Micro-Credential

Accounting and Finance for Managers

20

Office Hours & After Office Hours

This module consists of two parts.

1. Accounting part elaborates how to interpret the Balance sheet, Income statement and cash flow statements and how to create management reports using different costing methods and performance measures.
2. Finance part states how to value the different investment projects and valuation techniques of the firms

BM5218

Production and Operations Management

10

After Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Production and Operations Management
• Inventory Management
• Location Strategies
• Layout Strategies
• Waste Management
• Project Management
• Managing Quality
• Decision-Making Tools
• Linear Programming I-II
• Transportation Models I-II and Tools.

BM5217

Management Information System

10

Office Hours

The module covers the following topics, Overview of MIS, Strategic Uses of Information Systems, Business functions and Supply Chains, Databases and Data warehouse, The Web-Enabled Enterprise, Challenges of Global Information Systems, State of the art Decision Support, Business Intelligence, Acquiring information systems for the various operations of business. Managing running business application in cloud infrastructure and protecting organizational information.

BM5313

Technopreneurship and Innovation

10

Office Hours

Students taking the Technopreneurship and innovation module will expose to various issues related to starting up and running a business such as technopreneurship and business planning, new venture creation, intellectual property protection, technology evaluation and commercialization, developing new business models, technological innovation and design, Innovation strategy for new technology-based (NTB) SMEs, innovation process in NTB firms, new product development and creating value and growing ventures.

BM5213

Data Science for Business

10

Office Hours

• Data analytic thinking
• Data Science solutions to business problems
• Addressing customer churn with predictive modeling
• Logistic regression versus Tree induction
• Why is overfitting bad?
• Solving a business problem versus data exploration
• Visualizing model performance
• Analyzing data from social media
• Data-Driven Causal Explanation and Viral Marketing
• Data Science and Business Strategy

BM5216

Research Project

60

Office Hours & After Office Hours

Students will be allocated a supervisor, with an appropriate research/scholarly background in the area, to provide advice and guidance with regard to administrative, procedural and approach issues. They will receive a dissertation handbook and directed reading from their supervisor. Independent learning and private study cover either students gathering data from various sources and consolidating their material into a coherent dissertation or students ‘working closely’ with an identified organization to undertake applied research.

Cyber Physical Protection

15 CV

Office Hours 8.00am – 4.30pm

This module covers the following topics:

• Overview of Security and Privacy in CPS;
• Network Security and Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems;
• Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems;
• Cyber-Physical Systems and National Security Concerns;
• Operational Security;
• Legal Considerations of Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things;
• Management of CPS;
• Data Privacy Issues in Distributed Security Monitoring Systems;
• Cyber Physical System Security Controls;
• Security Challenges and concerns of IoT.

Information Security Policies and Management

15 CV

Office Hours 8.00am – 4.30pm

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction to security management – introduces the core concepts and definitions used in information security
• Standards – describe the role of standards in information security, e.g., ISO/IEC 27000 series
• Security controls – introduce and identify security measures taken to reduce security risks
• Security risk management – process of identifying security threats and plans to mitigate the threats, discuss the impact on the assets
• Legal - legal and regulatory aspects related to societies, data protection and legislation
• Internal control and audit – identify and evaluate the methods or processes in taking the correct steps to mitigate risks
• Incident management and disaster recovery
• Staff management – discuss the roles and how they play an important part in an organisation

Digital Forensics Lab

20 CV

Office Hours 8.00am – 4.30pm

This module covers the following topics:

• Browser History,
• Email Forensics,
• Hash Functions,
• File Recovery,
• Malicious Program Test,
• Windows Forensics,
• Acquisition and Duplication of Data,
• Email Evidences,
• Windows System Hives,
• Recover Graphics Files,
• Rebuild Header Data,
• Bit shifting
• Installation of Tools and the use of these tools for recovery and countermeasures.

