Program Overview

BEng (Honours) General Engineering

Course summary

This course is designed as a flexible curriculum, offering multidisciplinary highly skilled engineering pathways, leading to professional registrations. You will study diverse engineering disciplines in a dynamic environment of rapidly changing technologies and industrial practices.

How you learn

You will experience and engage in a variety of learning activities as you progress through the course. The balance of these activities changes at each level of study to encourage you to become increasingly independent learners, developing the ability to take the initiative, plan, organise and complete programmes of work; as an individual, a leader and a member of a team.

You’ll learn through:

• Lectures: students-centred sessions and digital use of lectures emphasising peer collaboration.
• Tutorials: where you practise and apply your knowledge.
• Laboratories and workshops: to gain hands-on practical experience.
• Computer sessions: solve problems using industry-standard software.
• Project-based learning: where you will apply your knowledge, creativity, problem-solving, critical analysis and professional skills in real-world projects.
• Q&A and discussions: for self-assessment and understanding.
• Support sessions: where you receive advice and feedback.
• Group work activities: solve problems and collaborate with your coursemates.

Key Themes

Laboratories are a fundamental part of the General Engineering course, designed to develop and reinforce your learning of theoretical concepts applied by observing, recording, and analysing experimental results.

Course Support

You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly-skilled, graduate-level employment. This includes:

• Access to specialist support services to help with your personal, academic and career development
• Access to our Skills Centre for support with one-to-ones, webinars and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments and assessment preparation
• Industry-specific employability activities, including work placements, live projects and networking opportunities
• Get support when you need it from the Engineering Café, a weekly drop-in session where students can ask questions and get advice from academics.
• Need to practise your mathematics? Attend a dedicated Maths and Stats Support drop-in session that runs twice a week.

Applied learning

Live Projects

Throughout all years of study you will have the chance to work on live-projects, using the tools and skills relevant to the industry today. You’ll be treated as a professional from the day you join us, and these projects will help you to harness the skills you learn with us to the real world.

You will have the opportunity to get involved with SHU Racing, initiated and led by Sheffield Hallam students. SHU Racing caters to a broad audience, reflecting our commitment to professional diversification. The team strive to optimise and develop a Formula Student competition car. This is done through smart innovation and professionally engineered development, implementing lean manufacturing strategies.The SHU Racing team currently consists of over 70 undergraduate students, predominantly from the engineering disciplines.

Work Placements

You’ll have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you valuable work experience to prepare you for your future career and allows you to graduate with an Applied Professional Diploma to add to your CV.

We’ll be on hand to support you in applying for and finding suitable placement opportunities. We’re in regular contact with local and national companies – and we can help you with interview techniques and preparing your CV.

Field Trips

Staff will also endeavour to arrange trips that students will be invited to attend allowing them to observe relevant industrial processes through supervised visits.

Networking Opportunities

Attend scheduled events across the academic year and meet industry partners, employers, researchers, and alumni. Past engineering events have included the Alumni Careers Panel, Careers Fair, Winter Research Poster Event, SHU Racing Launch and EngFest.

Modules

Year 1

• Engineering Design And Manufacture
• Maths And Engineering Science
• Professional Engineering Practice
• Programming & Computer Based Engineering

Year 2

• Automation And Control
• Design Challenge For Sustainability & Enterprise
• Electrical Engineering Systems
• Further Engineering Maths And Engineering Science

Year 3

• Project: Implementation
• Project: Management And Scoping
• Sustainable Engineering Design
• Systems Design And Engineering Analysis

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career where you will be able to apply your creative and innovative engineering problem-solving skills while working in multidisciplinary teams. Graduates from this course will be able to work in many sectors across the breadth of engineering such as:

• Automation and control
• Electrical and electronics systems
• Mechanical and engineering design
• Project engineering
• Energy
• Process
• Robotics

Graduates from this course will work in a variety of roles such as mechatronic engineer, electrical engineer, mechanical, engineer, junior field engineer, project engineer, control engineer, Quality engineers.

Equipment and facilities

The collaborative institutions will support learners’ understanding and application of the subject, specialist resources in various ways such as mechanical workshop, materials testing equipment, manufacturing facilities, automation and control equipment, electrical and electronic facilities and CAD labs dependant on delivery site and pathway.

Students should be able to work within dedicated laboratories for

• Embedded systems – hardware and software facilities for advanced FPGA, microcontroller development (ARM and Arduino)
• Electronics and communications – modern digital oscilloscopes, function generators, power supplies and spectrum analysers
• Control systems– PLCs, pneumatic and hydraulic kits with software for monitoring and control (SCADA)
• Computer-aided design (CAD) and simulation software such as SolidWorks and SPICE
• Analysis software such as Fluent, Abaqus, Ansys and MATLAB

Where will I study?

You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Entry requirements

• UCAS points: 112-120
• A levels: BBC-BBB including a grade C in a relevant subject
• BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM in a relevant subject
• T Level Qualification: Merit overall from a T Level Qualification - Must include B from Core and must be an engineering T level- excluding Design and development for engineering and manufacturing.
• GCSE: English Language at grade C or 4 or equivalent, Maths at grade C or 4 or equivalent
• IELTS: 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or equivalent

Fees and funding

• Home students: £9,535 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)
• International students: £18,000 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)

Additional course costs

• General course additional costs
• Additional costs for School of Engineering and Built Environment (PDF, 607KB)