MEng Mechatronics Engineering
This course is open for applications
Page last updated 24 April 2024
Introduction
Gain industry-like experience in our Digital Engineering Laboratory by working on Cyber-Physical Factory, Virtual and Augmented Reality Space and Artificial Intelligence based experiments. Our facilities are equipped with modules from SIEMENS, FESTO, and other leading industrial equipment providers.
Why study MEng Mechatronics Engineering?
The digital revolution in industry needs new Mechatronics Engineers with unique digital manufacturing skills. MEng Mechatronics Engineering is an exciting multidisciplinary subject which combines the principles of mechanics, electronics, robotics and computer engineering to develop sustainable systems. Combining a broad range of skills, you'll build a solid base from which you'll be ready to solve a range of complex engineering problems. Careers in mechatronics are predicted to grow rapidly over the coming years, so you can be sure to graduate with excellent job prospects in a growing mechatronics market.
The programme provides insight and skills in the creation and maintenance of complex engineering products and is designed to have broad appeal for students from a wide range of STEM disciplines.
Why UWE Bristol?
Our Mechatronics Engineering degree is an innovative course offering you comprehensive engineering training in electro-mechanical systems, benefitting from the well-established programmes and research groups that exist at UWE Bristol. You'll learn how to evaluate solutions to engineering problems, and to choose which solutions to apply to engineering systems.
As a practice-based course, you'll get plenty of hands-on experience, which means you'll graduate ready to step straight into your career.
You'll also benefit from excellent facilities including our award-winning Engineering building and the University's enterprise zone, Future Space.
Where can it take me?
The analytical and problem-solving skills that students will gain on the course will make them attractive sector professionals. Graduates will enter a growing sector and be in high-demand due to their knowledge of manufacturing, mechanics, electronics and mechatronics, and their ability to innovate using new technologies.
A Master's degree in Mechatronics Engineering will prepare students for an engineering career in a range of sectors including transport, logistics, robotics, health, defence, manufacturing, automotives, research and renewable energy.
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Structure
Content
The below information is indicative of the course content and is subject to final UWE Bristol approval. The approved course content will be published here soon.
When the approved course content is published, any optional modules listed will be those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.
Year one
Compulsory modules:
- Engineering Practice 1
- Mathematical Modelling for Electronics and Robotics
- Applied Electronics
- Programming for Engineers
- Fundamental Mechatronics Principles.
Year two
Compulsory modules:
- Engineering Practice 2
- Engineering Research
- Microcontroller Applications Group Lab
- Industrial Data Analytics
- Digital Manufacturing and Industry
- Industrial Internet of Things.
If you study on the four year (sandwich) course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work placement after Year two.
See the Placements and Fees sections for more information.
Year three
Compulsory modules:
- Engineering Project
- Group Design and Integration Project
- Professionalism for Engineers
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Biomechatronics.
Plus one optional module from:
- Smart Factory Modelling and Simulation
- Industrial Systems Validation
- Digital Signal Processing.
Final year
- Compulsory modules:
- Masters Group Capstone Project
- Advanced Mechatronics
- Modern Control for Mechatronics.
Plus one optional module from:
- Industrial Applications of Vision and Automation
- Power Electronics
- Electromechanical Systems Integration.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.
Learning and Teaching
You'll start your professional journey towards becoming a digital mechatronics engineer from day one through our practice-based teaching style and industry-informed curriculum.
You'll learn by doing, applying and revisiting your early skills through embedded project weeks and prototype mock-ups, just as you will in practice. Professional and personal development are embedded throughout the course, meaning you'll also develop core skills that you'll take with you throughout your career, such as teamwork, creativity, problem-solving and innovative thinking.
Immersive Project Weeks will integrate knowledge and experiences from across the course and from external professionals, creating a student engineer community within the curriculum.
Problem and project-based learning are used throughout the course in our immersive engineering building. Lectures and tutorials ensure that students are aware of the scope of their technical field and are able to practice analytical techniques. Students will also develop practice-based engineering skills through laboratory and computer-based teaching, ensuring confidence in the application of theoretical principles.
See our glossary of teaching and learning terms.
Assessment
The assessment strategy is designed to connect topics and enable students to reflect upon their development. Assessment methods are aligned to the requirements of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) who place high importance on the demonstration of authentic and verifiable learning outcomes for each student.
You'll be assessed through a mixture of assignments, open-book and computer-based examinations, continuous assessment, and group work. Plus, you'll also complete a final year project that makes up a quarter of the final year's work.
Learn more about assessments.
Features
Placements
Students who gain work experience tend to graduate with better degrees. Plus, experience also helps you to develop your skills and industry knowledge in a real-world setting, as well as to provide you with the opportunity to start building your professional network.
If you choose to study the sandwich MEng course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work placement after Year two.
Placements are available with our partner employers, as well as many organisations across the region.
We offer you help to find your placement through our Careers Service and you can access support while on placement from our dedicated academic team.
Study facilities
Our modern Digital Engineering Laboratory is where you will have an industry-like experience by working on the Cyber-Physical Factory, Virtual and Augmented Reality Space and Artificial Intelligence based experiments. Our Digital Engineering Laboratory is equipped with modules from leading companies such as SIEMENS, FESTO, and other leading industrial systems andequipment providers.
