing the reliability of both hardware and software systems.
Make informed decisions regarding a particular application and the suitable architectures.
Consider in detail the design of Cache memories.
Understand state-of-the-art parallel processing approaches (e.g., ILP, TLP, systolic arrays)
3. Wireless and Satellite Networks
The Wireless and Satellite Networks module first introduces basic communications theory in the context of satellite systems: techniques of flow control, error control, baseband and passband modulation, optimum filtering and intersymbol interference. Satellite system design (processing versus non-processing) and satellite orbits are discussed, including low-earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary earth orbit (GEO) systems.
Multiple access techniques for satellite systems are then introduced, able to cope with the large round-trip of these systems. Systems design and link budget analysis for satellite applications are then described, and some sample applications, both commercial and military, are discussed.
This module is taught through lectures and workshop sessions. Assessment is in the form of a closed-book written examination.
4. Electronics for Medicine
The aim of this module is to introduce a range of computational and analytical methods appropriate to medical research and clinical practice.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand how electrical signals are generated within the human body, and to describe and apply techniques to model and analyse these signals.
Appreciate how electromagnetic waves interact with biological tissues, and the applications of these interactions in diagnosis, therapy, and RF risk assessment and dosimetry.
Find out about the different types of medical imaging modalities, and develop practical experience of these in image processing laboratories.
Apply electronic techniques in bio-medical research areas through detailed consideration of selected case studies.
5. Sensors and Instrumentation
The aims of this module are to enable students to understand the basic principles of transduction, types of sensor and their application to industry, meteorology and environment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the basic principles of transduction and the design of sensors.
Understand the limitations of sensors and the effect of non-linearities.
Understand the differences between analogue and digital sensors and sensor signal processing.
Gain an insight into the design of advanced instrumentation.
Specific Management Stream Modules:
1. Managing Across Cultures
This module explores the interplay between culture and business and in particular the opportunities and challenges of managing across cultures either within a team or between teams. It covers the meaning of culture, culture and management practice and managing cultural differences and draws on authors such as Trompenaars and Hofstede to provide students with generic models that will help them explore different combinations of cultural interactions.
The module uses lectures to introduce methods and theories. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the nature of culture
Understand a range of different models used to analyse culture
Analyse and compare two different cultures
Analyse the implications of culture on the organization
2. International Finance
This module explores some of the issues associated with trading across currency boundaries. Specifically financial exchange rate risk and techniques to protect the business against exchange rate volatility.
The module uses lectures to introduce methods and theories. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the terminology of International Finance
Analyse the exchange rate exposure risk of a trading situation in monetary terms
Compare available risk reduction techniques and recommend appropriate solutions for a given trading situation
Analyse a country for its financial trading risk
3. International Business
This module explores the general issues associated with international trading by looking at marketing across National borders; the international competitive business environment; the legal challenges and of international trading including trading laws including international intellectual property protection and technology transfer; human resource management and organizational strategy.
The module uses lectures to introduce methods and theories. Assessment is in the form of an assignment.
On completion of this module students are expected to be able to:
Understand the terminology of marketing at the international level
Analyse the competitive business environment of an international trading situation
Analyse the legal issues associated with an international trading situation
Analyse and recommend a human resource solution for an international trading situation