Engineering and Physical Sciences Foundation Programme: Design Engineering Beng (Hon)

<strong>Our foundation programme paves the way to a degree programme in BEng Design Engineering at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.</strong><br/><br/><strong>Course outline</strong><br/><br/>In our Design Engineering foundation programme, you will be equipped with the essential groundwork for your future undergraduate studies, offering a clear path towards BEng Design Engineering.<br/><br/>On this programme, you will learn, collaborate, and flourish through a blend of academic modules, specific subject knowledge, and project-based learning with students in other engineering areas and foundation students across different frameworks. This approach mimics the real-life working world, where your career will be enriched by working alongside people with different skill sets, viewpoints, and approaches, while also supporting a wider community of learning and building the specific skills for your progression. <br/><br/><strong>Key benefits</strong><br/><br/><br/>• Supporting progression – Opportunity to progress onto an Aston University degree programme by learning fundamental subject knowledge.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Gold standard teaching – Aston University was awarded Gold – the highest possible rating for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2023)<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>Where can this degree take me?</strong><br/><br/>Successful completion of this foundation programme enables progression onto our full-time BEng (Hons) Design Engineering degree course.<br/><br/>The transferable skills that our design engineering programmes provide mean that our graduates are successful in finding employment in a wide range of roles such as:<br/><br/><br/>• Application engineer<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Research and development graduate engineer<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Head of curriculum<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Assistant digital engineer<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Tax associate<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Graduate project manager<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Graduate quality engineer<br/><br/><br/><br/>Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Balfour Beatty, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Leonardo, Fabrio Design, Technical Services (UK), Faurecia Group, and Laing ORourke.