Our Mechanical Engineering BEng(Hons) with integrated foundation year course offers an extra year to prepare you for degree-level study. Choosing the foundation year means you’ll enter your degree fully prepared. You’ll feel at home on campus, have established relationships with the staff in your academic school, and most important you’ll be excited about your subject. You’ll be well-equipped to dive into your degree from day one.When you successfully complete the foundation year, you can progress to the Mechanical Engineering BEng(Hons) when you’ll work with other engineering students and innovative researchers on challenging and rewarding projects, such as fighting robots, rocket cars, and the international Engineering Without Borders challenge.

- Foundation year that opens up opportunities in engineering if you don’t hold the required qualifications, are changing career or returning to study.- Exciting project work that mirrors industry.- Learn with researchers with expertise in remanufacturing, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.- Student-led Sustainable Technology and Engineering Projects (STEP) lab – working to solve energy challenges.- Specialist facilities include flight and car simulators, wind tunnel, prototyping labs and workshops, CNC machines, and robotics and VR labs.- Progress to degree accredited by IMechE and IET.- Professional engineers visit to share their experiences in guest lectures. - Gain a year of work experience on placement.