B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Oxford

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Oxford

This Mechanical Engineering (Hons) course at Oxford Brookes University will enable you to take project design ideas and express them as computer models. This may range from simple to complex three-dimensional parametric models, or models which simulate the motion of parts, allowing the user to study a working system before it is manufactured.

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Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, OX3 0BP

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Subjects

  • Engineering
  • Design
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Basic IT training
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Course programme

Course Content

You will study the basic principles that engineers use to turn design possibilities into real solutions to problems. You will learn how to use computer-based packages to produce design solutions of your own, enabling you to build up a portfolio of work.

By the time you reach the final year you will have the skills to tackle a typical industry-based problem and produce a complete design solution, including computer models of how the solution will look, and how it will function and be manufactured.

Students have the chance to develop the skills needed to use and apply these packages creatively to produce designs customers want, employing processes that return profits.

Study modules

As courses are reviewed regularly the module list you choose from may vary from that shown here. Some modules will be compulsory.

Year 1
  • IEng Engineering Mathematics & Modelling
  • Design & Practice I
  • Introduction to Materials
  • Basic Dynamics
  • Basic Stress Analysis
  • Basic Thermodynamics
Year 2
  • Stress and Dynamic Systems
  • Design & Practice II
  • Control Technology
  • Automotive Electronics
  • Simulation of Thermal Systems
  • Materials Engineering

Final year

  • Engineering Project
  • Management Ethics, Energy & Sustainability
  • Vehicle Dynamics
  • CAD/CAM
  • Sensors & Data Logging
  • Sustainable Engineering
  • Design of Machines
  • Motorsport Engineering Technology
Work placements

You will be encouraged to work in industry for one year, between the second and final years of the course. More and more students are taking up this option as they recognise the benefit of obtaining industrial experience. It consolidates their understanding of the automotive, motorsport and engineering industries, and provides the opportunity to apply knowledge in an industrial environment.

On returning to the University for their final year, the experience students have gained invariably improves their academic performance. We have an excellent record of graduates gaining full-time employment with their industrial placement year company.

Sponsored students spend the year with their sponsoring company. Students who are not sponsored will be assisted by our full-time placements officer in finding a suitable placement.

Study abroad

You may be able to go on a European or international study exchange while you are at Brookes. Most exchanges take place in the second year.

Studying abroad provides an amazing opportunity to add value to your studies by:

  • increasing your employability within an international market
  • boosting your language skills
  • building your confidence in adapting to new situations
  • improving your knowledge of different cultures.

While on exchange, you will gain credits which count towards your degree.

We have more than 100 partner universities around the world. Funding is available through the Erasmus scheme, and also via some international programmes such as the Santander Student Awards.

There is also a European work placement programme which gives you the chance to work abroad as part of your study.

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Hons)

Price on request