Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)

Module ENGI3421: MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURE

Department: Engineering

ENGI3421: MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURE

Type	Tied	Level	3	Credits	20	Availability	Available in 2007/08	Module Cap	None.	Location	Durham

Tied to	H100

Prerequisites

Corequisites

Electronics, Control and Signal Processing, Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, OR, Control and Signal Processing, Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics

Excluded Combination of Modules

Environmental Engineering, Soil Engineering, Structures and Surveying, Civil Design, Design and Management for Civil Engineering, BEng Engineering Project, BEng Mechanical Manufacture, BEng Electronic Manufacture, BEng Civil Design, BEng Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Microelectronics, Software Engineering and Communications, Management and Electronic Manufacture

Aims

To provide advanced coverage of management methods required for the strategic development of innovative engineering products and the management of engineering projects.
To provide a fundamental understanding of the close relationship and dynamic interaction between product design and manufacturing engineering.

Content

Management, Manufacture

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

Learning to effectively integrate economic issues into the management of engineering design and operations.
Understanding of how various business situations can be effectively modelled mathematically using optimisation and stochastic techniques.
Understanding the relationship between technological management and economic growth.
Familiarisation with how to manage technology in the product development process.
Understanding of the issues involved in technology management and innovation.
Understanding issues involved in innovation, entrepreneurship and international competitiveness.
To understand the dynamic nature of manufacturing systems.
To understand the theory of quality systems.
To understand the application of industrial automation.

Subject-specific Skills:

To apply Design for Manufacture techniques in relation to machining and automatic assembly.
To be able to apply creativity fostering methods.

Key Skills:

Communicate effectively.
General problem solving skills that can be applied in a novel context.
Capacity for self-learning in familar and unfamiliar situations.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

The course in Management is covered in lectures leading to the acquisition of the appropriate subject specific skills and knowledge. Assessment is through written examination and a problem sheet, which enable each student to demonstrate subject knowledge and an ability to analyse and solve new problems.
The course in Manufacture is taught by lectures and assessed by written examination. This allows students to demonstrate subject knowledge and problem solving skills.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
Lectures	50	2 or 3 per week term 1, 2 or 3 per week term 2, 2 lectures term 3.	1 hour	50
Office Hours	8	0,1 or 2 per week	students sign up for appropriate time	4
Preparation and reading				146
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component: Examination		Component Weighting: 80%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
examination	2 hours	100%
Component: Continuous Assessment		Component Weighting: 20%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Management Problem Sheet		100%

Formative Assessment:

Problem Sheets for lecture courses.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University