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MSc/PgDip
Quality Engineering Management

Location
Southwark

Duration
1 year (full-time)
2 years (part-time)

Start date
September 2009

Number of places
15 (variable)

Simple timetable information
Full-time: 2 days per week
Part-time: 1 day per week

How to apply
Direct to LSBU

LSBU code
Full-time: 1041
Part-time: 1042

Course contact
Ms Esther Perea

Course Director
pereae@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 7909

Non-standard entry requirements

Applications are also welcome from mature students with other qualifications and relevant industrial experience that would make them suitable to study at this level.

Course units

The course is composed of 5 core units, 3 specialist units and a Major Individual Project for the MSc.

PgDip students are required to successfully complete 5 core units and 3 specialist units

Core units:

– Advanced Manufacturing

– Engineering Product Design

– Mechatronic Engineering

– Quality Engineering Management

– Research Methods

Specialist units:

– Product Development for Quality

– Simulation and Quality Control

– Operations Management

– Major Individual Project (MSc only)


Course description

The course is designed to develop professional engineers/managers capable of working in a broad range of companies and industries at a managerial level. It provides training and expertise in the key areas of Quality Engineering Management, Product Development for Quality, Simulation, Operations Management and Advanced Manufacturing Systems. The course has an excellent track record of employability both within the UK and abroad.

The course is suitable for engineers, scientists or managers with responsibility for design, manufacture and quality improvement.

Career opportunities

The field of Quality Engineering Management is recognised as a skills shortage area. Such skills are critical to the industrial and economic growth of industries both in the Western world and in developing nations. Graduates from this course can expect to enhance their technological and management skills, which will improve their prospects in such roles as quality manager, product development manager, operations manager or research engineer.

The course has attracted worldwide interest and has a good track record of employability in national and international companies.

Typical background of applicant

A good Honours degree (or equivalent) in a science, engineering or other relevant management/ technological discipline. We particularly welcome overseas and EU applicants with relevant qualifications.

Additional notes

The Individual Project is a major element of the course and involves a wider spectrum of multidisciplinary research in design, manufacturing systems, quality management and IT, with due regard to the efficient exploitation of the technology, materials and marketing resources of industrial firms. Students are encouraged to work on industrialbased projects.