Masters Degrees
| UCAS code | None |
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| Duration | 1 year full time |
| Entry year | 2026 |
| Campus | Streatham Campus |
| Typical offer | Normally a 2:2 degree or equivalent |
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| UCAS code | None |
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| Duration | 2 years full time |
| Entry year | 2026 |
| Campus | Streatham Campus |
| Typical offer | A good degree (normally a 2:2) |
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A snapshot of Engineering Business Management MSc at the 黑料不打烊.
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Accredited by the on behalf of the as meeting the requirements for Further Learning for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Candidates must hold a CEng accredited BEng/CEng (Hons) undergraduate first degree to comply with the full CEng registration requirements.
黑料不打烊 is among the few universities in the UK whose Engineering Department is accredited by the . Students on our programme benefit from the opportunity to gain a professional management qualification alongside their engineering degree, preparing them for diverse careers in management and leadership that combine technical and business expertise.
The 黑料不打烊 doesn't just offer you a place in your chosen programme; it offers a whole new experience. They provide the tools, mentors, experts, labs, resources, networking opportunities, and a supportive environment with like-minded people. They'll do their best to support any idea you have, whether it's related to your programme or not – a startup idea, a research topic, an initiative, anything really!
Yousef
MSc Engineering Business Management
All applicants are considered individually on merit although we usually require a 2:2 honours degree (or equivalent) in a science, engineering, management or numerate discipline.
Please also see our guidance on essential documentation required for an initial decision on taught programme applications.
International students need to show they have the required level of English language to study this course.
The required IELTS test scores for this course fall under Profile B1.
Please visit our English language requirements page to view the required test scores and equivalencies from your country.
This programme is modular and flexible, carrying 180 credits (240 credits for the Engineering Business Management with Industrial Placement variant) in total and offering flexibility in choice of modules studied.
MSc Engineering Business Management consists of seven core engineering, business and management focussed modules totalling 180 credits. This includes the 60-credit Engineering MSc project, and two 15-credit optional modules.
The programme begins in September each year and the taught elements are concluded by May. The Engineering MSc project, under the personal supervision of a research expert in the chosen area, continues until September.
The modules below provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.
Please note that the module information displayed here is subject to change.
150 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules
| Code | Module | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Compulsory 1 | ||
| Agile, Lean and Competitive Enterprise | 15 | |
| MSc Dissertation | 60 | |
| Smart Production Systems | 15 | |
| Sustainable Manufacturing | 15 | |
| Modelling, Simulation and Machine Learning for Operations Management | 15 | |
| Research Ethics and Methodology | 15 | |
| Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains | 15 | |
In an ever changing world, businesses can stay ahead of the game by using competitive operation and supply chain strategies. Manufacturing and service are two industries that benefit from employing a range of enterprise concepts and techniques, including lean enterprise and agile manufacturing, which have implications to both internal operations as well as supply chains.
Lean production concerns the creation of quality products, consuming less human energy and using less equipment, time and space. Agile manufacturing, on the other hand, is related to bringing new products into changing markets in a responsive way and the ability to be innovative and to thrive in a changing environment. These two operation strategies have significant implications to and are closely related to supply chain management.
The module will be run in two sub-streams - lean enterprise, and agile manufacturing and others. There will also be advanced topics looking at recent development in operational and manufacturing strategies. One of the key aims is to encourage independent learning, so, while lectures will serve as a guide to topics, you will learn mostly through directed reading, class discussions and a research dissertation.
This dissertation will give you the chance to demonstrate your knowledge, to exercise your initiative and personal responsibility, and to use the research techniques and skills you have developed throughout your degree.
You will be required to solve a research or industrially-related practical problem based on the topics learned within, but not exclusive to, the MSc programme you are registered for. The project work will lead to a major piece of work (dissertation) of approximately 15,000 words (max. 80 pages, including references and appendices) that involves project planning, analytical, experimental or empirical results and their interpretation, showing how the goals of the project have been met. You will receive a list of potential projects and will be required to express your two preferences. Alternatively, you can discuss your own dissertation ideas with the module leader / potential supervisor (academic staff) with a view to explore if they offer required technical rigour and research challenge. You will be encouraged to discuss your preferences with relevant academic staff before we allocate projects. As part of the research project, you are expected to undertake a considerable amount of self-study. There is no formal taught component in the module, apart from the writing support lectures and the suggested regular meetings with your supervisor.
