New Zealand is recognised as a global leader in innovative project management approaches, delivering world-class projects across all engineering disciplines. Develop your skills and credentials as a professional project manager, able to lead and direct multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
This programme provides students with the in-depth knowledge and skills needed to succeed in project management in a variety of industries. Focusing on two key project management practices, Waterfall and Agile, this programme enables students to work towards industry-recognised professional certification.
Students will gain sound fundamentals in project management concepts and application, whilst completing a spectrum of elective courses that broaden acquisition of knowledge and skills within the engineering project management specialisation.
A project towards the end of your programme enables you to apply your theoretical skills to real-world industry projects, and consolidates your learning.
Master of Engineering Project Management
The Master of Engineering Project Management is the first of its kind in New Zealand. It’s intended to attract a range of engineering professionals who want to advance their project management skills and further their career.
Leaders of 21st century engineering companies need to be technically proficient individuals understanding design, funding, engineering and assembly processes. They also need advanced communication skills and the ability to manage and motivate the people delivering engineering products.
The Master of Engineering Project Management offers an exciting career development opportunity for practising engineering project managers aspiring to senior positions, and provides recent graduate engineers with business and project management skills for modern engineering companies.
What you study
The qualification is designed to be flexible and fit in with a working professional’s life.
Many papers are delivered as block courses.
Complete the following papers
- ENGE813 Advanced Integrated Project Management (15 points)
- ENGE814 Economics and Finance for Engineers (15 points)
- ENGE815 Engineering Corporate Social Responsiblity (15 points)
- ENGE986 Project in Engineering Project Management (45 points)
Choose 30 points from
- BSYS840 Information Technology Management (7.5 points)
- ENBU812 Engineering Resource Efficiency (15 points)
- ENBU821 Supply Chain Management for Construction (15 points)
- EMPL840 Employment Relations (7.5 points)
- ENGE816 Specialist Readings: Engineering Project Management (15 points)
- HRMG840 Human Resource Management (7.5 points)
- MGMT849 Operations Management (7.5 points)
More details about papers in this programme
Detailed programme structure and paper outlines (Blackboard)
Email us for more information: [email protected]
Enrolment in papers is subject to meeting all requirements and availability of papers.
Career opportunities
- Project managers
- Engineering managers
- Process management
- Managers/leaders of engineering business units
Minimum entry requirements
One of the following (or equivalent) with a B grade average or higher:
- Relevant four-year bachelor’s degree OR
- Relevant bachelor’s degree with honours OR
- Relevant postgraduate diploma
AND
Relevant project engineering or managerial professional experience approved by the Dean (or representative)
International student entry requirements
English language requirements
- IELTS (Academic) 6.5 overall with all bands 6.0 or higher; or equivalent