BEng (Hons) Engineering
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Key Details
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Bachelor of Engineering
- UCAS Course Code
- H100
- Entry Requirements
- ABB (specific subject requirements apply).
- Course Length
- 3 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2023
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Why you should choose us
Of graduates go on to work and/or study within 15 months after the course
Course Overview
This three-year course will help you develop your capacity to answer society’s biggest questions and provide you with the tools for integrated learning.
Engineering is the pursuit of solutions. Engineers are arguably the most significant shapers of society, poised to lead the innovations of the digital revolution. Studying at UEA will bring the opportunities of this new industrial phase to your learning experiences. You’ll graduate as a digital change-agent, enabling engineering industries to deliver smarter digital responses to societal challenges.
Throughout this course, you’ll have the opportunity to explore several pathways of engineering before choosing a specialised pathway, such as mechanical or electronic and electrical engineering. Alternatively, you may choose to remain on the general engineering pathway, focusing on a breadth of knowledge and skills.
This is a three-year course that will nurture your curiosity and give you the tools, experience, and insight you need to pursue a career in engineering.
Our engineering courses follow an integrated programme structure for the first year. This broadens your insight into the wealth of opportunity that is available to you as a student of engineering, as you forge your future career pathway. In your second year, you can tailor your course to pursue the areas of study that are of particular relevance to you. You may choose to keep your degree focused on a breadth of learning or alternatively you can pursue a learning pathway more closely aligned to Mechanical or Electronic and Electrical engineering. You’ll have further access to experience and resources from across UEA Schools such as Environmental Sciences, Computing Sciences and Mathematics, ensuring that your learning opportunities match your personal and career ambitions. Throughout your course, we will facilitate connections with our extensive network of industrial contacts through the Select partnership programme and UEA internship schemes. You’ll also encounter a varied range of role models, site visits and experiences that will shape your learning and future in engineering, to help you explore the many potential career paths you might choose to follow.
This course is perfect for aspiring engineers who are committed to studying for three years – with the option to extend your learning.
Placement Year and Study Abroad
Accreditations
This course is professionally accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
It fully meets the academic requirements for the award of Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status, which may be achieved following a period of experiential learning in employment (also known as initial professional development or IPD). Further Master’s level study will be required to register for Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
Completing an accredited course enables you to demonstrate to employers your knowledge, abilities, skills, and competencies as specified in the Engineering Council's UK-SPEC4.0.
Professionally recognised engineers can benefit from improved career prospects and higher earning potential. This accreditation is an international recognition and can also pave the way to further career opportunities abroad.
Study and Modules
Structure
In your first year, through the Engineering Design and Practice module, you’ll take on design projects that draw on your problem-solving skills and engineering knowledge to resolve challenges faced within overseas communities. Engineering Principles and Analysis will allow you to study a number of more focused engineering disciplines. Introductions to mechanical, electronic/electrical, and energy engineering are delivered through active learning involving experimentation.
After these introductions, you’ll be given the flexibility to choose your degree pathway based on what you’ve learnt. You can choose your preferred path at any point before the start of your second year or, with appropriate module choices, delay the decision until the end of your second year.
Compulsory Modules
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Assessment
Structure
Building on themes from the first year, you’ll be exposed to electronic and electrical engineering, together with the fundamentals of mechanics, dynamics and vibration—preparing you for subsequent multidisciplinary projects. The Engineering Design Project will integrate all the disciplines that you have studied in mechanical, energy, structural and electronic/electrical engineering, allowing you to demonstrate your growing development as an engineer capable of applying your learning.
Prior to entering the final year, you may want to take advantage of the flexible ways in which UEA can connect you with industry by participating in the Select programme, a speed-interview event attended by several prestigious engineering organisations.
If you achieve 60% or above in your second year you may be eligible to transfer onto our four-year MEng Engineering programme, subject to maintaining this performance at Level 6. With either of our three-year BEng or four-year MEng degrees, you will be able to extend your applied learning by participation in our Year in Industry programmes. These programmes support your commercial awareness and improve your career prospects while helping you build your own network of industry contacts.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 40)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
During the second year, you’ll develop your group-work skills by operating as a small consultancy to solve a design challenge. The breadth of this design work will reinforce the need to integrate your design solutions across the disciplines of engineering to ensure success.
Assessment
In year two you will be allocated to a small design consultancy team that will work together to present assessed design reports however the design module also allows you to demonstrate your individual achievement through your acquisition of graphical communication and design calculation performance applied to a complex design challenge. Other module assessments will involve traditional examinations, small regular tests and tailored coursework problems.
Structure
In your final year of study, we’ll encourage you to take ownership of elements of your learning through the exploration of a detailed project based on your specific interests. This could involve experimentation, research, practical construction, circuit assembly, or computer modelling.
