ME32027: Engineering management - developing products and services in industry
[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Business report (CWRI 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes:
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Describe the contemporary challenges, opportunities and approaches in product and service development.
2. Implement product and service development in a group.
3. Critically evaluate product and service development approaches considering an organisation's innovation strategy.
4. Develop and analyse plans to initiate and manage engineering and technology projects.
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| Synopsis: | This unit provides a practical grounding on how industrial and technology companies develop new products and services. It will allow you to work on a real example in teams, where you'll simulate taking a product concept from strategy through development and into the commercial launch.
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| Content: | Global overview of Research and Development in Industry
Product Development Typologies and Product-Service Systems
Product-Innovation Strategies
Project portfolio and pipeline management
Early phase development and technology management
Product and Service Development processes, organisations and supporting tools
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| Course availability: |
ME32027 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
- UEEE-AFB24 : BEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 3)
- UEXX-AKB02 : BEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEEE-AFB25 : BEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 3)
- UEEE-AFM24 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 3)
- UEXX-AKM02 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEEE-AFM25 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 3)
- UEEE-AKM16 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEEE-AKB16 : BEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
- UEME-AFB52 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering (Year 3)
- UEME-AKB16 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEME-AFB53 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management (Year 3)
- UEME-AKB38 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEME-AFB54 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering (Year 3)
- UEME-AKB47 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEME-AFM52 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering (Year 3)
- UEME-AKM16 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEME-AFM53 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management (Year 3)
- UEME-AKM38 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UEME-AFM54 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering (Year 3)
- UEME-AKM47 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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