Engineering (Manufacturing Management) HNC/FdEng

Program Overview

The Engineering (Manufacturing Management) HNC/FdEng program at Bournemouth University equips students with technical and managerial skills for careers in manufacturing industries. Students gain expertise in production planning, quality management, and computer-aided engineering, with a focus on real-world problem-solving and project management. Graduates are eligible for professional registration and can pursue further studies toward an honors degree.

Program Outline

Engineering (Manufacturing Management) HNC/FdEng - Bournemouth University

Degree Overview:

This program is a nationally recognized qualification for higher technician engineers in industry. It is designed to be relevant to the needs of employment in the fields of Production, Manufacturing Engineering, and Management. Students are typically employed in or aspire to employment in areas such as planning, estimating, quality, or workshop supervision. The program builds on the principles covered in the BTEC National Diploma course but is equally suitable for A Level students or mature students with relevant industrial experience wishing to develop their career in Manufacturing.

Outline:

HNC/Level 4:

• Analytical methods for manufacturing: Develops knowledge and understanding of mathematical fundamentals, models, and processes and their application to a range of engineering principles and processes.
Provides a sound mathematical foundation for relevant topics in subsequent years and for further progression.
• Business & project management: Develops a working knowledge and understanding of the application of project management principles relevant to the control of projects and a working understanding of the processes.
Explores the principles of business structures, business management, and business finance. Enables analysis of business plans from both the financial and operational perspectives.
• Manufacturing processes: Provides awareness of the variety of manufacturing processes, enabling informed choices in selecting the appropriate process for ease of production and material selection.
• Project: Undertakes a sizeable project at an appropriate level of mechanical design.
• Supply chain management: Provides an understanding of the management of a supply chain from the supplier through manufacturing to the customer.
Provides the essential knowledge to undertake an audit process and suggest improvements, with particular reference to sustainability and globalization.

FdEng/Level 5:

• Industrial robotics: Develops a working knowledge and understanding of the applications of robotics within modern industry.
Provides a practical understanding of the techniques used within robotics.
• Major project: Undertaken over at least one academic year, allows students to specialize and undertake a sizeable project in Manufacturing Management.
This individual project is student and company-led and does not have a common theme. It provides an opportunity to focus on a chosen area of specialization and to make a major contribution either to a company’s business or to develop a new product from scratch.
• Quality management: Provides awareness and understanding of quality management processes through developing concepts of quality control, reliability, and quality awareness and to consider the legal issues related to quality.
• The engineering professional: Aims to understand the requirements for Membership of a professional institution such as IED or IET and the requirements for registration as a Technician or Incorporated Engineer and to initiate a program for lifelong learning and continuous professional development towards these ends.
• Work based unit: Facilitates professional development in terms of transferable skills, technical ability, motivation, and maturity.
Instills in the student the importance of keeping a record of CPD.

Assessment:

Details of the assessment methods and contact hours for each unit of the course can be found in the program specification.

Teaching:

Students have access to Bournemouth & Poole College's excellent facilities, including modern rapid prototyping facilities, state-of-the-art CAD/CAM suites, and a refurbished Materials Laboratory.

Careers:

Graduates may apply to progress onto the final year of an honors degree or top-up degree at Bournemouth University, at a BU partner college, or another institution, subject to a suitable course being offered, places being available, and applicants obtaining the University's required entry criteria. Students who have successfully completed the FdEng Engineering (Manufacturing Management) program at Bournemouth and Poole College with a minimum classification of Merit will be:

Other:

• Students are registered with the IED as student members, and completion of the course enables partial Incorporated Engineers registration.

Note:

The program specification provides definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a program specification which describes its aims, structure, content, and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning, and assessment methods used.