Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2009-2010 (archived)
Module ENGI3421: MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURE
Department: Engineering
ENGI3421: MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURE
| Type | Tied | Level | 3 | Credits | 20 | Availability | Available in 2009/10 | Module Cap | None. | Location | Durham |
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| Tied to | H100 |
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Prerequisites
- None.
Corequisites
- None.
Excluded Combination of Modules
- None.
Aims
- To provide coverage of theory and methods required for financial management, quantitative decision making in management science, and strategic entrepreneurship.
- To provide a fundamental understanding of the close relationship and dynamic interaction between product design and manufacturing engineering.
Content
- Management (Entrepreneurship, Finance, Quantitative Decision Science)
- Manufacture
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- Students will learn how to effectively integrate economic issues into the management of engineering design and operations.
- Students will gain an appreciation of how companies make financing and investment decisions in pursuit of corporate goals.
- Students will acquire knowledge of how decision making problems can be modelled mathematically, and solved using appropriate quantitative methods.
- Students will be able to perform fundamental analyses for decision science problems.
- Students will gain an understanding of the issues involved in entrepreneurship in terms of style, approach and management.
- 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:
- The application of specialised management knowledge in an engineering context.
- To apply Design for Manufacture techniques in relation to machining and automatic assembly.
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 taught by lectures leading to the acquisition of the appropriate subject specific skills and knowledge. Assessment is through written examination, which enables 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 | |
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| Lectures | 47 | 2 or 3 per week term 1, 2 or 3 per week term 2, 2 lectures term 3. | 1 hour | 47 | |
| Office Hours | 8 | 0,1 or 2 per week | students sign up for appropriate time | 4 | |
| Preparation and reading | 149 | ||||
| Total | 200 |
Summative Assessment
| Component: Examination | Component Weighting: 100% | ||
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| Element | Length / duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
| Management 3 | 2 hours | 60% | |
| Manufacture 3 | 1.5 hours | 40% | |
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