Mechanical Engineering is a great course. The dynamic between the lectures and practical sessions really help towards your further development of learning.
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Overview
Whether it’s making the clothes on our backs or picking the crops from fields, mechanical engineering and advanced manufacturing is all around us.
Our degree will prepare you for the challenges of this ever-evolving sector. You’ll finish your degree with industry-ready skills and creativity to overcome the next generation of challenges. Designed and run in collaboration with business, and utilising the pioneering CDIO approach, this degree is rewarding and opens up real-world career pathways.
Our foundation year option enables you to join the Mechanical Engineering (Advanced Manufacture) course even if you don’t have the formal qualifications or experience to meet the entry requirements. It equips you with the knowledge to move into formal degree study, setting you up for future success.
On completion of the course you'll be on track to become an Incorporated Engineer.
Why Study Mechanical Engineering (Advanced Manufacture) with Foundation Year?
Mechanical (advanced manufacture) engineers design, develop, implement, and maintain advance manufacturing methods aimed at improving manufacturing industry and processes. This enables UK manufacturing to meet local and global market demands and provide cost effective, quality and timely manufacturing solutions for customers.
Our hands-on course will prepare you to enter an engineering career with varied and exciting prospects. You'll study engineering and manufacturing to understand their role in production processes and you'll gain expertise in product creation processes from design to end manufacture.
During the foundation year, you'll develop your engineering, science and computing knowledge and you'll gain skills to prepare you to study at degree level.
There is a strong practical element to the course and you'll spend a significant amount of time in workshops and laboratories using your enquiring mind and demonstrating your technical skills and creativity.
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements are typically 32-112 UCAS points including minimum 5 GCSEs (including maths, English language and science). However, students who have typically:
- 32-88 UCAS points at Level 3 and studied at least one of the following: A level maths, A level physics, A level applied science, A level engineering, BTEC Engineering Diploma.
- 88-112 UCAS points at Level 3 and who have not studied: A level maths, A level physics, A level applied science, A level engineering, BTEC Engineering Diploma.
- 32-112 UCAS points at Level 3 in maths, science or engineering and who have not been in full-time/part-time education for many years.
Further entry requirements
- 5 GCSEs grade C/4 or above (including maths, English, science)
- Science can be physics, chemistry, biology or computer science
The course will provide you with further science and maths knowledge and understanding that underpins mechanical engineering. It will help you develop your higher education learning skills in science and maths to support your further pursuit of studying a MEng/BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering (Advanced Manufacture).
32-112
UCAS Points
All about the course
The foundation year will give you study skills and foundations of engineering that you need to start Year 1 of the degree. You'll learn about general engineering science, physics, chemistry, computer programming and maths, and you'll develop higher education study skills.
As you progress through the degree, you'll learn about professional practical engineering and you'll study engineering design and engineering science. You'll then go on to explore mechanical engineering in more depth and you'll study modules that are specific to manufacturing engineering, such as manufacturing control, instrumentation and communication, and design and analysis for automated manufacture.
All through the course, you'll experience plenty of hands-on learning through active learning laboratories, engineering laboratories and the use of engineering workshops and makerspace. You will undertake small group projects, typically sourced from industry. You'll also develop skills enabling you to:
- work effectively and supportively in diverse and inclusive groups
- communicate effectively in groups and one to one
- apply project management to group-work
- apply principles of commercial management and consideration of wider issues.
Each year you'll undertake a large group project. These projects, which are typically sourced from industry, will help you to develop your learning in engineering business, practice and project management.
In year 1, you'll have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding and some application. As you progress to year 2, you'll apply your knowledge and understanding to conceive, design, build and operate a solution to a problem. In your third year, you will undertake an individual research and development project that will inform the group project and help you to develop and illustrate the ability to critically analyse the application of your knowledge and understanding to solve an engineering problem.
You'll also have the opportunity to undertake a work placement and gain valuable experience working alongside industry experts.
Module information
Please note that the list of optional modules and their availability may be subject to change. We continually review and where appropriate, revise the range of modules on offer to reflect changes in the subject and ensure the best student experience. Modules will vary when studied in combination with another subject.
Core/optional modules
How you’ll learn
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, laboratory work and workshops.
Seminars and tutorials in smaller groups will enable you to discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures. In addition, you will meet with your academic personal tutor and will spend a significant amount of time gaining hands-on experience in the computing and engineering laboratories.
In each academic year you will complete a team CDIO project (typically sourced from industry) in a 40 credit module. These large group projects provide you with the opportunity to reflect on your knowledge and understanding in context to a real-world scenario and develop your confidence in your mechanical and product engineering understanding and knowledge.
