Integrated Engineering (BEng) - Degree Apprenticeship
Telephone: 01792 284098 Email: he@gcs.ac.uk
Overview
Awarding body: Cardiff University
An opportunity for employed engineers or apprentices to gain a prestigious Bachelors in Engineering Honours degree from a leading Russell Group University in Wales has arisen. Cardiff University has partnered with Gower College Swansea, to offer this exciting opportunity for existing employees or newly recruited staff to achieve a fully accredited BEng Hons Integrated Engineering degree on a part-time basis over 5 years. It is fully funded through the Welsh Government's new Degree Apprenticeship scheme.
The BEng Integrated Engineering Degree Apprenticeship will build upon your employment experience to develop higher level skills required for a professional engineer. The programme incorporates a blend of mechanical, electrical and computer engineering modules which is designed to produce engineers with a broad knowledge and skilled in more than one of the traditional engineering disciplines integrated with work based learning in the form of a significant industrial project and ongoing reflection on the application of your learned skills in the workplace.
Key information
A minimum of a Level 3 qualification in a relevant subject (ie. A Levels or a relevant BTEC/EAL Engineering Extended Diploma in mathematical, scientific or engineering subject areas) or equivalent industrial knowledge and experience.
Level 3 Maths Skills (ie. A Level Maths or BTEC/EAL Further Maths or equivalent industrial knowledge).
Be employed in an engineering role within a company in Wales that can facilitate an engineering project, and will grant you one day a week release throughout the 5 years.
Lectures will be delivered one day a week over five years. The first three years (Level 4 and 5) will be taught at Gower College Swansea. The first year of Level 6 will be delivered at Gower College Swansea, the final year of the programme will be delivered at Cardiff University.
You will be assigned a personal tutor who is a member of University academic staff associated with your degree course, as well as a tutor at Gower College Swansea and you will meet with them individually and jointly on a regular basis throughout the whole five years of the programme.
Modules
Level 4
- Professional & academic skills for engineering
- Engineering maths and computing
- Electrical principles
- Electronic principles
- Mechanical principles
- Technical engineering.
Level 5
- Thermofluids
- Integrated product design
- Applied mathematics and control engineering
- Microcontroller applications and embedded design
- Engineering management
- Materials and manufacture
- Machine and power electronics.
Level 6
For Level 6, all the modules will be core and will be split across the two years.
Year 1 and 2:
Degree apprenticeship project.
Level 6 Year 1 (Gower College Swansea)
- Thermodynamics and heat transfer
- Object-oriented engineering computing
- Automatic control
- Fluid, power and control
- Degree apprenticeship project.
Level 6 Year 2 (Cardiff University)
- Embedded systems
- Electro-mechanical design
- Magnetic materials and systems
- Degree apprenticeship project.
Assessment
A combination of coursework assignments and examinations set at appropriate stages as the module progresses. Examinations count for 50-60% of all assessment throughout the programme. A typical module has an examination at the end, plus a coursework assignment.
Course costs
Fully funded through the Welsh Government’s new Degree Apprenticeship scheme.
Additional fees
- Travel to and from College, or placement
- Photocopying, stationery and equipment costs (e.g. USB sticks)
- Printing and binding
- Gowns for graduation ceremonies.