MEng Mechanical Engineering science

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Study the design, development, performance and manufacture of new machines, devices and mechanical processes in this professionally accredited, integrated Master'due south degree.

Key information

Accolade

MEng

Elapsing

4 years

total-time

Minimum entry

Iii A-level offering: A* A* A

Four A-level offer: A* A A A

Run across full entry requirements

Applications : admissions ratio

11 : 1

Based on 2022 entry data

Overview

Our Mechanical Engineering degrees emphasise the development of skills needed by the twenty-first century graduate engineer:

  • imagination
  • creativity
  • intellectual agility
  • the ability to piece of work in multidisciplinary teams

Study plan

All of our Mechanical Applied science courses start with the same two core years of intensive technology scientific discipline. You attend lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions in areas including:

  • thermofluids
  • materials
  • mechanics
  • mechatronics
  • stress analysis
  • design

You lot practice sketching by hand, utilise computeraided design (CAD) to produce solid models and manufacture-standard technical drawings, and create the blueprints for your own designs.

You also develop your manufacturing skills in hands-on workshop sessions, and bring your designs to life through a 'pattern, make and examination' group projection.

Your concluding 2 years of report mostly comprise elective study and project work.The elective technical modules embrace some of our cardinal research areas such as tribology and combustion, likewise as solid mechanics, thermofluids, robotics and nuclear energy. The non-technical modules can be as diverse as design, art and creativity, or concern economics (delivered online by Royal College Business organisation Schoolhouse).

In the terminal year, yous tin broaden your learning experience by choosing modules taught in other engineering departments. These may include Aeronautics, Materials, Bioengineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, depending on availability.

The last 2 years of the course involve substantial group and individual project work, with the freedom to cull topics proposed past staff based on their cutting edge inquiry or fifty-fifty pitch your ain ideas.

WorkshopIndustry links

We intensively engage with industry to ensure that our courses are relevant to the profession.

You volition besides benefit from access to facilities and equipment that match those used in manufacture. These include Instron machines for testing the forcefulness of engineering materials, and microcontroller kits for testing the performance of mechatronic systems.

Educatee teaching workshop

Our education facilities are complemented by our exceptionally well-equipped pupil workshop, which contains both manual and CNC subtractive and additive industry motorcar tools. You will use these extensively in the industry and assembly of your projection piece of work, using a wide variety of materials.

Transfer betwixt courses

All students should apply initially to MEng Mechanical Engineering.

Students interested in one of the other courses within the Section should then apply to transfer at the appropriate time during the course (option criteria may apply).Mechanical Engineering student

Transfer during the second or third year

  • MEng Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering
  • MEng Mechanical Applied science with Nuclear Engineering and a Twelvemonth in Industry

Transfer at the end of the 3rd twelvemonth

  • MEng Mechanical Applied science with a Year Abroad

Transfer during the fourth year

  • MEng Mechanical Engineering with a Yr in Manufacture
  • MEng Mechanical Engineering science with a Twelvemonth in Industry and a Year Abroad

If y'all are an international educatee, transferring to a dissimilar course could take an bear on on yourstudent visa. Please visit our International Student Support webpage for further information.

Structure

Detect out more near the limited circumstances in which we may demand to brand changes to or in relation to our courses, the type of changes we may make and how we will tell you about them.

Core modules

  • Pattern and Manufacture 1
  • Fluid Dynamics one
  • Materials one
  • Mathematics and Calculating ane
  • Mechanics
  • Mechatronics 1
  • Professional Applied science Skills 1
  • Stress Analysis 1
  • Thermodynamics 1

Core modules

  • Blueprint and Manufacture ii
  • Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics 2
  • Heat Transfer
  • Materials 2
  • Mathematics and Computing ii
  • Mechatronics 2
  • Professional Engineering Skills two
  • Stress Assay 2
  • Thermodynamics 2

Core modules

  • Design, Make and Test Projection
  • Professional Technology Skills iii
  • I-Explore

Your I-Explore module offers you choices from a range of subjects hosted outside of the department. You lot will be taught alongside students from other courses with options including business, management and many more.

Optional modules

You volition report both modules from at least one of the groups A, B or C. You volition choose a farther 3 modules from groups A to D.

