Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
Home: £12,440 for the course
International/EU: £20,100 for the course -
How long will I study?
2 Years
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Where will I study?
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When do I start?
September 2026
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Placement year available?
Yes
Course summary
- Develop your management and leadership skills alongside your technical expertise.
- Enhance your employability with problem-solving, technical and personal skills.
- Explore best practices and leading-edge technologies and systems.
- Study real-world live projects, applying theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
- Choose modules that tailor the course to your goals and specific interests.
Our MSc in Advanced Engineering and Management is designed to help you expand your skills and knowledge across both disciplines. With the flexibility to customise the course to your aims, it’s well suited for people aspiring towards leadership roles within engineering teams or project management positions.
Student satisfaction
This course scored 100% for overall student satisfaction in the Postgraduate Taught Student Satisfaction Survey 2025.
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How you learn
On this course, practical application is central to what we do – with hands-on, real-world project-based learning providing you with a deep understanding of the field. Our experts help you thrive by nurturing critical thinking and design skills while promoting lifelong learning for personal, cultural, and professional empowerment.
You learn through:
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Tutorial
- Lab sessions
- Problem solving
- Assessments
- Coursework
- Critical reflection
- Group project work
- Independent study
Key Themes
Our MSc Advanced Engineering and Management course is designed to engage, challenge and support your academic journey.
Throughout your studies, you'll develop management principles and advanced technical expertise. You’ll develop enhanced problem-solving abilities, stay current with industry practices, and explore cutting-edge technologies in engineering and management. You’ll also tailor your experience with a diverse range of elective modules.
Course Support
You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly skilled, graduate-level employment. This includes:
- Access to specialist support services to help with your personal, academic and career development.
- Access to our Skills Centre with one-on-ones, webinars, and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments.
Applied learning
Live Projects
You’ll be able to engage in exciting live projects throughout the course. These projects allow you to apply your knowledge and skills to real-world scenarios, working on design challenges and problem-solving tasks.
Collaborating with industry partners, you’ll gain practical experience in managing projects, working in interdisciplinary teams and delivering innovative solutions. These are great opportunities to develop your creativity alongside a holistic understanding of the engineering and management field.
Work Placements
You’ll have the opportunity to source a work placement for up to 12 months, where you’ll apply academic theory and your skills in a real-world setting. This hands-on experience will enhance your professional development and help you to make informed career choices after graduation. Throughout your placement, you’ll be supported to reflect on your experience and contribution to the organisation you work for. You'll also share your progress and achievements with your Placement Academic Supervisor as part of your final assessment.
Work placements are competitive and will require you to make formal applications to employers and be successful in securing an opportunity. The application process for placements takes place while you are a student with us. To support you in applying for placements, you’ll complete an additional placement preparation program that introduces you to the UK employment landscape and prepares you for the recruitment and assessment activities you will experience during that process. We also maintain a large database of placement offers that you can search to find opportunities most relevant to your course that you can apply for.
Networking Opportunities
You’ll have various opportunities to connect with professionals and experts in the engineering and management sectors.
You’ll have access to guest lectures, industry conferences, workshops and alumni events – chances to interact with leading practitioners, researchers and thought leaders. Here you can expand your professional network, gain industry insights and explore potential career paths.
Work Placements
You will have the opportunity to go on a work placement for up to 12 months as part of this course. You are supported in finding placements and can apply for a vacancy as you would a job. There are dedicated sessions to support you in CV writing, interview skills and job applications.
Field Trips
To broaden your perspective and expose you to diverse engineering environments, our course includes field trips to relevant industrial sites, research facilities and engineering projects. You’ll witness the practical applications of engineering principles and management strategies – observing and interacting with professionals while gaining valuable insights into real-world challenges and innovative solutions.
Field trips also provide networking opportunities, allowing you to connect with industry experts and build professional relationships.
Competitions
Competitions are excellent ways to apply your skills, demonstrate your capabilities and gain recognition. You may be able to enter engineering and management competitions at regional, national, or even international levels – such as SHU Racing and the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge.
These competitions challenge you to solve complex problems, showcase your innovative thinking and collaborate effectively within a team. You’ll also gain confidence and further engage with industry professionals and potential employers.
