Master of Science in Sustainable Engineering - Architecture and Ecology

at University of Strathclyde United Kingdom

Modern manufacturing engineers not only need to be experts in the latest classic manufacturing technologies – they need to know how to exploit the power of digital manufacturing to stay competitive in an increasingly global digital market. This course helps you to get a deeper insight into the necessary cyber-physical technologies and new developing business models.

Industry 4.0 concepts are revolutionising the world and modern industry is adopting rapidly and at a vast scale, creating new business models and digital technologies. Products are becoming increasingly customisable and interactive.

The power of digital manufacturing also allows creating agile and autonomous production processes that can deliver at scale through smart global digital communication technologies. Industry business models are also shifting significantly; extensive mass customisation is augmented by direct prosumer engagement and services become instantaneous and ubiquitous.

Digital manufacturing utilises Industry 4.0 technologies such as Cyber Physical Systems, Industrial Internet of Things, Additive Manufacturing and Autonomous Mechatronic Systems. Digital Manufacturing also feeds into new business models such as Through-Life Engineering and Cloud Manufacturing – all extremely hot topics with vast industrial as well as academic potential.

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• Gain insight into cyber-physical technologies and developing business models
• Prepare for a career within the global digital technologies-driven manufacturing sector
• Apply your skills in a practical industry-linked project

This flexible programme combines study in specialist, advanced engineering technologies underpinned with training in sustainability. The programme has been developed with direct industrial involvement to provide you with a solid understanding of modern, sustainable engineering. As well as gaining an understanding of how sustainable engineering applies to Marine Technology, this programme will also provide you with key transferable skills to aid your employability.

The course is designed for experienced or newly qualified engineers in:

• Naval Architecture
• Marine Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering or related disciplines

The Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering (NAOME), a leading institution in Scotland, offers excellent teaching and research facilities in naval architecture, ocean and marine engineering, which expands your career opportunities in naval architecture, marine, offshore oil and gas industry.

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• Combines study in specialist, advanced engineering technologies underpinned with training in sustainability
• Cross-disclipinary programme with input from industry
• Satisfy key requirements to attain Chartered Engineer status
• Develop sought-after understaning of sustainable approaches and practices

We offer some of the best teaching in Human Resource Management (HRM) in both Scotland and the UK

This course covers areas such as recruitment and selection, training and developing and managing conflict at work. These are an important part of the management process in all organisations.

The Department of Marketing at Strathclyde is recognised as one of the leading centres of marketing education and research in the UK.

This course will help you develop the skills for a variety of marketing and management careers. You’ll understand customer requirements, added-value products and services and the role of communications in customer satisfaction.

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• Learn about recruitment and selection, training and developing, rewards, diversity and managing conflict at work
• Study in an accredited centre for the teaching of Human Resource Management
• Develop skills for a variety of marketing, human resource and management careers
• Join our HRM Society and share knowledge and practice, awareness of careers and build relationships with alumni and employers
• Benefit from the opportunity to take part in student competitions to win paid internships

Product design engineering is an exciting industry that continually evolves alongside technology, product advancements, the demand for quicker turnaround times, unique and personalised products, and environmentally friendly supply chains and production.

It's about understanding product requirements and functionality, questioning existing ways of doing things and seeing opportunities to change things for the better.

Product design engineering blends a more technical engineering focus (such as mechanics, electronics, maths, engineering calculations of a products' design) with design principles, user experience, and technology to create new functional products or develop existing ones that can then be sold in competitive markets.

This is integrated with manufacturing processes, CAD, rapid prototyping and digital prototyping technologies, software and practical skills to turn the design into reality which is fundamental to global market success and requires not only customer appeal, aesthetics and brand awareness but also consistent and correct functionality, superior quality and fitness for purposes all at a competitive price.

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• Develop the skills to create fully-functioning new products which are visually appealing and efficiently manufactured
• Learn to combine virtual and physical design and prototyping in our digital design suite
• Undertake work placements in industry
• Opportunity to undertake an industrial group project with a design engineering organisation
• Professional accreditation by the Institution of Engineering Designers, Institution of Engineering and Technology and Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Social Policy examines the ways in which societies distribute resources and develop services to meet individual and social needs. Key social policy issues examined include poverty; economic, race, age and gender inequality; social justice health; education; criminal justice and housing.

It utilises a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to improve our understanding of how societies organise their resources to meet individual and social needs and how they measure progress in these areas. 

This programme gives you the opportunity to learn more about the social and economic challenges facing Scottish society and place these in a broader international perspective. It draws on disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, psychology, social anthropology and politics.

With more than 500 million native speakers, Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language in the world. Speaking Spanish will help you conduct business more confidently in countries that are becoming increasingly important in world markets. 

Studying with us will give you the chance to become a fluent linguist and, with our year abroad programme, an opportunity to experience living, working and/or studying in another country.

