BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering & Technology

MODULE: Maintenance Engineering Management

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 36 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

This program deals with a professional engineering field with increasing sophistication and complexity. It involves the core business of the industrial maintenance and organization: devising a maintenance strategy, maximizing asset life, minimizing lifecycle costs, risk management, project management, financial management, safety management, environmental management and all while staying focused on the industrial organization goals.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Organizational Administration

Manufacturing Systems Integration

Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Organizational Administration

The course surveys the field of organizational theory, including the historical underpinnings of the field, the nature of bureaucracy, evolving organizational structures and design, the organization-environment interface, multiple stakeholders, and power and influence in the emerging organization.

Instructor: Philipose Daniel

Manufacturing Systems Integration

This course explains the need for the integration of manufacturing systems, and deals with the multitude of practical problems involved with it. Engineering details covered include the types of communication links available between systems, communication standards, and hardware platform alternatives. Management concepts covered include the top-down design/bottom-up implementation approach to system integration, long-range planning and management of integration projects, security issues, and human factors.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Occupational Safety & Health

This course explores specific hazards associated with major industries. Machine guarding, electrical safety, systems safety analysis, materials handling, and working at heights are among the subjects covered. It examines methods of integrating safety and industrial hygiene programs with industrial operations. Philosophic issues related to industrial safety and health such as responsibility for safety, dependency on safe practice, and hierarchy of prevention are investigated.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Environmental Risks

This course examines and compares different types of environmental risks and hazards from natural disasters (tornados, earthquakes and meteorite impacts) to acute and chronic health effects caused by exposure to radiation and toxic substances. It emphasizes the principles controlling the hazardous phenomena and develops methods for making reasoned assessments of the threats impact to health and wealth.

Instructor: Vicente Enrique Martín Olmos

Financial Performance Evaluation

This course explains the ratios that can be useful in measuring and monitoring financial performance in conjunction with a set of financial statements. It provides a clear and concise overview of specific ratios that are used to measure liquidity, asset management, profitability, leverage, market value ratios, and comparative analysis.

Instructor: Jose A. Cordova

Environmental Health

This course examines the relationship of people to their environment, how it affects their physical well-being and what they can do to influence the quality of the environment and to enhance their health. It considers environmental health control programs, agencies and regulatory process.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Management Information Technology

This course examines the management issues surrounding information technology. It considers the impact of the deployment of information technology on firms which results in changes in work patterns and management processes. The course presents a combination of management and technical topics in order to exploit continuous innovations in the management of information technology.

Instructor: Jose A. Cordova

Automation Management

This course is an evolutionary process perspective on technology strategy, automation and innovation. It covers managing innovation, technology life cycles, forecasting, and managing R&D, personnel and projects, to emerge with the knowledge of how to integrate technology and automation to further develop the firm's technological competencies and capabilities. It also covers current methods, tooling and associated equipment that is used for automated processes in industry today.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Process Improvement Management

This course focuses on technical and teaming skills necessary to be an advocate for quality in a process. Topics include: understanding quality, the improvement cycle, quality tools, eliminating complexity from work, and implementing quality in processes, activities and organizations. It also covers statistical process control and methods employed in the assurance of product conformance to quality specifications. It provides an analytical approach to solving problems in quality engineering process design and costs.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Operations Management

This course provides an analytical approach to solving problems in production and operations management. It examines quantitative methods for designing and analyzing manufacturing operations, simulation of manufacturing operations, and recent issues in manufacturing including just-in-time production, synchronous manufacturing, and agile manufacturing. It also covers current competitiveness-enhancing techniques like continuous improvement, benchmarking, and business process re-engineering.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Industrial & Systems Engineering

This course surveys both the traditional and modern topics of industrial and systems engineering. It covers fundamentals of production system design and control, methods engineering, work measurement, ergonomics, facilities planning and design, production planning, inventory control and quality control. Life cycle costing, reliability, and maintainability are integrated into the top-down design process in order to achieve the overall goal of maximum cost effectiveness.

Instructor: Wolf Dettmer

Maintenance Engineering Management

This course covers the elements of an effective asset maintenance strategy within an industrial organization. It considers the organizational contexts associated with operations, production and maintenance strategy.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.