If you want to become a professional chartered engineer, this programme provides the best way of achieving your goal. Once qualified, you will be well placed to step into a good career as this degree fully meets the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer. It is a four-year MEng programme that gives you a broad and extended education at an advanced level in many aspects of engineering.
Department Key Facts
Number of first year students
302
Number of applications per year
2,391
Graduate prospects
89.9% of our graduates are employed or in further study within 6 months of graduating. (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Report 2007/08).
Department resources
Excellent experimental and computing facilities that support a wide portfolio of single-discipline and interdisciplinary research. A £32 million modernisation of the Department, installing the latest teaching and research facilities, has recently been undertaken. The breadth of our research reflects the diversity and creativity of our internationally renowned staff.
Research performance
Research activity deemed world-leading or internationally excellent= 70% (Materials), 60% (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering), 50% (Civil Engineering). Research activity classified as internationally recognised = 30% (Materials), 35% (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering), 25% (Civil Engineering). Materials has the 2nd highest proportion in the UK classified as world-leading.
During the first year you will study the core mechanical subjects (Mechanics of Solids, Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Fluids), the core electrical subjects (Electrical Circuits and Systems, Digital Electronics) and core materials subjects. These are supported and supplemented by Mathematics, Computational Methods and Engineering Design. In the second year you will continue to study both mechanical and electrical topics, including Power Generation and Distribution (both mechanical and electrical aspects), Dynamic Systems, and Design and Mechanics of Solids. Your electrical studies will broaden to include Software Development in C, Microprocessors and Control, while your materials studies will investigate Materials Processing and Selection. Your supporting subjects will include mathematics and business management.
In the third year you will study a broad range of advanced mechanical and electrical topics, including Structural Failure Modes, Engineering Systems, Instrumentation and advanced management studies. You also start a two-year individual project in which you investigate a mechanical, electrical, design or materials topic, and you also undertake a group project working alongside single discipline electrical engineering students. In your fourth year you continue the individual project, and undertake a group mechanical design project working alongside single-discipline mechanical engineering students.
Advanced modules in mechanical, electrical and management topics are also studied to maintain the advanced multidisciplinary nature of your degree.
