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Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) - BEng (Hons)
High Wycombe Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
4.0 Year
Created by industry-experts and shaped by regional engineering employers, this BEng (Hons) Engineering Design programme will equipped you with the knowledge and skillset you’ll need to be able to identify solutions and solve complex and interesting engineering challenges.
Why study BEng (Hons) Engineering Design at BNU?Industry involvementOn this BEng (Hons) Engineering Design degree, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with industry-professionals and practitioners, as well as our working alumni. You’ll benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses and workshop sessions, live briefs, site visits and where possible, a contribution to the assessment of your work. This course has been developed to mirror today’s Engineering Design industry and continues to work closely with its own Industry Advisory Board to ensure the curriculum and teaching is relevant. Working with professionals allows us to ensure the course will help you to develop the skills and knowledge the industry is looking for. You’ll engage in real-world, practical activities that will prepare you for a successful career.
FacilitiesDuring your time with us you’ll have access to our state-of-the-art facilities, including:
Mechanical/Structural Labto include different Structural Test kits that will measure Deflection of Beams & Cantilevers, Bending Stress and Bending Moments etc.
Materials and Manufacturing Labto include 3D Metal Printer, Hardness Tester, Universal Tensile Testing, Impact Tester, Milling and Drill machines
Fluids and Hydraulics Labto include Digital Hydraulic Bench, Axial Flow Pump, Recirculating Flume, Hydro-electric Turbine and Surface Tension Balance.
Process and Energy Labto include HVAC unit, Air Conditioning Trainer, Process Trainer and Photovoltaic Cells
Concrete & Geotechnical Testing Labto include Slump Test, Concrete Density, Porosity, Flexural and Compression Testing, Soil Shear, Grading and Moisture Tests.
Electrical and Electronics Labto include Power and Energy Electronics, Modern Electrical Machine Systems, Three Phase Power Systems
Automation Labto include Dobot Smart Industry 4.0 Workstation, pneumatic, electro-pneumatic, PLC systems
Immersive Virtual RealityCAD LabStudy Options
This programme runs as a full-time course with a foundation year, structured across four years. We also offer the course with an additional placement year in your third year. This five-year option allows you to get hands-on within the industry, before you complete your studies.
What will I learn?Whether you want to explore transportation industries: such as rail, aeronautical and automotive, & infrastructure engineering services, or clean energy oil and gas industries, as an engineer you’ll play a crucial role in the shaping of our future world. This practical and hands-on engineering design course incorporates innovation and creativity at every stage of learning. During your time with us you’ll gain an extensive knowledge and critical understanding of professional ethics, social and cultural values in engineering. With a focus on sustainability, you’ll learn skills to help you identify and solve engineering problems, whilst meeting the needs of the industry and the forward-thinking sector.Our specialist modules cover a broad range of areas to ensure you gain a holistic overview of the industry, from emerging and sustainable technologies, computer aided design and simulation and thermofluids, to electromechanical systems, robotics, automation and sustainable materials. At all levels of the course, employability skills have been built into the programme to prepare you for work experience opportunities and to help you secure employment upon graduating. Throughout the course you’ll have the opportunity to work on live briefs set by engineering employers, all of which can later be added to your portfolio.
Foundation Year
The aim of this module is to provide you with the fundamental mathematical knowledge and techniques needed to successfully progress to undergraduate study in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. The module introduces you to, or refreshes your knowledge of, mathematical terms, basic algebra, calculus and geometry and trigonometry.
Foundation Year
The module aims to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices of engineering design. You’ll develop essential skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication within an engineering context. By the end of the module, you’ll have gained the ability to analyse engineering problems, generate innovative solutions, and effectively communicate their ideas through sketches, technical drawings, and reports.
Foundation Year
This module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of basic engineering science concepts, together with analytical and practical applications in engineering and built environment. It provides a broad foundation of knowledge that is required, and therefore prepares you for further studies in specific fields such as mechanical, design, electrical and civil engineering.
