Mechanical Engineering (with Placement year)

Work towards Incorporated Engineer status with our project-based curriculum, getting hands on engineering experience.

Get involved in hands-on projects with other engineering students, developing your teamwork and leadership skills while learning how to analyse and solve problems creatively. This course gives you real world experience, preparing you for employment.

We offer a unique project-based curriculum with industry-led Live Briefs, where you’ll apply science and engineering principles to propose solutions to problems from companies such as BAE systems, Ford Motor Company, New Hollands, Antobot, Tecosim and Transporter Engineering.

This innovative approach allows you to spend 50% of your time in the classroom and 50% in the engineering workshops and specialist laboratories.

Why ARU?

Develop the knowledge and skills you need to resolve practical, real-world challenges, and practice the ‘art of precision guesswork’ and problem solving.

Bring the world of work to life through Live Briefs, developed with employers to give you exposure to ‘real world’ problem-solving.

Explore modules in areas including materials, design and modelling, manufacturing, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer, as well as project-based learning.

Study in our state-of-the-art facilities including 3D printing, CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing) laboratories, and CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) machining.

A diverse breadth of expert staff with a wide range of industrial and academic backgrounds make learning more real, hands-on and relevant.

Course Modules

Year 1

• Manufacturing and Materials Project (30 credits)

• Applied Engineering Mathematics (15 credits)

• Introduction to Engineering (15 credits)

• Structural Mechanics (15 credits)

• Engineering Dynamics (15 credits)

• Mechatronic Design Project (30 credits)

• Into ARU

Year 2

• Solid Mechanics and Machine Elements Design Project (30 credits)

• Mechanical Vibrations (15 credits)

• Project Management, Ethics and Quality Engineering (15 credits)

• Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer (15 credits)

• Advanced Engineering Mathematics (15 credits)

• Engineering Thermodynamics (15 credits)

• Ruskin Module (15 credits)

Year 3

Placement year

Year 4

• Computational Fluid Dynamics and System Engineering Project (30 credits)

• Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing Project (30 credits)

• Automation and Control (15 credits)

• Research Methods and Individual Project (30 credits)

• Advanced Structural Analysis and Design (15 credits)

We’ll use a range of assessment methods to check your academic and practical progress throughout the course. These include exams, essays and reports, work relating to practical classes and demonstrations, log books, presentations and posters.

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

• Mechanical Engineers, Institution of