Undergraduate study
     

Engineering

At Teesside University our focus is on your career path, not just your graduation day. Our core objective is to develop our students into the most ‘employment-ready’ graduates, able to compete for employment positions with the very best graduates being produced by UK universities.

We emphasise team projects, problem solving and case study exercises. Our curriculum blends theory and knowledge in the context of business, society and the environment – all necessary in developing the skills employers value most. In addition to the above, our professional mentoring scheme means you can team up with a professional engineer outside the University. This provides a direct link to commercial engineers, industry and employment experience.

Teesside is a major international centre for the chemical and process industries and is home to some of the most advanced pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies in the world. The region also hosts major international engineering design and construction industries, as well as a growing number of companies involved in renewable energy.

We enjoy close links with these industries, many of which are involved in the design and delivery of our courses to ensure these meet the demands of the workplace. This makes Teesside University well placed to provide a suite of engineering degrees relevant to today's employers.

The core philosophy behind all our engineering courses is our aim to ‘develop the problem solvers, innovators and leaders of the future’.

Accreditation

Accreditation is a mark of assurance that the degree meets the standards set by the Engineering Council in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC). An accredited degree will provide you with some or all of the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills for eventual registration as an Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng). Some employers recruit preferentially from accredited degrees, and an accredited degree is likely to be recognised by other countries that are signatories to international accords.

Accreditation is carried out by the individual professional engineering institutions under licence from the Engineering Council. A degree may be accredited by more than one engineering institution, particularly where it spans several engineering disciplines.

The minimum academic requirement for accreditation to Chartered Engineer status is a Master’s level qualification. This can be either a MEng (Hons) award or a BEng (Hons) award and an approved postgraduate MSc award.

Teesside University offers undergraduate programmes that lead to either a BEng (Hons) or MEng (Hons) award, as well as a number of accredited postgraduate MSc programmes. The MEng programmes build upon the BEng programmes by incorporating additional modules which provide a broadening of knowledge in peripheral subjects and also deeper level of knowledge and understanding in core technical subjects. Teesside MEng programmes also include management and leadership skills to equip our graduates with the attributes needed to become leaders in their chosen fields. The flexible structure of our programmes allows you to transfer between BEng and MEng programmes up to the end of your second year of study.

The accreditation status of individual programmes is provided in the programme information pages.

Engagement with industry and employers

If you participate in our innovative Employer Mentoring Scheme you will gain a head start towards a successful career. By linking undergraduate students to successful practising professionals, scientists and engineers, our Employer Mentoring Scheme helps you gain a clear understanding of the needs of employers. This ensures that you identify and develop the skill sets and attributes you will need in order to be successful in your chosen careers.

Whichever course you choose, you can forge links with industrial companies, especially if you undertake an industrial professional training year. We can help you find sponsorship, industrial professional training or an industry-based final-year project.

First-class facilities

You'll study in a purpose-built, high-quality learning environment. Alongside seminar rooms and a 200-seat lecture theatre there are specialist engineering laboratories. These include designated areas for the built environment, computer-aided design and manufacture, control systems and automation, electrotechnology and telecommunications. In addition there are specialist pilot plant facilities for chemical and mechanical engineering on the University site.

A new nanotechnology facility allows typical semiconductor processes such as photolithography, and material deposition and etching techniques to be carried out in a controlled environment. Other microfabrication systems are integrated into the facility, together with atomic force microscopy equipment.

Research and enterprise

Research and innovation is carried out within the Technology Futures Institute with areas of focus that include process innovation, engineering and technology management and sustainability. We generate annual income in excess of £2m for this activity. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 80% of our engineering research activity was judged to be at international level, with the remainder being nationally recognised. A substantial 25% of our international-level research was rated as being internationally excellent.

Engineering

Excellent prospects

From the curriculum of our courses to our Employer Mentoring Scheme, everything is designed to produce highly employable graduates for a career in a range of engineering, industrial and contracting companies. In addition to theoretical and technical knowledge, you gain practical experience plus a range of transferable skills, including communication, management, analytical and IT skills.

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  • Study in the heart of one of the UK's most important engineering regions on a course we developed in close collaboration with industry
  • Qualify with a professionally accredited engineering degree
  • Get involved in real-world case studies and paid practical placements
  • Use our specialist engineering labs with designated areas for the built environment, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer-aided design and manufacture, control systems, electrotechnology and telecommunications