Undergraduate study
     

Engineering

BEng (Hons) Instrumentation and Control Engineering

  • Length: 3/4 years
  • UCAS code: H660 BEng/ICNE
  • Typical offer: individualised offer following an interview or 280 tariff points. See entry requirements.
 

You would be hard pressed to go an entire day without encountering something which involves a sensor, instrument, computer or control system for automation designed and created by an engineer.

From everyday items such as traffic lights or automatic doors, to more complex systems like satellites, space shuttles and nuclear power plants, the number of uses for this instrumentation and control technology is virtually endless.

Learn the intricacies of digital electronics and microprocessors, networks and linear control, to create dynamic engineering systems which have a range of applications.

The BEng and MEng degrees from Teesside University have dual accreditation from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Measurement and Control, meaning that you are closer to chartered status upon graduation.

This, along with a year-long placement in industry, which gives your learning a practical focus, ensures you are in a great position to enter the job market at the end of your studies.

What you study

Year 1 provides a broad foundation to the subject area. Year 2 provides more advanced study and introduces more discipline-related subjects and your final year provides advanced study and allows you to specialise further in instrumentation and control or to extend your knowledge into electrical engineering.

How you learn

You will have a range of lectures, small-group tutorials and hands-on laboratory sessions. Part of your course will also involve a substantial research-based project.

The course has been designed to provide a number of contact teaching and assessment hours (such as lectures, tutorials, laboratory work, projects, examinations), but you are also expected to spend time on your own, called ‘self-study’ time, to review lecture notes, prepare coursework assignments, work on projects and revise for assessments. Each year of full-time study consists of modules totalling 120 credits and each unit of credit corresponds to ten hours of learning and assessment (contact hours plus self-study hours). So, during one year of full-time study you can expect to have 1,200 hours of learning and assessment.

How you are assessed

Your course will involve a range of types of assessment including coursework assignments, laboratory work, presentations and tests.

Professional placements

You are encouraged to spend your third year on an industrial placement. This provides the opportunity to gain relevant professional experience to enhance your technical knowledge and can improve employment prospects. Some find employment with their placement company after graduating.

Professional accreditation

This course has dual accreditation by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and by the Institute of Measurement and Control.

Career opportunities

Instrumentation and Control graduates can be involved in activities such as:

  • the design and maintenance of multimillion-pound chemical plants and manufacturing plants
  • the development of advanced measurement and control systems
  • environmental analysis and monitoring.

They contribute to almost every area of modern manufacturing, service and financial industries. Graduates from this course have found employment worldwide in a range of industrial and contracting companies including ABB, BASF, BNFL, Honeywell, Tioxide, Kavaerner, Sabic and Huntsman.

Entry requirements

Applicants are normally invited for an interview which enables them to see our excellent facilities and meet the staff and students. Each applicant will receive an individualised offer following an interview. In cases where an interview cannot take place the typical offer will be 280 tariff points from at least two A levels or equivalent, one of which should be in mathematics or physics or have substantial relevant mathematical content.

Applications from suitably-motivated mature students and those with other equivalent qualifications are warmly welcomed.

For additional information please see the standard University entry requirements.

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Modules

Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Year 1 core modules

Year 2 core modules

Final-year core modules

Non-credit bearing optional modules

  • A foreign language: German, French, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin)
  • In-sessional Academic English (for international students)
  • Professional Mentoring

You may select one or more of these modules.

Modules offered may vary.