The concept of a smart production systems emerged from the future factories, future cities and autonomous and adaptive robotic systems production philosophies that then has been supported with recent technological advances in IoT systems, communication technologies, high -performance computing, intelligent systems and algorithms and augmented reality. The concept initially developed and applied on the Industry 4.0 framework which is the 4th industrial revolution to digitise the manufacturing environment to provide optimal production conditions for the manufacturing environment and interoperability between cyber and physical systems. Later, this philosophy has been enhanced for different systems which has paved new enhancements and philosophies like digital twins, smart cities and 4.0 frameworks for manufacturing systems. The module is an interdisciplinary module that covers the manufacturing and production systems, applications of IoT systems, wireless communications systems and microcontroller applications, cyber-physical systems and overall smart production architectures in production systems and smart cities.
This module aims to broaden your understanding of how to make “manufacturing” more sustainable. We are currently living in a highly globalised world, in which most of our products are manufactured in one country while sold in another country. In the manufacturing process, huge amounts of energy and materials are consumed, a large amount of waste is generated, and various social concerns are raised. Most of the current production and consumption systems are linear, adopting a “take, make and dispose” model and thereby contributing to the depletion of natural resources. To achieve sustainable growth, firms need to shift from linear to circular economy models. In recent years, new technologies are emerging, the international trading policies are changing, and sustainability issues are becoming more important. It is important to understand how these would affect the manufacturing system and supply chain management.
The module provides you with a comprehensive view of sustainable manufacturing from theories and practices. In this module, you will learn the theoretical concepts of sustainable design, business model innovation for sustainability, sustainable supply chain, circular economy, and digital solutions for sustainable manufacturing, understanding the cutting-edge challenges in the context of sustainable manufacturing, and use the practical methods/tools to solve problems. Case studies, methods and tools from the latest research will be provided in the module.
The knowledge you gain within this module will enhance your ability of the use of mathematical modelling techniques, computer simulation, and machine learning to tackle modern operations and supply chain management problems, as well as, to make informed strategic decisions.
This module aims to deliver an in-depth understanding of operations research, computer simulation, and machine learning to analyse and solve important managerial problems in engineering by using operational research methods, simulation modelling, and machine learning techniques. The knowledge you gain on this module will help you to appreciate a range of associated courses, especially in manufacturing and service system modelling and simulation, operations and supply chain analysis, Industry 4.0 technologies such as IoT and digital twins of manufacturing and supply chain processes.
The module will train you to use specific software tools in linear programming and discrete event simulation . This module will also aim to provide you with hands-on experience within the 黑料不打烊 Digital Enterprise System (ExDES) laboratory using the Industry 4.0 demonstrator, IoT gateway and its associated software.
This module aims to introduce you to the main principles governing engineering profession and research, to the ethical issues informed by the professional code of conduct, and to the importance of adopting an inclusive approach and of supporting equality, diversity and inclusion.
You will get an introduction to the main methods used in scientific and engineering research, including the use of AI tools, finding research articles, critical engagement, literature synthesis, and communication of the results to a wide audience.
You will be introduced to ethics, engineering profession, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in engineering practice. The discussion on EDI will cover diversity in Engineering profession and ethics, inclusive cultures in engineering. These topics will be carried out via lecture, class discussions, and a case study.
You will learn project management and risk management, including the techniques required to apply efficiently project and risk management principles to a wide range of projects, including industrial and research projects. The project management topic will also include but not limited to intellectual Property Rights, types of intellectual property, management of intellectual property rights, and understanding Intellectual Property for Engineers. These topics will be delivered in a lecture with some discussions using several case studies.
The module is suitable for non-specialist students.
As firms integrate more closely within global supply chains, managing upstream and downstream risks and opportunities becomes crucial. Success depends on addressing the triple bottom line (i.e., economic, environmental, and social dimensions) of supply chains. This module equips you to tackle these challenges, consolidating concepts and methods essential for achieving sustainable development goals in supply chains. The module will also introduce case studies to further understand sustainable operations and supply chains, providing valuable insights grounded in the latest industry practices and academic research. This preparation will enable you to develop and manage sustainable supply chains effectively. This module is vital for those aiming to lead in sustainable business practices.
This module is suitable for non-specialist students. This module is recommended for interdisciplinary pathways.
| Code | Module | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Optional 1 | ||
| Marketing and New Product Innovation | 15 | |
| Entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation | 15 | |
| Service Design and Innovation | 15 | |
| Protecting Innovation | 15 | |
| Rethinking Innovation | 15 | |
| AI and Emerging Technologies | 15 | |
Marketing is the term given to those activities that occur where an organisation and its customers come into contact and result in a mutually beneficial and satisfying exchange relationship. It is the driving force behind modern business and is concerned with ensuring the closest possible fit between what an organisation does and what its customers need and want. This involves offering the 'right' marketing mix.
However, marketing also depends on the constant updating of ideas and development of new products and services. Consumers can be fickle and change their needs and wants, competitors alter their strategies, and forces within the marketplace regularly change. These factors require organisations to implement New Product Development (NPD) programmes, with a view to integrate and coordinate their marketing efforts through strategic decision-making, reflected in the production of marketing plans.
The module will provide students with the relevant skills and techniques necessary for implementing marketing strategy and planning around the framework of developing a new product/service development programme. Working in project teams, students will develop their project management, communication and team-working skills during the development of a formal presentation of their marketing plan. Students will be asked to reflect on the reasons for new product/service development and how businesses develop a product into a commercial idea.
This module introduces both the theoretical and practical aspects of entrepreneurship and new venture creation. It adopts various perspectives to provide a holistic picture of the entrepreneurial process, including, but not limited to, the practical aspects of the intellectual, behavioral, and emotional demands of starting a new venture. The module is intended to provide rigorous insight into the realities of entrepreneurial activity and an understanding of the role that small and medium-sized businesses play in the modern economy. This may be achieved by creating a new independent firm or organizing a new enterprise within an existing firm.
If you already have an idea for a new business or are working on one, this module offers an opportunity to develop, refine, and test it.
Additional Information:
Internationalisation
You will have the opportunity to develop the ability to think globally and understand international cultures through working on global sustainability problems with classmates from diverse cultures. Diverse teams enable understanding of global problems from multiple perspectives and the development of viable solutions.
External Engagement
This module draws on academic and entrepreneurial experts to enrich your learning journey.
Sustainability
You are encouraged to tackle sustainability-related issues in your group activities and individual assignments.
Employability
This module offers an interdisciplinary and applied introduction to service innovation, with a strong focus on how organisations can design, analyse, and improve services to enhance customer experience and remain competitive. It is particularly relevant if you are interested in the practical challenges of creating value in today’s service economy and in using digital techniques and technologies to inform service innovation.
Building on core ideas from operations management and marketing, the module introduces you to the concept of the service delivery system and explores how customer experience shapes service design, delivery, and evaluation. You will develop technical and consultancy skills that will equip you for the workplace, using real-world data and service improvement examples throughout the module.
The module is research-led and draws on insights from the VISTA AR project, a �7.8m ERDF-funded project focused on digital innovation in cultural heritage sites. This gives you the opportunity to engage with contemporary service challenges and examples of innovation in practice.
There is a strong applied focus throughout, with lectures and practical workshops introducing tools for customer experience analysis and advanced approaches such as eye-tracking and natural language processing. As part of the assessment, you will analyse real-world service examples and make recommendations for improvement and innovation.
Innovation operates within competitive and dynamic environments shaped by rapid socio-economic change associated with technologies such as artificial intelligence, sustainability challenges, market uncertainties, evolving innovation policies, and geopolitical pressures. In this context, the ability to protect innovation is central to long-term organisational success.
In this module, you will explore how organisations and governments protect, manage, and responsibly share innovation while safeguarding it from imitation and misappropriation. You will examine both the strategic importance of innovation protection and the practical tools organisations use to secure and sustain competitive advantage.
The module introduces formal and informal protection mechanisms and covers key contemporary themes, including national and regional innovation strategies, innovation policies, intellectual property (IP) regimes, global production networks, and technology sovereignty. These topics provide the foundation for understanding how innovation protection strategies are shaped by technological, economic, geopolitical, legal, and related contexts.
Through case studies, applied exercises, and analytical discussions, you will learn how organisations and governments protect innovation, anticipate and respond to emerging risks and uncertainties, opportunities and shifts in the innovation landscape.
Description - Summary of module content
Innovation is at a crossroads, fuelled by growing demands to rethink its core assumptions and reimagine its role in shaping fairer, more sustainable futures. Once centred on markets and profit, innovation is now expected to confront accelerating social and environmental crises. This module offers a dynamic, research-led dive into the cutting-edge innovation approaches and practices that seek to drive transformational change for people and planet.
Through research led case studies, interdisciplinary theory and contemporary frameworks, you will examine how innovation can challenge power, reshape systems and generate diverse forms of value. The module equips future leaders with the critical tools and imaginative capacity needed to drive ambitious and systemic change.
Module aims - intentions of module
Innovation is at a crossroads. Once narrowly focused on markets, profit and technological progress, it is increasingly called upon to address urgent social, environmental and ethical challenges. This module equips you to rethink innovation from the ground up, exploring approaches that go beyond business-as-usual and embrace transformative potential for people and planet.
This module examines artificial intelligence (AI) as a general-purpose and discovery-enabling technology and explores how it is accelerating the emergence of new materials, systems, and forms of innovation across science, engineering, and industry.