Course leaders and tutors
Dr Ningrong Lei
Associate Professor in Systems Engineering, Course leader for MSc Advanced Engineering and ManagementDr Lei is a Senior Lecturer in Systems Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Mathematics.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.
You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
This module will develop your understanding of the role of finance and marketing in supporting organisational decision-making in relation to organisational strategy. The module will also allow you to apply a variety of relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), control tools and practices into different organisational contexts.
You will study topics such as:
- The application of finance and accounting techniques
- Understanding and developing internal control mechanisms
- The application of financial decision making
- Understanding the need for a marketing orientation
- Appraising consumer behaviour and the supply chain
- The principles of segmentation, targeting and positioning
- The fundamentals of market research
- The basis of marketing communications
This module will advance your professional development through the completion of, and reflection on, meaningful work experience. In this module, you will undertake a work experience (minimum duration and expectations as per HESA regulations). Your personal Placement Academic Supervisor (PAS) will be your key point of contact during your work experience and will support you in reflecting on your experience, learning and contribution to the placement organisation.
The placement will:
- Allow you to apply the skills, theories and behaviours relevant to, and in addition to, your course
- Enable you to enhance your interpersonal skills in demand by graduate employers - communication, problem solving, creativity, resilience, teamwork, etc.
- Grow your network and relationship-building skills
- Provide you with insights into the industry and sector
The module will enable you to appreciate the nature and significance of strategic management principles and their application in a commercial context, by introducing you to concepts, theories, models and frameworks which support a manager in thinking and working strategically. Including the developing innovative capability in organisations and fostering intrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.
You will study topics such as:
- Competitive advantage
- Evaluation of strategy development processes and organisation designs
- Innovation and entrepreneurship,
- Management of the innovation process and diversity,
- Managing intellectual capital,
- Managing strategic and organisational change, especially coping with resistance and conflicts arising from it,
Strategic leadership,
This module will enable you to gain a comprehensive understanding of systems engineering principles, methodologies, and systems thinking approaches. Through theoretical and practical exploration, you will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to analyse, design, and manage complex systems effectively.
You’ll study topics such as:
- The scope, principles and concepts of systems engineering and systems thinking
- System analysis and modelling, including boundary identification, stakeholder analysis and system dynamics and behaviour modelling
- Functional and physical architecture design
- Trade-off analysis and decision-making in systems design
- Systems verification and validation techniques
- System acceptance criteria and certification
- Optimisation techniques and trade-off analysis
- Performance evaluation and improvement strategies
- Case studies illustrating systems thinking in various domains
Elective modules
This module will develop your theoretical and practical expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) allowing you to develop analytical skills in data science technologies and solve problems using AI.
You will study topics such as:
- Overview of AI and its role in solving engineering and scientific challenges
- Machine learning fundamentals
- Neural networks, deep learning, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary algorithms
- Design and critical evaluation of AI-based systems for solving complex engineering and scientific problems
This module provides a comprehensive overview of process improvement tools including discrete-event simulation (DES), lean and six sigma. You will understand how these tools are used to improve the quality, efficiency, and profitability of a system by critically applying them in a variety of industrial sectors.
You will study topics such as:
- Philosophy: Lean thinking, characteristics of lean, agile operations, sustainable lean enterprises
- Analysis & Mapping: takt time, system thinking, value stream mapping, and DES
- Improvement: Continuous improvements, 5S, Kaizen, Six Sigma
- Management and control: Kanban, Just-in-time, Visual based management, demand smoothing
This module introduces you to the growing field of robotics and autonomous systems. You will gain understanding of fundamental and emerging concepts required to theoretically and practically design and programme these systems, including sensors, actuators, grippers, manipulators, their mechanics and control, robotic hardware and software and their interfacing, robot locomotion and perception, and robotic applications.
You will study topics such as:
- Devices and systems for robotics and autonomous systems
- Smart systems with autonomous capability, such as driverless cars, unmanned boats, and autonomous mobile robots used in warehouses
- Collaborative robots, robots that can work alongside humans
- Autonomous robots in manufacturing
- Advantages and disadvantages of autonomous systems
- Autonomous robot navigation, control and sensing data analysis
- Methods from mathematics and physics; kinematics and dynamics, graph theory, search algorithms), machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI)
Final year
Compulsory modules
The Project and Dissertation module represents the capstone in your learning journey. It is your chance to push the boundaries of knowledge, showcasing originality through major research.