Grouping A
  • Stress Assay 3A
  • Fracture MechanicsA
Group B
  • Thermodynamics 3A
  • Fluid Mechanics 3A
Group C
  • Mechatronics 3A
  • Machine Dynamics and Vibrations A
Group D
  • Embedded C for Microcontrollers A
  • Design, Art and Inventiveness A
  • System Design and Optimisation A
  • Structure, Properties and Application of Polymers A
  • Computational Continuum Mechanics A
  • Finite Element Analysis and Applications A
  • Manufacturing Technology and Management A
  • Introduction to Nuclear Energy
  • Tribology A
  • Mathematics A
  • Statistics A

This is an indicative list of the optional modules available. Y'all will exist given notice of which options are available alee of making your choices. If you lot accept taken a level half-dozen version of a module (variant A) you cannot take the level 7 version (variant B) for credit.

Core module

  • Private Project

Optional modules

You choose one optional module from Group A. You will choose some other five optional modules in total from Group B and Group C. A maximum of two of these can exist from Group C.

Group A
  • Aircraft Engine Technology
  • Metal Processing Engineering science
  • Future Clean Transport Technology
  • Mechanical Transmissions Technology
Grouping B
  • Advanced Command
  • Advanced Stress Analysis
  • Applied Vibration Engineering
  • Combustion Science
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Composite Materials
  • Interfacing and Information Processing
  • Nuclear Reactor Physics
  • Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
  • Design, Art and Creativity B
  • Stress Analysis 3B
  • Fracture Mechanics B
  • Fluid Mechanics 3B
  • Embedded C for Microcontrollers B
  • System Design and Optimisation B
  • Computational Continuum Mechanics B
  • Finite Chemical element Assay and Applications B
Group C (Inter Departmental Exchange)

There are multiple modules available through Inter Departmental Exchange (IDX). These modules permit y'all to take a module from another field of study, preparing yous for inter-disciplinary piece of work.

Detect out more about IDX

This is an indicative list of the optional modules bachelor. You will exist given find of which options are bachelor alee of making your choices. If yous take taken a level six version of a module (variant A) you cannot accept the level seven version (variant B) for credit.

Download the programme specification [PDF] – this is the most up-to-engagement version available for this course. It may change for your year of entry. If/when changes to this course are approved by the College, nosotros will update this document and the information on this form page.

I-Explore

Through I-Explore, you'll have the run a risk to deepen your cognition in a brand new subject field, chosen from a huge range of for-credit modules.

All of our undergraduate courses include one module from I-Explore's wide choice. The module you lot choose will exist fully integrated into your class's curriculum and count as credit towards your caste.

Discover out more than almost I-Explore

Professional accreditation

The degree is professionally accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) on behalf of the Engineering Quango.

Achieving a professionally accredited integrated Master'south caste (MEng) means that you take satisfied the get-go stride to becoming a Chartered Engineer (CEng) in your chosen field by satisfying the educational requirements of professional registration. To proceeds Chartered status, yous will need to demonstrate your ability to meet additional graduate level competences described in the Engineering science Council'south United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland-SPEC

A CEng is a highly respected qualification earned by professionals working in engineering, which tin can lead to higher earning potential and better career prospects.

Professional registration also brings international recognition of your qualification, which is especially useful for students preparing for a career abroad.

Our accreditation agreement is valid for students starting their studies in 2021. This accreditation is due to be renewed in 2022-23.

Associateship

Equally well equally your main Majestic caste, y'all volition besides receive the award of the Associateship of the City and Guilds of London Plant (ACGI) on completion of this course.

The City and Guilds of London Found is 1 of three celebrated Colleges that came together to form Imperial Higher London in 1907.

Detect out more about our Associateships.

Instruction and assessment

Teaching

You can expect to be taught in lectures, by trouble sheets, in tutorials, through workshop grooming and laboratory piece of work.

You lot will complete group practical exercises, a literature enquiry project, a group blueprint project and research projection.

Overall workload

The expected total study time is usually 1500 hours per twelvemonth.

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Twelvemonth iv
Lectures, seminars and similar 300 hours 300 hours 60 hours 60 hours
Independent study 1,200 hours 1,200 hours 600 hours 600 hours
Project work – – 600 hours 600 hours
Based on the typical pathway through the form

Assessment

You volition experience a multifariousness of assessment methods and can expect to mostly sit written examinations and complete coursework assignments. Methods include:

  • Written assessments
    • Examinations
    • Progress tests
    • Online assignments, quizzes and tests
    • Written report writing
    • Peer assessment
  • Applied assessment
    • Laboratory/workshop practicals
    • Programming tests
    • CAD & simulation tool tests
  • Oral cess
    • Oral presentations
    • Poster presentations
    • Group presentations
    • Pattern exhibitions

Cess types

Year 1 Twelvemonth 2 Year 3 Year 4
Coursework 20% xx% 40% 45%
Practical 5% 5% 5% v%
Written 75% 75% 55% fifty%
Based on the typical pathway through the course; percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number

Staff expertise

At Majestic, y'all volition be taught past a range of teachers of all levels from Professors to PhD students, including some who undertake groundbreaking research and are regarded equally experts in their field.

