Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • 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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

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

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Electrical Circuits & Devices
  • Engineering Maths 1A
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Programming for Engineers
Spring teaching
  • Electromechanics
  • Engineering Maths 1B
  • Engineering Mechanics
  • Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Global Design Challenge
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

Autumn teaching
  • Design for Manufacture
  • Engineering Fluid Mechanics
  • Engineering Mathematics 2
  • Principles and Applications of Strength of Materials
Spring teaching
  • Computer Aided Design and Modelling
  • Professional and Managerial Skills
  • Systems Analysis and Control
  • Thermal Power Cycles
Study abroad or Placement

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

Autumn teaching
  • Business and Project Management
  • Dynamics of Machines & Vehicles
Autumn and spring teaching
  • Individual Project
Spring teaching
  • Design of Mechanisms and Machines
  • Heat Transfer
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Engine Technology
  • Fundamental Computational Fluid Dynamics
Spring teaching
  • Electrical Drive Systems
  • Sensor Systems & Applications
  • Vehicle Technology

Additional information

International students Fee :  £20,750 per year

Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.