In addition to understanding AI enabled applications, the module focuses on how AI is reshaping the nature of innovation itself, from traditional market-pull approaches toward increasingly powerful forms of technology-push innovation, where advances in computation, data, and learning systems generate novel possibilities ahead of explicit market demand.
Designed for non-technical innovators, the module develops AI literacy, strategic insight, and ethical judgement. Participants learn how AI and converging technologies - from advanced materials and autonomous systems to digital platforms and intelligent infrastructure - can be governed, translated, and deployed to create sustainable organisational and societal value.
The aim of this module is to develop innovators who can:
? Understand AI not only as an application technology, but as a driver of discovery and system-level change
? Critically evaluate how AI reshapes innovation processes, from R&D to commercialisation
Please note that the module information displayed here is subject to change.
120 credits of compulsory modules
| Code | Module | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Compulsory 1 | ||
| MSc Dissertation | 60 | |
| MSc Industrial Placement | 60 | |
This module aims to provide students with experience beyond the theoretical and taught environment of the university by placing them in a real-world industrial setting directly relevant to their development as an experienced professional.
Students will experience every part of an industry career from the searching for and securing a suitable placement, to integrating and assimilating themselves into a team industrial environment and working in that setting for an extended period between 9 and 12 months. This will allow students to develop individual skills not necessarily or explicitly taught but gained from exposure to a real working environment. During this time the module aims to build resilience, reflectivity and self-assurance in students.
You will get the chance to apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired from taught modules to authentic problem solving in the work place. Collaborating with your work placement employer, you will identify an engineering-based project that will constitute your MSc dissertation. Ideally, the dissertation should be based on the work that you will undertake during the placement, but this is not compulsory.
The placement will involve a substantial technical role in the host organisation. Individual placements are subject to availability and approval by the programme coordinator.
For my placement year I worked at Taylor Hobson as a Purchasing Graduate, working in the supply chain department to improve their purchasing processes. I was able to work on key projects like improving ABC analysis, creating KPIs to measure vendor performance and a special project where we tried to reduce the cost of equipment in the Asian market.
Your placement year can be an opportunity to prove yourself to the company. While working for Taylor Hobson I’ve been offered a full-time job and will continue working there after I finish my course.
Nirav
MSc Engineering Business Management with Industrial Placement
Fees can normally be paid by two termly instalments and may be paid online. You will also be required to pay a tuition fee deposit to secure your offer of a place, unless you qualify for exemption. For further information about paying fees see our Student Fees pages.
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Our 黑料不打烊 Excellence Scholarships are also available for applicants looking to study with us in January 2027 and applications for these scholarships will open in September.
The 黑料不打烊 offers a wide range of scholarships to support your education, with ?7 million available for international students applying to study with us in the 2026/27 academic year, including our prestigious 黑料不打烊 Excellence Scholarships. We also provide awards for sport, music and other achievements, as well as regional and partner scholarships with organisations such as Chevening, The Beacon Trust and the British Council. For more information on scholarships and other financial support, please visit our scholarships and bursaries page.
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The programme is delivered through a mix of lectures, seminars, tutorials, industrial presentations, case studies, industry visits, computer simulations, project work and a dissertation.
You will develop transferable skills such as management and communication skills, computational techniques, data handling and analysis, problem solving, decision making and research methodology. Many of these will be addressed within an industrial and commercial context.
You will be allocated a Personal Tutor who is available for advice and support throughout your studies, along with support and mentoring from graduates who are now in industry. There is also a Postgraduate Tutor available to help with further guidance and advice.
We believe every student benefits from being taught by experts active in research and practice. You will discuss the very latest ideas, research discoveries and new technologies in seminars and in the field. Plus, you’ll become actively involved in a research project yourself.
All our academic staff are active in internationally-recognised scientific research across a wide range of topics. You will also be taught by leading industry practitioners.
There is considerable demand in the workplace for graduates with knowledge in both a specialist technology area and in management, particularly in the modern tools and techniques to support the management of a dynamically changing engineering business.
We have an established reputation of training tomorrow's great minds, so when it comes to life after graduation you can be confident that you are starting your next professional adventure in a prime, leading position.
You will receive support from our dedicated Career Zone team, who provide excellent career guidance at all stages of career planning. The Career Zone provides one-on-one support and is home to a wealth of business and industry contacts. Additionally, they host useful training events, workshops and lectures which are designed to further support you in developing your enterprise acumen. Please visit the Career Zone for additional information on their services.
The professional destinations of our graduates reflects the quality of this programme. Our graduates have gone on to enjoy prosperous and successful careers in several areas after graduation. Graduates of this programme have gone on to enjoy careers such as analysts and research fellows, and work at companies such as Procter & Gamble, Deloitte, Maersk, Network Rail and National Space Development and Research Agency in Nigeria.
