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BM5411

Research Methodology

10

Office Hours/ *After Office Hours

This module introduces the methodology of research in the context of business and technology. The focus will be on issues such as: topic selection, problem definition, development of research questions, theory construction, research design, and selected data collection tools. This includes learning about designing and conducting research in the disciplines represented in commerce and technology. The key components will be the research process, as well as the application of research methods appropriate to particular research questions.

BM5412

Leadership

10

Office Hours/ *After Office Hours

This module aims to provide students ability to develop their leadership styles and understand others’ leadership styles, lead teams, manage strategically, and make decisions. Students are exposed to a broad range of contemporary perspectives on leadership, and how to inspire and get the best from people and organizations.

This module includes the following topics:

• Fundamentals of leadership and its defining characteristics.
• The concepts of leadership in an organizational, social, environmental, and multicultural context
• The key roles that leaders play in creating visions and strategies, and the implementation of leadership strategies to meet current and future organizational demands.
• Critical issues in leadership, including how leaders are selected, development tools that are available, and issues of evaluation.
• How leadership development strategy is formulated and implemented in international and global contexts
• Leading change, and the key challenges that organizations and individual managers face
• How leaders influence and persuade others; ethical issues that such practices pose
• How leaders build employee commitment and engagement, particularly through practicing ‘Evidence Based Management’
• Leadership skills for building teams and securing involvement and participation.
• Core communication skills used by leaders to motivate followers.
• Thinking skills for leaders: barriers to rational thinking and how they can be overcome.
• Promoting collaborative working and engaged followership behaviors

BM5214

Strategic Management

20

Office Hours/ *After Office Hours

This course is designed to allow students to develop their skills of strategic analysis and their ability to think about the selection and implementation of appropriate strategies in different industry contexts and in different types and styles of organizations, including non-profit and public sector organizations. Students will learn what actions employees can pursue in order to attain superior performance for their organization relative to their competitors.

Part I discuss the issues, facets and factors that affect and influence organizations into their quest for developing and managing their strategies. This part encompasses considerations on the organizational environment, the capabilities, resources and assets, the purposes, vision and organizational mission and culture.

Part II focuses on the choices that eventually organizations are bound to take. It illustrates the available strategies at the business level whereas one of the sections moves its attention to corporate level. To respond to the disciplinary needs, one section is introduced and reflects on the International aspects of Strategies and strategic development. There is one section. portrays the increasing academic interest on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Finally, the following section goes on to consider the methods and ways that companies pursue in order to materialize their strategies.

Part III draws on the well-known debate of deliberate vs. emergent approaches that has dominated the discipline for the last 30 years. The lesson in this part of the book analyzes and review issues related to strategy development, planning, organizational configuration, and the fundamental business resources: people, information, finance and technology. Change and the management of change are also examined within part III leading to the identification of key roles and stakeholder in strategy practicalities.

BM5212

Management of Innovation and Technology

10

Office Hours/ *After Office Hours

The module aims to develop analytical and innovation management skills using concepts derived from multidisciplinary academic fields. This provides opportunities for postgraduate students to respond creatively and effectively to the challenges in the global business environment.

This module covers the following topics:

• Nature and the importance of innovation
• Sources of innovation
• Developing an Innovation Strategy
• Management of research and development
• Innovation management and new product development
• Exploiting new ventures
• Innovation networks
• Adoption and Diffusion of Innovation
• Developing new Innovative business models
• Management of Intellectual Property
• Delivering Value from Innovation
• Capturing learning from innovation
• Innovation through Project Management
• Globalization of Technology and Innovation

BM5215

Human Capital Management

10

Office Hours/ *After Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• The essence and concept of human capital
• The process of Human Capital Management through people analytics
• Applications of Human Capital Management in business strategies
• The role of HR in developing and managing talent
• The future of HR and Human Capital management

BM5313

Data Science for Business

10

*After Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• 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

Computer Application Design and Implementation

20

Office Hours

Lecture topics cover a review of object-oriented concepts:

• data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism; review of data structures and algorithms:
• computational complexity analysis; reusable software libraries:
• file I/O, refactoring, cohesion, coupling, generics; testing and debugging:
• assertions and exception handling.
• Students will have the opportunity to explore the current issues and requirements in the software development process through potential case studies.

People & Security

20

Office Hours

This course will cover standard security concepts.

• cryptography, identification. authorization and authentication, security risks and threats.
• Kerberos, access control, internet security, viruses, worms, intrusion detection, fault tolerance and recovery, information management; information warfare, security administration, ethical and social impact of cyber security.
• The concepts above will be focusing on the people element, particularly on the perspectives of users of information security.

