Engineering

If you're interested in engineering, but have non-standard entry qualifications, or perhaps have been away from education for some time, the extended engineering course offers an alternative route into higher education. This one-year bridging course is designed to enhance your understanding of mathematics, engineering principles and underlying science so that after this preliminary year you can proceed onto your chosen degree in the fields of electrical, mechanical, chemical, civil or design engineering with confidence. Progression onto the degree programme is automatic on successful completion of the preliminary year. The combination of the engineering preliminary year followed by a degree is known as an Extended Engineering degree.

What you study

The year provides an excellent preparation for our engineering degree studies.

How you learn

You will have a range of lectures and problem-solving tutorials. You will 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 will involve a range of types of assessment including coursework assignments, laboratory work, presentations and tests.

Degree progression

The year is designed to enhance your understanding of engineering, science and mathematics so that, on completion, you can proceed automatically to the first year of your chosen engineering degree course.

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 60-120 tariff points from one A level or equivalent.

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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