Industrial Engineering FdEng

• You will be taught by a dedicated teaching team, many with industrial backgrounds.
• Friendly, open tutors will listen if you need help have a query.
• Study flexibly on either day release or block release allowing you to fit study around work (check for availability).
• Excellent links to industry and local businesses.
• Investment of equipment from major companies and local suppliers.
• The university invested £500K in engineering equipment in recent years.
• Use industrial standard equipment in our specialist engineering laboratories.
• Students will have a mentor regularly visiting the workplace.
• Subject to chosen pathway, the course leads to IEng (Incorporated Engineer) where either the IET or IMechE are the accrediting bodies.

• Engineering Mathematics
• Engineering Science A
• Work Based Investigation and Training*
• Operations Management*
• Instrumentation and Process Control

Plus additional modules specific to chosen route:

• Plant Equipment Fundamentals (Plant Maintenance)
• Transducers and Materials (Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics)
• Metrology & CADCAM (Mechanical)
• Plant Equipment Fundamentals (Mechanical)
• Digital & Analogue Electronics (Mechatronics)

• Engineering Science B
• Diagnostics, Maintenance and Functional Safety
• Project Management and Presentation Techniques*
• Project*
• PACs
• Industrial Data and Network Design

Plus additional modules specific to chosen route:

• Applied Engineering (Plant Maintenance)
• Power, Distribution and System Design (Plant Maintenance)
• Power, Distribution and System Design (Electrical Engineering)
• Applied Engineering (Mechanical)
• Manufacturing, Design and Technology (Mechanical)
• Mechatronic Systems (Mechatronics)

*work-based modules

The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.