You may also experience peer teaching and exist taught past specialists external to the Higher.

Entry requirements

We welcome students from all over the earth and consider all applicants on an individual basis – run into choice process below.

For advice on the requirements for the qualifications listed hither please contact the Department (come across Contact u.s.a.).

Nosotros as well accept a wide range of international qualifications. If the requirements for your qualifications are not listed hither, please run across our academic requirements by country page for guidance on which qualifications we take.

Minimum entry standards

Our minimum entry standard for 2023 entry is A*A*A or A*AAA overall, to include:

  • A* in Mathematics
  • A/A* in Physics (A* is required if applying with three A-levels. At least an A is required if applying with four A-levels)
  • A in a third and/or 4th discipline

General Studies and Critical Thinking are non accepted.

Students taking English language exam board science A-levels will be required to laissez passer the practical endorsement.

Typical offer range

Equally a guide, here are the typical offers fabricated to at least 80% of A-level applicants for 2022 entry:

  • Iii A-level offering: A*A*A*
  • Four A-level offering: A*AAA-A*A*AA

Practical endorsement (practical science cess)

If you are made an offer yous will be required to achieve a pass in the practical endorsement in all science subjects that grade part of the offering.

The applied endorsement is part of the reformed English linear A-levels.

Boosted Mathematics support

Our A-level Mathematics online form covers a range of cardinal topic areas to help yous gain a deeper understanding of the skills and techniques required to succeed in your A-level Mathematics exams.

This optional grade has been congenital around the A-level syllabus with the aim of developing your thinking skills, fluency and confidence.

Please annotation: this course is not compulsory and does not form part of the entry requirements for this form. It is available free of charge via the EdX website. It is self-paced so you lot tin start it at whatever time.

Minimum entry standards

Our minimum entry standard for 2023 entry is xl points overall, to include:

  • 7 in Mathematics at higher level
  • seven in Physics at higher level

Typical offering range

Equally a guide, the typical offer fabricated to at least 80% of IB applicants for 2022 entry wasforty points overall.

Mathematics Higher Level

The Mathematics Analysis and Approaches or the Applications and Estimation syllabi will exist accepted at college level, but Analysis and Approaches is preferred.

Additional Mathematics support

Nosotros have launched an A-level Mathematics online form, which is available complimentary of charge via the EdX website.

Although this optional course has been congenital effectually the A-level syllabus, information technology is relevant to your curriculum besides.

Delight notation: this course is not compulsory and does non form part of the entry requirements for this course. It is cocky-paced so you can start it at any time.

The grades detailed below are the minimum requirements for students offering only Avant-garde Placements equally their exams for entry to Purple.

If you are studying a High School Diploma that is accepted by Imperial alongside Advanced Placements, requirements may employ to both your Diploma and Avant-garde Placements.

Please consult our country index to check whether we accept your High School Diploma programme for admission.

Our minimum requirement for this grade is grades 5, 5, 5, 5 to include:

  • 5 in Calculus BC
  • v in Physics C (Mechanics)
  • 5 in two farther subjects
Boosted Mathematics back up

We take launched an A-level Mathematics online class, which is bachelor gratuitous of charge via the EdX website.

Although this optional course has been built around the A-level syllabus, it is relevant to your curriculum also.

Please note: this course is not compulsory and does non form role of the entry requirements for this form. It is self-paced and then you tin can offset it at whatsoever time.

Assessing your application

Admissions Tutors consider all the show available during our rigorous option procedure and the Higher flags key information providing assessors with a more than complete picture of the educational and social circumstances relevant to the applicant. Some applicants may be set up lower offers and some more challenging ones.

Completing your UCAS application

Please tell us in your personal statement about the things you have done to observe out most mechanical applied science.

In particular, describe any work placements, industrial visits, or relevant projects or hobbies.

We are also interested in your general motivation as evidenced by extracurricular activities and part-time work, besides as your wider contribution to your school or customs life.

Admissions test

If your application passes initial screening, you lot'll exist invited to take a sixty-infinitesimal, online admissions examination.

The test will be held in November (for applications received past 15 Oct 2021) and in Feb (for all other applications).

