BEng (Honours) Engineering (Mechanical)
UCAS code
H303Attendance
Full-time
Four years full-time (including one year work placement) or three years full-timeAt a glance
Benefit from excellent facilities on a course designed to produce professional and flexible mechanical engineers with Incorporated Engineer status from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In your third year, you can complete a paid placement with industry partners that include Cummins and EDF Energy.
Key points
Benefit from excellent facilities including rapid prototyping and materials testing.
Opportunity to gain experience in a paid one-year placement with multinationals like Bosch and Unilever.
Work alongside practising engineers studying part-time, sponsored by employers.
Practical course with a strong emphasis on hands-on laboratory experience.
What is mechanical engineering?
Mechanical engineering involves designing, developing, installing, operating and maintaining almost all objects with moveable parts. Most man-made items involve mechanical engineers during development or manufacture.
It is a diverse and exciting engineering discipline and covers many areas of our everyday lives. It provides many career opportunities in a climate of rapidly changing technologies and industrial practices.
About this course
You gain the specialist academic knowledge and complementary professional and personal skills needed to work in the mechanical engineering industry or to specialise in research and development.
You develop your intellectual and practical skills to design solutions to real problems. The hands-on nature of the course ensures that theoretical knowledge is complemented by practical skill. This course produces engineers immediately ready to work in the workplace.
You have access to a wide range of hardware and equipment, including computer-aided design (CAD) software such as ProEngineer, and analysis software such as Fluent, Abacus and Matlab. This ensures that you are skilled in using the industry standard tools and equipment needed by industry.
You develop your practical knowledge and ability using specialist facilities that include
rapid prototyping equipment to create accurate prototypes of product designs from CAD-generated information and a 5-axis machining centre which completes the CAD/CAM cycle
a robotics laboratory to study computer-controlled manufacturing equipment
an automotive workshop for engine testing
a wind tunnel for thermofluids studies
Once you have learnt skills and tested your ideas on campus you have the opportunity to take a one-year paid work placement in year three. Previous students have taken placements at companies such as EDF Energy Cummins Rolls-Royce Unilever Bosch.
Placement salaries are typically £12,000-£18,000 and allow you to apply your learning, develop new and existing skills, increase your industry knowledge and experience, and be more attractive to potential employers.
Full-time students benefit from working alongside part-time students who are practising engineers sponsored by employers.
Key areas of study
Key areas include engineering practice engineering mechanics computer methods.
Associated careers
As a graduate mechanical engineer you can find employment in engineering companies spanning manufacturing, design, research and development and production.
Depending on how you specialise during the course you can go into industries that include aerospace automotive transport building services medical engineering sport equipment design power generation alternative energy product testing project management.
Professional recognition
The course is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. This accreditation meets the academic requirements for you to register with the Engineering Council as an incorporated engineer after you graduate. You must also have completed the whole course with us.
Course content
Year one modules
engineering principles engineering practice engineering mathematics mechanical engineering computer methods for engineering design materials and manufacturing processes
Year two modules
thermofluids engineering design and manufacture mathematics for engineers engineering business management environment and society automated manufacture mechanics of solids and properties of materials dynamics control and instrumentation
Year three
optional work placement
Final year core modules
final year project project and quality management engineering structural analysis computational fluid dynamics industrial energy management hydraulics and pneumatics integrative design studies
Final year options
composite materials non-destructive testing engineering design for sustainability
Assessment
coursework project examinations
Entry requirements
2014 entry requirements
Normally five GCSEs at grade C or above including English language and mathematics, plus one of the following
220 points from at least two GCE/VCE A levels or BTEC National qualifications including mathematics or a mathematics-based subject to at least AS level
Foundation pass from the Extended Degree Programme Engineering and Mathematics, dependent on academic performance
Access an Access to HE Diploma with at least 45 credits at level 3 and 15 credits at level 2. At least 15 level 3 credits must be at merit grade or above, from a QAA-recognised Access to HE course, or an equivalent Access to HE certificate.
If English is not your first language you must have an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills or equivalent. If your English language skill is currently below IELTS 6.0 we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an equivalent English score.
We will make an offer to all applicants who are likely to achieve or better these entry requirements.
We welcome applications from people of any age. We may be flexible in our normal offer if you can show a commitment to succeed and have the relevant skills and experience. This must show that you will benefit from and finish the course successfully.
2013 entry requirements
Normally five GCSEs at grade C or above including English language and mathematics, plus one of the following
220 points from at least two GCE/VCE A levels or BTEC National qualifications including mathematics or a mathematics-based subject to at least AS level
Fees
Home and EU students
2013/14 academic year
For 2013 entry, membership of professional bodies is included in the course fee.
International students
2013/14 academic year
Typically £10,680 a year
2014/15 academic year
Typically £11,250 a year
How to apply
You apply for this course through UCAS.
Contact details
For more information or to check the progress of your application phone +44 (0)114 225 5555, fax +44 (0)114 225 2167, e-mail admissions@shu.ac.uk