
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
Online United Kingdom
DURATION
6 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
09 Jan 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 21,816 *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* total cost; part-time at a rate of 60 credits is £3,636 per year
Key Summary
Introduction
This Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) qualification fulfils the educational requirements for Incorporated Engineer status. In addition, the combination of this degree and an accredited MSc meets the requirements for Chartered Engineer status. Engineering is a creative and analytical subject.
You’ll develop the skills, techniques, and knowledge professional engineers need and learn the underpinning science and mathematics. The course has a common core with routes to suit your interests. You’ll work on real-life projects to create innovative solutions to challenging problems, teaming up with other students and working individually on your own projects.
Key features
- Accredited on behalf of the Engineering Council
- Gain the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills for registration as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
- Take part in individual and team-based projects, practical activities and remote access experiments
- Move to a different engineering qualification if your aspirations change, even after you’ve started
- Choose from a broad engineering route and six specialist routes
- Develop your employability skills, including personal and professional development planning
Accessibility
Our qualifications are as accessible as possible, and we have a comprehensive range of support services. Our BSc (Honours) Mathematics and Physics uses a variety of study materials and includes the following elements:
- Online study – most modules are online; some have a mix of printed and online material. Online learning resources could include websites, audio/video, and interactive activities
- Pre-determined schedules – we’ll help you to develop your time-management skills
- Assessment in the form of short-answer questions, essays, and examinations
- Feedback – continuous assessment includes feedback from your tutor and using this to improve your performance
- Using and producing diagrams and screenshots
- Finding external/third-party material online
- Accessing online catalogues and databases
- Specialist material
- Specialist software
- Mathematical and scientific expressions, notations and associated techniques
- Online tutorials
- Group-work
- Practical work
How long it takes
- Part-time study – 6 years
- Time limit – 16 years
Program Outcome
Knowledge and understanding
On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:
- Use your knowledge and understanding, acquired through study, of relevant engineering principles, analytical methods, modelling techniques, quantitative methods and appropriate computer software to respond systematically to engineering challenges
- Take into account appropriate social, commercial, ethical/legal and management practices in contemporary engineering in your present or future professional work.
Cognitive skills
On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:
- Combine your acquired knowledge and understanding of underpinning scientific principles, mathematical methods and engineering practice to analyse engineering problems and formulate solutions to them
- Critically appraise designs where a user’s needs and preferences are transformed into cost-effective, innovative engineered solutions that are demonstrably fit for purpose in terms of production, operation, maintenance and de-commissioning.
Practical and/or professional skills
On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:
- Analyse and evaluate solutions to engineering challenges using a range of engineering skills, including a working knowledge of particular materials, equipment, processes and products, workshop and laboratory methods, technical literature and other information, and taking into account appropriate quality standards, codes of practice, industry standards, intellectual property and contractual issues
- Undertake engineering projects responsibly, professionally and ethically, with regard to environmental risk and sustainability, and the framework of relevant legal requirements (covering issues such as personnel, health, safety, etc.)
- Draw on an understanding of the engineering principles in your chosen specialism when evaluating current practice, investigating new and emerging technologies and dealing professionally with unfamiliar situations.
Key skills
On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:
- Practise a range of transferable skills (including problem-solving, communication, working with others – especially teamwork – IT skills, information retrieval, planning self-learning and career development, and reflection), all within the context of progression towards professional engineering status.
Curriculum
This degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.
- In Stage 1, you’ll study four 30-credit modules.
- In Stage 2, you’ll study three 30-credit core engineering modules and one 30-credit module from your chosen route.
- In Stage 3, you’ll study 90 credits from your chosen route and complete a 30-credit project module.
