Engineering — Mechanical with Business Finance

This programme is designed to produce engineering graduates with a well-rounded understanding of economics, accounting and business practice. These skills are precisely those required by industry from graduates who are likely to be given significant managerial responsibility at an early stage in their career.

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

The BEng programme is similar to the MEng programme for the first two years and you can transfer between them at the end of the second year if you satisfy certain performance criteria. The BEng is suitable for students who might wish to undertake graduate studies in the future (e.g. an MSc or PhD) or who do not necessarily seek Chartered Engineer status after they graduate. Applying for a MEng initially helps keep your options open.

The programme includes core mathematical, computing and mechanical engineering subjects. You will also study economics and accountancy subjects.

Your individual project in the final year will include a business element, but will primarily be concerned with engineering.
This degree is part of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP), a teaching framework that engages students in specialist and interdisciplinary engineering activities designed to create well-rounded graduates with a strong grasp of the fundamentals of their discipline and a broad understanding of the complexity and context of engineering problems. Students register for a core discipline, but also engage in activities that span departments so the development of fundamental technical knowledge takes place alongside specialist and interdisciplinary research-based projects and professional skills. This creates degrees encouraging professional development, with an emphasis on design and challenging students to apply knowledge to complex problems.

Students may opt to take a year working in industry between the second and third years of the programme. This posting needs UCL approval in advance, and students are required to write a comprehensive report on their work and what they have learnt during the year. The report is assessed, and the marks are given a weighting in the overall classification of the degree.

A levels

Grades

AAA

Subjects

Mathematics required, plus Physics preferred. Further Mathematics acceptable in lieu of Physics (see GCSE requirements). Economics preferred as third subject, but not essential.

The English language level for this programme is: Standard

GCSEs

English Language, Mathematics at grade C, plus Physics grade C if not offered at A level. For UK-based students, a grade C or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL provides opportunities to meet the foreign language requirement following enrolment, further details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/ug-reqs

IB Diploma

Points

38

Subjects

A score of 18 points in three higher level subjects including Mathematics at grade 6, plus Physics at grade 6 preferred, with no score lower than 5. Economics preferred as third higher level subject, but not essential.