This Engineering BEng will prepare you for a career as a professional engineer at the forefront of high-tech industry, in both technical and managerial roles.You will gain extensive practical experience and skills, as well as a thorough theoretical knowledge. You can choose to add a placement year to gain additional, relevant experience.This course allows you to keep your options open while equipping you with all the analytical, design, programming and computing skills required for an exciting engineering career.The first year provides a broad curriculum and your final two years will see you focus on areas aligned to the School's research interests.CareersThe broad scope of this degree prepares you for a wide range of careers. We will give you a firm grounding in the fundamental aspects of mechanical engineering, materials science, thermodynamics, heat-transfer, electronics and computer science. The promotion of meta cognitive learning throughout this programme means that you will be able to draw on your deep knowledge of each discipline to provide creative solutions in a broad range of engineering careers.A key aim of this degree is to produce high quality mechanical and materials engineers able to take on posts typical of these fields such as design engineer, automotive engineer, metallurgist, manufacturing engineer and process engineer. In addition, the degree emphasises the application of contemporary digital approaches to the core engineering disciplines. This degree produces graduates who are proficient in simulation and modelling. They are also adept at data collection, manipulation and analysis. These digital skills mean that careers in control and instrumentation, data-science, IT and software development are all possible destinations following graduation. Energy and low carbon engineering are cross cutting themes during the degree meaning that graduates are environmentally and socially aware. This degree also prepares you for careers in the rapidly expanding low-carbon sector. You will also be well equipped with the skills required by research careers in either academia.Throughout the degree we offer training to prepare you for your professional practice. This includes courses on project planning, advice on CV creation, interview practice and career planning. You will also undertake individual and group projects in the third and fourth years requiring time management, project documentation and collaborative working. The final year also includes seminars delivered by successful engineers to show the breadth and diversity of engineering careers, allowing students to steer their careers more effectively.