Aims to develop students’ understanding and engagement with leadership, performance and purpose within an industrial context, building a crucial foundation upon with to build their future career as senior engineers and decision makers.

Aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for proposing and undertaking a research project. The module will develop competencies required to research and critically review the literature within the academic environment, provide students with the skills and tools to present themselves and their work in a professional setting, and enable critical reflection of their performance within the principles of academic integrity.

This module aims to provide an overview of spaceflight systems. An overview of the complete spacecraft lifecycle from objectives, through launch and operations is covered, along with the function and purpose of the spacecraft subsystem level components. In addition to the technical detail of spaceflight systems, the importance of ancillary skill sets is introduced such as project management.

Aims to provide an advanced understanding of aircraft dynamics and control system design. The module introduces state-space methods for aircraft modelling and analysis, followed by modern control theory principles and their application to flight control systems.

Aims to develop the students' ability to apply analytical techniques to the solution of engineering problems where both the structural integrity and weight considerations are critical. This includes the use of lightweight materials and the effective geometric arrangement of that material. 

This class is designed to provide students with an understanding of available satellite datasets, their characteristics, processing and visualisation methods and tools, descriptive analytics methods. The class is designed to provide theoretical foundations as well as hands-on exercises.

This module aims to provide students with skills and knowledge relating to the use of engineering practices in Project Management with particular respect to the project triple constraint: time, cost and quality.

This module aims to introduce the basic principles and techniques of engineering risk management and demonstrates the appropriate application of this knowledge within an engineering context.

This module provides a structured introduction to the design management process, issues, and tools, enabling students to select and apply appropriate design methods within modern design practices and new product development. It covers various approaches to design development, including concurrent and team engineering, product and design management, distributed design, and decision support, alongside key design activities and process models. Emphasis is placed on design coordination, performance, and innovation, with a focus on recently developed, product-independent design methods and their application in industrial environments.

This module aims to provide students insights into Strategic Purchasing Management, focussing on the Excellent Purchasing Model (EXP), which summarises purchasing functions and processes at strategic, tactical and operational levels.

The module covers: Purchasing management including impact on a company’s competitiveness, Balance sheet and P&L account, contract management; Excellent Purchasing Model to highlight a controlled process for defining purchasing management including Total Cost of Ownership; Operational processes of the Excellent Purchasing Model including legal implications and ethics in procurement, corporate social responsibility, supplier selection, implementation and management and purchasing BSC & KPI management; Category Management strategy and development including an introduction to Kraljic Matrix and supplier/customer power matrix.

At the end of this module students will be able to:

• understand why procurement is a strategic influence of an organisation and determine the building blocks that are essential to this
• demonstrate how purchasing systems may facilitate decision making at organisational levels
• identify how the purchasing strategy is defined and deployed and to prepare a strategic purchasing plan
• identify the skills and attitudes necessary to build a strategic procurement structure and the functions that make it imperative to the organisation

Assessment and feedback is in the form of a group presentation (15%) and a two-part assignment (essay) consisting of an individual assignment focusing on an evaluation of a critical procurement topic (35%) and a group analysis of a major organisation’s procurement practices case study (50%).

This module covers one of the major challenges of modern industry which is to address the need for sustainable product development and manufacturing. International legislation and increasing costs of fiscal instruments such as the landfill tax now aim to force producers to reduce the environmental impacts of their products and processes.

Accelerating globalisation and industrialisation continues to exacerbate complexity of sustainability. Whilst manufacturers are constantly required to lower their costs and maintain their competitiveness, legislations require them to look at lifecycle costs.

At the end of this module students will be able to:

• understand the importance of sustainable product development and sustainable manufacturing and how to establish competitive advantage
• describe End-of-Life issues and critically discuss the place of reuse processes in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, as well as identifying the various reuse processes, defining and differentiating them and critically discussing their particular advantages and disadvantages in sustainable manufacturing
• identify the product features and characteristics that facilitate and hinder product recovery and be able to technically analyse products’ sustainability and redesign them for enhanced sustainability
• identify the fundamental “building blocks” of LCA and describe/illustrate the use of LCA in lifecycle decision making, as well as describing Biomimicry use in product design

Assessment and feedback will be in the form of coursework (100%) including discussion forums, group seminars and a position paper.

One of the major challenges of modern industry is to address the need for sustainable product development and manufacturing.

International legislation and increasing costs of fiscal instruments such as the landfill tax now aim to force producers to reduce the environmental impacts of their products and processes. Accelerating globalisation and industrialisation continues to exacerbate complexity of sustainability.

Whilst manufacturers are constantly required to lower their costs and maintain their competitiveness, legislations require them to look at lifecycle costs. This class, run by the Department of Design, Manufacturing & Engineering Management, addresses these global concerns by studying lifecycle considerations for a sustainable and profitable product development and manufacture.

