Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons) at Brunel University of London

Brunel's state-of-the-art teaching facilities include flight simulators and the Brunel Motorsport Centre. You can join our student racing team and compete in the annual Formula Student and Isle of Man TT competitions. Mechanical engineering covers the design, development and manufacture of mechanical objects – from large-scale industrial machinery to trains, planes and automobiles to medical devices, mobile phones and millions of consumer goods.

Faculty: College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences  |  Department: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering  |  Duration: 3 years full-time; 4 years full-time with placement  |  Study mode: full-time; placement year option  |  Intake: September  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The course is designed to give you an in-depth understanding of how mechanical objects work. Compulsory modules by year include Year 1: Engineering Mathematics and Programming I, Engineering Mathematics and Programming II, Engineering Practice, Engineering Systems and Energy I, Engineering Systems and Energy 2, Engineering Mechanics - Statics, Engineering Mechanics and Materials (Mechanical and Aerospace) and others; Year 2: Dynamics of Machines, Design Process for Machine Elements, Manufacturing Processes, Materials and CAD, Engineering Business (Core), Elements of Engineering Design Project, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Intro to FEA, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and others; Year 3: Applied Fluid Mechanics, Design of Engineering Systems, Intro to AI Applications in Engineering, Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Structures, Major Individual Project, Sustainable Engineering Management and Practice.

Career pathways

If you opt for a placement course, you will have the added bonus of putting your academic study into practice and developing ideas about future careers. Some graduates are offered full-time graduate posts at the companies where they carried out their work placements.

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