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About the Course

Engineering at Leicester has always been taught as a unified subject and all engineering research and teaching staff belong to a single unified department.

This unified approach gives significant advantages in providing the education of flexible engineering graduates who are familiar with a broad range of topics and techniques in Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Materials, Aerospace and Software Engineering. While this is an advantage to all our courses, it provides a special quality to our General Engineering degrees. These programmes aim to produce engineers for team work in modern industry and in commercial and other professions in which a broad understanding of the subject is paramount.

First Year

This year provides a broad engineering foundation.

You will be introduced to the fundamental principles in mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic and systems engineering. There are courses in mathematics and mathematical modelling. You will be given an introduction to the principles of engineering design, including computer-aided design and the management of engineering projects. Through the personal tutorial system and through courses you will be introduced to skills for personal and professional development. Laboratories, workshop and other practical activities complement lecture courses.

Second Year

Modules start to move from general foundation towards specialised ones. You will continue to study some modules with other specialist engineering degrees. These include mathematics and mathematical modelling, management, engineering design and engineering control systems. You will also take Control; Computing; Management and courses from the Electrical and Mechanical streams. These are carefully selected to provide overall coherence and balance, ensuring a good foundation for interdisciplinary projects in a wide range of professions.

You will carry out a multidisciplinary team project, highlighting the need for engineers from different fields to work closely with each other towards a common goal.

Third Year

In the Third Year, you will spend approximately 25% of your time on an individual project in an area that you choose as being particularly interesting.

In common with other engineering students, there will be modules on management (including environmental sustainability) and engineering control systems.

You may structure your study programme towards more specialised areas or keep a broader approach – this is largely at your discretion but you will be assisted in your choice by your personal tutor.

The MEng course covers the same wide range of modules as the BEng but places greater emphasis on industrially related project work and other activities related to the engineering profession. You will carry out an individual Third Year project in the same way as the BEng students but you will also select a group project topic, investigate it in depth, and prepare a plan for your fourth year work as the project continues into the fourth year. These projects may be in collaboration with an industrial sponsor.

Fourth Year (MEng only)

The MEng project comprises one third of the fourth year assessment. You will carry out the work planned during the previous year and will be involved in group design projects on multi- discipline design.

All fourth year students study aspects of management and leadership, such as the management of engineering design, considering risks and reliability, and personal and professional development.

There is a range of options including:

• Areas of aerospace engineering
• Advanced fluid dynamics
• Advanced solid mechanics
• Advanced control of engineering systems
• Signal processing
• Advanced communications
• Bioengineering
• Data analysis
• Engineering control 
• Other subjects across the mechanical and electrical spectrum of engineering

Contact

Admissions Tutor: Mr Ian Jarvis
0116 252 2871
Fax: 0116 252 2619
engineering@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/engineering

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