Energy and Environmental Engineering with Foundation Year
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About this course
Energy and Environmental Engineering is intended to provide a thorough grounding in mechanical engineering science and then apply this to the environment. In addition, students will develop knowledge in a suitable range of manufacturing processes and materials. The programme will also consider environmental aspects of design and technology and will enable students to gain a range of skills, relevant to a broad range of employment opportunities.
Modules
Foundation Year (Cert HE STEM)
The foundation year is designed to develop your mathematical, analytical and study skills, to equip you with the necessary academic skills required to successfully study engineering at a degree level.
• Academic Skills (20 credits; compulsory)
• Further Mathematics (20 credits; compulsory)
• Further Science for Engineering (20 credits; compulsory)
• Integrating Project (20 credits; compulsory)
• Introduction to Mathematics and Science (20 credits; compulsory)
• Manufacturing and Materials (20 credits; compulsory).
Year One – Level 4 (HNC, HND & BEng)
• Electrical and Electronic Principles (20 credits; compulsory)
• Engineering Applications and Study Skills (20 credits; component pass)
• Engineering Design (20 credits; compulsory)
• Engineering Mathematics (20 credits; compulsory)
• Engineering Science (20 credits; compulsory)
• Materials and Introduction to Processing (20 credits; compulsory).
Year Two – Level 5 (HND & BEng)
• Control and Automation (20 credits; compulsory)
• Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy (20 credits; compulsory)
• Group Project (20 credits; component pass)
• Management, Innovation and Sustainability (20 credits; component pass)
• Stress Analysis and Dynamics (20 credits; compulsory)
• Thermofluid Mechanics (20 credits; compulsory).
Year Three – Level 6 (BEng)
• Computational Methods (20 credits; component pass)
• Environmental Pollution Control (20 credits; compulsory)
• Independent Project (40 credits; compulsory; Graduate Attributes Framework module)
• Plant and Asset Engineering (20 credits; compulsory)
• Structural and Fluid Analysis (20 credits; compulsory).
Assessment methods
Students on this type of programme come with a natural interest in their specialism and the teaching team aims to tap into this interest so students enjoy learning and appreciate the benefits which an engineering degree can add to reinforce their areas of interest. The assessments for the programme will be a mix of coursework and formal examination. Modules such as group project and Major project will also have presentations where you would be given the opportunity to showcase your work.
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SA1 Waterfront Campus, Swansea
Engineering
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Graduates are in significant demand, so unemployment rates are well below the national graduate average and starting salaries are well above average. Much the most common industries for these graduates are now vehicle manufacture - there are not enough people with these degrees to go round and so the big employers tend to take the lion's share at the moment. But pretty much anywhere there is manufacturing, there are production engineers. Bear in mind that a lot of courses are four years long, and lead to an MEng qualification — this is necessary if you want to become a Chartered Engineer.
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