The test will mostly be based on areas in mathematics and physics which yous study in your terminal years of secondary school.

You lot'll take the chance to take a readiness test a few days before, which we'll ship to you by email, to familiarise yourself with the platform and test format.

Find out more nigh the Department of Mechanical Applied science admissions exam

Interview

Nosotros look holistically at candidates' UCAS applications and admissions examination scores when deciding who to invite for interview.

Interviews are typically held with academic staff on Wednesday afternoons between November and March.

If invited, you'll be asked near your motivation to study mechanical engineering, your personal statement and your written workings from the admissions test. You lot'll also exist assessed on your problem solving skills.

Interviews will be held in person for those able to travel to the college. Otherwise, they will be held online.

You are likely to observe out about the outcome of your interview in March, subsequently all interviews take been completed.

Observe out more than about the Department of Mechanical Applied science'due south interviews

A foundation course is a one-year preparation course, designed for international students, which leads to undergraduate programmes in the Uk. Foundation programmes are normally for school-leavers who have studied a non-British curriculum but wish to pursue a degree at a United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland university.

Foundation programmes are offered past many U.k. universities, merelyonly 2 would be considered for entry to Majestic:

  1. UCL'southward Undergraduate Preparatory Certificate for Science and Engineering (UPCSE), and
  2. Warwick's International Foundation Plan (IFP) in Scientific discipline & Technology

UCL UPCSE

A year-long programme for international students whose school leaving qualifications do not permit them directly entry to U.k. universities. Students must complete four modules across the year – 2 compulsory and 2 elective modules:

Module Status
Research and Academic Skills: Science and Society Compulsory
Bookish English Compulsory
Biology Elective
Chemistry Elective
Mathematics Elective
Physics Elective
Information correct at fourth dimension of publishing, but discipline to change
Summary of the tabular array'southward contents

To be considered for admission to Mechanical Technology, international students studying UCL UPCSE must achieve:

  • 80% overall
  • 80% Mathematics + Physics

Warwick IFP Scientific discipline and Technology

A year-long programme for international students whose school leaving qualifications practise not permit them direct entry to UK universities.

To be considered for admission to Mechanical Engineering, international students studying Warwick IFP Science and Engineering must achieve:

  • lxxx% overall
  • 80% Mathematics + Physics

To meet these requirements, students should choose from the following IFP pathways:

  • Engineering

An ATAS document is required for all visa-nationals, with the exception of EEA/Swiss nationals and nationals of the following countries: Australia, Canada, Nihon, New Zealand, Singapore, South korea and the Usa.

To apply for an ATAS certificate online, you will demand your programme'due south Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) lawmaking and 'descriptor', as well as your university supervisor proper name. For this form, these are:

CAH code Descriptor Supervisor name
CAH10-01-02 mechanical applied science Professor Mike Lowe

Your student visa application, or extension of stay, will automatically be refused if you lot need an ATAS certificate and cannot provide one.

For further guidance on obtaining an ATAS certificate please encounter the data on our International Pupil Support website.

All candidates must demonstrate a minimum level of English language language proficiency for admission to the Higher.

For admission to this course, y'all must reach the standard College requirement in the appropriate English language qualification. For details of the minimum grades required to achieve this requirement, please see the English linguistic communication requirements for undergraduate applicants.

Tuition fees and funding

We charge tuition fees for every yr that your grade lasts. The fee you will be charged is based on your fee condition, which is adamant by government regulations.

2023 entry

£nine,250 per year.

Please annotation, this fee is set by the Great britain government and is subject to alter until information technology has passed into legislation. We volition update this page when this happens.

For each subsequent year, you lot should expect and budget for your tuition fee to increase by an amount in line with inflation. The measure of inflation used will be the Retail Price Index (RPIX) value, taken from April in the calendar year in which the academic session starts.For example, the RPIX value in April 2023 will use to fees for the academic year 2023–2024.

Fee status

Whether you pay the Home fee or non depends on your fee status.

Your fee status is assessed based on Great britain Government legislation and includes things similar where you live and your nationality or residency condition.

Discover out more about how nosotros assess your fee condition.

Home fee eligibility

You can find the weather condition y'all need to meet to pay the Home rate of tuition fees from theBritain Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA). These apply to higher education courses in England and reflect the regulations every bit they currently stand, noting that these are subject to amendment.

Because of the United kingdom'due south exit from the European Union, some frameworks of eligibility take been amended. Individuals affected by the amended frameworks should refer to the UKCISA publication,Who pays 'abode' fees for college education in England [PDF].

