Ideal for learners who have an engineering degree and want to learn the management side of the business. You may be an experienced engineer or starting your career in engineering. With this course,  you will get to learn different aspect of management and how it can be integrated with engineering operations.

This program provides engineers with the knowledge they need to develop careers in engineering management.

With a core management curriculum covering a variety of technical aspects, this course in Engineering Management offers early-career as well as experienced engineers a tech-savvy alternative capsule of a management degree, thus preparing the engineering and science graduates/professionals to become future industry leaders.

It is designed to provide practising engineers with extended knowledge beyond their first degree and to update knowledge and skills in recent advances in engineering, technology and business practice. The subjects offered follow an integrated approach to professional practice through a choice of professional engineering subjects and an elective.

• Examine how to develop a workforce that sustains innovation in delivering engineering services.
• Explain engineering management in a typical manufacturing or services industry.
• Evaluate how leadership and innovation make key contributions to functions of various departments delivering engineering services.
• Examine the role of human resources management in attracting, developing and retaining engineering talent.
• Evaluate the significance of strategy formulation and implementation in the evolving and highly competitive engineering industry.
• Develop strategies based on Porter’s model for a typical engineering firm to be ahead of the competition in the industry.
• Analyse how corporate-level, business-level and functional-level strategies are formulated in the engineering industry.
• Evaluate how strategic business decisions are made to align corporate objectives to engineering functions.
• Analyse the concepts and application of marketing management in the engineering industry.
• Evaluate segmentation, targeting and positioning of engineering products and services.
• Analyse new product development and how an effective marketing mix is executed for engineering products and/or services.
• Evaluate the challenges of sales and distribution management of engineering products and services.

This course utilizes a number of assessments to give participants an opportunity to leverage their strong points and improve their weaknesses in order to ensure a successful transition to new functional and people responsibilities. The course also leverages open discussions around thorny issues to encourage analytical thinking and foster healthy communication. Participants will also get the chance to work in teams as they tackle multiple case studies and exercises revolving around project management and business problems.

Module One - The journey from technical to managerial 

·         Engineers versus management

·         Typical issues faced by engineers when they become managers

·         The fundamental shift in roles

·         Managing the transition

·         Understanding the different functions of management

·         Productivity - A management perspective

·         Essential skills for engineers

·         Technical 

·         Managerial 

·         Leadership

·         Management mistakes engineers need to avoid

Module Two - Planning and organizing tools and techniques

·         At a personal level

·         At a project management level

·         Fundamentals of project management - A quick review​

·         Scheduling and organizing

·         Workforce planning

·         Leading projects successfully

·         At an organizational level 

Module Three - Managing performance

·         Engineers and business performance management

·         Setting performance expectations

·         Working with key performance indicators (KPIs)

·         Developing 'SMART' business objectives

·         Business targets and performance standards

·         Management and motivation

Module Four - Working with others

·         Engineers as business influencers

·         Barriers to communication

·         Developing effective communication

·         Managing conflicts 

·         Building successful teams

·         Teams and teamwork

·         Engineers as team leaders

·         Understanding group dynamics

·         Building high performance teams

·         Stages of team formation

Module Five - Problem analysis and decision making

·         Engineers as business decision makers

·         Kepner Tregoe approach to problem solving

·         Situation appraisal 

·         Problem analysis

·         Decision analysis

·         Potential problem analysis