Course description
The new Level 7 Apprenticeship Standard, the Postgraduate Engineer, offers industry the opportunity to develop their graduate on a highly-regarded postgraduate programme to develop their engineering competence, whilst actively taking forward your organisation’s capabilities.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who is it for?
The programme is ideally suited for companies who want to accelerate the development, and improve retention of early career engineering management staff by enhancing their postgraduate development and training offering, using contributions to the Apprenticeship Levy. It is designed to support the organisation in achieving high quality capabilities as participants gain a blend of leading-edge engineering and management skills in an engineering context. It is a real benefit to companies who would like the complete process of the Apprenticeship to be managed and coordinated by Cranfield University.
The course has been developed in collaboration with industry and the Institute of Apprenticeships to meet the Level 7 Postgraduate Engineer Apprenticeship Standard.
Training Course Content
Modules within the Postgraduate Diploma
- General management
- Design-driven innovation
- Product development
- Operations management
- Business process analysis and engineering
- Cost engineering
- Manufacturing systems engineering
- Project and programme management
- Group project
The award for each module is 10 credits with 40 credits awarded to the group project
Course delivery details
Programme details
The programme has been mapped against the Postgraduate Engineer Standard and has been developed for companies who want a full offering that delivers against all aspects of the Standard. Integral to the programme is the PgDip Engineering Competence, which is comprised of eight modules, and culminates in a group project to apply the module content to a real workplace situation
Benefits to your learners
Your early career professionals will benefit from a postgraduate qualification and personal development opportunity with one of the UK’s top postgraduate universities, specialising in technology and management. The applied nature of the programme enables personalised, specific and organisationally aligned development.
They will be equipped to:
- Analyse business processes
- Identify opportunities for innovation
- Manage projects
- Develop new products
- Refine operations
- Deliver improved results.
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Cranfield University
Cranfield is a specialist postgraduate university that is a global leader for education and transformational research in technology and management. We have many world-class, large-scale facilities, including our own global research airport, which offers a unique environment for transformational education...