Government funding

If you're a Domicile student, you can apply for aTuition Fee Loan from the Great britain authorities to cover the unabridged cost of tuition for every year of your class.

You tin can likewise employ for a ways-tested Maintenance Loan to assist towards your living costs.

2023 entry

The fee for Overseas students has not been confirmed for the 2023-24 academic year. The fee is controlled past the Higher and we will update this page when it is appear.

As a guide, the Overseas fee for 2022-23 was £35,100.

For each subsequent twelvemonth, you should wait and budget for your tuition fee to increment by an amount in line with inflation. The measure of aggrandizement used volition be the Retail Cost Index (RPIX) value, taken from April in the calendar yr in which the academic session starts. For instance, the RPIX value in April 2023 will apply to fees for the bookish yr 2023–2024.

Fee status

Whether you pay the Overseas fee or non depends on your fee condition.

Your fee status is assessed based on United kingdom Government legislation and includes things similar where you alive and your nationality or residency condition.

Find out more than virtually how nosotros assess your fee status.

Home fee eligibility

You tin discover the conditions you need to meet to pay the Home rate of tuition fees from theUnited kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Quango for International Student Affairs (UKCISA). These apply to higher education courses in England and reflect the regulations as they currently stand, noting that these are subject to amendment.

Because of the UK'south exit from the European Marriage, some frameworks of eligibility have been amended. Individuals affected past the amended frameworks should refer to the UKCISA publication,Who pays 'home' fees for higher education in England [PDF].

This department outlines additional costs relevant to this course. These are not included in your tuition fees. It'due south possible that all, or just some, of these will be relevant to y'all.

Figures are approximated, normally based on costs in the most recent bookish yr. They are likely to change each year but it'due south useful for you to be aware of the things you lot may have to pay for. This can help you upkeep for life at Imperial.

Mandatory costs are those that y'all volition need to pay to fully participate in and consummate your studies. Optional costs are not essential to your studies so you can opt-out of these.

Summary
Description Mandatory/optional Guide to cost
Personal Protective Equipment Mandatory Provided
Laptop Optional (but recommended) Varies
Travel and placement costs Mandatory (if taking Twelvemonth Away or Year in Industry class) Varies
Please review the information below for more information on the costs listed in the table.

Personal Protective Equipment

Wearing personal protective equipment is compulsory for some activities on this course. Where this applies, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will provide you with the necessary PPE gratis of charge to ensure you can undertake lab work safely. This includes:

  • Boiler suit
  • Goggles
  • Lab glaze

Laptop

Although College machines will be available for you to use on campus, y'all may wish to have a laptop of your own. As a guide, our recommended laptop specification is listed below.

  • Windows x operating system
  • Intel I7 iii.6 GHz CPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 512 GB SSD drive

A laptop with I5 processors and SSD drives of 256GB will piece of work almost every bit well.

Placements and yr abroad

If yous are undertaking a placement or yr abroad, you may have to consider the costs involved. These will vary, depending on the location of your yr abroad or placement.

Costs may include flights, transport, visas, travel insurance, wellness insurance and living expenses such as accommodation.

Notice out more about the types of placement costs

Student status with the Year Abroad

If yous spend an academic year abroad, y'all will retain your student status at Regal so that you volition commonly remain eligible for the aforementioned loans and grants that y'all would receive in the UK. Every bit an exchange student, you will non pay tuition fees to the host institution abroad.

Bursaries and scholarships

Careers

Our close industry links ensure that many graduates go out Imperial with jobs already lined up.

Formula 1 and related industries are popular destinations for our graduates.Prosthetics project

The chance to specialise in nuclear engineering science is too proficient preparation for an industry poised for time to come expansion.

The technical and management skills of the subject are equally valued in consultancy, finance and project management.

Contempo graduates of the Department take become:

  • Mechanical Engineer, European Space Agency
  • Graduate Nuclear Engineer, EDF
  • Vehicle Dynamics and Simulation Engineer, Formula One
  • Offshore Structures Wind Engineer, Applied science and design company
  • CEO, medical prosthetics startup

How to utilise

UCAS key information

  • UCAS course lawmaking: H301
  • UCAS institution lawmaking: I50

Apply on UCAS

You tin start and track your awarding on UCAS Hub. There y'all can add this course as ane of your choices.

Application deadlines

25 Jan 2023 at 18.00 (UK fourth dimension).

If your application includes a medicine grade, the deadline is 15 October 2022 at eighteen.00 (UK time).

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