Integrated Engineering (BEng) - Degree Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship

Level 6

Tycoch, Other

Five years

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.

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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.