Our award winning engineering building is designed to inspire the engineers of the future. Built for hands-on investigation, with engine test cells, wind tunnels and collaborative learning spaces. It's an ideal environment for you to explore, take risks and discover ways to change the world for the better.
Here you'll:
- Learn professional engineering skills in our well-equipped facilities.
- Access industry-standard computing laboratories, computer rooms and computer-aided design (CAD) suites.
- Create and test structures or concepts in our manufacturing workshops, wind tunnels and robotics laboratory
- Receive support and advice on computer applications from our system support helpdesk.
Take a Virtual Tour of the Engineering facilities and see what's on offer here for you.
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Careers
Careers / Further study
The development of new and efficient means of manufacturing will ensure that graduates with skills in integration and practical knowledge of engineering, data analytics and computer sciences, will be in high demand in our future economy.
The innovation and problem-solving skills that students will gain on the course will make them attractive sector professionals. They'll be ready to engage in the ongoing transformation process towards smart factories where mechatronic skills are essential. Students will have a unique understanding of a multidisciplinary field and collaborative working, with entrepreneurial skills within market evolution.
Graduates from this program will forge successful careers in the development of microcontroller-based embedded systems, robotics, integration of renewable energy sources and the design of the associated power conversion systems. Alternatively, they might progress into the development of automation and control systems for various industrial processes, automotive electronics, the design of electrical machines and the development of guidance and control systems for unmanned intelligent underwater; or ground and aerial vehicles.
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Our award-winning Careers Service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and find you graduate jobs, placements and global opportunities.
We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.
Visit our employability pages to learn more about careers, employers and what our students are doing six months after graduating.
Fees
Full-time; Sandwich course
Indicative Additional Costs
Supplementary fee information
Your overall entitlement to funding is based on how long the course is that you're registered on.
Standard funding is allocated based on the standard number of years that your course lasts, plus one additional year.
You'll apply for funding each year that you study and Student Finance will take into account how long the course is in each year that you apply. So if you register for the five year course and then transfer to the four year course, the number of years you can apply for funding will change. Student Finance will reassess your funding based on how many years you have been in study, not just those years for which you received student finance.
Always seek advice before taking any action that may have implications for your funding.
Additional costs
This refers to items you could need during your studies that aren't covered by the standard tuition fee. These could be materials, textbooks, travel, clothing, software or printing.
Entry
Typical offers
- Tariff points: 120
- Contextual tariff: See our contextual offers page.
- GCSE: Grade C/4 in English and Mathematics, or equivalent.
- English Language Requirement:
International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).
*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language requirements section.
- A-level subjects: Grade C in Mathematics plus a pass in one of the following subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Computing/Computer Science; Design and Technology; Electronics; Engineering; ICT; Further Maths; Music Technology; Physics; Statistics. Maths requirement can also be met by the Cambridge Pre-U Mathematics at Merit 3.
- Relevant subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Computing/Computer Science; Design and Technology; Electronics; Engineering; ICT; Further Maths; Mathematics; Music Technology; Physics; Statistics.
- EDEXCEL (BTEC) Diploma: You must be studying one of the following: Aeronautical Engineering; Construction and the Built Environment; Electrical/Electronic Engineering; Engineering; Land-based Technology; Manufacturing Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; or Operations and Maintenance Engineering. To include Merit in one of the following units: Further Engineering Mathematics or Further Mathematics for Construction. Please list the units you are taking in your application. For further advice on acceptable units please email us.
- Access: 15 Level 3 credits at Merit in Mathematics and 15 credits in another science or technology subject.
- Baccalaureate IB: To include a minimum grade of 5 in Higher Level Mathematics and a Pass at Higher Level in one of the following subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Design Technology; Physics; Environmental Systems and Societies.
- Irish Highers: H2 in Mathematics plus a pass in one of the following subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Engineering; Physics; Technology.
- T Levels: Grade C in A-Level Mathematics, in addition to your T Level qualification. If you have or are looking to partially complete your T-Level, you are still required to have the equivalent to 2 full A-Levels as part of our minimum entry requirements. As a result, if you are applying with only the core or occupational specialism, this may be insufficient as a stand-alone qualification.
Entry requirements
For information on entry requirements, including required Guided Learning Hours, please see our entry requirements pages.
If you don't meet the entry requirements, you may be eligible for BEng(Hons) Mechatronics Engineering or BEng(Hons) Mechatronics Engineering (with Foundation Year).
International applicants
For country specific entry requirements please find your country on the Country Information pages. If you are an international student and do not meet the academic requirements to study this course, you can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College.
If you are applying to study at UWE Bristol and require additional support to meet our English language requirements, you may be able to attend one of our pre-sessional English courses. Read more about our Pre-Sessional English Programme.
How to apply
Read more about undergraduate applications.
Read more about international applications and key international deadline dates.
For further information
- Email:
UK applicants
Admissions@uwe.ac.ukInternational/EU applicants
International@uwe.ac.uk - Telephone:
UK applicants
+44 (0)117 32 83333International/EU applicants
+44 (0)117 32 86644