Engineering management introduces students to a range of people and technical orientated issues in management. Students are provided with concrete strategies for addressing these issues within practical, relevant and contemporary contexts.

The course comprises the following topics:

• Project Management - this topic engages almost half the course. Tools and techniques appropriate to management of both generic and software-specific projects are introduced.
• Business Environments - a systems thinking approach to understanding the internal and external environments for an organisation will be used to set the stage for work in business planning and management.
• Business Planning - students will gain practical experience of new venture planning
• Ethics and Corporate Responsibility - individual ethics and ethical culture - structured approach to arrive a a normative conclusion
• Planning and Strategic management - management decision-making; risk management
• Organisational Design - alignment with corporate goals; staffing and people management
• Leadership - motivating, influencing, communicating, managing groups and teams
• Control in Organisations and change management
• Quality - definition, value and scope. Quality management techniques
• Understanding Variation - the truth behind the management report, statistical process control (SPC) for managers
  

Individual Project Plan (25%); Group Business Plan (25% weighted as 15% for the document; 10% for a concept presentation & minutes of the first meeting); Final Exam (50%)

ENGN3211 (or BUSN1001 or POLS1004 or ECHI1102) and ENGN1211