Diploma in Engineering Management From Engineer to Manager

What you'll learn

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Understand the fundamental principles and functions of engineering management.
Apply planning, organizing, directing and controlling principles in engineering organizations.
Understand the roles and responsibilities of engineering managers at different management levels.
Design and evaluate suitable organizational structures for engineering businesses.
Apply human resource planning, recruitment, training, motivation and performance management principles.
Make informed facility location and plant layout decisions.
Understand preventive, corrective, breakdown and condition-based maintenance strategies.
Plan and control maintenance activities to improve equipment availability and reliability.
Apply materials management, inventory control, MRP and stores management techniques.
Understand financial statements, financial ratios and basic financial decision-making.
Apply managerial economics concepts to engineering and business decisions.
Understand Total Quality Management, quality assurance and quality control.
Apply quality improvement tools to engineering and production problems.
Understand marketing management and customer-focused decision-making.
Plan, schedule, monitor and control engineering projects.
Apply project evaluation techniques such as Payback Period, NPV, BCR and IRR.
Understand CPM, PERT and other project scheduling techniques.
Understand Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and ERP.
Develop stronger leadership, communication and decision-making skills as an engineer.
Requirements

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No previous management qualification is required.
Basic engineering or technical knowledge will be helpful.
Students should have an interest in engineering, industrial operations or management.
A calculator may be useful for financial and project evaluation examples.
A willingness to learn both technical and managerial concepts is the most important requirement.
Description

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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Engineering professionals are increasingly expected to do much more than solve technical problems. Modern engineers are required to manage people, equipment, projects, budgets, materials, maintenance activities, quality systems and organizational resources.
TheProfessional Diploma in Engineering Management is designed to help engineers, technicians, supervisors, managers and technical professionals develop the managerial knowledge required to successfully lead engineering and industrial operations.
The course is developed around the major areas of engineering management covered in the Engineering Management source material, including management principles, organizational planning, human resource management, facility location, plant layout, maintenance management, materials management, financial management, managerial economics, quality management, marketing, project management and information technology.
Engineering management involves combining technical knowledge with management principles to effectively plan, organize, allocate resources, direct people and control activities that contain a technological component.
Throughout this course, you will learn how managers plan organizational activities, organize people and resources, motivate employees and monitor performance. You will also study how engineering organizations select facility locations, design plant layouts, manage maintenance activities, control inventory and make financial decisions.
A major section of the course focuses on maintenance management. You will learn how proper maintenance planning improves equipment availability, reliability, safety and operational performance while reducing unnecessary downtime and maintenance costs.
You will also study Total Quality Management, quality assurance, quality control and continuous improvement. Important quality concepts such as Deming's management principles, Juran's Quality Trilogy, quality costs and quality improvement tools will be introduced.
The project management section takes students through project formulation, feasibility studies, project cost estimation, project financing, economic evaluation, scheduling, monitoring and project control. You will also learn how techniques such as Payback Period, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, CPM and PERT can support engineering project decisions.
The final sections introduce Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning and explain how information technology supports modern engineering management.
This course is particularly useful for engineers who want to move from purely technical positions into supervisory, leadership and management roles.
Whether you work in manufacturing, mining, power generation, construction, maintenance, utilities, production, oil and gas or other engineering industries, the principles taught in this course can help you better understand how technical organizations are managed.
Who this course is for

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Engineering students
Graduate engineers
Maintenance engineers
Production engineers
Plant supervisors
Professionals preparing for supervisory or management positions
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