Engineering at Exeter

Engineering is a driving force in society. Major advances that we all take for granted – for example the mobile phone, satellite communications, high-speed trains, aeroplanes, and buildings – have all been designed and developed by engineers. They are the innovators, designers and managers of these advances at all stages, from the initial ideas, through design, development, and production to end-of-life recycling.

Tomorrow’s engineers will work on projects that will require them to bring their own specialist knowledge to a multidisciplinary team. Our degrees at Exeter aim to make you successful in this environment – our first year core course is multidisciplinary so you will feel confident in all the engineering disciplines. It also means that you do not have to choose your specialist field until your second year.

At Exeter our degrees are designed with the needs of tomorrow’s engineers with the business world in mind. Our excellent results in both the National Student Survey and engineering league tables, and the employment record of our graduates, which is consistantly higher than the national average, confirms the success of our approach.

Key features of our programmes:

Core first year

Our aim at Exeter is to provide you with a thorough grounding in the underlying principles of engineering by means of a multidisciplinary core course. This approach allows you to feel confident in all areas of engineering and to build bridges between the various engineering disciplines. The flexibility of our degree structure also means you do not have to choose the specialisation of your degree until the second year.

A research-led department

Your teaching will be right up-to-date. Our academic staff are all active researchers, working in specialised centres for research in manufacturing, polymers, water systems, digital signal processing, telecommunications, and control. We normally have over a hundred research projects in progress at any point in time; all funded by industry, the UK government, the research councils or the European Commission. These projects ensure the material taught on undergraduate programmes evolves as the subject changes as well as providing opportunities for students to take part in world‑leading research projects.

Exeter Advanced Technologies (X-AT), the Centre of Excellence in Manufacturing and Information Technology and the Centre for Water Systems are located in the Department. You will benefit from these centres through access to up-to-date equipment, industrially-based projects and a range of expertise available in only a limited number of engineering departments across the UK.

Excellent teaching and support

Teaching and research are key to Exeter's reputation and we provide a challenging and rewarding experience for all students through our high quality teaching supervision, pastoral care and learning opportunities which are designed to bring out the very best of our students' intellectual and personal skills. We make sure that our teaching is in line with the skills and knowledge sought by employers. Our External Advisory Committee includes representatives of local and national industrial and commercial organisations whose brief is to monitor our teaching, research and management activities from an industrial perspective.

Accreditation

The structure of our degree programmes conforms to the requirements set out by the Engineering Council in UK-SPEC. Under this, the education base for Chartered Engineer (CEng) status may be established by following either a four-year MEng programme or a three-year BEng programme enhanced by a one-year ‘matching’ section later in one’s professional career.

As with other institutions, our MEng and BEng degree programmes go through the accreditation process at regular intervals. All our BEng and MEng degrees have been accredited for the past 30 years.

Study Abroad opportunities

Engineering is an international profession and many engineering graduates will pursue part of their professional career overseas. EU citizens will be particularly mobile within the European states. In preparation for these career opportunities, and to widen your experience generally, you may choose to spend at least three months of the third year of your BEng or MEng at one of our partner institutions in Europe under the SOCRATES-ERASMUS exchange scheme.

We currently have links with universities in France (INSA, Rennes, ICAM, Lille and ENSERB, Bordeaux), Germany (Stuttgart), Italy (Modena and Catania), The Netherlands (TU/e Eindhoven), Spain (Cantabria - Santander), Sweden (Lund and Stockholm) and the Czech Republic (Prague). If you choose this option you will normally undertake your project work in Europe where it is assessed by the host institution under European Credit Transfer arrangements. You will also normally take language modules in the University’s Foreign Language Centre to prepare for your period of study in Europe.

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