Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management MSc

Why this course?

This course is specifically aimed at developing your learning in the latest technologies and management strategies of maintenance and assets, with direct application the workplace.

The main aim of the course is to deliver fundamental knowledge and a comprehensive set of skills to produce experts capable of transforming an organisation’s maintenance culture and strategy. 

It addresses the significant need for leaders in asset management and maintenance who can plan the care of long life, high value assets for availability and performance.

Graduates will be able to:

• Assess the regular and sudden failures in machines and structures and determine their root cause
• Evaluate the suitability of inspection techniques in the context of real operation failures
• Elaborate on the potential risks in considered maintenance routines and recommend mitigation activities
• Assess the impact of technical and financial management on asset availability
• Solve the technical complexities in implementing new technologies to devise effective maintenance planning
• Evaluate the legal implications of a suggested maintenance routine and critically analyse its impact on health, safety and environment
• Build hand's on expertise to use the tools and the techniques in implementing asset inspection and planning
• Prove the confidence in proposing customised maintenance routines in comparison with the OEM's suggested routines
• Develop strategy based maintenance framework suitable to any given industrial scenario.

To study for a formal award at Cranfield you will need to demonstrate that you can communicate effectively in English in an academic environment. You can meet this requirement in the following ways:

• If you have previously obtained a higher education level qualification from a UK university and have been taught and assessed in English (note that international applicants applying for Master’s courses in Cranfield’s School of Management are required to have studied in the UK for the full duration of the course).
• If you are a national of or have a obtained a higher education level qualification from a country on the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) list of majority English speaking countries:
  
  

  Antigua and Barbuda	Ireland
  Australia	Jamaica
  The Bahamas	Malta
  Barbados	New Zealand
  Belize	St Kitts and Nevis
  Canada*	St Lucia
  Dominica	St Vincent and the Grenadines
  Grenada	Trinidad and Tobago
  Guyana	United States of America

  
  
  *You will usually be required take an English test if your studies were not taught and assessed in English.
• If you have been continuously employed in the UK for a minimum of five years immediately prior to the start of the course, providing you are able to supply a reference from your current employer which explicitly confirms you are able to communicate effectively in English.
• By providing a satisfactory English test certificate that meets the requirement of the course you have applied for.

Your career

This qualification takes you on to a wide range of careers involving maintenance engineering and asset management, with responsibilities in industries including

• Oil and Gas,
• Aerospace,
• Defence,
• Power generation and distribution,
• Nuclear,
• Automotive,
• Chemical and Process,
• Manufacturing Textile,
• Civil Infrastructure,
• Logistics
• Health.

The unique feature of this course is its applied and practical nature, aimed at availability of strategic assets. This course will qualify you to transform the current industry culture of OEM’s based maintenance routines to strategy based maintenance.

Cranfield Careers and Employability Service

Cranfield’s Career Service is dedicated to helping you meet your career aspirations. You will have access to career coaching and advice, CV development, interview practice, access to hundreds of available jobs via our Symplicity platform and opportunities to meet recruiting employers at our careers fairs. Our strong reputation and links with potential employers provide you with outstanding opportunities to secure interesting jobs and develop successful careers. We will support you in the job application process for up to three years after graduation.