Data Mining

10

Office Hours

The module covers the following topics:

• Data mining basic concepts, data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and models’ evaluation.
• Emphasis will be given to real-world applications that utilize fundamental techniques of knowledge discovery and data mining, to implementation issues and practical challenges, as well as to some results at the data mining research frontier.

Cybercrime and Sociotechnical Risks

15

Office Hours And After Office Hours*

This module covers the following topics:

• Criminology of Cybercrimes: Cyberspace and different crimes of it, Understand and differentiate the different types of cyber threats and their classifications.
• Cyberthreats and skills to defend: Types of cyber threats, skills, and knowledge in handling cyber threats for individuals, organizations and society as a whole.
• Technology-enabled Crimes: Differentiate the nature and range of technology-enabled cybercrimes for individuals, organizations and society and the local and international policies to respond to them.
• Sociotechnical Metrics: Sociotechnical metrics, risks, threats and vulnerabilities and the root cause analysis for individuals, organizations and society associated with it.
• Cybersecurity Framework, Policies and Laws: Different Cybersecurity frameworks, policies and laws and their developments (locally and internationally) relating to cybersecurity risk management.

Network Security and Cryptography

15

Office Hours And After Office Hours*

This module covers the following topics:

• Fundamental Issues in Network Security: Different types of security attacks, defense approaches, security life cycle, security service classification and pervasive security mechanisms.
• Networking and Network Security: Network types and their threats and security threats in TCP/IP Layers.
• Secure Protocols: Different secured authentication protocols, Key distribution mechanisms, IPSec, and SSL/TLS.
• Wireless network security: Security mechanisms in GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN).
• Tools for monitoring malicious activity or policy violations: Firewall and Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
• Information security and cryptography: Security Goals, Security Services and Security Mechanisms, Cryptography and its services to information security, Cryptography vs. steganography
• Symmetric-key cryptography: Traditional Symmetric Key Ciphers, Modern Symmetric Key Ciphers (DES & AES), Encipherment Modes and Cryptanalysis
• Asymmetric-key cryptography: Types of Asymmetric key cryptography algorithms (RSA and ECC) and their working principles with mathematical understanding and applications, cryptanalysis
• Data integrity and authentication: Cryptography Hash Algorithms and their operations, applications of hash, Message authentication code, Entity authentication
• Digital Signature and Public Key Infrastructure: Digital signature algorithms and their applications, Digital Certificate, Public Key Infrastructure, and its purpose

Security Architecture

15

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Concepts and Terminology: security; confidentiality, integrity, and availability, security policies.
• System architectures: involves processes, people and technology including cloud and IoT.
• Security models: methods and security principles that relate to the executable security requirements, mandatory and discretionary access control, access control matrix, capabilities, and access control lists, information flow.
• Security mechanisms: security mechanisms in hardware and operating systems, memory management, memory protection and logical protection.
• User authentication: such as passwords, biometrics, and user tokens; identity management.
• Operating system vulnerabilities: how operating systems can be exploited and how they can be prevented.
• Software security: validation errors and exploits.
• Security architecture frameworks: evaluate the implementation of standards such as TOGAF, SABSA, OSA towards rapid technological development to ensure fewer security breaches.

EG5401

Research Methods

10

Office Hours

This module provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and conduct a research project in engineering using appropriate methods, and to report the research outcomes in a structured way.

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: the concepts of research and their purpose, nature / types, approach, process, methods, methodology and ethical considerations.
• Research design: appraisal of literature, identification of research problem, setting aims and objectives, development of hypothesis and research question, research methodology, and selecting research approach, strategy, and method(s).
• Data collection and analysis for engineering research: quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, data triangulation, sampling techniques and sample size, frequently used statistical tests, interpretation, and presentation of data.
• Research communication: group discussion, project presentation, writing research project proposal, citation and referencing, plagiarism, sensitivity, and confidentiality.

EM5101

Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics

10

Office Hours

This module aims to equip the students with the relevant advanced topics on thermodynamics on the fundamental core of thermodynamic studies in order to develop an intuitive understanding of thermodynamics by emphasizing physics and physical arguments.

The module covers the following topics:

• Overview of the second law of thermodynamics.
• Entropy: Entropy changes, Isentropic Processes, Entropy, and entropy generation in daily life, The Tds relations, Isentropic efficiencies of steady-flow devices, Entropy balance.
• Exergy: A measure of work potential, Reversible work and irreversibility, Second-law efficiency, Exergy change of a system, The decrease of exergy principle and exergy destruction, Exergy balance.
• Thermodynamic property relations: The Maxwell relations, The Clapeyron equation, General relations, The Joule-Thomson coefficient, The enthalpy, entropy and internal energy changes for real gases, The concept of fugacity.
• Reactive systems: Combustion, Enthalpy of formation, Enthalpy of combustion, Adiabatic flame temperature, First law and second law analysis of reacting systems.
• Chemical and phase equilibrium: Criterion for chemical equilibrium, The equilibrium constant, phase equilibrium, The phase rule, Phase equilibrium for systems.

