Entry requirements

Degree:

Honours degree (2:2 or higher) or postgraduate diploma in a relevant subject.

Further entry requirements may apply

Key facts

Study mode:

Full-time, Part-time

Start dates:

September (12 months), January (16 months)

Fees:

2027/28 tuition fees for UK students: £10,400

2027/28 tuition fees for EU and international students: £19,100

See all the key facts and full entry requirements

Overview

This course is designed for both recent graduates hoping to make their first move into engineering management, and for established professional engineers who wish to work in a management role and need to extend their knowledge beyond their technical field into management and business.

Linking business knowledge with engineering and sustainable development issues, this course emphasises key areas of modern management required by engineers and develops your skills in project management, information systems management and people management.

You will be taught by expert research and teaching staff from across the university, including from the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development, School of Computer Science and Informatics, and the Leicester Castle Business School, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the course.

The broad and challenging content will help equip you with the knowledge needed to work in management positions within engineering companies and in technical roles in business settings. Our graduates are working for companies including Rolls-Royce, Network Rail and Airbus UK.

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Key features

  • Accredited by the IET to CEng level, offering a streamlined route to professional registration.
  • Learn best practice from professionals by working on real-world engineering management problems with industry managers and engineers. You will also gain industry insights from guest lectures delivered by practitioners throughout the course.
  • Benefit from the academic expertise of our experienced teaching and research staff, including those from DMU’s dedicated Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, which has three thematic areas of expertise–low-carbon energy systems and infrastructure, sustainable communities and sustainable living, and solutions for the base of the pyramid population.
  • Develop your skills in our dedicated facilities, which include an energy laboratory, electrical and electronic experimental facilities, mechanical engineering laboratories and a CAD design suite.
  • Boost your career prospects through an optional one-year placement** where you can gain industrial experience in your area of interest. Previous Engineering Management students have landed roles with Caterpillar, Network Rail and Siemens.
  • Meet like-minded people and get hands-on engineering experience by joining our student societies, including DMU Racing, where students design and build a car to race at Silverstone.

**Country restrictions apply

What you will study

Modules

Entrepreneurship and Strategic Decision Making

In this module, you will gain in-depth perspectives on entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making as an activity to teach you how to solve problems and thus arrive at the decisions that make-or-break organisations and industries. This module has practical components that provides you with the opportunity to use different problem-solving techniques to develop your commercial awareness and decision-making skills.

Digital Transformations

This module covers the opportunities in transforming environmental aspects around us including businesses and, to demonstrate the great potential of Information Systems (IS) in digitalisation to support such a level of transformations. The module covers different areas of digital transformation such as:

  • Digital business strategies through the context, theories, services, processes involved in managing information systems within an organisation.
  • Working culture in a digitized environment
  • Knowledge as the main driver for digitalization
  • Digital innovations and technologies like eCommerce information systems within an organisation

You will develop a conceptual understanding and then examine the process of the eCommerce information systems.

Engineering Business Environment and Research Methods

This module enables you to understand and reflect upon the role of business in a rapidly changing, globalised world. It identifies opportunities and threats for industry arising from environmental policy, legislation, and societal change, and explores how businesses respond to future environmental challenges. This module benefits practitioners in industry, and future academics exploring the sustainability of engineering businesses. The module also teaches you self-direction, and originality in problem solving. The research methods and associated study skills parts of the module provides you with the skills to successfully complete your dissertation or research project.

Resource Efficient Design and Manufacturing

This module provides you with an understanding of resource efficient design in both industrial and non-industrial contexts. You will be introduced to a whole systems perspective as well as energy management techniques and circular economy principles applicable to manufacturing. It will encourage you to analyse each stage of the life cycle of products or processes in terms of their impacts on resource use and how these impacts can be identified and mitigated. Through practical activities, and the use of case studies, you will develop the skills and expertise at each stage of the design process to effectively facilitate and manage resource efficient design and sustainable manufacturing.

Individual Project

The Individual Project introduces you to the discipline of independent research conducted in a restricted timeframe. It will involve self-organisation, application, analysis, and presentation of work. The topic will be chosen from a list provided by staff, grouped by discipline, or chosen by you and agreed with your dissertation supervisor. The project may involve practical work or be entirely desktop based.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching is in the form of lectures from teaching staff, and guest lectures, complemented by informal seminars, workshops, site visits and group work. You will also undertake self-directed study. Teaching material is available on the web-based virtual learning environment (VLE) before timetabled events take place. Some material, such as lectures, are also recorded as videos, and made available on the VLE.

Learning is supported by formative (not part of final assessment) work. Most modules have three (summative) assessment components for the module mark. This will be some combination of coursework, online tests and formal written exams. Some modules just have coursework.

Students also complete an individual project or dissertation (60 credits) on a topic of their choice after the taught blocks. September students start this in May/June and submit in September; February students start this in January and submit in May/June. The dissertation is assessed in a viva voce examination.

Duration

Full-time: 12 months (September start), 16 months (January start), part-time: 24 months (September start), 28 months (January start)

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

Why choose DMU?

