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Postgraduate Certificate in Design, Manufacture, and Management; Examination in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course)

The General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved a proposal from the Faculty Board of Engineering that the Postgraduate Certificate in Design, Manufacture, and Management be replaced by a new examination in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management for the M.Phil. Degree. The special regulations for the Certificate (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 550) have therefore been rescinded with effect from 1 October 2004. The following special regulations for the examination in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management for the M.Phil. Degree have been approved with effect from the same date.

Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management

1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of:

(a)reports on such course-work undertaken by the candidate as shall be prescribed from time to time by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering. The reports shall be of such number, and shall be presented in such form and assessed in such manner, as the Degree Committee may determine;
(b)a report on a design project, which shall be submitted in such form and assessed in such manner as the Degree Committee may determine;
(c)a thesis of not more than 15,000 words in length on a subject approved by the Degree Committee.

2. The course-work shall include industrial investigations in one or more institutions approved by the Degree Committee, the nature and duration of the investigations being determined by the Degree Committee.

3. The examination shall include an oral examination on the work submitted under 1(b) and 1(c) above and on the general field of design, manufacture, and management; at the discretion of the Examiners a candidate may also be examined viva voce on the work submitted under 1(a) above.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 29 May 2003
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