BEng Mechatronic Engineering with Industrial Experience

Switch on your career in mechatronic engineering at The University of Manchester, a university with a prestigious engineering history - and a bright focus on the future. Mechatronics, the marriage of mechanical engineering with smart electronics, is vital to subjects including industrial automation and robotics.

To interact with an object, a mechatronic system must know where the object is, be able to move the object and place it in the required new position. The electronics require information from sensors that can detect position, orientation, and visual or audio signals. The electrical inputs from the sensors have to be interpreted and the appropriate signals sent out to the actuators to perform the required operation.

A good understanding of feedback control is also required to make changes in the system from one steady position to another, without oscillations or unpredictable movements. In this course you will learn the techniques necessary for the design and implementation of such intelligent mechatronic systems.

Spending a year in industry will not only develop your business, team working and transferable skills - all highly sought-after by employers - it will also highlight the broad range of careers on offer to you and guide your choice of subject options. You'll place yourself in a great position to move your career forward.

• You will learn robotics, mechatronics, and autonomous system technology and how to incorporate an electronic nervous system into other engineering systems and devices.
• You will be provided with ample opportunity for practical application and project work. These are strong themes throughout our course.
• You will be taught by academics working on the cutting-edge of research, helping to solve the world's biggest challenges.
• You will gain first-hand industrial experience at a recognised company, acquiring the knowledge and skills to take your learning to the next level.

Paid industrial placement

Increase your depth and breadth of electrical and electronic engineering knowledge, and gain valuable practical work experience.

Regular, close support

In the first year, you'll be supported by unit-specific tutors, who hold weekly small-group sessions to discuss course-related questions. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to engage with  our award-winning Peer Assisted Study Session scheme  which allows you to interact with 2nd and 3rd Year students. You'll also be assigned an Academic Advisor, who will support you in terms of your academic progression and career development.

Excellent facilities

In our new Home of Engineering and Materials, we’re ripping up the rule book to offer a truly innovative teaching and learning experience. Explore   Our Home for Engineering and Materials.

With access to an  extensive range of leading facilities , you'll get hands-on with industry-standard equipment - improving your knowledge and skills, and preparing you for work post-graduation. Our flagship facilities include the  High Voltage Lab  and  Photon Science Institute .

Options and flexibility

The first three semesters of our undergraduate courses share the same content. This gives you the opportunity to transfer between electrical and electronic, electronic and mechatronic engineering up until halfway through your second year.

In your first year of study there is approximately a 50:50 split between your contact time and independent study, which is about the same as when studying for A-levels.

In subsequent years this split changes to a greater amount of independent learning, with the split being approximately 30:70 in the 3rd Year. This does not mean that less help is available; our staff are here to help.

Contact time could be in a lecture, example class, tutorial, laboratory class and sometimes may be online (email/e-learning/web blog etc). All of these activities enable you to interact with us to ensure you have the best possible learning experience.

The course contains strong practical elements: in the 1st Year you will be introduced to both hardware design and implementation as well as software development, in the 2nd Year you will engage in a year-long practical build project of an autonomous embedded system, in the 3rd Year you will be involved with a year-long practical research project.

During your year in industry, an academic supervisor will ensure that your work experience is strongly related to your degree and that you will have the opportunity to spend that year working on engineering projects in an industrial setting.

Come to our Home of Engineering and Materials - a place like no other. This is where engineers, material scientists and fashion students collaborate, innovate and make their mark on the world. Unleash your potential in our creative, academic playground that reflects the evolution of a proud history of innovation spanning almost 200 years.

In this very special place, we are ripping up the rule book, offering you a truly innovative teaching and learning experience. As well as our creative classrooms, you will also have access to world-leading sustainable research facilities in our new buildings.

Our variety of spaces allows for greater collaboration for all our students, and it is the place to connect and tackle real-life challenges together. So, a chemical engineer could be sat alongside a materials scientist working on clean water, or bump into a fashion student developing their own sustainable brand, or an aerospace engineer sending a rocket into space. It is a place like no other for interactions and one of the biggest communities of engineers and materials scientists in any University in the world.

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What's more, our strong, ever-growing links with industry not only help to inform our courses, but also boost our excellent teaching and research facilities. These include:

• High Voltage Lab
• Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre
• National Graphene Institute
• Dalton Nuclear Institute

The University of Manchester also offers extensive  library and online services , helping you get the most out of your studies.