Our Mechanical Engineering programme encourages you to think creatively to solve the world's biggest challenges. From energy efficiency to tools for microsurgery, there is a need for mechanical engineers across a huge range of industries.

The undergraduate degree will equip you with a sound basis in theoretical engineering principles and methods and their application in the context of design and analysis.

Youll apply your subject knowledge and problem-solving skills to develop innovative solutions to the current and emerging problems facing society. Youll have the opportunity to build and develop your professional network through industrial visits, and an optional industrial placement which, upon completion, will result in you being awarded a Diploma in Industrial Training (DIT). By applying your learned theory to hands on, practical work, youll gain the practical skills demanded by industry.

Students will spend the first two years at Forth Valley Colleges new state-of-the-art Falkirk Campus, before progressing to Heriot-Watt University to complete their Masters degree.

For further information, please visit the Heriot-Watt webpage here.

Year one and two – Falkirk Campus
Year three, four and five – Heriot-Watt University

This programme is accredited by IMechE.

Students completing an IMechE accredited degree are deemed to have met part or all of the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer, and are in a strong position to move on to achieve professional engineering status after a period of initial professional development in industry.