BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

UCAS code: H300

Start date: September and January.  Applications should be for entry to years one and two only.

Course length: full time: three years, part time: up to six years. Please contact the faculty for further information.

Campus: Markeaton Street site, Derby Campus

This course is available to international students

This course gives you a sound basis in engineering principles and practical experience. You'll specialise in modules such as engineering design and modelling and engineering management. All of these subjects are essential to a modern mechanical engineer.

You'll also take an individual project module to extend your research and development skills and to give you real experience solving an engineering problem in industry. It's an excellent way for prospective employers to assess your skills for your first job or for career development.

A world leader in Engineering

Derby based Engineering giant Rolls Royce contributed £7.8billion towards the UK's GDP last year, and they have an order book worth more than £60billion which is ten times the size it was in 1992. Success of technology companies like Rolls Royce means that Derby is the UK's highest-earning city outside the South-East, with salaries at two-and-a-half times the national average. The company spends millions of pounds each year attracting the best available graduate talent and it employs more than 12,000 people in Derby, so you couldn't be better placed to start your engineering career.

If you don't have the appropriate qualifications to start this course, you can study the Technology Foundation Programme for a year first.  

You'll study a total of 120 credits per year. This will be made up of single or double modules.

Stage one

You'll study modules such as:

• Applied Scientific Methods
• Management of the Business Environment
• Computer Aided Design
• Engineering Design and Workshop Technology
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Regulatory Systems

Stage two

You'll study modules such as:

• Advanced Applied Analytical Methods
• Engineering Design Modelling
• Vibration and Dynamics
• Failure Analysis
• Corporate Responsibility and Professional Development
• Thermofluids
• Structural Analysis and Materials

DPP modules

You'll study modules such as:

• Applied Professional Practice
• Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice

Stage three

You'll study modules such as:

• Advanced Mechanical Design and Materials
• Advanced Operations Management
• Independent Study and Professional Development (Mechanical) (double module)
• Ethics, Environment and Innovation
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Advanced Engineering Design Modelling

Our entry requirements are usually 260 UCAS points, of which at least 220 will be from your core A2s (full A levels) or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Diploma, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers etc.

We'll accept up to 40 points towards the total from level 3 qualifications such as AS levels (where those AS levels are not taken on to A2 level), the Extended Project or Music qualifications.

We don't accept points from Key Skills Level 3. If you have any questions about what is or isn't accepted, please contact our Admissions team.

We also accept the Access to HE Diploma.

Your points at level 3 will be in addition to 5 GCSEs at grade C or equivalent level 2 qualifications.

The UCAS tariff points are a guide - we'll also consider all the information that you've included in your application. We'll also want to see that you're enthusiastic and motivated to take this course and that you have the potential to benefit from coming to university.

General undergraduate entry requirements

Fees for 2012/13

This is a resource intensive course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £7,495 (each year)
• Part time: £935 per module (you usually take 18 of these modules in total)

International students

• Full time: £9,975 (per year)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

Fees for 2013/14

This is a resource intensive course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £8,250 (each year)

We'll be announcing our part time and international fees for 2013/14 later in the year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

This course will prepare you to become an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) within the engineering industry, so you'll be ready for careers in mechanical engineering design, motorsport or automotive design and in applications of advanced materials.

You could go on to take an MSc Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and work towards becoming a Chartered Engineer.