Minor in Engineering Management

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; and
• apply the concepts, techniques, and modeling related to Engineering Management in managing manufacturing and engineering services operations.

(Please refer to the Undergraduate Catalogue for the course syllabuses.)

1. Core Courses (9 credit units)

Course Code	Course Title	Credits
GE2319 or GE2336 or GE2339	Industrial Engineering and Management of Modern Enterprises or Understanding Phenomena Around Us: An Introduction to Systems Thinking or Smart City - a System Engineering Perspective	3
SEEM4024	Project Management	3
SEEM4043	Global Operations Management	3

2. Electives (6 credit units)
Any 2 courses from the following electives.

Course Code	Course Title	Credits
SEEM3020	Engineering Economic Analysis	3
SEEM3027	Logistics and Materials Management	3
SEEM4023	Occupational Health & Safety Management	3
SEEM4025	Quality Systems and Management	3
SEEM4051	Facilities and Distribution Management	3
SEEM4106	Operations Management of Production and Service Systems	3

Note: This minor cannot be taken by students of BEng in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and BEng in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.

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 11 September, 2019