Engineering

Highlights

This BEng (Hons) Engineering is the latest addition to our suite of engineering courses. Course content aligns with the Engineering Council’s UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC). Hands-on approach to teaching delivering extensive laboratory and workshop experience.

You’ll gain familiarity with industry-standard techniques and cutting-edge equipment, involving advanced manufacturing and cutting-edge analysis tools, and equipment such as mechanical testing labs and fluid flow experimental research facilities. Large scale industrially relevant research facilities - materials labs have microscopes. Taught by practicing professional engineers and scientists, you’ll develop scientific and engineering knowledge, with the professional, analytical, and problem-solving skills to tackle future engineering challenges.

Broad-based curriculum covers engineering design, mechanical engineering, materials science, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat-transfer. You will have access to high quality facilities - digital design and manufacturing are an important part of our engineering provision and these will be supported by our well-equipped computing labs and their cutting edge design and modelling software. Our placement providers are large industry players and students often find they walk into a job after they leave Bangor.

Course overview

This Engineering degree offers a broad multidisciplinary curriculum, combining core training in mechanical engineering and materials science with high tech digital skills. These include robotics, car design, aerospace engineering, control theory, sensing, 3d printing as well as programming. It builds on the success of our long history of education and world-leading research: our academics are at the forefront of innovations in low carbon energy, materials science, low carbon energy, powering space exploration.

Studying an engineering course means you will be able to solve complex problems. The machines, tools, devices and systems you invent will improve the world and make our lives and our surroundings better - be that health, work, home life, recreation, and more. You’ll explore emerging technologies like digital design and artificial intelligence (AI), fusion energy and 3D printing.

This is in addition to gaining fundamental knowledge of concepts and theories in materials, thermodynamics, mechanics, physics, chemistry, maths, and programming. One of the major advantages of this BEng (Hons) Engineering is the extensive practical experience it provides. You’ll create innovative solutions in automotive engineering, aerospace, space exploration, power generation and robotic.

Designing, making, and testing your own machines during the degree, you’ll get a taste of the ways in which engineers are helping to save our planet, be that enabling Net Zero and low carbon transport or reaching out into the solar system. You’ll put into practice the theory you learn in class, in your first year you will be working with our product design team on the designing and creating process, completing group work and then undertake an individual third-year project under the supervision of a member of academic staff. In doing so, you’ll develop valuable practical and professional skills and values required of modern engineering.

This including communication, teamwork, self-management, discipline, and independence, alongside an awareness of relevant ethical, legal, and social issues. By the time you graduate, you’ll be prepared to tackle some of society’s greatest challenges, such as how to harness nuclear fusion to produce abundant low carbon energy, design the next generation of probes to enable space exploration, or understand AI and how cars work to produce practical self-driving vehicles. Future accreditation will be sought from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Institute of Mechanical Engineering.

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