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Engineering
With degrees accredited by the Professional Engineering Institutions and a commitment to excellent teaching, you will be taught by staff leading developments in engineering.
We are flexible about transferring offers between MEng, BEng, and Foundation courses at the offer stage of the UCAS process. Once your results are known, students whose results do not satisfy our entry requirements for MEng will automatically be considered for the BEng degree option. However, the same does not automatically apply to MEng/BEng applicants and the Foundation Programme.
International students can progress directly on to Engineering programmes from the International Foundation Year in Engineering, Physics and Maths.
Routes Available
- Aerospace Engineering
- Communications and Electronic Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- General Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Software and Electronic Engineering
All routes are available as MEng, BEng, with a year in industry and with a year abroad.
Engineering at Leicester
At Leicester, all our undergraduate degrees are accredited by the Professional Engineering Institutions. In addition to a General Engineering degree, we offer a range of specialist degrees in which students have considerable interaction with students on other engineering degrees. Our First Year is common to all engineering degrees. This ensures that our students receive the depth and the breadth of knowledge, skills and understanding demanded of a Professional Engineer.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our teaching. We cover many aspects of Engineering: Aerospace, Communications, Control Systems, Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, and Software. The Department of Engineering is the 'right size' – it is small enough for members of staff to get to know individual students and large enough for us to offer a wide range of subjects. You can normally change your degree specialisation at any point during the first year.
MEng and BEng ‘with Industry’ degree courses are also available. These sandwich courses give you the opportunity of a placement with a sponsoring company for one year between the second and third years of academic study. You will undertake a programme of training and practical experience that is agreed between the sponsoring company and the University. A member of staff will be individually assigned to you as your industrial placement tutor. Industrial placement tutors maintain regular contact and will visit the sponsoring company during your placement. Upon successful completion of the industrial year you will be issued with a ‘Certificate of Industrial Studies’.
There is also an excellent opportunity to add value to your higher educational experience by spending a year at one of our partner institutions abroad (e.g. Australia and the USA). During this period, you will have a personal tutor abroad and a tutor within the Department at Leicester to look after you and answer queries. You are expected to maintain a good academic performance whilst at the partner institution, and will take their examinations. You will need to obtain a good average in your first and Second Year examinations in order to be eligible to spend a year abroad. We are sure that this will be an exciting opportunity, both academically and in the context of your own personal development.
Why Study Engineering at Leicester?
Research rating: 90%
Position in 2012 Subject League Tables: Times 7th, Guardian 7th
Places: 107
Applications: 1145
The Department’s MEng and BEng programmes are all honours degrees and are accredited by the appropriate engineering institutions. The four-year MEng degree is the direct route to chartered engineering status (CEng). There are specific entry standards for such courses and a 2.1 honours standard will be required at the end of your second and third years for progression to an MEng course. Other students will continue on the BEng programme and will need to undertake extra study later in their careers if they wish to become chartered engineers.
Our courses are flexible, providing you with a broad view of the different aspects of engineering before enabling you to specialise in your area of interest.
Both industry and Engineering Council UK (ECUK) enthusiastically support our approach to teaching and course development, meaning you can be assured that the skills you will develop are those valued within the industry. Indeed, representatives from industry are actively involved in the teaching and its development.
You have the option to spend a year developing your skills in industry. The training programmes give students an excellent experience in areas including design production, research and development, management, finance and marketing. We also give you the chance to spend a year abroad in the USA, Australia or other countries.
Your teaching will take place in the department's own grade II* listed building which was designed specifically for engineering.
We pride ourselves on our friendly and supportive department, with staff who are always happy to help and will support you throughout your studies.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
As a member of a small tutor group, you will attend seminar classes designed to support the formal lectures. During the seminars, you will focus on questions from relevant example sheets issued by your lecturers. The seminars will be led by course lecturers with assistance provided by postgraduate students.
Your progress will be monitored each semester by examinations and assignments as well as continuous assessment of experimentation, computing, design and project work. This continuous assessment accounts for more than a third of your marks.
Skills Gained
During year one, you will learn in small group tutorials using example classes and assignments which are fully integrated with lecture courses actively encouraging you to study at an appropriate level.
In year three, your work centres around an individual project, in which you work closely with an academic member of staff.
If you choose to take a MEng degree, year four will involve an industrially relevant team based project. You will act as project manager, overseeing team organisation and ensuring that the final project is handed over to the customer in time.
You will be part of multidisciplinary teams, tackling the designs of complex systems involving electrical, mechanical and software aspects of your chosen fields. During year two (and year four if you take an MEng), the emphasis is on team work and engineering design.
In addition, you will gain time keeping, time management, and interpersonal skills that are highly valued by employers. Study Skills Gained will prepare you for any further studies that you may wish to pursue.
Graduate/Career Opportunities
In industry, many engineers specialising in different types of engineering work closely together. Our courses prepare you for this by giving you a broad appreciation of engineering as well as the possibility of specialising in your chosen area of interest.
The Department is internationally known for its research, which covers all aspects of electrical and mechanical engineering. In the 2008 HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise, 90% of our research activity was identified as world leading, internationally excellent, or internationally significant, which places it amongst the top Engineering Departments in the UK. The Department has distinguished research groups in the areas of Bioengineering, Control and Instrumentation, Electrical Power and Power Electronics Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Radio Systems and Thermofluids and Environmental Engineering.
Opportunities to Visit and Further Information
Choosing where and what to study at University is an important decision for you. We believe it is important to give you the opportunity to talk to our admissions team, so you can find out whether our programme is the right choice for you.
For further information, please contact:
Admissions Tutor: Mr Ian Jarvis
For course enquiries
0116 252 2871
Fax: 0116 252 2619
engineering@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/engineering/
