Module ENGI3431: MANAGEMENT AND ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURE

Department: Engineering

ENGI3431: MANAGEMENT AND ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURE

Prerequisites

Corequisites

• Microelectronics, Software Engineering and Communications, Electronics, Control and Signal Processing, Engineering Design

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, Management and Manufacture, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics

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 in the context of electronics.

Content

• Management, Electronic Manufacture

Learning Outcomes

• 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.
• To understand the underlying technologies of electronic components and how they affect the manufacture of electronic products.
• To understand the manufacturing processes involved in the production of electronic printed circuit boards.

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

• 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 Electronic 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

Summative Assessment

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