Mechanical Engineering - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

This Mechanical Engineering - Placement Year (Hons)  course from Lancaster University will qualify you as a chartered engineer, a professional title carrying considerable prestige with employers.

Mechanical engineering is concerned with anything that moves and many things that don’t. From a simple nut and bolt, through to the complex multi-physics of aerodynamics in Formula One, mechanical engineering solves the broadest range of challenges and leads to a multitude of different and exciting careers.

Our approach reinforces your learning from lectures through practical activities and allows you to fully assess your assumptions while building teamwork and project management skills essential to your future career.

In the modern world, mechanical engineers are part of small or large teams developing complex systems. Our common first year is tailored to equip you with the required broad fundamental knowledge. You will study themes from within mechanical engineering, but also the fundamentals behind electrical, electronics and chemical processes, along with a solid foundation in engineering mathematics.

Specialist modules in mechanical engineering will begin in the second year, where you will cover main themes of materials, statics and dynamics, fluids and thermodynamics, complemented by design and laboratory activities. You have the opportunity to undertake a business development project, to introduce you to Industry 4.0 concepts.

Career opportunities:

Mechanical engineers lead the design and build of the things we use and see in our everyday lives. This dynamic discipline, which involves a high level of mathematics, physics and other STEM subjects, is applicable to a virtually limitless range of scenarios and situations. From the cars we drive to the buildings we live and work in, mechanical engineers have been involved in building our world every step of the way. You will graduate with a broad range of skills that make you highly desirable, such as the ability to think creatively, develop solutions to problems, manage projects, apply practical and technical knowledge and to be confident in decision making. It’s unsurprising then that our graduates go on to work within a wide range of sectors and industries, from Aerospace to Energy, Maritime to Rail and more. 

Here are just some of the roles that our BEng and MEng Mechanical Engineering students have progressed into upon graduating:

• Design Engineer – Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon Ltd

• Graduate Engineer – Johnson and Johnson

• Graduate Mechanical Engineer – Frazer-Nash Consultancy

• Air Integration Engineer – BAE Systems

• PhD Candidate – Lancaster University

• Graduate R & D Engineer – Laing O’Rourke

• Sustainability Design Engineer – Queen’s University Belfast

• Graduate Manufacturing Engineer – BAE Systems

• Junior Test Engineer – RAL Space

• Process Engineer – Unilever

• Marine Engineer Officer (Submariner) – Royal Navy

• Aerospace Engineer – BAE Systems