In today’s competitive world, companies require their employees to multitask and be a master of more than just one trade. Achieving success in a business environment requires creation of technological innovation as well as the ability to commercialise it. For engineers hoping to get an upper hand in their company, incorporating engineering nous with business proficiency can be a real career-changer.
A combination of Engineering and Business Management is ideal for the corporate world. MBA with engineering makes it possible to utilise the engineering knowledge in almost any industry. This is one of the reasons why engineers later join management. Sheffield University Management School, a leading business school with a world-class reputation for high quality teaching recently launched a new programme — MSc, MBA with Engineering. This unique 24-month programme seeks to integrate the specialist knowledge and expertise of an engineering specialisation at MSc level with advanced knowledge in business and management of an MBA. According Dr. Vasilios Theoharakis, MBA Director at the school, “The course tends to provide a pathway for students to develop and demonstrate their ability to be innovative engineers and assimilate skills to commercialise those developed products effectively.”
Students will study full-time across both departments, in two of the University of Sheffield’s flagship facilities. This combination of technical and managerial degrees will appeal to employers, many of whom the students will meet throughout their study. The Triple Crown accredited University will provide a pathway for students to develop and demonstrate their ability to be innovative and self-managed engineers in their first year of study. During the second year, it will help students assimilate additional knowledge and skills to successfully commercialise innovative engineering-based products. The course is distinctive as it will prepare participants by first developing in them a deep understanding in an engineering discipline and then leading them on to benefit from a practice-based MBA, helping them launch a technology-based innovation.
Ranking in the top one per cent of business schools worldwide, Sheffield University’s programme will produce a new generation of professionals that can create both innovative products and new business models that lead to sustainable competitive advantage. Students can advance to become entrepreneurs that create their own ventures, or intrapreneurs that identify market opportunities and rapidly commercialise the products they develop. It is through the unique synthesis of technical and business skills that the MSc, MBA graduates will be able to create unprecedented levels of value for their organisations.
A rare integration of a wide variety of MSc in engineering specialisations, with a top ranked MBA programme, is not easily found in other universities. MSc along with MBA at Sheffield University is designed for students who have completed undergraduate studies in engineering, mathematics or science with an honours degree of minimum classification of a 2:1.
They should have also gained a minimum of three years’ postgraduate work experience, containing appropriate managerial or supervisory experience. A high standard of English is also required. The first cohort for the course will begin in 2017.
