Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Engineering
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6365ELE-SEP-CTY
Aims
This module is designed to develop the core management techniques required to design, implement and plan a new product or process.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Apply decision making techniques to select a solution to a problem
2.
Apply a fundamental knowledge of intellectual property law to protect a solution
3.
Define, organise, plan and control a project
4.
Model product cost, sales and profit
5.
Explain fundamental marketing and sales strategies and contract law
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Decision making tools. Selecting solutions from a range of options.
Defining and structuring a project. Developing a specification to meet a customer need. Organisational structures and functions. Product/process analysis visualisation tools (IDEF, Value Stream Mapping)
Project planning methods; introduction to current standards (reference to standards such as PRINCE2).
Fundamental principles of intellectual property law. Trade secrets, patents and publication.
Marketing and sales strategies and fundamentals of contract law.
Modelling product cost, sales, and profit. Economic modelling, sensitivities, forecasting cash flow (NPV) and investment appraisal.
Management of people and teams.
Module Overview:
This module is designed to develop the core management techniques required to design, implement and plan a new product or process.
This module is designed to develop the core management techniques required to design, implement and plan a new product or process.
Additional Information:The module introduces students to the background of industrial management which graduates will experience in the engineering industrial environment
Where this module is part of a Degree Apprenticeship programme, the knowledge learning outcomes are K4, the skills learning outcomes are S5, S10 and S13