Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
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Entry requirements
You'll normally need an appropriate engineering or science undergraduate degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent, an equivalent professional qualification, or significant industrial or professional experience following your initial qualification. If English is not your first language, you'll also need an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent.
International applicants
This course requires an ATAS (Academic Technology Approval Scheme) certificate. As part of the programme, you will learn to research, develop and apply new technologies, develop and promote advanced designs and design methods, introduce new and more efficient production techniques, initiate marketing and construction concepts, and pioneer new engineering services and management methods.
Months of entry
January, September
Course content
Drawing on current industry practice, this MSc builds specialist skills in both mechanical and manufacturing engineering to put your career ambitions on a firm footing.
Work towards CEng status
The MSc Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering develops the skills and knowledge you will need to apply for registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) when you graduate.
Chartered Engineers use a range of fundamental scientific principles to:
- Research, develop and apply new technologies
- Develop and promote advanced designs and design methods
- Introduce new and more efficient production techniques
- Initiate marketing and construction concepts
- Pioneer new engineering services and management methods.
Powerful industry links
Your studies will be underpinned by our excellent industry links with local businesses, including Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Balfour Beatty, Bombardier and Pektron, as well as the Local Enterprise Partnership, D2N2.
We have an Industrial Advisory Panel involving representatives from our partner companies, which means we can keep up to date with current developments in the industry and pass them on to you through our teaching.
Tailored to your needs
This course is flexible, so you will have plenty of choice in the specialist subject modules you take and the ways in which you learn.
Some modules are delivered through lectures and tutorials, some online and some in the workplace. You will study both on your own and as part of a group – and your project work will give you crucial experience of working in teams.
Fees and funding
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MSc
- part time24-36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- College of Engineering and Technology
- marketing@derby.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0)1332 590500