Engineering Management

Engineering projects and organisations are evolving rapidly and growing increasingly complex — shaped by sustainability goals, digital transformation, and innovation demands. This MSc Engineering Management equips you with the strategic insight and technical fluency to lead multidisciplinary projects and organisations in this dynamic environment.

This programme integrates technical depth with leadership capability, enabling engineers and researchers to manage complex systems, projects, and people effectively. You will develop knowledge, understanding, and skills to address challenges in the following core areas:

• Sustainable Engineering Management: How can sustainability underpin management and decision-making at both project and corporate levels? Can sustainability values and goals be achieved in environments with competing priorities?
• Strategy, Innovation and Design Management: How can creativity be fostered within project environments? How can innovation be integrated into engineering business?
• Engineering Project Management: How can engineering projects be designed for success? How can projects be delivered to achieve the stakeholders’ expectations and goals on time and on budget with the expected quality? What happens when things go wrong?
• Engineering Data and Modelling: How can data and information support the planning, implementation, and closure phases of a complex project? How can engineering managers interpret and use complex data to inform decision-making?

The course is underpinned by a focus on managing sustainability, digitalisation, and innovation in engineering,emphasising the vital roles engineers play in advancing responsible technology management — both as an ethical commitment and as a driver of competitive advantage. Graduates will be equipped to engage in ethical engineering management, treating it not only as a professional skill but as a guiding principle shaping their decision-making and careers.

Through a combination of taught modules, a multidisciplinary engineering design project, and an independent engineering management research project, the MSc equips engineering graduates with the ability to successfully navigate the complexities of modern, multidisciplinary engineering projects and organisations worldwide.

Through a combination of taught modules and an independent engineering management research project, the MSc equips engineering and science graduates with the ability to successfully navigate the complexities of modern, multi-disciplinary engineering projects and organisations.

Course structure

Year 1 modules

Core modules:

Concepts of Sustainable Engineering Management underpin your studies. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of environmental, social, ethical, and economic dimensions of sustainability in engineering leadership. The topics will cover the principles, methods, and processes of sustainability from an engineering management perspective, with particular focus on sustainability concepts and theories; sustainable project management; product life cycles; circular economy strategies; and tools, techniques, and processes for sustainable business improvement.

Strategy, Innovation and Design Management will equip you with strategies, processes, and methodologies to manage creativity and innovation within engineering projects and organisations. You will study strategic technology management and learn how innovation and design can contribute to value creation and capture. You will practise the analysis of strategic innovation activities in organisations, such as managing open innovation, intellectual property, and technology foresight. You will explore examples of strategy, innovation and design management within organisations and project teams and acquire knowledge to support the development of skills in strategic leadership and external considerations influence innovation within organisations and project teams.

Engineering Data, Information, and Modelling focuses on the role of data in effective project management. You will examine data types, sources, and information requirements to understand how to define, specify, and manage information needs in engineering projects. You will practise interpreting data-driven engineering models, including simulations, data analytics, and machine learning applications, while developing skills in data management, including collection, organisation, storage, and documentation. Finally, you will explore the opportunities and limitations of modelling and how data-driven frameworks can support leaders in making informed and ethical decisions.

Engineering Project Management provides a comprehensive understanding of how complex engineering projects are initiated, planned, executed, and delivered across their full lifecycle. You will engage with core theories and practices through real-world engineering case studies, exploring project initiation, planning, execution, and evaluation. The theme places strong emphasis on leadership, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making under uncertainty. By applying industry-relevant tools and frameworks, you will develop the ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, balance competing priorities, and deliver projects that meet project and organization objectives. Project management principles and skills will be reinforced throughout the entire programme curriculum.

Multidisciplinary Engineering is a theme central to your studies. You will explore the complexity of modern engineering projects and organisations through a systems-thinking perspective, examining how different disciplines interact across technical, managerial, and economic dimensions. This theme highlights how integrated, cross-disciplinary approaches can address contemporary and future engineering challenges. You will also build skills in understanding project dynamics, effective communication, and collaborative decision-making within diverse engineering teams.

The Engineering Management Dissertation is a substantial piece of independent research into engineering management in practice. You will gain knowledge of research methodologies and demonstrate your skills in independent research, data analysis, and critical thinking through an in-depth study of engineering management use cases and processes. This final project allows you to develop new insights or methodologies and apply them to case studies or industry-defined problems.