Mechanical Engineering Design

You’ll begin your first year with the Stirling Engine design project. You’ll work with students from across our engineering courses to draw the engine’s parts, discover its physics, and test its thermodynamics, dynamics, and stress analysis. Then you’ll set up sensors to measure key performance indicators before you market and sell it on a global online marketplace.

Year 2 is your opportunity to gain a broader range of analytical skills and work on more group design tasks. Modules include Control Technology, Materials Engineering, Electronic Systems and Thermal Systems.

You can go on a professional work placement before starting year 3. Here, you’ll apply what you’ve learned so far on the course to industry projects. You’ll come back with new skills to apply in your third year, and experience that makes your CV competitive. Students have gone on placements at companies including Caterpillar, Cummins, and JCB.

Our teaching methods include seminars and lectures. You’ll have practical work in;

• laboratories
• computer labs
• workshops.

We emphasise the importance of information technology in modern engineering practice. Almost all our teaching involves computers and engineering software. 

All your Year 1 modules involve continuous assessment.

In Years 2 and 3 we assess you through written examinations. However some modules are assessed through coursework only.