With degrees accredited by the Professional Engineering Institutions and a commitment to excellent teaching, you will be taught by staff leading developments in engineering.

International students can progress directly on to Engineering programmes from the International Foundation Year in Engineering and Technology.

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. We are flexible about transferring offers between MEng and BEng courses at the offer stage of the UCAS process.

Full entry requirements

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 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 and all the facilities you expect. You can normally change your degree specialisation at any point during the first year.

'With Industry' Courses

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’. This opportunity can give you firsthand experience of working in an engineering-related career, enhances your employability skills and allows you to network with people in industry.

Study in a Different Country

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. Many organisations have an international scope so knowledge of a foreign language and a global outlook can also give you a vital edge in the graduate jobs market.

Why Study Engineering at Leicester?

Research rating: 90%
Position in 2012 Subject League Tables: Times 7th, Guardian 7th
Places: 107
Applications: 1350
Example Jobs: Application Engineer/Solution Designer; Assistant Project Engineer; Graduate Electrical Design Engineer; Graduate Engineer; Graduate Mechanical Engineer; Test Development Engineer.
Example Employers: Atkins Global; BP Exploration; Converteam; Econic; Heineken UK; Imtech; Jaguar and Landrover; Minds Matter; Science and Technology Facilities Council; SMS Electronics; TGW Limited; Thales.
Example jobs and employers information comes from the University’s ‘Where Did They Go?’ survey, and shows destinations of 2009/10 graduates 6 months after graduation.

The 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.

Our Research

The Department of Engineering is internationally renowned for its research. In the 2008 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 research groups in the areas of Bio-Engineering, Control Systems, Embedded Systems, Electrical Power and Power Electronics, Mechanics of Materials, Radio Systems, and Thermo-Fluids.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

As an Engineer, you will experience variety in your course. More theoretical aspects are taught in lectures and are supplemented by seminars and online learning materials. For the more practical aspects you will work in pairs in the well-equipped laboratories, in small teams for Engineering Design and Management, and individually with an academic member of staff for third year projects.

You progress is monitored by a combination of continuous assessment (in all modules) and examination. Typically, continuous assessment accounts for about 50% of your marks in the first and second years.

Your teaching will take place in the departments 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.

Skills Gained

Professional Engineers require high levels of skills. Of course, they need to have a thorough understanding of their subject to produce safe, functional and economic designs that are practical to manufacture. But they also need to be able to work in teams – and to manage projects – often with engineers from other disciplines. They need to convey their ideas through reports and presentations, so they need to be literate as well as numerate. They need to be able to use computers to model proposed solutions and practical skills to make measurements and build prototypes.

Through our Engineering Design courses – you will learn how to conceive, design, and implement solutions – and perhaps operate or even fly them! You will work in teams and need to defend and present your ideas to visiting professors from engineering industries, and work with technicians to get them made. In laboratories, you will find a wide range of modern equipment to demonstrate principles and you will develop your practical skills of measurement and experimental practice. In Engineering Management you will compete with other teams running virtual car companies. Your third year project will give you the opportunity to study in depth some aspect of engineering that fascinates you.

Graduate/Career Opportunities

All our degrees are accredited by the Engineering Council to allow you to become a “Chartered Engineer.” Employers recognise these accredited engineering degrees as producing high quality graduates. Our “with industry” degrees support you to work in an Engineering environment for a year between your second and third years of study. As well as allowing you to practise your skills, this “sandwich” year can make you even more employable.

Full entry requirements

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 contactour Admissions Tutor Mr Ian Jarvis

For course enquiries
0116 252 2871
Fax: 0116 252 2619
engineering@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/engineering/

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