Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management

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Minor in Engineering Management, MEEM

Background

Engineering Management (EM) is becoming an important competitive edge for university students' personal and career development. Hong Kong industries is undergoing rapid structural changes with continued shifts in local economic and resource needs from traditional manufacturing to manufacturing support and engineering service oriented operations. EM Minor is developed to support the students to serve the manufacturing / engineering services operations in production planning and control, logistics management, quality management, maintenance planning, productivity improvement, operations management, etc.

Aim and Intended Learning Objectives (ILOs)

EM Minor aims to provide training of operational leadership for shop floor and higher level manufacturing / engineering services processes. On completion of the EM Minor, students should be able to:

• understand technology related manufacturing / engineering services operation processes, including the planning, design and development, control, and productivity improvement;
• identify and tackle diverse problems in Engineering Management.
• apply the concepts, techniques, and modelling related to Engineering Management in managing manufacturing and engineering services operations.

Requirements for the award

1. At least 15 credit units must be taken from the courses shown in the following table.
2. An average GPA of 1.7 or above of the courses in the Minor programme is required for the award.
3. A maximum of six credit units can be used to fulfill both the major and minor programme requirements.
4. A student who intends to take the minor should seek approval from his / her parent department and the MEEM department, the department offering the EM Minor.

Course Code	Course Title	Credits
MEEM3020	Engineering Economic Analysis	3
MEEM3027	Logistics and Materials Management	3
MEEM3034	Work Design	3
MEEM3057	Industrial Marketing for Engineers	3
MEEM4020	Enterprise Information Systems	3
MEEM4023	Occupational Health & Safety Management	3
MEEM4024	Project Management	3
MEEM4025	Quality Systems and Management	3
MEEM4031	Management of Technological Innovation	3
MEEM4034	Product Development: Managerial Approach	3

Note: This minor cannot be taken by students of BEng (Hons) in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
To be eligible, applicants must have completed at least one semester of study in CityU, gained 15 CUs and achieved a CGPA of 3.0 or above.

Application

Students are required to submit their declaration of minor request through AIMS under “Course Registration”. Information on the key dates, process and steps for the Declaration of Minors are available in the website of the Academic Regulations and Records Office.

Last modified on 2 December, 2010