EG5104

Applied Fluid Dynamics

10

Office Hours

This module provides students with an understanding of laminar flow between different types of boundaries which includes flow in porous media and lubrication. It develops their understanding of inviscid flows and the concept of boundary layer growth for different types of surfaces and flow conditions.

The module covers the following topics:

• Laminar flow between boundaries: Steady laminar flow between parallel planes, theory of hydrodynamic lubrication, flow through porous media.
• Inviscid potential flows: Stream function, circulation and vorticity, velocity potential, flow nets, combining basic flow pattern, lift and drag on a finite length wing.
• Boundary layer theory: Laminar and turbulent boundary-layers, friction drag, effect of compressibility on drag, eddy viscosity and mixing length hypothesis, free turbulence boundary layer control, external flow on moving and static surfaces.
• Free surface flows: Surface gravity waves, capillary waves, internal gravity waves, shock waves, oscillatory waves, Tsunamis.

EM5105

Materials Failure Analysis and Prevention

10

Office Hours

Through this module, students will learn atomistic processes occurring during materials failure, microstructural design as well as industrially relevant analytical techniques to conduct materials failure study. Materials concepts and design techniques useful to prevent materials failure such as non-destructive testing techniques will be discussed in depth.

This module covers the following topics:

• Materials failure processes: Advanced atomistic processes such as Coble creep and Nabbaro-Herring creep; fatigue and creep-fatigue interaction; plastic deformation in single and polycrystalline materials.
• Microstructural transformation to mitigate materials failure processes: Advanced concepts to strengthen crystalline materials; toughening mechanisms and design against fatigue.
• Non-destructive analytical tools/equipment: Non-destructive examination methods such as radiographic examination, ultrasonic examination; chemical analysis examination methods such as Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIP), x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF).
• Materials failure analysis and prevention: Advanced concepts of failure analysis and prevention; failure analysis process; charting methods for root cause analysis (RCA); application of advanced statistical tools for failure analysis; design review for failure analysis and prevention.
• Case studies: Failure of structures in relevant engineering settings including in marine, oil, and gas industries.

EM5106

Product Design and Development

10

Office Hours

The module introduces the product design and development as a project-based course with a focus on the sequence of steps and activities required to conceive, design, develop, and commercialize a product. Students would be familiarized with modern tools and methods for creating a new product or developing an existing one. The module would develop students’ confidence of their abilities as well as awareness of the role of multiple functions (e.g., marketing, finance, industrial design, and manufacturing) in creating a new product.

This module covers the following topics:

• Product Development Process and Organization: Product development process; types of product development; and product development organizations.
• Customer Needs Identification: Needs vs. specifications; steps for identifying customer needs, the art of eliciting customer needs data; customer data template; example / case study.
• Product Specifications: Target specifications; refined specifications; steps for establishing target and refined specifications; example / case study.
• Concept Generation: Concept generation process; common mistakes during concept generation; steps for concept generation process; example / case study.
• Concept Selection: Methods of choosing a concept; two-stage concept selection methodology; benefits of structured concept selection methodology; example / case study.
• Product Architecture: Modular and integral architectures; influence factors for product architecture; four-step methodology for establishing the architecture.
• Industrial Design: Importance assessment of industrial design; management of industrial design process; involvement of industrial design in product design & development; assessing the quality of industrial design.
• Design for Manufacturing: Design for manufacturing methodologies; impact of DFM decisions on other factors; manufacturing improvement method.
• Prototyping: Fundamentals of prototyping; and application of rapid prototyping processes.
• Product Development Economics: Elements of economic analysis; four-step methodology for economic analysis for product development.
• Product Development Projects Management: Understanding and presenting tasks; baseline project planning; accelerating the project, executing the project.

EM5108

Advanced Solid Mechanics

15

Office Hours

This module provides the students with the essential aspects in mechanical behavior of materials and structures through state-of-the-art methods and interpretations of solutions to engineering mechanics and design problems.

