Higher/Degree Apprenticeship Manufacturing Engineer
BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing
BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing
Page last updated 10 May 2024
Study our Manufacturing Engineer apprenticeship to gain a BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing degree accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Benefit from industry-standard facilities and equipment in our new engineering building.
Our Level 6 Manufacturing Engineer apprenticeship offers an exciting opportunity for those looking to progress their engineering career by gaining a university degree. Based on the BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing course, this apprenticeship will allow you to develop your expertise while remaining in work.
Our new inclusive, problem-based curriculum will broaden our engineering audience, enabling learners from a wider range of backgrounds to pursue a career in engineering. To date, we're the first university in the UK to transform our curriculum alongside constructing a new engineering building.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of central engineering concepts and learn to apply them directly to practical challenges in your workplace. You'll develop professional skills to use throughout your career, including creative problem solving, manufacturing management, computer-aided design (CAD), modelling, simulation, teamwork and innovation.
As an apprentice engineer, you'll start your professional journey towards becoming an incorporated or chartered engineer from day one. You'll learn by doing, applying and revisiting your early skills through embedded project weeks and development of digital and physical prototypes, as you would in practice.
Our multi-disciplinary approach equips you with the skills and knowledge required to work in industry now and in the future. We'll enable you to reach your full potential through new technologies and innovative teaching methods, including lectures, tutorials, reflective workshops and practical sessions.
You'll experiment in our laboratories with industry-standard electro-mechanical equipment, and develop practical skills in our rapid prototyping facility and machine shop. You'll have the opportunity to develop prototypes using robotic assembly cells, power distribution systems and motor drives, as well as subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels.
On factory visits, you'll get to see engineering in action. You'll receive a guided tour of the shop floor and attend a presentation from the host organisation. Past visits have included Jaguar Land Rover, the National Composite Centre, Airbus and GKN.
Our state-of-the-art engineering building, which opened in Summer 2020, provides the ideal environment for inspiring innovation, combining teaching and research facilities. These include engine test cells, wind tunnels and collaborative learning spaces.
This apprenticeship will strengthen and develop your engineering skills, enabling your employer to retain your talents while also helping them to attract promising new recruits.
The Manufacturing Engineer apprenticeship enables your employer to invest in you through university-level tutoring and hands-on training.
On successful completion of this apprenticeship, you'll achieve a BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing degree, accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
In addition to supporting your development in the workplace, this apprenticeship will help you to understand the career landscape in your sector and plan for your longer-term ambitions. Our award-winning Careers Service is on hand to give you independent advice and guidance at any point in your studies.
The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.
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You'll then take the End-Point Assessment to complete your apprenticeship.
Read more about the approved manufacturing engineer apprenticeship standard on the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education website.
This part-time apprenticeship is delivered over four years.
You'll attend college full time in year one. Here you'll complete the first year of your studies and also the skills-based learning and assessment required for your apprenticeship, such as the Performing Engineering Operations.
In years two, three and four, you'll be expected to attend university for one day per week. You'll also need to spend at least the same amount of time self-studying when at university (nominally at least one extra day per week of your own time).
See our glossary of teaching and learning terms.
You'll be assessed via a wide range of different assessment methods including exams, coursework, reports, presentations and vivas.
BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
The accredited BEng(Hons) will meet, in part, the exemplifying academic benchmark requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer and you'll need to complete an approved format of further learning pursuant to the requirements of UK-SPEC.
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