Aims to develop students’ understanding and engagement with leadership, performance and purpose within an industrial context, building a crucial foundation upon with to build their future career as senior engineers and decision makers.

This module aims to develop an understanding of the degradation processes that are responsible for eventual in-service destruction of metals and alloys. The module will focus on the fundamental mechanisms and prevention strategies related to corrosion, erosion and corrosive wear.

This module aims to develop and build upon a fundamental knowledge of materials science that underpins the design of engineering systems. The microscopic and atomic structure of different classes of materials are studied in relation to their macroscopic behaviour and material properties. This class will review these relationships and impart the learner with an appreciation of how these structures determine a material’s applications and the design of manufacturing processes.

This module aims to give an introduction to linear elastic and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) and its application to practical mechanical engineering design analysis problems.

This module aims to introduce students to the “softer” aspects of engineering management.  Given some key organisational and technological issues, the main focus is to examine the relationship between “human” elements and change management from an engineering-oriented perspective.

The module will cover organisational and technological issues in the workplace, human element in organisations and leadership considerations.

At the end of this module students will be able to:

• discuss key issues in organisation and technology
• understand modern people management concepts and practices
• appreciate the challenges and consequences of change
• understand the impact of organisational issues on people when managing projects

Assessment and feedback is in the form of:

• online class test (50%)
• individual essay (50%)

This module aims to provide you with skills relating to the use of engineering practices in project management. There's a focus on the effective and efficient use of resources.

This module aims to provide core knowledge of nuclear power plant engineering and to develop a critical awareness of the nuclear basics, reactor basics, reactor operation and design, waste disposal, and key issues relating to health and safety.

This module aims to develop an understanding of the applied metallurgy of principal engineering alloys, to include structure & properties of metals and alloys, metal extraction, diffusion theory, heat treatments, welding engineering and typical degradation mechanisms.

This module aims to introduce students to the concepts and principles of Structural Integrity and Structural Integrity Assessment, in particular assessment of failure of metal structures by ductile collapse, fracture, fatigue and creep.

This module aims to introduce the principles and basic theory of hydraulics for internal flow and builds upon standard undergraduate engineering and physics courses. The purpose of the course is to provide the foundations for calculations of fluid flows in pumping systems. It is intended that you will have achieved a variety of competencies by the end of the course including an understanding of the fundamental analysis of steady and unsteady flows and the ability to design and analyse basic hydraulic networks.

The objective of this module is to introduce you to the theories and principles behind the discipline of Systems Thinking. The module will also introduce you to the methods, tools and techniques for modelling, analysing, improving and designing systems in a variety of organisations, including industrial, commercial and public sector.

The module will cover:

Systems theory, concepts and approaches

• Connectedness, complexity, hierarchy & emergence
• Understanding and modelling the concepts of value, variation, time and constraints
• Hard and soft systems analysis
• Peter Checkland’s soft systems methodology
• Viable Systems Model
• Systems Dynamics

Systems & organisational performance

• Systems thinking and its impact on personal vision and professional role
• Deming’s theory of profound knowledge & organisational learning
• Understanding and managing complexity
• Leadership in a systems environment
• Seddon’s systems thinking concepts - Purpose-Measure-Method
• ‘Design’ in a systems environment

Practical application of Systems Thinking

• Industrial case study
• Public sector case study
• Service sector case study
• People Organisation and Leadership (10 credits)
• Technology and Innovation Management (10 credits)
• Postgraduate Group Project (40 credits)

At the end of this module you will be able to:

• Discuss and critically evaluate various organisational and engineering systems across a variety of organisations, including industrial, commercial and public sector
• Model, analyse and design various organisational and engineering systems across a range of organisations
• Perform systems based forms of organisational analysis and intervention in a complex organisational problem situation

Assessment and feedback is in the form of:

Group video presentation on the development of a business system model (40%) and  an individual report on two comparable business within the same industry, modelling their systems, reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses, and possible improvements (60%)

This module aims to provide students insights into Strategic Purchasing Management, focussing on the Excellent Purchasing Model (EXP), which summarises purchasing functions and processes at strategic, tactical and operational levels.

The module covers: Purchasing management including impact on a company’s competitiveness, Balance sheet and P&L account, contract management; Excellent Purchasing Model to highlight a controlled process for defining purchasing management including Total Cost of Ownership; Operational processes of the Excellent Purchasing Model including legal implications and ethics in procurement, corporate social responsibility, supplier selection, implementation and management and purchasing BSC & KPI management; Category Management strategy and development including an introduction to Kraljic Matrix and supplier/customer power matrix.

At the end of this module students will be able to:

• understand why procurement is a strategic influence of an organisation and determine the building blocks that are essential to this
• demonstrate how purchasing systems may facilitate decision making at organisational levels
• identify how the purchasing strategy is defined and deployed and to prepare a strategic purchasing plan
• identify the skills and attitudes necessary to build a strategic procurement structure and the functions that make it imperative to the organisation

Assessment and feedback is in the form of a group presentation (15%) and a two-part assignment (essay) consisting of an individual assignment focusing on an evaluation of a critical procurement topic (35%) and a group analysis of a major organisation’s procurement practices case study (50%).

In this part of the course, students undertake supervised, individual project work, with the award of MSc being made on the basis of an acceptable thesis submission.