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.

“The Integrated Engineering Degree Apprenticeship provides an excellent combination of academic learning and practical, hands-on experience. The blend of mechanical and electrical engineering gives apprentices a broad and highly relevant skill set, while allowing them to apply their learning directly in the workplace. We’re particularly pleased that the final-year workplace project can be aligned with genuine business objectives, creating a valuable opportunity for the apprentice to develop their skills while delivering tangible benefits to the business.” Elliot Jones, Operations Engineering Manager, Welcony.

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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.