General Engineering With Foundation Year (BEng) Beng (Hon) Beng (Hon) Beng (Hon)

Our foundation year option enables you to join the General Engineering course even if you don’t have the formal qualifications or experience to meet the entry requirements. It equips you with the knowledge to move into formal degree study, setting you up for future success.<br/><br/>Our General Engineering course isn’t just designed to teach you the practical and technical aspects of the subject. It also allows you to get involved in solving problems facing businesses in the real world, using the pioneering ‘Concept, Design, Implementation and Operation’ (CIDO) approach.<br/><br/>CDIO 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 the only a handful of universities in the UK to offer CDIO.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>During the foundation year, you will develop your engineering, science and computing knowledge and youll gain skills to prepare you to study at degree level. You will then go on to explore areas including:<br/><br/><br/>- Engineering Mechanics<br/><br/><br/>- 3D modelling and design<br/><br/><br/>- Materials and manufacturing Engineering:<br/><br/><br/>- Control systems, instrumentation and electronics<br/><br/><br/>Through project work, youll develop as an independent thinker and youll gain practical and transferable skills that will help you work effectively in an engineering team.<br/><br/>Specialist facilities<br/>Our Verena Holmes building is home to the engineering workshop, mechatronics lab, makerspace and mechanical physics lab, complete with industry standard equipment.<br/><br/>Location<br/>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.