Engineering

Engineering involves the application of scientific, mathematical, economic, practical and social skills in order to design services and build physical products that help improve peoples’ lives. Now is a great time to study engineering. We face global challenges like energy consumption, transport demand and population growth. Employers need engineers to find innovative solutions to these problems and yet are faced with a shortage of high quality engineering graduates.

Why Study Engineering At Warwick?

We are consistently in the top ten in the Guardian and Times league tables.

Courses are delivered in the context of a unified course through a strategic partnership between the School of Engineering and WMG.

This unified approach in the early years of our courses equips you with the skills needed to design today’s complex products, which extend beyond the traditional engineering disciplines. (This approach means that you will find Warwick under ‘General Engineering’ in league tables.)

A key feature of our courses is flexibility; the first two years give you time to experience different engineering disciplines before making your final decision on the type of engineering (civil, mechanical etc) and level (BEng or MEng) you choose.

We have more than 300 members of staff conducting research and teaching across a broad range of engineering disciplines, providing exciting opportunities for undergraduate study.

Oliver Newth

Student Profile: Oliver Newth,

3rd year, Civil Engineering

'One of the best aspects of Warwick’s Engineering course is that it allows us to become multidisciplinary – you are not tied to an Engineering stream right from the beginning. I have learnt about parts of electrical, mechanical, civil and manufacturing engineering, as well as business and even Arabic!

The School’s willingness to invest in its students is evident. My idea to change the way student resources like lecture notes are distributed to students received funding, was developed and has now been launched.

I have participated in many sports and activities, including working backstage for an opera in the Arts Centre, competitively rowing and playing dodgeball! My most memorable time was having the opportunity to teach in Ghana through the Warwick in Africa programme'.

Research league tables place us in the top ten and the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise ranked us third in the UK among unified engineering departments.

Our research and teaching links with national and global companies covering the aerospace, automotive, biomedical, communications, healthcare, sensors and tunnelling industries ensure our curriculum is industrially relevant and give our students early access to potential employers such as Jaguar Land Rover.

In 2011, £2.3 million was invested in the School of Engineering to provide an undergraduate design studio and extra study space as well as research laboratories in areas such as Biomedicine. These complement existing facilities which include two large engineering halls and WMG’s International Digital Laboratory which focuses on collaborative research with industry.

All our courses, except BSc Engineering and Business Studies and BEng Engineering Business Management, are accredited by one or more of the appropriate Engineering Institutions.

How Will I Be Taught?

Each week you will have lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical laboratory sessions giving up to 20 hours contact time, complementing a similar amount of guided private study. To help you make the transition from school to university in your first year you will meet your personal tutor each week in a group of five to ten students to address academic issues arising from the lectures. Engineers are always involved in interdisciplinary group work and this forms part of our courses from day one.

How Will I Be Assessed?

Through written and oral assessments, including project work, essays and examinations.

What Opportunities Are There For Work Experience And Study Abroad?

You have many opportunities to gain industrial experience via visits, project work and placements in the vacations. You can take a year in industry or in a research environment either informally, via temporary withdrawal, or formally as part of the MEng programmes with the experience reflected in the degree title. We have partnerships with European Universities to enable to you exchange your third year of MEng study at Warwick for a year of study abroad.

What Careers Can A Warwick Engineering Degree Lead To?

An engineering degree is a passport to career opportunities in many areas. A four-year MEng course equips you with the educational base to become a Chartered Engineer (CEng). The majority of our graduates work in engineering or IT industries with roles as varied as Mechanical Systems Engineer at Marshall Aerospace, Civil Engineer with Network Rail or Software Engineer at Ericsson. Others take up opportunities in research via doctorates.

The three-year BEng degree is accredited as partially satisfying the educational base for a Chartered Engineer. A programme of accredited Further Learning will be required to complete the educational base for CEng status and 20–30% of BEng students take postgraduate courses after graduating. The breadth of experience we provide means that graduate unemployment rates are low.

*With an elective – see matrix below to view which subjects can be combined with each Engineering degree spine.