Mechanical Engineering with Robotics (with an industrial placement year) BEng (Hons)

• 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 gain a good grounding in the fundamentals of engineering, looking at topics including electrical circuits and devices, engineering mathematics, and programming for engineers.

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

• Engineering Fluid Mechanics
• Engineering Mathematics 2
• Mechanics of Mechanisms and Robots
• Principles and Applications of Strength of Materials

• Embedded Systems
• Industrial Automation Mechatronics
• Professional and Managerial Skills
• Systems Analysis and Control

You cover topics such as:

• fluid mechanics
• mechanics of robots and CAD
• embedded systems
• industrial automation mechatronics.

You continue to develop your mathematics knowledge.

We offer you the chance to take an industrial placement year as part of your course. The industrial placement provides you with the opportunity to spend a year working in industry, in an area relevant to your course, and to receive a salary.

Your time in industry develops your technical, team-working and transferable skills as you apply what you have learned in your studies to a business environment.

A year in industry is a proven way to fast-track your career and both the Department of Engineering and Design and the University’s Careers and Employability Centre provide you with dedicated placement support. This includes guided preparation early in your course to help you find, secure and succeed in your placement.

Many students who undertake an industrial placement perform better academically on their return to their course and are more likely to secure employment as a direct result of their year in industry.

Year 3 at sussex

• Business and Project Management
• Control Engineering
• Dynamics of Machines & Vehicles

• Robotics Individual Project

• Autonomous Vehicles
• Design of Mechanisms and Machines
• Robot Design and Implementation

You’ll work on a two-term individual project focusing on robotics. This includes training in project planning and management.

Taught topics include:

• autonomous vehicles
• robot design and implementation
• control engineering
• dynamics of machines and vehicles