This may be due to overcosts which may make these best available technologies not cost-effective compared to other options. However, this is most often due to the lack of project managers who combine both skills (technical and socio-economical), so that they can implement successfully projects to disseminate these technologies.
Therefore, one of the key and original features of the ME3 Masters course is to combine Energy and Environmental Process Engineering together with Management and Social Sciences. It aims at offering a well-balanced education to future engineers and managers having the adequate skills to solve environmental and energy issues through an integrated approach, combining technological development and innovations together with the consideration of human, social and economic constraints.
All the ME3 students follow the Management semester at UPM-Madrid (see detailed syllabus below) at the beginning of the programme. This way all the students of the same cohort have been together for at least one semester.
To provide an overall view of the organizational issues related to a company and its management function, development, analysis of its strategies and describe the relationship between strategies and organizational structures.
To make the student aware of the importance of technology as a key element for the company’s competitiveness. The course will concentrate on technological innovation management, product innovation plan, technological audits, transfer of technology and the European Innovation system.
Financial Accounting : To provide the student with the required techniques to collect, process and present the economic information generated by a company or organization as well as to draw the conclusions that can be obtained from the financial statements and annual report.
Managerial Accounting : To know how to use the different cost accounting systems for different types of decisions in a company or organization, including activity based costing, process and job costing and standard and direct costing, as well as the main aspects of cost system design.
Increase positive attitudes toward the people of other cultures ; Examine the basic concepts, theories and issues of intercultural communication and how they affect global business ; Increase awareness of the problems that arise in communicating (and therefore working) with other cultures ; To become more self aware of our cultural conditioning, individual biases and assumptions and to understand the business implications it has on our interactions with people who are different from us ; Help participants to better adapt to working with other cultures ; Examine management and conflict styles across cultures and implications of these patterns in working effectively in intercultural settings ; Study target countries in depth within a cultural framework.
To emphasise the individual behaviour as a central aspect for the success of a project manager. To teach how to master international complex process engineering projects.
Enable participants to acquire the methods and practices required to manage a project within a complex and international framework because the knowledge of specific methods and tools to manage a project is the key to success, including cost control, performance, deadlines and risks management.
Students will learn to understand how a team works, how people work together supportively and successfully - good effective teamwork is the foundation of successful management. Students will also learn a range of communication techniques and how to select the most effective method of communication for particular situations - good communicators make better managers.
To show how to match the required sustainable energy production with enviromental limitations, paying special attention to the organized international pollution-trading markets.
To show the dimensions of energy and its political relevance, to shed light on physical, technical, economic, environmental and social interrelations.