Your future career

You may wish to pursue careers in engineering in a wide range of roles, including control systems and embedded systems, engineering electronics design and biomedical monitoring.

Our Electronic Engineering MSc graduates have taken up positions as project engineers and data processing specialists at companies including Oracle, Industrial Engineering Services (IES), Nielsen, and SNC - Lavalin Rail & Transit.

This course also offers an ideal platform for further study and towards a doctorate degree and a career in research.

Careers and employability

An award-winning Careers Team, the #1 UK university for careers support (TargetJobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards, 2024), we provide you with all the support you need.

Our careers commitment doesn’t end at graduation. With DMU for Life, you’ll have access to lifelong career support throughout your entire career.

How we support you

Unlimited one-to-one careers coaching

Get tailored advice and guidance from our expert careers advisors whenever you need it.

Professional development programme

Boost your employability with workshops, bootcamps, training sessions, and employer-led events.

Inside Edge Mentoring

Connect with professionals from dynamic industries to expand your career insight, network and knowledge of the world of work.

24/7 access to digital employability tools

Access LinkedIn Learning, personalised CV feedback, mock interviews and more – anytime, anywhere.

Entrepreneurship support

Bring your business ideas to life with events, networking opportunities, expert speakers, workshops and links to funding opportunities.

Job search assistance

Get support finding part-time work, placements, internships and graduate jobs.

Employability projects and placements

Gain real-world experience through academic business consultancy projects or work placements (course-dependent).

Industry-informed teaching

Learn from real-world experience and academics, guest lecturers and business leaders who share their industry expertise.

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Fees and funding

UK and Channel Island students

2027/28 tuition fees for UK students: £10,400

EU and international students

2027/28 tuition fees for EU and international students: £19,100

Funding

Postgraduate Master's Loan (Student Loans Company)

A Postgraduate Master’s Loan can help with course fees and living costs while you study a postgraduate master’s course.

Funding for postgraduate loans is different if:

  • you normally live in Scotland
  • you normally live in Wales
  • you normally live in Northern Ireland

Find out more about a Master's loan

Additional postgraduate loans and grants

Sir Thomas White Loans Charity

Applicants may be able to borrow up to £10,000 interest-free for 9 years from the Sir Thomas White Loans Charity for postgraduate study. Applicants must be resident in Leicestershire or Rutland for more than three years and be aged over 18 years old and under 45 years old.

Telephone number for Sir Thomas White Loans Charity: +44 (0)116 204 6620

Sir Harry James Riddleston Charity of Leicester

Applicants may be able to borrow up to £10,000 interest-free for five to 10 years for business, vocational or education purposes from the Sir Harry James Riddleston Charity of Leicester. You must be aged over 18 and under 45 and reside in Leicestershire or Rutland.

Telephone number for Sir Harry Riddleston Charity of Leicester: +44 (0)1858 463322

Educational grants, trusts and charities

Some educational trusts and charities provide small grants to help towards books, fees or equipment. There are several searchable online Grants databases such as Turn2us.

Funds for women graduates

Funds for Women Graduates offer grants towards living expenses for the final year of a PhD or DPhil for UK, EU or international students.

Going to university represents a real investment in your future and there is plenty of financial support available to students for both tuition fees and living expenses.

Find out more about funding

Additional costs

The core textbooks for all modules are available in the Kimberlin Library, and journal articles in your reading lists are also mostly available electronically from your myDMU login.

Some students like to purchase their own text books or print course documents and we suggest allowing approximately £200 per year for this.

All students are required to pay for their DBS check if required for your programme or placement.

In addition, students will be required to pay for their travel costs to placements or project locations.

All students are provided the opportunity to participate in DMU Global trips. These trips are subsidised by the University, and the cost and subsidy vary by location.

Scholarships

20% Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship

This scholarship provides DMU graduates with an exclusive tuition fee discount of 20 per cent. The discount is available on selected full-time, part-time and distance learning postgraduate taught courses running across multiple start dates.

Read more about the Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship
20% Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship

Global Access Scholarship

This scholarship rewards eligible prospective international students joining a postgraduate taught degree at DMU with up to a £3,000 fee reduction.

Find out more about the Global Access Scholarship
Global Access Scholarship

Entry requirements

Degree:

Honours degree (2:2 or higher) or postgraduate diploma in a relevant subject.

Find your country specific entry requirements 

Work experience:

Industry experience

If you have no formal academic qualifications but do have extensive industry experience we will consider your application on an individual basis.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.

English language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.

Key facts

Course title

Electronic Engineering

Award

MSc

Programme code

H1N171

Study mode

Full-time, Part-time

Study level

Postgraduate

Start dates

September, January

Duration

12 months (September), 16 months (January)

How to apply

How to apply for a masters degree

Save these details for your application
Programme title:
Electronic Engineering MSc
Programme code:
H1N171

You can apply using the DMU Application Portal. This method allows you to save, revisit and review your application before submitting it at any time of the day.

The following should be submitted with the application form:

  • Where required, one current reference on official headed paper or from a professional email address. This can be a work or academic reference and must be signed and recently dated
  • Copies of your academic transcripts
  • Copies of your degree or diploma certificates
  • Your personal statement
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