Module code MEC08105
Module title Management for Engineers 1
Examples of equivalent learning Management for Engineers equivalent to SCQF level 8

Professional skills: Leadership, teams and teamwork, motivation and communication.
Engineering marketing and economics: supply and demand, forecasting and market niches, product design and life cycles, pricing distribution, promotion, competitor analysis, globalisation issues.
Quality management: total quality, ISO 9001, quality costing, design for quality (inc. QFD and FMEA).
Accounting for engineers: cost accounting, breakeven analysis, profit and loss accounts, payback, NPV, budgets and budgetary control, financial statements.
Project management: project planning with limited resources, variability in project completion, project crashing, project costing, use of software packages (MS project).

On completion of this module you will be able to:
LO1: understand the role of and apply professional skills such as leadership, motivation and teamwork to actual engineering projects;
LO2: analyse market data and assess the economic viability of projects;
LO3: understand the role of quality in achieving the organisation's goals and objectives with regards to the development and delivery of products and services;
LO4: understand and apply accounting techniques to engineering projects;
LO5 integrate professional engineering standards with professional practice, and complying with the requirements of professional institutions;