BEng (Hons) Engineering
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Key Details
- Award
- Degree of Bachelor of Engineering
- UCAS Course Code
- H100
- Typical Offer
- ABB (specific ABB (specific subject requirements apply)
- Contextual Offer
- BBC (specific subject requirements apply)
- Course Length
- 3 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2024
Why you should choose us
Course Overview
This accredited three-year course will help you develop your capacity to answer society’s biggest questions and provide you with the tools for integrated learning.
Engineering is the pursuit of solutions. Engineers are arguably the most significant shapers of society, poised to lead the innovations of the digital revolution. Studying at UEA will bring the opportunities of this new industrial phase to your learning experiences. You’ll graduate as a digital change-agent, spanning the boundaries between disciplines and capable of supporting engineering industries to respond to societal challenges.
Society needs engineers who understand a variety of engineering disciplines; students with general engineering degrees therefore have access to an array of key roles in industry. Alternatively, you’ll have the opportunity to experience several engineering disciplines before choosing to specialise in Energy, Mechanical, or Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
This course offers the first steps to your development as a professional engineer, combining all the learning experiences and opportunities for industrial connection that will support your aspirations.
UEA Engineering courses follow an integrated programme structure for the first year. This broadens your insight into the wealth of opportunities available to you as a student of engineering, as you forge your own career pathway. In your second year, you can tailor your course to pursue the areas of study that interest you most, through the selection of your optional modules. As a general engineer, you’ll choose from a catalogue of modules spanning the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics; Environmental Sciences and Computing Sciences, ensuring that your learning opportunities support your ambitions. From the very first weeks of your course, we will facilitate connections between our students and industrial partners, allowing you to showcase your potential and build your own network of professional contacts. These opportunities are built into our programme philosophy, both within the teaching & learning delivery and through extra-curricular opportunities. You’ll also encounter a varied range of professional role models, site visits, and experiences, helping you explore the many potential career paths you might choose to follow.
This course is ideal for aspiring engineers who are committed to studying for three years – with the option to extend your learning.
Accreditations
This course is professionally accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). It fully meets the academic requirements for the award of Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status, which may be achieved following a period of experiential learning in employment (also known as initial professional development or IPD). Further Master’s level study will be required to register for Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
Completing an accredited course enables you to demonstrate to employers your knowledge, abilities, skills, and competencies as specified in the Engineering Council's UK-SPEC4.0.
Professionally recognised engineers can benefit from improved career prospects and higher earning potential. This accreditation is an international recognition and can also pave the way to further career opportunities abroad.
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Study and Modules
Structure
In your first year, you’ll develop your problem-solving skills, capacity for innovation, and creativity, to resolve issues faced within communities challenged by circumstance, location and/or climate. You’ll also begin studying the key principles underpinning several engineering disciplines. Introductions to mechanical, electrical/electronic, and energy engineering are delivered through active learning involving experimentation and problem solving.
After these introductions, you’ll be able to choose your degree pathway based on what you’ve learnt. You can specialise within a particular engineering discipline or pursue multiple engineering interests by studying a variety of optional modules across our subject offering.
Compulsory Modules
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
On entry into the School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, you’ll explore the concerns of today’s engineers and the pivotal role engineers play in shaping society’s response to the challenges of our time. You’ll participate in an inter-university competition, in partnership with Engineers Without Borders, and understand how engineers serve society, contributing to national economies while working to protect the environment. You’ll consider the potential of hydrology and solar power and develop skills to help you deal with uncertain data sets.
Assessment
In Year 1, your assessed performance does not count towards your final degree. We therefore use this first year to expose you to the range of assessment-types that you may encounter throughout your course. You’ll receive instruction in areas like report-writing and presentations to secure your knowledge and capacity to perform. You’ll use your soft engineering skills in the group work assessments, and competition opportunity presented to you in this initial year of study.
Structure
Building on themes from the first year, you’ll further your mathematical abilities to support your development in the fields of electronics and solid and structural mechanics. You’ll also undertake a design project that will integrate all the engineering disciplines that you have studied so far, allowing you to demonstrate your development as an engineer capable of applying your learning.
If you achieve 60% or above in your second year you may be eligible to transfer onto our four-year MEng Engineering programme, subject to maintaining this performance in Year 3. Whether you’re studying for a BEng or MEng, you will be able to extend your applied learning through our Year in Industry programmes. These programmes support your commercial awareness and improve your career prospects while helping you build your own network of industry contacts.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 40)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
During the second year, you’ll develop your group-work skills by operating as a small consultancy to solve a design challenge. The breadth of this design work will require you to integrate your design solutions across the disciplines of engineering. Previous projects have considered vertical farming and an electrical battery car design.
Assessment
In Year 2, you will form a small design consultancy team that will work together to present assessed design reports. However, like many modules, the design module will also let you demonstrate your individual skills in graphical communication and/or design calculation, applied to a complex design challenge. Other module assessments will involve traditional examinations, small regular tests, and tailored coursework problems.
Structure
In your final year of study, we’ll encourage you to take ownership of elements of your learning through the exploration of a detailed project based on your specific interests. This could involve experimentation, research, practical construction, circuit assembly, or computer modelling.
This experience will help you define your path towards a specific career. There may be opportunities to link your individual project to real engineering problems experienced in industry. For example, a recent student carried out a project to implement Lean Management techniques within a local engineering company.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 60)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Year Three encourages you to explore the range of options available to you to define your engineering credentials. You will also deepen your learning experience through an independent study based in an area of particular interest or relevance to you. You’ll be able to select what you wish to study and define how you wish to study it, with the support of academic staff.