This module covers the following topics:

• Stress analysis: force analysis, axial load, torsion, bending, shear transverse, statically indeterminate members, superposition method, inelastic stress condition, residual stresses, state of stress caused by combined loadings, theories of failure, thin-walled structures.
• Design of beams, shafts and columns fully stresses beams, singularity functions, stress concentration, shaft design, Newton-Raphson method, deflections, Euler and Secant formulae, instability under concentric and eccentric loadings, inelastic buckling.
• Computational mechanics: basic concept of computational modelling, type of solid elements, finite element modelling, solution techniques, interpretation of results.
• Problems under varying stresses: fatigue, fracture mechanics, high temperature creep, remaining useful lives.

EC5101

Environmental Impact Assessment

20

Office Hours

To develop students’ ability to assess the environmental impacts of civil engineering projects.

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Environmental issues: Solid Waste, Water pollution, Air Pollution, Noise Pollution, Deforestation, Climate change, Global Warming and Sea Level Rise
• EIA in the project cycle and Methodologies: What is EIA? Steps of EIA Process, Methodologies: Ad-hoc, Checklist, Matrices, Networks, Environmental Evaluation System (EES), Overlays and GIS
• Prediction and Assessment of Impacts: Impact analysis and mitigation
• Scoping and stakeholder's participation in EIA: Scoping, types of scoping, Stakeholders, Attributes of Stakeholders, Tools for Stakeholder Analysis: Venn Diagram, Participation of Stakeholders, Level of Participations
• Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): EIA Report writing, Review Process and Monitoring
• Application of GIS to EIA: Introduction to GIS, Data Collection for GIS, Data Modelling and Management in GIS and GIS data analysis to support EIA.
• EIA Case studies

EC5105

Structural Engineering

20

Office Hours

This module provides an in-depth understanding on the theoretical background to the limit states design of steelwork and advanced techniques in designing reinforced concrete structures. This includes the introduction of structural dynamics for simple frames.

This module covers the following topics:

• Steel structures: limit states, flexural buckling and application of energy method, torsional and lateral buckling and development of governing differential equation, interaction formulae.
• Thin-walled structures: membrane strains and stresses, bending strains and stress resultants, nonlinear strains, energy equation for plate buckling.
• Moment resisting plane frames: linear elastic analysis using matrix stiffness method, non-linear elastic analysis, elastic buckling, rigid plastic analysis.
• Reinforced concrete structures: yield line analysis, Hillerborg strip method, strut and tie analysis, prestressed concrete (post-tensioned).
• Structural dynamics: dynamic analysis of simple frames, vibration modes, use of spectra for design.

EC5111

Wastewater Engineering

20

Office Hours

This module aims to develop students’ understanding of concepts of wastewater treatment and enable them to plan and design wastewater treatment systems.

This module covers the following topics:

• Wastewater quantity and quality: Wastewater generation pattern and discharge estimation; municipal wastewater and components; wastewater characteristics and health issues; physical, chemical and biological constituents of wastewater; standards for effluent discharge.
• Wastewater treatment: Wastewater collection systems; type of sewer systems and sewer appurtenances; partial flows in pipes; physical, chemical and biological treatment units; sedimentation; aerobic and anaerobic treatment; nutrients removal; adsorption; chemical precipitation; advanced oxidation processes.
• Complex wastewater issues: Identify wastewater issues; troubleshooting; evaluate and solve complex wastewater problems; analyze reactors for wastewater treatment.
• Design of wastewater collection and treatment systems: Design sewer system for wastewater collection; design domestic and industrial wastewater treatment systems to meet effluent discharge limits.

EC5301

Integrated Water Resources Management

10

Office Hours

To strengthen the concept and knowledge of Integrated Water Resources Management enabling to devise and implement efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to water and development problems.

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction to integrated water resources management.
• Drivers and impacts of climate change on water use sectors and Adaptation
• Participation of beneficiaries
• Economic, environmental, and institutional aspects of IWRM
• Conceptual framework and models
• Dealing with uncertainties, Instruments and measures for adaptation;
• Operation and maintenance of water resources systems.

EC5306

Financial Management for Engineers

10

Office Hours

This module provides students with the skills and knowledge required to analyze, manage and decide on the financial issues in an engineering/construction company.

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: the concept, scope and need for financial management, and the role of project/construction engineers.
• Accounting for financial resources: project/construction accounting systems, including different methods of accounting, balance sheet and income statement; and different types of depreciation methods.
• Analysis of financial statements: using different categories of financial ratios: profitability ratios, liquidity ratios, working capital ratios, capital structure ratios, and activity ratios.
• Time value of money: compound interest, net present value (NPV), equivalent annual cost, benefit cost ratio, and loan redemption.
• Making financial decisions: internal rate of return (IRR) and NPV, break-even analysis, make or buy decision, financial analysis of a project using all equity case and equity with loan, and engineering scheme choice decision.