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Engineering (F46) (Taught)

Course details
  • 1 Study option
  • Postgraduate
Course location
Distance Learning
Awarded by:
The Open University

Course summary

The MSc is a milestone to becoming a Chartered Engineer (CEng). You’ll develop a professional approach to your work and extend your engineering expertise, while gaining transferable skills, such as creative problem-solving, effective communication, project management and concept realisation. You’ll have the opportunity to tailor your studies by choosing an option module in applied mathematics, environmental management, innovation management or systems thinking. Working as part of a small project team, including at a UK-based residential weekend, you’ll design and present a solution to a real-world engineering problem, before concluding with an in-depth investigation of a topic of your choice.

Key features of the course

  • Develop your planning, organising, data collecting, analysing and writing skills

  • Extend your knowledge of recent research

  • Progress to professional qualifications

  • Prepare for a research degree

Modules

Course Modules

To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits. You'll study two 30-credit engineering modules and a 30-credit project management module, choose 30 credits from a range of option modules, and complete your degree with a 30-credit team engineering module and a 30-credit project module.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Materials, Minerals and Mining, Institute of
  • Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
  • Engineering Designers, Institution of
  • Engineering Council
  • Engineering and Technology, Institution of

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

However, some option modules do have entry requirements. We’ll ask you to prove you meet them when you register for any of these modules:

Calculus of variations and advanced calculus (M820)
Deterministic and stochastic dynamics (MS327)
Mathematical methods and fluid dynamics (MST326)

Although this qualification has no entry requirements, we recommend you have:

A UK honours degree (or equivalent) in a subject with a high mathematics content.
Minimum IELTS (International English Language Testing System) scores of:
Reading: 5.5
Writing: 5.5
Speaking: 5.5
Listening: 5.5
Overall: 6.0.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

As fees for individual modules can vary, the total cost you pay for your qualification depends on the modules you choose to study. For further information about fees, please refer to the course description on The Open University website.

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