Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
3 Years
Mechanical Engineering at Sussex equips you with the skills to succeed in your future career.
Specialist training enables you to lead multidisciplinary teams and develop complex systems. These systems include sustainable power generation or power-trains for automotive vehicles and jet engines for propulsion.
You’ll study in our £12-million Future Technologies Labs, dedicated to teaching and research in computing, robotics, electronics and mechatronics.
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About this course
Recent Engineering graduates have gone on to jobs as:
graduate mechanical engineer, Southern Water
aviation analyst, International Bureau of Aviation
mechanical design engineer, Robinson Associates.
You should have a broad range of GCSEs grade 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
Start your career ahead of the competition with our respected industry accreditation.
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Subjects
- Mechanical Engineering
- Design
- Team Training
- Engineering
- Global Design
- Design for Manufacture
- Engineering Fluid Mechanics
- Engineering Mathematics
- Strength of Materials
- Heat Transfer
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- Electrical Circuits & Devices
- Engineering Maths 1A
- Materials and Manufacturing Processes
- Programming for Engineers
- Electromechanics
- Engineering Maths 1B
- Engineering Mechanics
- Engineering Thermodynamics
- Global Design Challenge
You join all first-year students in the School of Engineering and Informatics in a team-based, week-long activity, the Global Design Challenge. Each team designs a solution to a problem faced by a community in the developing world. You develop transferable skills, benefiting both your studies and your future employability.
Year 2 at sussex
- Design for Manufacture
- Engineering Fluid Mechanics
- Engineering Mathematics 2
- Principles and Applications of Strength of Materials
- Computer Aided Design and Modelling
- Professional and Managerial Skills
- Systems Analysis and Control
- Thermal Power Cycles
Study abroad (optional)
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
Industrial placement (optional)An industrial placement gives you the chance to spend a year working with an organisation, in an area relevant to your course, while being paid. It’s a proven way to fast-track your career. Recent students have gone on placements at:
- EDF Energy
- GE Aviation
- YASA Motors.
You develop your technical, team-working and transferable skills, and apply what you have learnt in your studies to a business environment.
Year 3 at sussex
- Business and Project Management
- Dynamics of Machines & Vehicles
- Individual Project
- Design of Mechanisms and Machines
- Heat Transfer
Autumn teaching
- Engine Technology
- Fundamental Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Electrical Drive Systems
- Sensor Systems & Applications
- Vehicle Technology
Additional information
Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons)