Overview

Career boost

If you have a HND in Mechanical Engineering and are looking to extend your technical and application skills, then this one-year Top-up course is for you. Design and develop engineering systems for a variety of fields in today's fast-changing marketplace, focusing on manufacturing. Expect to gain industry-critical skills in team work and leadership, and learn to communicate effectively and exchange ideas with specialist professionals and a wider audience.

Employability

Mechanical engineers work in almost every sector you can think of – energy, transport, aviation, robotics, pharmaceuticals and the motor or marine industries. As an engineer, you can be a problem-solver, a technical specialist, a e types of projects you’ll work on are interesting and varied and there’ll always be something new to motivate and inspire you.

By completing this BEng (Hons) Top-up course successfully you open the door to a further postgraduate qualification and with it the option to become an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer.

Take a look at some potential careers, including mechanical engineer, on Prospects.

Our graduates work with world-class companies including Rolls-Royce, KBR and EDF in roles within research and development, design, manufacture, testing and installation.

Teaching and learning

Your lecturers are leading practitioners in their fields, so everything we do is industry relevant. You'll learn through lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical work. Taking on both group and individual projects, we assess your work through a mixture of coursework and exams, with project and laboratory work counting towards your final award.

We also teach you the life skills of effective communication, problem solving, project planning and team working that will set you apart and give you the best chance of getting the job you want after you graduate.

The amount of project-based learning that you'll do on an engineering degree varies from university to university. At LSBU we offer 'design-make-test' projects throughout the degree course rather than concentrating them all into your final year. This means that you'll adapt theoretical principles to solve real-world engineering problems very early on in your university career.