Foundation Year
The module aims to provide you with a fundamental understanding of the properties and behaviour of materials commonly used in engineering applications, as well as the principles governing the design and analysis of basic structures. You’ll develop the skills necessary to identify, select, and utilize appropriate materials for various engineering purposes. Additionally, the module seeks to introduce you to the principles of structural analysis, enabling you to comprehend the behaviour of simple structures under different loading conditions.
Foundation Year
The module aims to put your engineering design and science knowledge and skills into practice. Through Problem-Based Learning (PBL), the module resembles the technical workplace environment and provide you with an enhanced understanding of what it is to be an engineering and built environment professional.
Foundation Year
The aim of module is to develop your laboratory and workshop skills, computing skills, academic and professional skills, as a building block to your future studies and career in engineering and the built environment. Through a set of lab and workshop exercises, you will be introduced into experimentation, data collection and analysis. You will be introduced to simple logic-based computer programming.
The aim of this module is to develop your skills in the mathematical principles and theories that underpin the engineering curriculum. You’ll be introduced to mathematical methods and statistical techniques in order to analyse and solve problems within an engineering context.
This module aims to develop an appreciation of the characteristics, properties, behaviour, and application of materials commonly used in design-based disciplines. You’ll be introduced to the relationship between the selection of materials for various projects and the properties impacting construction and performance in use.
This module aims to develop a structured approach to the analysis of basic electrical circuits and systems, electromagnetism, electrical machines, transformer, semiconductor devices and the basic digital circuits with a wide range of power sources.
This module introduces you to all the stages of the Computer Aided Design (CAD) process and to the process of modelling components using CAD (e.g.: ECAD and MCAD) software specifically suitable for transferring to ECAD/MCAD software.
This module aims to provide the knowledge and understanding of the various types of electrical, mechanical, fluid, and thermal systems and their analogies, integrations, and applications. This module also aims to derive mathematical model of electromechanical systems and analyse their static and dynamic behaviour using Simulation Software.
The aim of this module is to introduce the techniques and best practices required to successfully create and manage an engineering project designed to identify a solution to an engineering need. While carrying out this project you’ll consider the role and function of engineering in our society.
The aim of this module is to introduce you to the methodical steps that engineers use for product transition into production to create functional products; from a design brief to the work, and the stages involved in identifying and justifying a solution to a given engineering need.
The aim of this module is to introduce you to the essential mechanical principles, strength of materials and mechanics associated with engineering applications. In addition, you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of undertaking experiments in a systematic manner.
This module aims to provide hands-on skills on design and fabrication to prepare you for contemporary industry and advanced engineering design and fabrication module at level 6 if you choose this option.
The aim of this module is to continue covering the topics discussed in “Strength of Materials and Mechanics.” It will provide you with advanced knowledge of the mechanical theories associated with engineering applications.
This module introduces you to the application of relevant Computer Aided Design (CAD), CFD, FEA and analysis engineering tools in contemporary engineering. You’ll learn about standards, regulations and legal compliance within the context of engineering.
The aim of this Module is to provide a rational understanding of functional thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in common industrial applications. The Module promotes a problem-based approach to solving realistic work-related quandaries such as steam plant efficiency and fluid flow capacities.
This module is designed to develop your understanding of the philosophies, strategies, techniques and applications of quality management in both the manufacturing and service industries. You’ll be introduced to the theories of marketing and finance functions of modern manufacturing companies through case studies.
This module will develop your understanding of the way in which design must be structured, analysed, controlled and assessed in order that functions can be achieved by manufacturing, assembling and maintaining in an efficient and economical way.
This module aims to develop your ability to assess a range of emerging and sustainable technologies to meet the net zero transitions across the energy, transport, water and waste. This module also aims to develop understanding of the three disciplines of sustainability: environmental, social and economic.
This module develops your ability to successfully undertake a project by illustrating the importance of analysis, creativity and innovation, planning, communication and self-discipline in the management and successful completion of a project. It is designed and developed to enable you to use planning and research tools.
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