Master of Engineering | Industrial Management and Engineering

This programme equips you with insights and tools needed to capitalize on future business challenges. Additionally it equips you to create corporate financial value for shareholders and other constituencies linked to leadership, decision-making, artificial intelligence and analytics.

The extent of the study program is 60 ECTS. The degree programme is located in Vaasa.

The programme enhances, strengthens, and fosters the students' ability and readiness to lead business companies mainly within the industrial sector but also the public sector, both nationally and internationally.

Structure of Studies and Research Focus

The Industrial Management and Engineering programme consists of 60 ECTS. The studies are accomplished over a period of two years, scheduled for two days a month, always Thursday & Friday, from September to May. The first year we focus on theory building, earlier research, models, teamwork and collaboration confirming and strengthening the student's frame of reference. The second year is focused on the thesis work, explicitly on your work-related development project.

The faculty lectures are mainly given at Campus Vaasa but some parts of the studies are located out of the classroom, in the region's active business companies.

The Industrial Management and Engineering programme consists of professional studies in leadership, corporate structuring, business development and management of processes as well as people (20 ECTS).

Additionally there are degree specific advanced studies in scientific methodology, decision theory, decision support systems and analytics (10 ECTS).

The thesis work (30 ECTS) is a research and development project in conjunction with a company or an organization.

The learning theory is an immersive pedagogy, a mix of experiential, deep and collaborative learning linked to solving real working-life problems. The students in this programme have experience from various business fields within industry. Understanding customer centricity and demand driven flow are expected to be familiar concepts to the entering students.