Engineering

Engineering challenges lie at the heart of many of the most significant problems facing society in the 21st century, ranging from responding to climate change through developing sustainable energy sources and making efficient use of scarce natural resources.

To be a successful engineer in the present fast-moving technological world you will require an education with the broadest possible interdisciplinary base. As tomorrow’s engineer, you will find that your career will involve not only bringing your own specialist knowledge to a project, but also collaborating with engineers from other disciplines and the management of interdisciplinary teams.

At Exeter we offer a range of exciting, rewarding and professionally accredited specialist degrees covering the major engineering disciplines. We recognise that professional engineers often work together within multidisciplinary teams, solving problems collectively, and this underpins how we teach. Our degrees offer professional and academic rigor within specialist engineering disciplines combined with a strong multi-disciplinary thread throughout.

When you join us you may have had little experience of the different disciplines with engineering, so you may be uncertain which area will most inspire you. Our core first year lets you try them all, giving you the flexibility to change direction as you explore this fascinating subject. During the first year you will engage with our enthusiastic and supportive faculty across all disciplines and see for yourself how essential a multidisciplinary approach is to both a successful engineering career and ground-breaking research. In the second and subsequent years you will specialise in your chosen area of engineering, leading to a specialist degree at MEng or BEng level. Added flexibility is provided through being able to transfer between BEng and MEng at the end of your second year, along with the opportunities to experience an industrial placement or a period of overseas study in any of our programmes.

We collaborate with numerous major UK and international industrial organisations, as well as smaller companies, ensuring our programmes are relevant to the industrial and commercial imperatives of today and to the needs of the future. Our faculty undertakes research projects crossing engineering borders, collaborating with scientists from across our integrated College including physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. This unique environment provides an inspirational learning platform, which combines with our state-of-the-art facilities and the personal support and academic guidance integral to our exemplary student experience, to provide the perfect launch pad for the engineers of the future.

Accreditation

Exeter's Engineering programmes have been continuously accredited for over 30 years by the relevant professional institutions. Our MEng and BEng programmes are accredited by the ICE, IET, IStructE, IoM³ and IMechE*. Our degree programmes also conform to the Engineering Council's UK-SPEC (UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence) that specifies the requirements for achieving Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.

_{* Professional accreditation is pending for International Study and Industrial Experience programmes.}

Numbers

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