Engineering Project Management

Explore a strategic, high-level approach to engineering project management, with industry-reviewed modules. Designed for engineering graduates and professionals seeking to enhance their project management skills, this program aims to prepare you to advance in leadership roles and expand your global career prospects.

Course content includes the following:

• Leadership and decision-making: focuses on leadership skills, strategic planning, and risk management with practical applications.
• Innovation and engineering design: emphasises modern design methodologies, prototyping, and critical thinking in engineering solutions.
• Project management tools and methods: covers key project management frameworks like prince2 and agile, with certification opportunities.
• Project planning and execution: integrates agile and traditional methods to design, de-risk, and successfully manage engineering projects.

Why you should study this course

This course aims to respond to the ongoing trend for project-based work within engineering organisations, and the fact that projects are becoming extensively and increasingly technically complex. It is designed to help prepare you to manage and lead organisational change through projects and become effective change agents.

We take a high-level, critical and evaluative view of project management, providing you with an opportunity to understand planning, monitoring, and controlling techniques required to deliver a very successful project.

• Industry-appropriate curriculum: course content covers a blend of project management expertise so you can learn to handle complex projects in various advanced engineering fields
• Global perspective: take part in training on managing international projects and leading diverse teams, both of which are crucial in the global engineering industry
• Hands-on experience: gain practical experience through industry-inspired case studies, problem statements and real-world project exemplars, allowing you to apply theoretical knowledge to real circumstances
• Technological edge: get contextual exposure to modern technology and engineering domain concepts, which prepares you for project handling in various engineering fields
• Career advancement: course content prepares you for senior project management roles, teaching you skills highly sought-after in the engineering sector.
• Gain practical experience and boost your CV with an additional professional placement. See the modules for more details.

Accreditation and professional recognition

The module Leadership and Commercial Management meets the criteria set by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) for the CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice. Students who successfully pass this module will be eligible to gain the award as an additional qualification at no additional cost.

Please use the official Coventry University website as your main source of information as our courses are subject to change throughout the year.