Top-up to BEng Mechanical Engineering and Design
Overview
Career boost
If you have a HND in Mechanical Engineering and are looking to extend your technical and application skills, then this one-year Top-up course is for you. Design and develop engineering systems for a variety of fields in today’s fast-changing marketplace, focusing on manufacturing. Expect to gain industry-critical skills in team work and leadership, and learn to communicate effectively and exchange ideas with specialist professionals and a wider audience.
We offer the opportunity for all undergraduate Home/EU students to undertake a work placement, internship or work experience while studying a full-time course starting in September 2020.
Why study Mechanical Engineering and Design at LSBU?
- No. 1: London modern university overall for Mechanical Engineering (Guardian League Table 2018).
- Make use of our stand-out facilities, like our virtual engineering lab and 3D printing.
- Live briefs and enterprise project work will enhance your prospects of employment and consultancy, or of running your own business
- Our staff are experts, with a great deal to share.
- No. 1 London modern uni for graduate prospects in Mechanical Engineering (Complete University Guide 2019).
- No.1 amongst London competitors for overall satisfaction and learning opportunities in Mechanical, Production and Manufacturing Engineering (National Student Survey 2018).
Modules
We’ll help you to gain the expertise to solve complex and challenging problems, the very knowledge that enables you to make a positive difference in mechanical engineering. With practical skills including basic manufacturing and measurement, the know-how to set up projects and manage them and the ability to approach design problems in a creative way.
Every decision a professional engineer takes has wider social, environmental, ethical, economic and commercial considerations – we’ll teach you about this too. You can be sure of one thing – that you’ll graduate confident in your ability to take your next career step.
- Innovations and enterprise
- Portfolio engineering projects
- Manufacturing systems
- Thermofluids and turbomachinery
- Individual BEng project
Entry requirements
2017 entry
- Higher National Diploma with at least 60 credits at Merit in second year modules, or
- other equivalent Higher Education qualification in a relevant area
The course director will ensure that all applicants meet and exceed the required pre-requisites on a case by case basis where a pre-inspection of the L5 or equivalent curriculum has not been performed.
- We welcome applicants with qualifications from around the world. English language qualifications for international students: IELTS score of 6.0, TOFEL-550 (print-based), TOFEL-80 (internet-based), Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C.
Advanced entry
If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.