Managing Information Systems in Practice

20 CV

Office Hours 8.00am – 4.30pm

An overview of information systems and the underlying supporting IT infrastructure. The role of information systems to support organisational needs, and how information systems are essential for delving into business intelligence. It explores the strategic alignment of IS projects to organisational strategic direction. The fundamentals of project management such as scope, time and cost management are covered. A focus on risk management is included to ensure an understanding of business risk assessment in IS projects. Content on professional ethics and social issues will be covered to ensure an appreciation of professional integrity in managing IS projects and resources. The role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) will be discussed along with the impact of IT policy on managing information systems.

Data Analytics and Visualisation

20 CV

Office Hours 8.00am – 4.30pm

The module covers the following topics: big data; spatial data; data analytics and patterns in data; computing tools & techniques for extracting patterns in data such as regression, classification, clustering and graphical models; visual perception and data visualisation; storytelling using various perceptual dimensions: quality, quantity, order, time series, space-time and geographic data; bring data to life using technologies such as HTML, SVG, and CSS; visualising static and dynamic data using plots, graphs, clusters, and animations; consent form, code of practice for data analysts.

Composite Structures

10

Office Hours

This module provides the students with the means of evaluating and analyzing the mechanical properties of laminate composite for laminate composite design theoretically and using Finite element Analysis tools.
This module covers the following topics:

• The concepts of composite materials: classify and characterize composite materials. Determine the macro-mechanical and micro-mechanical properties.
• Composite Fabrication methods: Types of fabrication methods, selection of fabrication method.
• Mechanical properties of composites: stress-strain relations and compliance matrix of composite materials.
• Failure theories and selection of failure criteria: Maximum stress theory, Maximum strain theory, Tsai-wu theory, Tsai-hill theory, Hoffman’s criteria, Hashins criteria.
• Laminate structures: Forms of laminas to laminate, unidirectional laminates, cross-ply laminates, angle - ply laminates, symmetric laminates, antisymmetric, unsymmetric and quasi-isotropic.
• Lamination theories: Assumptions, lamina strains, lamina forces and moments, element in stiffness matrix.
• Finite element analysis on composite materials: Build models of composite structures for different applications using FEA software. Applying different loading conditions and analyzing the results.

Maintenance Management

15

Office Hours

To enable the student to understand the principles, functions and practices adopted in industry for the successful management of maintenance activities and be able to plan human and technological resources for maintenance projects.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Maintenance, need of maintenance management, policies, strategies and options in maintenance management. Maintenance forms/actions and their inter relationships, brief descriptions of various maintenance actions. Objectives of maintenance in terms of profitability, quality and safety.
• Different categories of maintenance: Corrective, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance.
• Improving Maintenance strategies: Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) process to determine particular maintenance to be performed. Failure mode effects & criticality analysis (FMECA) and fault tree analysis (FTA) to identify root causes of failure models.
• Principles and Practices of Maintenance Planning: Basic principles of maintenance planning, objectives and principles of planned maintenance activity – Importance and benefits of sound Maintenance systems – Reliability and machine availability – Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) – Factors of availability – Maintenance organization – Maintenance economics.
• Maintenance Organizations: Prerequisites, factors determining effectiveness of a Maintenance organization, objectives of organization design, types of organization.
• Total productive maintenance (TPM) for the systematic elimination of the causes of equipment failure using a people-oriented approach to resolve problems at source.
• Design for maintainability: for maintenance to be carried out safely, without large investment in time, resources (labor, materials, tools, facilities, etc.), and with minimal impact on the environment.
• Maintenance project management: project planning tools, precedence diagrams, critical path networks and program evaluation & review technique (PERT). Project management for maintenance resource allocation and organization, need for multi-skilling, shutdown preparation and execution.

Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer

10

Office Hours

To equip students with skills in analyzing two-dimensional heat and mass transfer problems and design heat and mass transfer equipment. This covers the advanced topics of heat transfer including convective mass transfer, heat transfer with phase change, and boundary layer analysis.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Differential formulation for heat and mass diffusions. Exact solution of two-dimensional heat diffusion problem using separation of variables, Fick’s law of diffusion.
• Convective Heat Transfer: Convective heat transfer in internal and external boundary layer flows, heat transfer by jets.
• Heat and Mass Transfer: Analogy between convective Heat and Mass Transfer, Convective Mass Transfer in Boundary layer flows, impingement heat transfer.
• Heat transfer with phase-change: Boiling and Leidenfrost problem, analytical model for freezing processes. Convective Mass Transfer, Distillation, impingement drying.

Energy and Environment

10

Office Hours

This module aims to enable the students to analyze the dynamic relationship between energy generation and its impacts on the environment to promote the positive attitude towards energy conservation and efficient use.
This module covers the following topics:

• Energy Generation: Conventional energy generation from fossil fuels, alternative energy generation from renewable energy resources, effective generation of energy, carbon capture and storage, types of renewable energy resources.
• Current Trends of Energy Generations, Consumption and Motivation: Global energy production and consumption, current policy and politics, global commitment to energy generation, global warming and climate change.
• Energy Hierarchy: Concept of energy use, energy efficiency and conservation measures and management, energy transition to alternative resources.
• Sustainability in Energy Generation: Impact of energy use on the environment (both conventional and renewable), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), industrial energy efficiency policy and programs.

Engineering Optimization

10

Office Hours

This module is designed to provide mechanical engineering students with a view of optimization as a tool for mechanical engineering decision making. Students will be introduced to the various numerical and statistical optimization techniques with an opportunity to learn to model and solve/optimize numerical and mechanical engineering problems.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: General concepts; applications; decision/design variables (discrete, continuous); constraints; objective functions; convex; concave; unconstrained; constrained; linear; non-linear; deterministic; stochastic and metaheuristics.
• Optimization Modelling & Algorithms: Constrained and unconstrained problem formulations stochastic and nature inspired algorithms; and their applications to numerical and mechanical engineering problems.
• Factorial Design: One-, two- and multiple-factor factorials; main, interaction and coefficient affects; analysis of variance; case studies.
• Taguchi Methods: Tolerance, system and parameter designs; orthogonal arrays; signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio; analysis of variance; optimization (minimization, maximization and target objective functions); case studies.
• Response Surface Methodology: Central composite design (CCD); Box-Behnken design (BBD); small composite design (SCD); problem formulation; data transformation; analysis of variance; optimization by desirability function; case studies.

Advanced Geotechnics

20

Office Hours

This module aims to develop the conceptual understanding and analytical ability of students in order to develop solutions to a range of advanced geotechnical problems.
This module covers the following topics:

• Geotechnical analysis based on engineering plasticity: Upper and lower bound theorems; Stress discontinuities; Collapse load for drained and undrained conditions; Application of engineering plasticity to various field problems such as foundations with inclined loads, earth pressure coefficients for rough retaining walls, and walls with non-horizontal backfill.
• Behavior of unsaturated soils: Occurrence; Distribution of air and water; Pore pressure and suction; Desaturation and water retention; Loading and unloading; Stability of unsaturated soil slope; Settlement of foundations on unsaturated soil.
• Ground improvement techniques: Problematic soils and conditions; Geotechnical problems and failures; Principles, design consideration and method - Shallow and deep compaction, deep replacement, Preloading and Geosynthetics; Case studies.

Construction Project Management

20

Office Hours

This module provides students with the skills and knowledge required to develop a management structure and relevant strategies to plan, manage and execute a construction project.
This module covers the following topics:

• Project management framework: Defining and identifying relationships between project, project management, programme management, and portfolio management; organization structures and their influences on projects; project life cycle; project management processes; and project management knowledge areas.
• Project Selection and appraisal: Project selection criteria and procedure; project development issues and appraisals; and project success criteria and evaluation.
• Development and management of construction project: Inception stage: objectives, initial project brief and different roles. Feasibility stage: detailed project brief, site selection & acquisition, scheme design, technical study & market research, and funding and budgeting provision. Preconstruction Stage: selecting the project team, design management, planning and control mechanisms, permissions, detailed design and documentation, and tendering. Construction stage: project management plan (PMP), roles of project team members, supervision and project progress, commissioning and completion, handover, & post construction review.
• Human resource strategies: Leadership: styles, traits, activities and role. Teamworking and motivation: models, types, styles, and stages. Project manager: role, activities, leadership and management.

