Undergraduate study
     

Engineering

BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering – Extended

  • UCAS code: H310 BEng/MEExt
  • Length: 4 years or 5 years with work placement, including foundation year

2012 entry

  • Fee for UK/EU students: £8,450
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  • Typical offer: Individual offer tailored to academic background, normally following an interview.
 

Ideal if you want a degree in an engineering discipline, but don’t have the qualifications you need – this is a great alternative route into higher education. In the first year, you enhance your understanding of maths, science and engineering principles, so you can proceed confidently.

Whether your passion is large or small-scale machines and mechanisms, you can look forward to applying what you learn to areas as diverse as energy and aerospace. Mechanical engineering plays a central role in automotive design, robotics, manufacturing and mechatronics – you may also work within aerospace, medicine and marine engineering. Skilled engineers are highly sought after.

Typical mechanical engineering graduates earn £20,000-£28,000pa, increasing to £40,000-£55,000 or higher after 10-15 years in the role (according to www.prospects.ac.uk, July 2011).

What you study

You study a range of mathematics and fundamental engineering, and gain the practical laboratory skills to prepare you for the remainder of your course. The remaining years of this course are the same as the BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering degree

Professional accreditation

This programme was first launched in 2011 and in accordance with the rules of the professional body there will be an application to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for accreditation to cover students entering the programme from 2011 onwards.

How you learn

You are expected to attend a range of lectures and problem-solving tutorials. You also use laboratory work widely to underpin the engineering principles studied. A series of laboratory-based activities provides a practical introduction to a range of engineering disciplines.

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 involves a range of types of assessment including coursework assignments, laboratory work, presentations and tests. You will also work in teams on design project, and in the final year you will have to complete a major individual project, including a poster presentation and project report.

Entry requirements

A typical offer might be 80-220 tariff points from at least one A level or equivalent, but we also accept alternative qualifications. The level of the tariff point offer will depend on the subjects that you have studied.

In addition to the above, all students are expected to have achieved a level in English equivalent to at least GCSE grade C and Mathematics equivalent to at least GCSE grade B. If either mathematics or English has been studied at a higher level then the higher level qualification can be considered in place of the requirement at GCSE level.

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