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• Learn about the social and economic challenges facing both Scotland and the UK
• Focus on contemporary language and culture
• Opportunity to study Spanish as a beginner
• Address some of the major questions of our time, such as how social policy should adapt to a changing global, digital, connected and information-rich world
• Gain insight into how different societies organise their resources to meet individual and social needs

The Masters course in Education Studies introduces the most important questions and problems by which the discipline of education studies is characterised, along with the methodologies and methods used to answer those questions. In addition to the core modules designed to give you a solid foundation for understanding educational processes, you'll have the flexibility to choose a pair of modules from a range of specialist classes to meet your personal and professional needs. This includes a pair of work-based learning modules where you can explore how learning works, components of effective teaching and encourage professional learning through practitioner inquiry.

Education Studies is a discipline in its own right. While it draws on insights from different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, political studies and international relations, economics and business studies, it entertains a very specific perspective on the world.

In education studies, we're mainly interested in the ways, personal growth and (trans)formation can be individually and socially initiated, guided, and supported. Those educational processes are, of course, not restricted to contexts of formal education, eg schooling, but can be perceived everywhere in modern cultures.

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• Develop a solid foundation for understanding transformative processes in all cultural contexts
• Enhance practice and career opportunities in the broader field of formal and informal education
• Gain a grounding in research methods and reasoning
• Suitable for those looking to pursue full-time study in this area
• Open to applications from international students
• Take part in optional work-based learning modules

The MSc Applied Educational & Social Research is a full-time one-year or two-year part-time degree, ideal for those looking to enhance their academic and professional understanding of research. The course looks at the issues facing educational and social researchers and offers a range of intellectual and practical resources to structure and explore these issues. Students are encouraged to identify their own area of interest for research and to explore this throughout the course, before completing their own dissertation research in this chosen area.

The course is aimed at two principal audiences:

• Those wishing to develop their professional understanding of applied research
• Those seeking to develop their research skills prior to undertaking PhD study

The full-time version of the course is available both as face-to-face attendance and as a form of blended learning involving face-to-face meetings with additional web-based content delivered by a dedicated online environment. This allows you to study at times that suit you. The classes are flexible, so you can make choices based on your own personal interests. The part-time version of the course is entirely distance learning.

The course offers an ESRC recognised route (+1) into a PhD in Education. Students following this route undertake 60 credits taught centrally with other ESRC students from across the Faculty.  

International students completing this degree will further benefit from gaining an insight into the UK educational system.

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• Look at the issues facing educational and social researchers and offers a range of intellectual and practical resources to structure and explore these issues
• Available both as face-to-face attendance and as a form of blended learning involving face-to-face meetings with additional web-based content delivered by a dedicated online environment
• Learn to evaluate, design, conduct, analyse and justify applied research
• Benefit from teaching by internationally-recognised experts
• Tailor the choice of classes to your personal interests

Strathclyde’s Department of Architecture is among the oldest and largest such departments in the UK. It's internationally recognised as one of the most socially active schools of architecture in Europe with "projects rooted in real urban concerns" (DOMUS Europe's Top Schools 2014).

Our aim is to produce graduates suitably prepared to meet the architectural demands of the 21st century.

Studying a BSc Hons degree with us, you'll develop creative design skills, and learn about construction techniques, materials and environment informed by an understanding of architectural history, culture and theory.

You'll be taught to communicate and collaborate in an international studio environment by both academics and professional architects.

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Studying a BSc Hons degree in Architectural Studies, you'll be taught in a dynamic studio-based environment by professional practitioners and academics. We focus on engagement with local and international communities encouraging you to balance the practical realities of the world with innovative design.

• Focus on the design of buildings, towns and cities and the historical and theoretical ideas that inspire them
• Benefit from teaching by our academics and professional architects and engineers
• Students regularly win and exhibit work through international and national competitions including Archiprix Intl., AJ Student Prize, RIAS and A+DS, RSA New Contemporaries
• We are one of the highest-scoring architecture departments in the UK for our graduate career prospects (HESA)
• Study abroad for one semester and convert your degree title to Architectural Studies with International Study

This innovative degree is a joint venture between the University of Strathclyde and three further education colleges - West College Scotland, Glasgow Clyde College and New College Lanarkshire.

The degree aims to prepare you for working in settings which combine health education and social work/social care. You’ll enter college at a Diploma of Higher Education level, having first studied a relevant HNC. You’ll then go on to Year 3 at Strathclyde to study for the BA.

The Education & Social Services (BA) responds to the Scottish Government’s aspiration for different services to communicate more effectively and to work in a more integrated way to meet the service-user needs of children, young people and adults. A major aim of the degree is to develop the leadership qualities and skills required for this challenge.

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• Prepare for work in settings which combine education, health and/or social services
• Benefit from work placement opportunities to promote personal and professional development and strengthen your CV
• Develop leadership qualities and the skills required in public and third sector organisations
• Opportunities for overseas placements
• Start your degree in a local college before moving to university for Years 3 and 4

This is a very topical area of study, with health concerns related to physical inactivity a growing cause for concern. With a broad range of physical activity and sport topics from which to study, we equip you with the knowledge and skills to make a positive impact in this field.

This course is delivered by staff from our Physical Activity for Health group, which has an international reputation for research, teaching and knowledge exchange in physical activity, nutrition and childhood obesity.

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• Develop the knowledge and skills to make a positive impact on health and physical activity in a wide range of settings
• Opportunities to get involved in cutting-edge, internationally-recognised research with access to human performance and body composition labs on campus
• Learn from top sporting coaches about their methods