Additional drop-in academic and peer learning mentoring sessions will be typically timetabled and you will be encouraged to make use of and support these sessions to develop your learning.
We will also nurture your transferable skills so you can:
• work effectively in diverse and inclusive groups
• communicate effectively in groups and one-to-one
• apply project management to group-work
• apply principles of commercial management and solutions considerations
• develop effective communication with professionals from other disciplines, especially clinicians
• contribute to industry through your solutions
• provide tangible results for your portfolio of evidence for future employment.
All courses are informed by the University’s Learning and Teaching Strategy 2015-2022.
Each 20 credit module requires 200 hours of input over the academic year. This includes class contact time in lectures, tutorials, workshops, laboratory work, module preparation, module learning contextualisation, assessment research, development and submission, and examination revision.
The contact time per module is typically a blend of lectures, laboratories and tutorials and equates to:
• Foundation year 60 hours
• Year 1 60 hours
• Year 2 50 hours
• Year 3 40 hours
Typical contact time per week:
• Foundation year 15 hours
• Year 1 15 hours
• Year 2 12.5 hours
• Year 3 10 hours
When not attending lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops or other timetabled sessions you will continue learning through self-study. Typically, this involves reading books and articles from academic journals, undertaking research in the library, and preparing for coursework assignments/examinations and seminars.
Your module tutor will direct you towards specific readings and/or activities to complete before class.
The modules are led by our engineering academic team consisting of lecturers, senior lecturers and principal lecturers. Laboratory learning is further supported by senior and junior technicians and postgraduate demonstrators.
Everyday our world is changing with innovative technologies, we are determined to support you in this exciting journey through our professional Mechanical Engineering degree course.
Ghazal SheikholeslamiProgramme Director
How you’ll be assessed
All academic years consist of a mix of modules that are assessed by coursework only, to modules that are assessed by examination and coursework. Examinations may be open-book or closed book exams. Coursework may include, Engineering log book, Technical drawings, Wiki pages, blogs, pitches to industry, posters, leaflets, engineering manual, etc.
The foundation year (Year 0) consists of 6 non-credit bearing modules.
Years 1-3 (Levels 4-6) consist of 4 modules that are 20 credits each and 1 module that is 40 credits.
In the modules and module assessment you will need to demonstrate:
- Knowledge and understanding of engineering science and principles engineering at Level 4;
- Application of knowledge and understanding of Mechanical Engineering at Level 5;
- Critical analysis of application of knowledge and understanding of Mechanical Engineering at Level 6.
The 40 credit modules will provide you with the opportunity to work on a substantial group CDIO (Create, Design, Implement and Operate) project typically sourced from industry. These projects will provide you with the opportunity to build your technical skills, as well as your professional practice skills. The pioneering CDIO approach is being designed to enable you to develop your creative skills to find solutions based on engineering science, principles and provide practical benefits to end users, and manufacturers.
The Level 6 Professional Mechanical Engineering Project 40 credits module will entail group and individual project. The overall group project will be typically sourced from industry, and will require a number of individual projects to support a solution to the overall group project. Each individual project will entail dissertation assessment. Each group will be led and managed by a Level 7 MEng student studying the Professional Engineering Project and Management module. Each Level 7 student will research, develop, apply and test through the development of their own evaluation methods to critically analyse a more complex problem that contributes to the Level 6 Professional Product Engineering group. Each Level 6 and 7 individual projects within the group project will entail a dissertation.
Level 7 students will be responsible to lead and manage integration of all the project solutions to provide an integrated system, and verifying and validation that the solutions are timely, cost effective and are the desired quality, in addition to meeting IS standards, current and anticipated future regulations and public policy, ethical considerations, patents, health and safety.
Fees
The 2020/21 annual tuition fees for this course are:
| UK / EU | Overseas | |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time - Foundation Year 0 | £7,050 | £9,910 |
| Full-time - years 1-3 * | £9,250 | £13,000 |
| Full-time - placement year * | £1,850 | N/A |
Tuition fees for all courses are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
* The tuition fees of £9,250 / £13,000 / £1,850 relate to 2020/21 only. Please read the 2020/21 Tuition Fee Statement for further information regarding 2020/21 tuition fees and year on year fee increases.
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- See information about the financial support available for undergraduate studies
- If you would like information about paying your fees, please contact accounts.receivable@canterbury.ac.uk
- For specific fee queries, please contact fees@canterbury.ac.uk
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