Engineering with an Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Development

Description

This course is now closed to all new applicants for the 2014 entry.

If you have studied subjects in, for example, arts, humanities or human sciences, this foundation year will help you switch to the challenging yet secure world of engineering and technology. You may have been successful in a non-science field or you may need to build on existing qualifications in order to be accepted for an engineering degree.

During your chosen Foundation year, you will take modules from a range of subjects relevant to the area you want to enter, together with study skills, project work and practical techniques where appropriate.

On successful completion of the year, you will transfer to one of Brunel’s degree programmes. You will have had a taste of several disciplines so you will be confident that you are choosing a course you will enjoy. Progression is dependent upon satisfactory achievement of the required grades for your chosen course.

This is not a 'soft option'. You will need to be well motivated and prepared to work hard.

You may register for four, five or even six years in total, depending upon whether you choose a BEng or MEng degree, and whether you take the full-time or sandwich mode. For funding reasons all applicants apply to the 5 year sandwich programme which includes a professional development year. If you wish to change this to a course without the sandwich year it is possible to do this by contacting Admissions before Registering in September or the Student Center before the end of the first year on your chosen degree programme after the foundation year.

Because the foundation year is an integral part of your degree, you are eligible for financial support for the entire extended period. You should therefore apply to Student Finance England for support through to the end of your engineering degree, and not just for the foundation year.

Aims

This foundation year will give you a route into one of our engineering degree programmes.

Please note that these Foundation programmes are not ‘Foundation Degrees’. They are instead an alternative entry route to the first year of an existing degree programme.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 3500 Year (EEA)
• GBP 16000 Year (Non-EEA)

£3,500 full-time for Foundation year; £9,000 full-time for subsequent degree programme years

• English

Course Content

Typical modules

• Mathematics

• Physics

• Engineering Science

• Electronic Engineering

• Materials Science

• Engineering Drawings and Communication

• Engineering Projects

Project work

There will also be two project breaks, each of one week’s duration, which will require the application of practical knowledge, mathematical and scientific skills, elements of design, graphical ability and intuition and initiative in a series of group projects.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 CAE score : 60(Grade C)

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

• GCE A-level CCD, including Maths or Physics at A-Level or BCC without Maths or Physics at A-Level (General Studies not accepted for this subject at all).
• Advanced Diploma Progression Diploma Grade C in Engineering, plus the Specialist Unit in Maths for Engineers at grade C along with 1 AS-level at Grade B for Additional and Specialist Learning.
• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDM in an Engineering related subject
• BTEC Level 3 Diploma DM in a related subject with an A Level at grade C in a Maths, Science or Engineering subject.
• BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A Levels grade CC including a Maths and a Science or Engineering subject.
• International Baccalaureate Diploma 27 Points, including Higher Level Maths or Physics or 29 Points without Higher Level Maths or Physics.
• Access to Higher Education Diploma Complete and pass Access to Engineering, Computing or Science course with 45 credits at Level 3 and with Merit or higher in all units.

GCSE Mathematics grade C and GCSE English grade C are also required.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Brunel University.