Option modules include real time programming, operations and maintenance, or a foreign language. Year 2 Compulsory modules cover professional studies, microprocessor systems and instrumentation, mathematical modelling, life cycle engineering, software engineering or structures and dynamics, control engineering, manufacturing systems, mechanical engineering design or electronic engineering design, and management and management science. Year 3 Compulsory modules cover the role of the engineer in society, company finance, human resource management and total quality management, and mechanical reliability. An option module is chosen from manufacturing, operations and maintenance, or a foreign language. Students then choose between a bias towards electronic or mechanical engineering.
Mechanical engineering covers mechanical engineering design studies, machine dynamics and materials.
Students aiming for a career in management may undertake training with a firm of management consultants or accountants after this degree in order to combine a commercial training with their knowledge of engineering. Year 2 Compulsory modules cover professional studies, microprocessor systems and instrumentation, mathematical modelling, thermal engineering, structures and dynamics, control engineering, structures and fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering design, and management and management science. Year 3 Compulsory modules cover the role of the engineer in society, company finance, machine dynamics, fluid mechanics, energy conversion and mechanical engineering design studies. Year 2 Compulsory modules cover professional studies, microprocessor systems and instrumentation, ethics in engineering, engineering and the environment, and management and management science. A group project accounts for half of the year and up to two modules are chosen from other programmes, including non-engineering disciplines.