Further to this, you’ll apply your digital skills to the design and testing of control systems. You’ll benefit from ample laboratory time to demonstrate your ability in a growing area of engineering expertise.
Assessment
Year 3 assessment is dominated by your double credit project module. You’ll apply the skillset that you have acquired to deliver projects that use your computational skills, your software manipulation skills, your data manipulation skills and your practical laboratory skills, as determined to a greater or lesser extent by you. In your study of control systems, you’ll demonstrate the practical and applied aspects of your learning as you design control systems, refining your work over several versions. Beyond this, your independent module selection will determine your remaining assessment types. By this stage in your academic journey, you’ll be aware of what type of learner you are and be able to identify your preferred method of assessment. Knowing this, you’ll be able to select your optional modules to support your ability to perform at your best.
Entry Requirements
- A Levels
- ABB including A in Mathematics and B in one of the following subjects :Physics, Further Mathematics, Design Technology, Computing Science, Electronics, Chemistry, Geology or Biology. A-Level General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted. Where applicable Science A Levels awarded by an English Exam board require a pass in the practical element. If you are taking an EPQ and three A-levels, we may offer you a one grade reduction on our advertised typical offer alongside an A in the EPQ.
- T Levels
- Obtain an overall Pass including a B in the core of the T Level and a Distinction in the Occupational Specialism. Subjects accepted: Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing, Engineering, Manufacturing, Processing and Control and Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing.
- BTEC
- Extended Diploma: DDM. Modules to include either Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems and Further Mathematics OR Maths for Engineering Technicians and Further Maths for Engineering Technicians. A Distinction will be required in both modules. See below for accepted subjects and combinations.
- Contextual Offer
BBC including B in Mathematics and B in one of the following subjects :Physics, Further Mathematics, Design Technology, Computing Science, Electronics, Chemistry, Geology or Biology. A-Level General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted. Where applicable Science A Levels awarded by an English Exam board require a pass in the practical element.
Extended Diploma: DMM. Modules to include either Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems and Further Mathematics OR Maths for Engineering Technicians and Further Maths for Engineering Technicians. A Distinction will be required in both modules.
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes.
- Scottish Highers
- AAABB including a grade A in Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science. Only accepted in combination with Scottish Higher Advanced grade B in Mathematics.
- Scottish Advanced Highers
- BCC including a grade B in Mathematics and grade C in Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science. A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable.
- Irish Leaving Certificate
- 3 subjects at H2 including Maths, plus 3 subjects at H3 including Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science.
- Access to HE Diploma
- Pass the Access to HE Diploma with Distinction in 30 credits at Level 3 and Merit in 15 credits at Level 3, including 12 credits in Mathematics and 12 credits in one other Science from Physics, Further Mathematics, Design Technology, Computing Science, Electronics, Chemistry, Geology or Biology.
- International Baccalaureate
- 32 points including HL6 in Mathematics and HL5 in Further Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Design Technology or Computing Science
- GCSE
You are required to have English Language at a minimum of Grade C or Grade 4 or above and Mathematics at a minimum of Grade B or Grade 5 or above at GCSE.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components)
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:
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- Interviews
Most applicants will not be called for an interview and a decision will be made via UCAS Hub. However, for some applicants an interview will be requested. Where an interview is required, the Admissions Service will contact you directly to arrange a time.
- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Intakes
This course is open to UK and International applicants. The annual intake is in September each year.
Additional Information or Requirements
Extended Diploma: DDM. Modules to include either Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems and Further Mathematics OR Maths for Engineering Technicians and Further Maths for Engineering Technicians. A Distinction will be required in both modules.
Diploma: DD plus A in A-Level Mathematics.
Extended Certificate: D plus A in A-Level Mathematics and B in A-Level Physics, Further Mathematics, Design Technology, Computing Science, Electronics, Chemistry, Geology or Biology .
If you do not meet the academic requirements for direct entry, you may be interested in one of our Foundation Year programmes such as - BEng Engineering with a Foundation Year .
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes.
We welcome and value a wide range of alternative qualifications. If you have a qualification which is not listed here, or are taking a combination of qualifications, please contact us via Admissions Enquiries.
International Requirements
We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. View our International Students pages for specific information about your country.
INTO University of East Anglia
If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, INTO UEA offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree:
International Foundation in Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences
International Foundation in Physical Sciences and Engineering
Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
View our information for Tuition Fees.
Scholarships and Bursaries
We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.
How to Apply
Apply for this course through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS), using UCAS Hub.
UCAS Hub is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.
Your application does not have to be completed all at once. Register or sign in to UCAS to get started.
Once you submit your completed application, UCAS will process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges.
The Institution code for the University of East Anglia is E14.
View our guide to applying through UCAS for useful tips, key dates and further information:
Employability
After the Course
As a UEA Engineering graduate, you’ll enjoy excellent career prospects across a breadth of engineering industries. Your continual collaboration with industrial partners throughout your degree will support your personal development and give you the confidence to reach your graduate career goals.
Our industrial partners recognise the potential that UEA students bring to their organisations and are ready to support your development across the three years of your programme.
Upon completion of this course, you will also be well-positioned to study for a Master’s degree or PhD. The STEM capital you’ll have gained could also support a successful career beyond engineering in the business world, accountancy, law, teaching, or finance.
Careers
A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
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Public or private sector engineering
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Mechanical engineering
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Electrical engineering
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Electronic engineering
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Manufacturing
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Energy engineering
Discover more on our Careers webpages.