Advanced Concrete Technology

10

Office Hours

The aim of this module is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of concrete as a civil engineering material in the local and global context, including its importance and impacts on sustainability.
This module covers the following topics:

• Concrete and Constituent Materials: Types and Properties of the Constituent Materials including Cement, Aggregates, and Admixtures; Chemical Interactions including Hydration of Aluminates and Silicates; Physical Interactions including Transition Zones.
• Concrete Properties: Fresh Properties including Rheology; Early Age Properties including Curing; Long Term Properties & Performance including Strength Development, Durability Performance Characteristics, Dimensional Stability; Cold Weather Concreting; Hot Weather Concreting.
• Production, Construction Process & Testing: Quality Control, Fresh & Hardened Tests; Concrete Repair & Maintenance; Production Methodologies; Principal Construction Methodologies; Concrete Types for Different Applications; Reinforced and Pre stressed Concrete.
• Sustainability & Advances in Concrete Technology: Alternative Cements and Concretes, Cement Replacement Materials, Aggregate Alternatives, Recycled Concrete, Sustainability Issues including Carbon Footprint.

Environmental Hazards and Disaster Management

10

Office Hours

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the causes and impacts of environmental hazards and equip them with the ability to apply measures for mitigating environmental hazards and disasters.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Common environmental hazards and disasters.
• Types, causes, impacts and mitigation measures of:
  • Hydro-meteorological Hazards: Floods, Gusts, Storms, Tornados.
  • Geophysical Hazards: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Landslides, Erosion and accretion, Salinity intrusion.
  • Climatological Hazards: Sea level rise, Droughts, Wildfires.
  • Man-made Hazard: Oil spills.
• Disaster Management: Impact assessments; Planning for disasters, disaster prevention, preparedness, early warning, awareness building; Response to disasters.

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management

10

Office Hours

This module aims to enhance the participants’ knowledge and ability to integrate state-of-the-art solutions into solid and hazardous waste management.
This module covers the following topics:

• Waste Management: Overview of Integrated Solid Waste Management, waste management hierarchy, volume reduction and recycling.
• Solid waste: Sources and types of solid waste physical and chemical properties of solid waste, solid waste generation.
• Collection of solid waste : Types of collection systems on site handling and sorting, transfer and transport, community participation in solid waste collection.
• Solid waste disposal technology and treatment: Landfill, landfill siting, design and operation, leachate management, landfill gas estimation; composting: types of composting, methods and application.
• Hazardous waste: Identification and classification of hazardous waste; generation, on site storage, collection and transport of hazardous waste; physical, chemical, thermal and biological processes of treatment; disposal of hazardous waste.

Sludge Management and Disposal

10

Office Hours

This module aims to develop students’ understanding of concepts of sludge management and enable them to plan and design sludge treatment systems. It also introduces methods of sludge disposal and reuse.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Solids and sludge sources, characteristics of sludge and quantities, regulations for the reuse and disposal of sludge.
• Sludge Thickening: Methods for sludge thickening such as gravity thickening, dissolved air floatation thickening, centrifugal thickening, gravity belt thickening, and rotary drum thickening; design of thickeners.
• Sludge Stabilization: Methods for sludge stabilization such as anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, chemical stabilization, and thermal stabilization, design of sludge stabilization units.
• Further Sludge Processing, Disposal and Reuse: Sludge conditioning, sludge dewatering, composting, heat drying, thermal oxidation, recalcination, land application, landfilling.