Mechanical Engineering with a Year in Industry

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

All students spend the first two years following the same core programme of studies, which provides the fundamental knowledge and intellectual and practical skills that are required by all mechanical engineers.

In year three you spend time on an industrial placement with a relevant employer, ensuring real-world experience of mechanical engineering with a focus of putting theory into practice.

In year four you select a substantial individual project and choose further optional modules, which are taught at Master’s level.

You will be expected to achieve at least 40% in each academic year in order to pass, as well as other requirements (see Teaching and Assessment).

• Applied Mathematics
• Design and Manufacture 1
• Fluid Mechanics 1
• Materials 1
• Mathematics 1
• Mechanical Engineering Coursework 1
• Mechanics 1
• Mechatronics 1
• Stress Analysis 1
• Thermodynamics 1

• Design and Manufacture 2
• Dynamics
• Fluid Mechanics 2
• Heat Transfer
• Management and Business for Engineers
• Materials 2
• Mathematics 2
• Mechanical Engineering Coursework 2
• Mechatronics 2
• Stress Analysis 2
• Thermodynamics 2

Your third year is spent completing an industrial placement in a relevant industry.

In the fourth year you study a combination of core and optional modules.

The below modules are assessed by examination:

• Machine System Dynamics
• Thermodynamics and Energy

These modules are assessed by coursework:

• Design, Make and Test Project
• Engineering Ethics
• Literature Research Project

You can begin to specialise in a direction that matches your developing interests and career plans by choosing five optional modules in a particular area or, alternatively, over the whole range of mechanical engineering.

• Computational Continuum Mechanics
• Embedded C for Microcontrollers
• Finite Element Analysis and Applications
• Fluid Mechanics 3
• Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics
• Introduction to Nuclear Energy
• Mathematics 3
• Statistics
• Stress Analysis 3
• Structure, Properties and Applications of Polymers
• System Design and Optimisation
• Tribology

• Business for Professional Engineers and Scientists
• Design-led Innovation and New Venture Creation
• Manufacturing Technology and Management
• Technology, Business and the Market

Only three Design and Management modules can be counted toward your final degree as a whole.

You can choose one module from Imperial Horizons, allowing you to take non-technical business or humanities subjects such as:

• languages
• history
• philosophy
• management studies

You undertake a substantial individual project and choose further optional modules, which are taught at Master’s level.

• Individual research project

You choose modules from the below lists.

• Aircraft Engine Technology
• Mechanical Transmissions
• Metal Processing Technology
• Vehicle Propulsion Technology

• Advanced Control*
• Advanced Stress Analysis*
• Advanced Vibration Engineering*
• Combustion*
• Computational Continuum Mechanics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics*
• Embedded C for Microcontrollers
• Finite Element Analysis and Applications*
• Fluid Mechanics 3
• Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics
• Interfacing and Data Processing*
• Introduction to Nuclear Energy
• Mathematics 3
• Nuclear Reactor Physics*
• Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics*
• Statistics
• Stress Analysis 3
• Structure, Properties and Applications of Polymers
• System Design and Optimisation
• Tribology

You will take at least two modules marked with an asterisk (*).