You will complete an intellectually rich masters-level research project with the support of an academic supervisor.
This module allows you to:
- Develop your own original ideas on a topic of your choosing
- Work alongside active researchers and receive one-to-one guidance
- Contribute to the field of your choosing and advance it in a meaningful way
- Gain insight into the day-to-day activities of a research scientist
In this module you will develop the skills needed for high-quality research and scientific excellence. You will cultivate the essential skills required to prepare for dissertation work. You will develop a comprehensive plan for an original piece of research, supported though taught sessions that allow you to understand research project frameworks, as well as one-to-one support from a dedicated academic supervisor.
This module allows you to:
- Understand the importance and process of planning research to ensure high-quality work
- Learn how to search for research literature and evaluation
- Develop a critical faculty to examine and evaluate the quality of academic research
- Improve your academic writing abilities, with the potential of developing publishable research
Future careers
Completing our MSc Advanced Engineering and Management course opens a range of exciting career opportunities. You’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge to pursue careers in:
- Engineering project management
- Technical consultancy
- Operations management
- Systems engineering
- Innovation strategy
- Research and development
- Postgraduate study
With a strong foundation in both engineering and management, you’ll have the versatility to excel in various industries.
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for:
- JCB
- Rolls-Royce
- Motorsport
- Nissan
Equipment and facilities
On this course you’ll have access to the following facilities, resources and state-of-the-art laboratories:
- A computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing workshop
- Additive manufacturing
- Automation and robotics
- A design studio
- A modelling and simulation workshop
You’ll study in our Adsetts Learning Centre, gaining teaching, academic skills and library research support, plus library resources and systems. You’ll also have access to IT support, facilities and all necessary software.
360 tour - engineering facilities
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
City Campus
City Campus is located in the heart of Sheffield, within minutes of the train and bus stations.
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Adsetts library
Adsetts Library is located on our City Campus. It's open 24 hours a day, every day.
Learn moreEntry requirements
All students
UK students
Normally one from
• an honours degree (2.2 or above) in a science or engineering subject
• suitable professional qualifications in an engineering field
• a degree in any discipline plus at least one year of relevant experience
• a diploma in a technological area plus at least three years of relevant experience
You may also be able to claim credit points which can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete your qualification at Sheffield Hallam.
Overseas students
If English is not your first language you typically need an IELTS 6.0 score with a minimum of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in all other skills or equivalent.
You also need
India
• a first class BE in an relevant discipline, or a good second class BE with a strong performance in mechanical and manufacturing subjects
China
• a four-year Bachelors degree in an relevant discipline, with an overall average of at least 80 per cent or equivalent
Other countries
• a good honours degree or equivalent in an relevant subject
Additional information for EU/International students
If you are an International or non-UK European student, you can find out more about the country specific qualifications we accept on our international qualifications page.
For details of English language entry requirements (IELTS), please see the information for 'All students'.
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time study in 2026/27 is £12,440 for the course. The tuition fee displayed above is for the full course. For this work experience route, your fees will be payable over two years, divided into two annual payments based on credits studied. The fee includes dedicated employability support to help you prepare for and secure work experience. It does not guarantee you a placement and if a placement is not secured the work experience fee will still be charged. If a placement is not secured you will transfer to the standard version of the course to complete your remaining credits, where the balance of your course fees will be due in year one in line with completing the course.
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
International students
Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2026/27 is £20,100 for the course. The tuition fee displayed above is for the full course. For this work experience route, your fees will be payable over two years, divided into two annual payments based on credits studied. The fee includes dedicated employability support to help you prepare for and secure work experience. It does not guarantee you a placement and if a placement is not secured the work experience fee will still be charged. If a placement is not secured you will transfer to the standard version of the course to complete your remaining credits, where the balance of your course fees will be due in year one in line with completing the course.
Scholarships and financial support
Find information on scholarships, bursaries and postgraduate student loans.
International scholarships up to £3000 ›
Alumni scholarships up to £2000 ›
Postgraduate loans for UK students ›
Additional course costs
The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
General course additional costs
Additional costs for School of Engineering and Built Environment (PDF, 607KB)Legal information
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