Amir completed his first degree with a first-class BSc in industrial & systems engineering in 2008. This was followed by a MSc in project management from University of Birmingham (UK) in 2010, and a grade-A PhD in management of projects from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2015. During his studies , he worked as an intern in oil & gas, pharmaceutical and maintenance engineering & asset management sectors. 

Prior to his current appointment as a lecturer in engineering project management, Amir also had full time industrial roles as head of R&D and R&D project manager in maintenance engineering & asset management and manufacturing sectors in the UK. He has successfully managed and delivered a variety of industrial research and innovation projects relevant to Industry 4.0 and digital transformation with a specific focus on big data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), decision making and robotics. 

Amir currently holds visiting lecturer roles at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), a visiting lecturer role at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), a visiting research fellow role at the University of Huddersfield, an external examiner role at the Staffordshire University , and an innovation strategy consultant role at Electrocomponents plc (now RS Group plc) as well.  

1. Strategic management - organisational restructuring, transformation & change, strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions, strategic risk management.

2. Innovation management - Industry 4.0 innovation, business model innovation, open innovation, innovation strategy and risk. 

3. Project management - managment of strategic projects (such as energy projects including but not limited to oil & gas and renewable energy), management of megaprojects, innovation project management, project strategy, project portfolio management, project risk management, project communications management, project stakeholder management, project governance. 

4. Project management education - teaching methods, digital tools and techniques for more effective teaching/training. 

5. Corporate culture, organisational behaviour and leadership performance assessment.

6. Maintenance engineering & asset management - maintenance strategy, condition based maintenance.  

7. Application of data mining, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and decision making techniques (expert systems) in management , project management, maintenance engineering and asset management context.

PGT - ENGM67061 Managing Projects with ICT (including access to the DataCamp learning platform - https://www.datacamp.com/)

PGT - ENGM62102 Innovation Management 

UG - ENGM41011 Engineering Foresight

- Teaching Risk Management at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS)

- Teaching Commercial Technology Development at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS)

- Supervisor, co-supervisor and academic advsior of PhD students in the department of Engineering Management.  

- Internal assessor/examiner of PhD progress reports/dissertations in the department of Engineering Management. 

- Supervsior of MSc dissertations in the department of Engineering Management. 

• ENGM63000 Management of Projects (MoP) Dissertation Full Year
• Project Management Professional Development Programme (PM PDP) Dissertation Full Year

- Supervsior of undergrad final projects in the department of MACE.

• AERO&CIVL&MECH31030 Individual Project Full Year

- Nominated for Excellent Support Staff Award 2023 - SU Academic Awards, The University of Manchester

- Highly Commended Award for Lecturer of the Year 2021 - School of Engineering, The University of Manchester

Member of the International Advisory Committee and Structured Session Chair for the Eighteenth International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Asset Management (CM 2022), The British Institute of Non Destructive Testing (BiNDT)

Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0) 161 529 3385 

Email: amir.rahbarimanesh@manchester.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-r-634346119/ 

Skype ID: Amir Rahbarimanesh