This experience will help you define your path towards a specific career. There may be opportunities to link your individual project to real engineering problems experienced in industry. For example, a recent student carried out a project to implement Lean Management techniques within a local engineering company.
Our engineering teaching includes control systems and stress analysis and design, which provide further insight into more specialised fields of engineering.
We place particular emphasis on employability, embedding project management skills in various modules throughout your final year. We also aim to develop your understanding of business, as well as commercial risks and opportunities.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 60)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Year Three encourages you to explore the range of options available to you to define your engineering credentials. You will also deepen your learning experience through the pursuit of an independent study based in an area of particular interest or relevance to you. You’ll be able to select what you wish to study and define how you wish to study it, with the support of academic staff.
Assessment
Year Three assessment is dominated by your double credit project model. This large piece of assessed work will enable you to apply the skills set that you have acquired to pursue and be assessed in projects that use your computational skills, your software manipulation skills, your data manipulation skills and your practical laboratory skills, as determined to a greater or lesser extent by you. The Control Systems module allows you to be assessed in a demonstration of the practical and applied aspects of your learning as you adopt a reflective and iterative approach to the design of control systems. Beyond this your independent module option selection will determine your remaining assessment types. If you have a preferred method of being assessed, it may be that you select your optional modules to support your ability to perform at your best in this final year of study.
Entry Requirements
- A Levels
- ABB including Mathematics and one of the subjects listed below. If you are taking an EPQ and three A-levels, we may offer you a one grade reduction on our advertised typical offer, if you achieve an A in the EPQ. Subjects: Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science
- T Levels
- Not accepted.
- BTEC
- DDM in a relevant Engineering related subject (see information below), excluding BTEC Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration.
- Scottish Highers
- AAABB including grade A in Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science.
- Scottish Advanced Highers
- BCC including Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science.
- Irish Leaving Certificate
- 3 subjects at H2, 3 subjects at H3 including Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science.
- Access to HE Diploma
- Pass the Access to HE Diploma with Distinction in 30 credits at Level 3 and Merit in 15 credits at Level 3, including 12 credits in Mathematics and 12 credits in Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science.
- International Baccalaureate
- 32 points including HL5 or SL6 in Mathematics and HL5 in Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science.
- GCSE
- You are required to have GCSE Mathematics at Grade B or Grade 5, and English Language at Grade C or Grade 4.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
- IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) for year 1 entry
- IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components) for year 2 entry
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:
- Interviews
Most applicants will not be called for an interview and a decision will be made via UCAS Track. However, for some applicants an interview will be requested. Where an interview is required the Admissions Service will contact you directly to arrange a time.
- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Intakes
This course is open to UK and International applicants. The annual intake is in September each year.
Additional Information or Requirements
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes.
We welcome and value a wide range of alternative qualifications. If you have a qualification which is not listed here, please contact us via Admissions Enquiries.
A-Level General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted. Where applicable Science A Levels awarded by an English Exam board require a pass in the practical element
Applicants studying BTEC Extended Diploma in Engineering must be studying either Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems and Further Engineering Mathematics OR Mathematics for Engineering Technicians and Further Mathematics for Engineering Technicians. Grade Distinction will be required in these modules.
If you do not meet the academic requirements for direct entry, you may be interested in one of our Foundation Year programmes such as BEng Engineering with a Foundation Year.
Important note
Once enrolled onto your course at UEA, your progression and continuation (which may include your eligibility for study abroad, overseas experience, placement or year in industry opportunities) is contingent on meeting the assessment requirements which are relevant to the course on which you are enrolled.
International Requirements
We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. View our International Students pages for specific information about your country.
INTO University of East Anglia
If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, INTO UEA offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree:
International Foundation in Physical Sciences and Engineering (for Year 1 entry to UEA)
International Foundation in Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences (for Year 1 entry to UEA)
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
View our information for Tuition Fees.
Scholarships and Bursaries
We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
View our information about Additional Course Fees.
How to Apply
Apply for this course through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS), using UCAS Hub.
UCAS Hub is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.
Your application does not have to be completed all at once. Register or sign in to UCAS to get started.
Once you submit your completed application, UCAS will process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges.
The Institution code for the University of East Anglia is E14.
View our guide to applying through UCAS for useful tips, key dates and further information:
Employability
After the Course
As a UEA Engineering graduate, you’ll enjoy excellent career prospects across a breadth of engineering industries. Your continual collaboration with industrial partners throughout your degree will support your personal development and give you the confidence to reach for your graduate career goals.
Our industrial partners recognize the potential that UEA students bring to their organisations and are ready to support your development across the three years of your programme.
Upon completion of this course, you will also be well-positioned to study for a Master’s degree or PhD. And the STEM capital you’ll have gained could also support a successful career beyond engineering in accountancy, law, teaching, or finance.
Careers
A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
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Public or private sector engineering
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Mechanical engineering
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Electronic engineering
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Manufacturing
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Energy engineering
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STEM teaching