Stage 1 (120 credits)
You'll study all four of the following:
- Engineering: origins, methods, context (T192)
- Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production (T193)
- Engineering: mathematics, modelling, applications (T194)
- Engineering: professions, practice and skills 1 (T176)
Stage 2 (120 credits)
Core engineering modules
You'll study all three of the following:
- Core engineering A (T271)
- Core engineering B (T272)
- Engineering: professions, practice and skills 2 (T276)
Routes
You'll choose one of seven routes:
Electronics
You'll study the following:
- Electronics: sensing, logic and actuation (T212)
- Energy and sustainability
You'll study the following:
- Energy and sustainability (T213)
- Engineering design
You'll study the following:
- Design for engineers (T218)
- Environmental Technologies
You'll study the following:
- Environmental management: systems and sustainability (T220)
Mathematical methods
You'll study the following:
- Mathematical methods (MST224)
- Mechanical engineering
You'll study the following:
- Mechanical engineering: heat and flow (T229)
Broad route
You'll choose one from:
- Design for engineers (T218)
- Electronics: sensing, logic and actuation (T212)
- Energy and sustainability (T213)
- Environmental management: systems and sustainability (T220)
- Mathematical methods (MST224)
- Mechanical engineering: heat and flow (T229)
Stage 3 (120 credits)
Routes
Electronics
You'll study all three of the following:
- Communications technology (TM355)
- Electronics: signal processing, control and communications (T312)
- Nanoscale engineering (T366)
Energy and sustainability
You'll study all three of the following:
- Nanoscale engineering (T366)
- Renewable energy (T313)
- Structural integrity: predicting and assessing performance (T367)
Engineering design
You'll study both of the following:
- Innovation: designing for change (T317)
- Structural integrity: predicting and assessing performance (T367)
Environmental technologies
You'll study both of the following:
- Innovation: designing for change (T317)
- Environmental Management 2 (T319)
Mathematical methods
You'll study the following:
- Structural integrity: predicting and assessing performance (T367)
You'll choose two from:
- Computational Applied Mathematics (MST374)
- Deterministic and stochastic dynamics (MS327)
- Graphs, games and designs (MST368)
- Mathematical methods and fluid mechanics (MST326)
Mechanical engineering
You'll study all three of the following:
- Nanoscale engineering (T366)
- Mechanical engineering: computer-aided engineering (T329)
- Structural integrity: predicting and assessing performance (T367)
Broad route
You'll choose 90 credits from:
- Communications technology (TM355)
- Computational Applied Mathematics (MST374)
- Deterministic and stochastic dynamics (MS327)
- Electronics: signal processing, control and communications (T312)
- Environmental Management 2 (T319)
- Graphs, games and designs (MST368)
- Innovation: designing for change (T317)
- Mathematical methods and fluid mechanics (MST326)
- Nanoscale engineering (T366)
- Mechanical engineering: computer-aided engineering (T329)
- Renewable energy (T313)
- Structural integrity: predicting and assessing performance (T367)
Project
You'll study the following:
- The engineering project (T452)
Admissions
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Career Opportunities
Skills for career development
The areas of knowledge, competence and skills that this degree develops include the ability to use specialist knowledge to solve problems creatively; collaborative working and communication skills; project management skills; and the ability to turn concepts into reality.
Your study will give you the skills expected of an Incorporated Engineer, in providing solutions to engineering problems. These could involve using existing or developing new technologies and designs; refining production systems, or developing new services.
Career relevance
Our BEng (Hons) is a general engineering qualification that provides entry into a wide range of specialist engineering roles. Examples include:
- Mechanical engineer
- Electronic engineer
- Structural engineer
- Production engineer
- Biomedical engineer
- Environmental engineer
- Materials engineer
- Other roles within engineering management
- Manufacturing engineer
Program delivery
With our unique approach to distance learning, you can study from home, work or on the move.
You’ll have some assessment deadlines to meet, but otherwise, you’ll be free to study at the times that suit you, fitting your learning around work, family, and social life.
For each of your modules, you’ll use either just online resources or a mix of online and printed materials.
Each module you study will have a module website with
- A week-by-week study planner, giving you a step-by-step guide through your studies
- Course materials such as reading, videos, recordings, and self-assessed activities
- Module forums for discussions and collaborative activities with other students
- Details of each assignment and their due dates
- A tutorial booking system, online tutorial rooms, and your tutor’s contact details
- Online versions of some printed module materials and resources.
Program Admission Requirements
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