This brand new programme focusses on the aspects of mechanical engineering principles that underlie the generation, delivery and utilisation of energy including engineering design, complex fluid flow and heat transfer, operation of energy technologies and systems including renewables and their techno-enviro-economic analyses. Graduates will be equipped with knowledge and skills essential to design modern day conventional (coal, oil and gas) and new/renewable (solar, wind, biomass and non-conventional fossils) energy plants and components enabling them to be informed engineers who can effectively contribute to decision-making. Read about Student Industrial Work Placements. About Mechanical Engineering at Brunel From jet aircraft to air conditioning plant, from tunnelling machines to body-scanners, from technical consultancy to financial services such as insurance, mechanical engineers deal with the design and production of the machines, systems and structures that are taken for granted in the modern world. The range and diversity of career choice is consequently tremendous. In response to this diversity, we offer a variety of courses. Interacting with students from different specialisms and with different interests is an important part of the University experience. To help with this, we have introduced a multidisciplinary project for Level 1 students. This is a design-based competition between teams made up of students from a number of subjects. We also offer the Engineering with an Integrated Foundation Year course. The range of courses reflects several of our research interests: * energy and environmental engineering; * internal combustion engines and their fuels; * structures and materials; * fluid mechanics. Aims This course aims to prepare engineering graduates with the knowledge base, understanding and skills to play leading professional roles in industry involved in the design and operation of traditional and modern sustainable energy systems. The graduates will acquire expertise in the technological design and analysis and the environmental and economic implications of energy generation, supply and usage.

Careers Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey These statistics relate to graduates from a number of different pathways – Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering with Aeronautics, Mechanical Engineering with Automotive Design, Motorsport Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Aviation Engineering and Aviation Engineering with Pilot Studies. In 2011/12, six months after graduating: * 71.9% of graduates with a first degree were in employment * 13.5% were in full-time further study * 1.0% were combining work and study Read more about graduate destinations for this subject area Opportunities for graduates of this course exist throughout the world, as contributors to the challenging global energy market. The UK Climate Change Act 2008 includes legally binding targets for the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 80% by 2050. Internationally Kyoto Protocol has imposed similar conditions on signatory states. Methods of energy generation, sources of energy consumption, amount of energy demand and how it is delivered are understood to have a strong bearing on GHG emissions. Worldwide more efficient conventional power plants (including carbon capture and storage), nuclear, non-conventional fossils and renewables are being considered as viable generation alternatives. Private and public sectors are gearing up to meet this challenge - new cleaner conventional power plants are being implemented and renewables are being aggressively promoted through favourable policies, such as Feed in Tariff (FiT) and Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) schemes in the UK. Similar incentive schemes are being run in Spain, Germany, USA, India, Brazil and China among many other nations. Developing countries in Africa, Asia, South America and elsewhere are constructing new power infrastructure whilst overhauling the existing ones requiring advice on technical design, feasibility studies and enviro-economic analysis from energy consultancy companies. It is expected that graduates from this course will be suitable for and employed in these growing sectors. Research Graduates will be eligible to undertake directly supervised research, leading to the award of a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) either at Brunel University or any other university in the UK or elsewhere.