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MN50687: Business analysis report (engineering management)

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: School of Management
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Dissertation period
Assessment Summary: CW100
Assessment Detail:
  • Assessment detail to be confirmed
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: While taking this module you must take MN50688
In taking this module you cannot take MN50327 OR take MN50457 OR take MN50178 OR take MN50512 OR take MN50425 OR take MN50421
Description: Aims:
The unit aims to develop students' ability to relate business issues to the available academic literature, to define a research question using a real engineering management problem as a base, research and review the literature on the topic with the purpose of understanding and critiquing the current state of the research, and to develop a structured commentary leading to well-supported opinions and prescriptions.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the unit, students will be able to:
* Define a research question in a chosen area of interest.
* Identify literature relevant to a chosen business issue, thereby appreciating the relationship between business practice and theory.
* Systematically research and review relevant literature
* Develop an argument with references to appropriate theory and/or linking together arguments from disparate literatures or disciplinary perspectives.
* Provide a new interpretation on existing information or provide an original view on an issue. Do all of the above in written form in a report that conforms to acceptable standards of presentation and expression.

Skills:

* Ability to deliver an appropriately comprehensive and scholarly written communication (F; A).
* Ability to select, summarise and synthesise written information from multiple sources (F; A).
* Ability to develop rigorous arguments through precise use of concepts and models (F; A).
* Ability to synthesise multidisciplinary perspectives on the same problem (F; A).
* Ability to formulate a research question (F; A).
* Ability to produce work to agreed specifications and deadlines (F; A).
* Ability to work independently, without close supervision or guidance (F; A).

Content:
Students identify one current engineering management issue facing a particular organisation or affecting a particular industry, then analyses the issue by working with the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. Each student will choose a subject in line with their own experience and with content in the taught portion of the programme.
Briefing on selecting a topic of analysis; use of empirical data; literature review; argument development; research methods; and academic writing.
Programme availability:

MN50687 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Mechanical Engineering School of Management

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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