This MSc maintenance Management Project acts as a vehicle for extending the knowledge and understanding of the student/delegate and the technical community in some specialist technical area. It serves, through its length, complexity and rigour, as a suitable vehicle for extending, in the student/delegate, a range of personal, interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, it serves to develop and extend a range of high-level "thinking" skills, including analysing and synthesising skills and affords the opportunity for the student/delegate to demonstrate initiative and creativity in a major piece of technological work.

Learning Outcomes involve:

i) Enhance their ability to autonomously analyse, synthesise, diagnose, plan, execute and evaluate at an advanced level.
ii) Gather and critically analyse, previous literature relating to the chosen area of study towards contexturalising and integrating the study into the continuing development of knowledge and understanding in the area
iii) Render progress explicit and manage resources effectively on a major piece of work of significant duration, to meet deliverables on time and in budget
iv) Communicate effectively through oral, written, graphical and listening skills a complex technological piece of work of significant duration
v) Determine and display the appropriate balance between critical, analytic thinking and creative synthetic thinking
vi) Marshall a range of personal skills towards the realisation of a complex and rigorous technological problem of significant duration including the ability to self-motivate, to persevere, to resource manage and to translate thought into action, to overcome the fear of failure, excessive dependency, procrastination, distractibility, self-doubt and self-pity and to show the appropriate balance between too little and too much self-confidence.

Teaching/Learning Strategy:

Directed learning, mentoring, independent learning. The student/delegate will be allocated a supervisor to provide advice and guidance with regards to administrative, procedural and approach issues. The student/delegate will receive a Project Handbook and directed reading from their allocated supervisor.

Syllabus:

Not applicable. However, project must be a suitable vehicle for satisfying all learning outcomes detailed.

Indicative Reading:

Relevant topics from the following books:

The Management of a Student Research Project, K Howard & JA Sharp, Gower Publishing, 1983
Teaching Thinking Skills, JB Baron & RJ Steinberg, Freeman & Co, 1987

Transferable Skills:

The personal transferable skills gained will be critical evaluation and reasoning, analytical ability, time management, interpersonal communication and self evaluation.

Assessments

Coursework 10% - Interim report
Coursework 20% - Oral presentation
Coursework 70% - Dissertation

This MSc Maintenance Management Project course is held at a Scottish University and is worth 60 credit points.

This MSc in Maintenance Management Project is suitable for students/delegates who possess at least a degree in a engineering discipline. A-1 Technical Training, logis-Tech Associates provide added tuitional support to all attendees in this module for a small fee.

The next in-take to the MSc in Maintenance Management is September 2005 - numbers are limited. For more details on the MSc in Maintenance Management, please complete the request for information form or email hugo@logis-tech.co.uk.