This course incorporates business modules from the Management School. Along with extensive study in materials science, you'll take modules including behavioural approaches to the study of organisations, and understanding a market economy. Case studies, design projects, group industrial projects, laboratory work and manufacturing plant visits will help you learn how to tailor the structure, composition and processing of materials to meet design requirements. You'll also develop skills useful for managing a processing plant or research and development projects. In the third year, you'll complete a five-month industry placement in the engineering sector. This is followed by a group industrial project in your final year.

Our graduates are in demand and well paid. They work for international companies in industrial sectors such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, construction, sports and energy. They go into areas ranging from research and development to process engineering. Employers include Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Pilkington, Sheffield Forgemasters, Morgan Ceramics and TWI.