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| Location: | Cranfield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Suitable for graduates with science, engineering, IT or business related degrees keen to pursue careers in manufacturing or related industries, as well as academia, with a particular emphasis on sustainability.The part-time option will allow practitioners to extend their professional development within their current employment.
Takes you on to careers with a wide range of manufacturing enterprises or, increasingly, sectors from financial services through to health care. Graduates will benefit from increased opportunities for individual specialism in industry and/or consultancy and the capability to make an immediate and real contribution to the competitiveness of business organisations.
You will be taught by experts from Cranfield and industry with substantial experience in teaching, project supervision, research and consultancy. The academics have published work in leading journals and books and worked closely with world-class manufacturers.
Course description
The manufacturing sector is facing growing pressures to reduce costs and manufacture products using processes that minimise negative environmental impacts. Increasing environmental legislation and energy costs, together with changing attitudes to what is acceptable practice in society generally, has resulted in the adoption of low carbon technologies and the need to reduce the carbon footprint of manufacturing operations.
This course develops your ability to blend manufacturing engineering and operations concepts, tools and techniques with the values, thinking and techniques required to lead projects that will reduce material use, energy use and waste. With an acknowledged skills shortage in this developing area of manufacturing, graduates from this programme will be highly sought after by industry.
The course objectives are achieved through a carefully integrated and structured series of eight one-week assessed modules, a group project and an individual project. 60% of the course involves industrial project work. The course is designed to meet the further learning requirements for Chartered Engineer registration.
The Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) comprises eight modules and two group design projects. Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) students complete five modules and a design project.
Group design project
The major learning experience for full-time students is the industrial group project. This involves working in teams to fulfil demanding objectives within a tight time schedule, applying state-of-the-art technologies and approaches, and delivering results to a high professional standard. Industrially oriented, projects have support from industry and other external organisations.
Individual project
The individual research project is either industrially or academically driven. Individual projects provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate independent research skills working on industry sponsored projects. Part-time students usually undertake their individual project with their employer.
Modules:
* Environmental Valuation
* Environmental Regulation in Practice
* General Management
* Manufacturing Strategy for Sustainability
* Manufacturing Systems Engineering
* Operations Analysis
* Supply Chain Management
* Sustainable Operations.
Contents
The course comprises eight assessed modules, a group project and an individual research project.
The modules include lectures and tutorials, and are assessed through practical work, written examinations, case studies, essays, presentations and tests. These provide the 'tools' required for the group and individual projects.
The three elements of the course are assessed as follows:
Taught modules: 40%
Group projects: 20%*
Individual project: 40%
*For part-time students a dissertation can replace the group project.
The full-time course is of 12 months' duration. The modular format of the taught element permits a high degree of flexibility of attendance at Cranfield for part-time students who may commence the course at any time during the year.
Part-time
Part-time programmes are structured in a similar way to the full-time programme and comprise eight one-week assessed modules, a group project (or dissertation), and an individual project, which results in the production of a thesis. Part-time students are normally expected to complete their MSc in two to three years. The modular nature of the programmes allows students a degree of flexibility in the number and order of modules completed each year. Students may commence the course at any time during the year.
Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip)
Delivered and assessed at Masters level, the PgDip represents the taught element of the associated MSc. Students are expected to complete eight modules and a group project.
Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert)
Delivered and assessed at Masters level, the PgCert comprises a subset of the syllabus for the taught element of the associated MSc/PgDip course. Students are expected to complete six modules.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Candidates must possess, or be expected to achieve, a 1st or 2nd class UK honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline. Other relevant qualifications together with considerable industrial experience may be considered.
Where applicable students must achieve a minimum IELTS score of 6.5. Our Academic English Summer Programme offers pre-sessional training courses in English for academic purposes.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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