P04712 Advanced

Engineering Management

Introduction to the module

Gordana Collier CEng

Module Leader
GordanaCollier@brookes.ac.uk
Module content

•  Business development
•  Sponsorship
•  Project management
•  Leadership and management
•  Case studies
Teaching team

MEMS
Gordana Collier
Denise Murray
Gareth Neighbour

R&BDO
Andrew Baxter
Kevin Maynard

Industrial guest lecturers

Content schedule

Format:

Lectures
Seminars
Group work

Group home work (GHW)

Individual home work (IHW)
Assessment

Peer assessment (10%)

Business case (25%)
Presentation (15%)
Exam (50%) 2 hours

Assessment schedule
On Moodle
In Google calendar
Assessment

•  Week 1 – Groups agreed

•  Week 2 - Business proposal agreed
•  Week 7 – Draft proposal submitted
•  Week 10– Draft proposal peer feedback
•  Week 11 – Final proposal submitted
•  Week 11 – Business proposal presented
•  Exam period - Exam
What?
What we will not deal with…
What it does…
Industry forecast
Growth
by region
•  Global spend on engineering services was around
$930 billion in 2012, and will reach $1.4 trillion by
2020 – a 50 percent growth in less than a decade.
•  Outsourcing growth in mechanical and hardware
product development remains half that of electronics,
software, and embedded software product
development.

Information Services Group (2013)

 What it does…
Industry forecast
Growth
by discipline

Automotive OEMs and suppliers are the largest spenders of

Engineering Research and Development (ER&D), driven by the
need for superior performance, safety, reliability and fuel economy.
Information Services Group (2013)
Why?
 Discipline leadership

At the forefront of the academic discipline and industry

advances including emerging, green technologies

Engineering standards
compliance:
UK (EC with IMechE/IET and QAA)
US (ABET with SAE)
UK-SPEC

The Engineering Council’s ‘UK-SPEC’ sets

competence standards for CEng, IEng and EngTech

Engineers become competent via BOTH: education

AND professional development.

The 5 competences (A – E), for CEng, IEng and

EngTech are common to all UK Professional
Engineering Institutions.
Chartered Engineer
competence requirements (A – B)

• Competence A: Knowledge and Understanding

Use a combination of general & specialist
engineering knowledge & understanding to optimise
the application of existing emerging technology.

• Competence B: Practical Application

Apply appropriate theoretical & practical methods to
the analysis & solution of engineering problems.
 Chartered Engineer
competence requirements (C – E)

• Competence C: Leadership Skills

Provide technical & commercial leadership.
• Competence D: Communication and Interpersonal skills.
Demonstrate effective communication & interpersonal skills.
• Competence E: Professional Conduct
Make a personal commitment to live by the appropriate code
of professional conduct, recognising the obligations to society,
the profession and the environment.
Student Business plan
competition
Runner up!
Over to Andrew and Kevin!