Manufacturing Engineering, BEng (Hons)

Are you passionate about creating innovative, efficient, and sustainable products? This course equips you with essential engineering knowledge and skills to enhance manufacturing productivity by minimising costs and waste, while ensuring timely delivery of products and services to industry standards.In the first two years, you will study core engineering fundamentals alongside mechanical engineering students, covering topics such as design, solid and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, vibration, control, and automation. The curriculum emphasises practical projects, including 3D printing and design-make-test activities in the department's workshop. In your third year, you will focus on manufacturing specialisations, including optional modules in operations management and human factors, while dedicating a third of the year to a group design-and-make project. This structure allows flexibility to align the course with your interests and fosters business communication skills for career advancement.

You will share the same first year across the department - developing knowledge of the engineering fundamentals, science and design. Throughout the course you will learn all about 3D printing, design, solid and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, vibration, control and automation. In design, the emphasis is on project work and in both the first and second years, you will undertake a design, make and test project, which you will manufacture in the department's student workshop. A third of your third year will be spent on a group design-and-make project. In addition to compulsory manufacturing modules, you will study a range of optional modules in manufacturing, operations management and human factors. This provides you with flexibility to tailor the course to your interests.