Content

Year 1
Students start the course by learning fundamental practical and theoretical skills essential within the general engineering discipline: using tools and equipment to draw and make things; expanding mathematical skills; enhancing science and engineering to comprehend how things work and are controlled; learning about working in industry.

Year 2
Building on the first year, students will find out more about electronics and control, by looking at signals - how to transmit and process them - and controlling systems using microprocessors. They will learn management and technical skills by working through an embedded controller project.

Year 3
The third year sees students working on technically challenging group projects to develop core skills in communication and project management, balancing leadership and individual responsibility. Process related technical skills are enhanced in areas of control systems, metrology and understanding industrial installations and issues relating to their operation.

Year 4
Year 4 builds on the student's skills and independent working by undertaking the honours project. This year includes advanced subjects in control and estimation, batch processing, quality, alarm management and the integration of inter-related systems; basic process control, fire and gas, safety instrumented, and emergency shutdown systems.

Entry Requirements

2025 entry requirements

4 Highers at BBBB including Maths and either Engineering Science, Physics or another technological subject plus English at National 5 (if not held at Higher).

You must be in (or in process of looking for) a GA position with an employer; contact institution for further information.