Course summary

Whether it is making the clothes on our backs or picking the crops from fields, mechanical engineering and advance manufacturing is all around us. Our degree will prepare you for the challenges of this ever-evolving sector. You will finish your degree with industry-ready skills confidence and creativity to overcome the next generation of challenges. Designed and run in collaboration with business, and utilising the pioneering CDIO approach, this degree is rewarding and opens real-world career pathways. The CDIO approach is an international engineering education model, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It allows you to learn in a practical, hands-on way to find creative, evaluated solutions to industry related engineering challenges. We are one of only a handful of universities in the UK to offer CDIO. You will study engineering and manufacturing to understand their role in production processes and you will gain expertise in product creation processes from design to end manufacture. You will gain key employability skills and be encouraged to take up placements, helping you to go straight into employment upon completion of your studies. On completion of the course you will be on track to become an Incorporated Engineer. Specialist facilities Our Verena Holmes building is home to the engineering workshop, mechatronics lab, makerspace and mechanical physics lab, complete with industry standard equipment. Location This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.