The latest environmental legislation will also be studied along with product development concepts and strategies that will enable industry to meet these increasingly severe competitive, environmental and legislative pressures.

This class, run by the Department of Economics, provides students with a comprehensive overview of natural resources, sustainable consumption and the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) through consideration of such topics as:

• where natural resources are located
• how they are used and what are the key challenges facing consumption
• what policies are in place to protect natural resources globally
• how environmental change and degradation may impact natural resources
• how conflicts can occur over natural resources and the steps we can take to remediate this

This module aims to cover a range of advanced materials manufacturing techniques that are either widely used or emerging in industry. Techniques include Additive Layer Manufacturing, Electron Beam Welding, Superplastic Forming and advanced machining approaches. In addition, non-destructive evaluation techniques to ensure high levels of manufacturing integrity will be described. Sustainability, energy use and economic aspects will be explored through Life Cycle Analysis methodologies.

This module provides students with an understanding of the operation of modern electrical power systems featuring renewable and low carbon generation, along with the techniques to undertake a basic technical analysis of key electrical devices and systems.

This module aims to develop an understanding of the degradation processes that are responsible for eventual inservice destruction of metals and alloys. The module will focus on the fundamental mechanisms and prevention strategies related to corrosion, erosion and corrosive wear.

This module aims to give an introduction to linear elastic and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) and its application to practical mechanical engineering design analysis problems.

This module aims to develop and build upon a fundamental knowledge of materials science that underpins the design of engineering systems. The microscopic and atomic structure of different classes of materials are studied in relation to their macroscopic behaviour and material properties. This class will review these relationships and impart the learner with an appreciation of how these structures determine a material’s applications and the design of manufacturing processes.

This module introduces physical concepts and mathematical models of compressible aerodynamics in the supersonic regime. These principles are then applied to explain the characteristics and performance of canonical shapes of supersonic air-vehicles.

Students will develop an understanding of applied industrial metallurgy. Topics include material selection, properties of metals and alloys, characterisation methods, welding engineering, heat treatment and degradation processes.

This module aims to introduce students to the concepts and principles of structural integrity and structural integrity assessment, in particular assessment of failure of metal structures by ductile collapse, fracture, fatigue and creep.

This module will introduce the challenges of analysing big data with specific focus on the algorithms and techniques which are embodied in data analytics solutions.

At the end of the module, you'll understand:

• the fundamentals of Python for use in big data technologies
• how classical statistical techniques are applied in modern data analysis
• the limitations of various data analysis tools in a variety of contexts

The aim of this module is to equip students with a sound understanding of the principles of machine learning and a range of popular approaches, along with the knowledge of how and when to apply the techniques.

The module balances a solid theoretical knowledge of the techniques with practical application via Python (and associated libraries) and students are expected to be familiar with the language.

This module provides the background and skills required to develop Artificial Intelligence systems based on neural networks and deep learning.

You'll learn the theoretical as well as practical foundations of machine learning and neural networks for an engineering context. Lab exercises augment the taught classes to deepen the learning experience.

This module provides the background and skills required to develop autonomous systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Students will learn the theoretical as well as practical foundations of data science (machine learning, deep learning) for a design and engineering context. Laboratory exercises augment the taught classes to deepen the learning experience. The appreciation of responsible data collection and model training and the responsible design of sustainable solutions is a "golden thread" that runs throughout all lecture.

This module will enable participants to understand the principles and techniques of systems engineering. Participants will learn how to apply systems engineering techniques in engineering contexts, taking into account a range of regulatory requirements as well as commercial and industrial constraints.

This module aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles of the metal forming theory and practice as applied to modern metal forming machines, tools and processes.

The module covers concepts and definitions including stress, yield condition, strain, flow laws, plastic work, evolution equations, meso and micro-scale approaches; limiting phenomena (shape accuracy, plastic flow localisation, fracture, tool strength, friction, microstructure); metal forming machines and tooling; bulk metal forming; sheet metal forming and incremental forming.

At the end of this module students will be able to:

• Describe stress/strain relationship for metals undergoing plastic deformation
• Explain the mechanism of plastic deformation at the meso and micro scale
• Explain the effect of different factors on the net-shape forming capability
• Discuss metal forming problems resulting from material and tool interaction
• Explain limitations of the metal forming technology due to a tool/machine system
• Discuss major elements and challenges for a forging system
• Explain the idea and give examples of incremental metal forming operations

Assessment and feedback is in the form of an exam (80%) and coursework (20%)

In this part of the course, students undertake supervised, individual project work, with the award of MSc being made on the basis of an acceptable thesis submission.