Partner Details

Beaconhouse Group

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Engineering with Honours - BGH
Alternative Exit
Recruitable Target
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

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Educational Aims of the Course

The B.Eng. programme in Mechanical Engineering is designed to develop a high level of technical expertise together with the emotional intelligence to be able to practice successfully as a professional engineer in a modern interdisciplinary engineering environment. Graduate engineers are increasingly expected to take on important technical leadership and management responsibilities early in their careers and the knowledge and skills gained from this programme are designed to produce graduates who are able to make an immediate contribution to their employers organisations. The programme aims to: - Develop students transferable skills and professional behavioural traits that will allow students that complete the programme to hold responsible technical and managerial roles within a range of mechanical engineering and associated industries. - Deliver the educational experience in which students can develop their knowledge of engineering science, core engineering principles and fundamental underpinning subjects such as mathematics and computation. - Develop students confidence to analyse challenging technical problems and to further develop their core engineering knowledge and skills through the investigation and development of credible and robust solutions. - Provide students with appropriate support and encouragement to develop the necessary skills such that they can study independently and take responsibility for their own learning and subsequent professional development. - Provide engineering graduates with a range of highly relevant transferable skills such as team working, communication, management, problem solving, computing and technical computing. -Provide a programme of study that fully meets the requirements of the Engineering Councils UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UKSpec) for Incorporated Engineering status after completion of an appropriate period of industrial experience. - Produce graduates with an increased depth, breadth of knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering, management and teamwork to enable them to rapidly assume technical leadership and management roles. - For students undertaking a placement year the aim is to provide students with an extended period of work experience at an approved partner that will complement their programme of study. This will give the students the opportunity to develop professional skills relevant to their programme of study, as well as attitude and behaviours necessary for employment in a diverse and changing environment.

Learning Outcomes

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Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, theories and principles of their engineering discipline, and its underpinning science and mathematics. They must have an appreciation of the wider multidisciplinary engineering context and its underlying principles. They must appreciate the social, environmental, ethical, economic and commercial considerations affecting the exercise of their engineering judgment.
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Make general evaluations of commercial risks through some understanding of the basic of such risks.
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Demonstrate an extensive knowledge and understanding of management and business practices, and their limitations, and how these may be applied appropriately to strategic and tactical issues.
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Understand the requirement for engineering activities to promote sustainable development.
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Demonstrate an awareness of the framework of relevant legal requirements governing engineering activities, including personnel, health, safety, and risk (including environmental risk) issues.
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Understand the need for a high level of professional and ethical conduct in engineering.
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Illustrate an understanding of and the ability to apply a systems approach to engineering problems.
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Apply practical engineering skills acquired through, for example, work carried out in laboratories and workshops; in industry through supervised work experience; in individual and group project work; in design work; and in the development and use of computer software in design, analysis and control. Evidence of group working and of participation in a major project is expected.
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Demonstrate a thorough understanding of current practice and its limitations and some appreciation of likely new developments.
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Demonstrate an extensive knowledge and understanding of a wide range of engineering materials and components.
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Understand the context in which engineering knowledge can be applied (e.g. operations and management, technology, development, etc).
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Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the scientific principles of mechanical and related engineering disciplines.
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Demonstrate a wide knowledge and comprehensive understanding of design processes and methodologies and the ability to apply and adapt them in unfamiliar situations.
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Illustrate an understanding of customer and user needs and the importance of considerations such as aesthetics.
15.
Identify and manage cost drivers.
16.
Generate an innovative design for products, systems, components or processes to fulfil new needs.
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Ensure fitness for purpose for all aspects of the problem including production, operation, maintenance and disposal.
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Demonstrate an ability to manage the design process and evaluate outcomes.
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Demonstrate transferable skills including problem solving, communication, and working with others, as well as the effective use of general IT facilities and information retrieval skills.
20.
Demonstrate the use of technical literature and other information sources.
21.
Demonstrate an awareness of nature of intellectual property and contractual issues.
22.
Demonstrate the understanding of appropriate codes of practice and industry standards.
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Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and understanding of mathematical and computer models relevant to the mechanical and related engineering disciplines, and an appreciation of their limitations
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Illustrate an awareness of quality issues.
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Demonstrate an ability to apply engineering techniques taking account of a range of commercial and industrial constraints.
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Demonstrate an understanding of concepts from a range of areas including some outside engineering, and the ability to apply them effectively in engineering projects.
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Demonstrate an awareness of developing technologies related to mechanical engineering.
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Use fundamental knowledge to investigate new and emerging technologies
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Extract data pertinent to an unfamiliar problem, and apply its solution using computer based engineering tools when appropriate.
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Apply mathematical and computer-based models for solving problems in engineering, and the ability to assess the limitations of particular cases.
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Apply appropriate quantitative science and engineering tools to the analysis of problems. They must be able to demonstrate creative and innovative ability in the synthesis of solutions and in formulating designs. They must be able to comprehend the broad picture and thus work with an appropriate level of detail.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The programme is delivered online supported by on-campus practicals and laboratories. The assessment is a combination of both online and on-campus assessment (on-campus is mainly for examinations). Acquisition of underpinning knowledge is achieved mainly through online lectures and directed student-centred learning. Student-centred learning is used where appropriate resource material is available. Understanding is reinforced through case-studies. Testing of the knowledge base is through a combination of unseen written examinations, online assessment, coursework in the form of case-study reports and coursework assignment submissions. The students must appreciate the social, environmental, ethical, economic and commercial considerations affecting the exercise of their engineering judgement. Acquisition of Intellectual skills is achieved mainly through online lectures and direct student-centred learning. Student-centred learning is used where appropriate resource material is available. Understanding is reinforced through case-studies. Engineering design, analysis and practical skills are taught almost exclusively by individual and group project work supported by a online lecture programme appropriate to the demands of the project. Engineering design and practical skills are assessed by individual and group written design project reports, student presentations and presentations using computer graphics. The economic, Social and Environmental context of engineering operations is delivered by means of online lectures and case studies. The use of appropriate case study material is an essential part of teaching in this area. Assessment is via a combination of unseen written examinations and coursework in the form of case-study reports.

Opportunities for work related learning

Students are encouraged to undertake a year's industrial placement between Level 5 and 6. There is a further opportunity to undertake summer placements between academic years to gain valuable industrial experience. There are also opportunities to complete industrially based projects via individual engineering projects at Level 6.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

Option Modules Student are required to select two option modules at L6. The options are:- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Thermodynamics Structural Integrity Dynamics and Control Students have the option to undertake a placement year. The placement year, module 5508MECBHG will follow Level 5 and students will be enrolled on … For more content click the Read More button below.

Structure

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

In accordance with Engineering Council requirements, a maximum of 30 credits on this programme can be awarded by compensation.

Entry Requirements

A levels
Alternative qualifications considered
BTECs
International Baccalaureate
Other international requirements

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH10-01) engineering