BSc (Hons) Engineering Management
(with Dundee & Angus College)

What is Engineering Management?

Big engineering projects - such as building offshore windfarms - are hugely complex.  Engineering managers co-ordinate people, resources and processes across multiple teams, ensuring projects are delivered effectively and everyone works to the best of their abilities. 

Good communication, project planning and management skills are crucial, and so is your understanding of the technical issues involved. 

Study in a work-like environment

From the very start you’ll work collaboratively with other students on real-world projects, designed in partnership with industry. With everyone in the team taking different roles, you’ll study in conditions that closely reflect the workplace.

This is where you’ll develop the knowledge, technical skills and business confidence you need to lead teams and to run successful engineering projects.

Reviewed by industry

The course is regularly reviewed by senior professional engineers (the industrial liaison panel) ensuring what you study reflects current industry practice.

You’ll also benefit from onsite visits, guest speakers, and presentations from partners like Balfour Beatty, Transport Scotland and SSE.

How the course works 

Year one: Your first year at Dundee and Angus College (D&A)

You'll spend year one at the College, then join us at Abertay from year two onwards. 

Learning at college is built around continuous assessment, so you won't sit any exams.

Term (semester) one: September to December
You'll be on campus at D&A roughly three days a week for 16 weeks. You'll study nine units over the first term, and be assessed on each one as you complete it. As there are no exams, your marks build up throughout each term.

Term two: January to May
From January you'll be on the D&A campus around two days a week for 16 weeks. Alongside your other units, you'll have one two-hour session per week covering your graded unit. 

Your graded unit means you'll work on a single brief across three stages: planning, development and evaluation. This is where you show you can take an engineering problem from the initial idea right through to a finished, reviewed piece of work.

Progression from D&A to Abertay 
During the first year you'll spend at least one session on campus at Abertay, so the move to the Abertay campus in year two feels familiar rather than completely new. 

Year two onwards: learning and assessment at Abertay

Abertay is at the cutting edge of engineering – both theoretical and practical – so from year two you'll study in a broad range of learning environments.

This includes the traditional lecture and tutorial format, student-led learning, interactive class sessions, field trips and site-visits, and a substantial element of lab and design work. Our class sizes are smaller than average, meaning we can spend more time with each student. 

We encourage independent study, which means you take responsibility for your own learning. A variety of methods are used to assess your study, enabling you to demonstrate progress in different ways.

Coursework typically includes design challenges, laboratory reports, essays and oral presentations. Formal exams include questions that require short answers, problem-solving and design. 

Your placement will be assessed by industrial and academic supervisors, as well as by report and oral presentation. In your final dissertation, you’re individually supported by one of our research-active members of staff. 

Covering important questions

We’ll challenge you to ask important questions, such as: 

• What does it take to plan and build structures? 

• Can construction materials be reclaimed to develop new roads? 

• Are sustainable construction and low energy building challenges being met? 

• How can we work with nature to deliver more sustainable engineering solutions? 

Then we'll help you work out how to answer them.

This highly practical degree combines engineering principles with environmental science and management concepts. It equips you with the skills you need to lead teams who design and develop sustainable solutions to continually evolving engineering problems.  

The course will also develop key employment skills that are transferable amongst engineering disciplines. This includes decision making, a creative approach to problem-solving, critical thinking, analytics and the ability to interpret data.

It's a flexible degree

Tailor your studies to suit your ambitions and interests. After your first year HNC you can join another related engineering degree if you choose to. 

This approach means you can keep your options open.  So if you haven’t worked out exactly what you want to do yet, this is a great way to start. There’s plenty of academic support to help you decide – it’s an exciting choice to make.  

The first-year HNC curriculum covers an introduction to engineering and all the specialisms, which means you can choose to move to one of the following: 

• BSc (Hons) Engineering Management 

• Meng/BEng Civil and Environmental Engineering

• BSc (Hons) Environmental Management and Sustainability

We're here to help if that's what you decide to do, and your lecturers are more than happy to talk it through with you. 

Fees and Funding

The tuition fees you'll pay and the funding available to you depends on factors such as your nationality, location, personal circumstances and the course you're studying. If you’re studying a full-time undergraduate degree, your fee status will be classed as one of the following:

• Scotland

• England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland

• International

Fee Status

Your fee status is typically based on the country where you've lived on a regular, non-temporary basis for the three years prior to the start of your course.

We’ll confirm your tuition fees once you’ve applied.

International

International includes applicants from EU countries who do not hold Pre-Settled or Settled Status in the UK. (Students from the Republic of Ireland are not included.)

Annual Tuition Fees

_{*For Scottish undergraduate students, tuition fees are set by the Scottish Government and confirmed annually. If the approved fee level changes in future, Abertay may update its published tuition fees in line with the confirmed government rate.}

_{**Tuition fees for Rest of UK students are reviewed annually. Where permitted, the University may increase tuition fees for continuing students (those starting their course from September 2027) in line with changes to the maximum tuition fee cap set by the UK Government. Students should take the potential for future fee increases into account when planning the overall cost of their studies.}

_{***Eligible international students will automatically receive a scholarship worth between £12,000-£28,000 over the duration of their course.}

More information

See more about tuition fees, grants, bursaries, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs in our undergraduate fees and funding section.