Mechanical Engineering (with Foundation Year) - BEng(Hons)

University of the West of England, Bristol

Bachelor's degree

In Bristol

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Why study BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering?
Mechanical engineers play an important role in many of the products in the world around us. This involvement can range from design, manufacture and development, through to the management or marketing of products. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, you have the opportunity to use your skills in whatever sector you wish.
Why study our course?
The early years of this BEng Mechanical Engineering course share elements with the aerospace and automotive engineering degrees. So after developing a strong grounding in the fundamentals of engineering, there's the option to transfer onto one of these. As you progress, you will increase your understanding of stress analysis, dynamics, heat transfer, mechatronics, materials and manufacture together with learning industry standard software before you specialise in your final year.
Throughout the course, you will get lots of hands-on experience testing theories in our well-equipped laboratories.
Real world experience
To make sure you're industry ready when you graduate, the course is developed alongside our partner employers. These provide placement opportunities as well as advice on CV-writing, interview techniques and industry issues. You will get an inside track of the profession through scheduled factory visits and professional briefings with industry leading organisations across the UK.
Where it can take you
In addition to traditional engineering jobs, mechanical engineers are sought after for the product development process and are highly regarded in the world of financial business. They are in demand to help maximise usage of high capital plants and operations such as power stations, oil refineries and hospitals.
You may have the opportunity to progress onto the MEng Mechanical Engineering award if your performance at Level 2 meets progression criteria.
Watch: The learning and teaching experience

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Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

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About this course

Professional accreditation
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has awarded accreditation to this course. Students completing an IMechE accredited degree are deemed to have met, part or all, of the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer, and are in a strong position to move on to achieve professional engineering status after a period of initial professional development in industry.
This BEng(Hons) will meet, in part, the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng). It will also automatically meet the...

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Subjects

  • Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Industry
  • Design
  • Learning Teaching
  • Teaching
  • Materials
  • Maths
  • Testing
  • Heat Transfer
  • Early Years

Course programme

Content

The early years of your course provide a basic grounding in the fundamentals of engineering, including mathematics, design, manufacturing, electronics and mechanics.

Your third year takes analytical subjects including maths, into more depth, and covers such areas as stress analysis, dynamics and heat transfer, using a wide range of specialist laboratories.

In your final year there is a significant amount of choice within the course, allowing you to specialise, perhaps with your chosen career in mind.

Year 0 (Foundation Year)

  • Engineering Experimentation
  • Foundation Group Project
  • Foundation Mechanics
  • Foundation Maths, Algebra and Calculus
  • Introduction to Mechatronics

You will study the Foundation Year alongside students from our other Engineering and Maths courses, and so you may be able to transfer to a course in one of these areas at the end of the Foundation Year.

The normal expectation is that you must pass all Year 0 modules before progressing to Year 1.

Year 1

  • Stress and Dynamics
  • Engineering Mathematics
  • Design, Materials and Manufacturing
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Energy and Thermodynamics

Year 2

  • Design and Electromechanical Systems
  • Heat Transfer, Power and the Environment
  • Engineering Mathematics 2
  • Dynamics
  • Stress Analysis
  • Project Management

Year 3

  • Control Engineering
  • Vibrational Dynamics
  • Computational Methods
  • Individual Project BEng

Choose one of the following:

  • Composite Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Materials and Structures for Special Applications

Plus one of the following:

  • Thermofluid Systems
  • Energy Technologies

And one of the following:

  • Business Environment
  • Industrial Placement

Students can exit after Year 3 with BEng or, depending on their second year results, complete Year 4 and gain an MEng Mechanical Engineering.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

As well as a concentrated programme of lectures and tutorials, you will undertake experimental laboratory work, engineering fabrication, drawing and design, computing and application based mini-projects. You will use a wide range of experimental facilities including stress analysis, testing and materials selection, dynamics and vibration, thermofluids, energy conservation and control, aerodynamics (high speed and low speed wind tunnels), electronics and computing, manufacture, advanced manufacture and robotics.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Assessment

All material is normally assessed by either assignments or examinations. In the final year individual and group project reports and their presentation form part of the assessment.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.

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