The Executive Diploma in Engineering Business Management

The Executive Diploma in Engineering Business Management is designed for working professionals from any disipline and background. It aims at providing a well-balanced opportunity for aspiring executives and managers to advance their careers, or provide a path to new careers.

Candidates are trained their true potentials and become world-class professionals as this programme emphasizes on participation in innovation and application rather than pure academics in nature.

Benefits

At the end of this programme, participants will:
  • Acquire and use managerial skills creatively and effectively, especially in engineering companies or, by establishing their own business.
  • Skillfully generate ideas and strategies to produce new products, processes and services.
  • Efficiently utilise knowledge on how to lead, motivate and influence people whose talents and skills are instrumental to higher performance and how to make independent yet strategic corporate decisions for the attainment of corporate objectives.

Programme Structure

Semester Subject
Module 1 : Business Strategy & Strategy Management
  • Understand the nature and content of business strategy and the strategic planning and management process.
  • Identify and assess the external factors that affect a business.
  • Review and understand how to recognize competitive practices and develop sources of competitive advantage.
Module 2 : Technology Management
  • What is technology?
  • The importance of technology; case study on the benefits/consequences of adopting/ ignoring technology.
  • Formulating company technology strategy-accessing technology.
  • Future opportunities and developments.
Module 3 : Strategic Marketing
  • Understanding the fundamentals of marketing.
  • Recognizing the special characteristics of consumer, industrial and international marketing and selling.
  • Applying the concepts to develop strategic marketing plans.
Module 4 : Quality Management
  • Quality – the needs.
  • Quality defined and standards.
  • Quality management principles.
  • Process Management.
  • Quality tools.
  • Quality deployment.
Module 5 : Supply Chain Logistics
  • Defining supply chain management
  • Supply chain relationships.
  • Supplier development and continuous improvement.
  • Technology in supply chain management.
Module 6 : Global Business Environment
  • Understand the basic principles of international business and trade.
  • Consider the social dimensions of international business.
  • Examine the processes involved in international business and trade.
Module 7 : Human Resource Management
  • Reduce employee problems to the minimum.
  • Supervise employees more effectively.
  • Lead and influence employees toward organization objectives.
Module 8 : Information System Strategy
  • Information system evaluation
  • Data and information presentation and management.
  • Business activity and information analysis.
  • Strategy development.
  • Industrial sector comparisons.
Module 9 : Business Ethics & Professional Development
  • Raising awareness of the ethical dimensions of common business practices.
  • Formulating a practical framework for ethical decision making.
  • Enhancing knowledge of how to encourage and maintain ethical corporate climates.
  • Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of ethical behaviour within a business environment.
  • Recognizing opportunities for professional development.
Module 10 : Management of Change
  • Understand the need for change.
  • Understand the effect that organization, culture and structure has on the ability to change.
  • How people react to change.
  • Planning & implementing change.
  • Planning for the future.
Module 11 : Creativity & Innovation Strategy
  • Use and develop skills and knowledge to promote and support innovation in all areas of the business.
  • Understand the importance of innovation to competitive performance.
  • Understand how their behaviour  & that of their peer groups and the company promotes or stiles innovation.
Module 12 : Financial Analysis & Control System
  • Introduction of the financial statement.
  • Analysis and interpretation of financial statement.
  • Cost and costing.
  • Budgets and budgetary control.
  • Controlling cost