Engineering, HNC

Engineering, HNC

Overview

This course provides studies in fundamental engineering principles alongside work-based learning and offers students the chance to specialise in either Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering or Operations Engineering.

Regardless of the pathway, though, you will benefit from the UCW approach of combining academic study in areas including project design and management, mathematics and engineering science with practical learning through site visits and field trips.

Course length:

Part-time: 2 years (1 day a week)

Start date:

13th September 2021

Location:

South West Skills Campus and Knightstone Campus

Course codes:

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Course detail

The pathways have been designed to develop students as professional, self-reflecting individuals who are able to meet the demands of employers in the engineering sector and adapt to challenges in a constant changing world.

The academic elements of these courses are taught in the bespoke laboratories and workshops at the recently-redeveloped South West Skills Campus in Weston.

You will also be among the first students to benefit from the state-of-the-art learning and teaching facilities on offer at the brand new University Centre in the iconic Winter Gardens building in the centre of Weston.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with UCW’s HEART student services team. It would also be great to meet you and show you around at our next Open Day.

There are three pathways on this course:

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Operations Engineering

Each pathway contains mandatory modules. Students need to complete 120 credits to achieve the Level 4 HNC.

All pathways:

Engineering Design (15 credits)
Engineering Mathematics (15 credits)
Engineering Science (15 credits)
Managing a Professional Engineering Project (15 credits)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering pathway:

Electrical and Electronic Principles (15 credits)
Instrumentation and Control (15 credits)
Mechatronics (15 credits)
Systems and Fault Finding (15 credits)

Manufacturing Engineering pathway:

Computer-aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM) (15 credits)
Engineering Management (15 credits)
Production Engineering for Manufacture (15 credits)
Quality and Process Improvement (15 credits)

Operations Engineering pathway:

Electrical Systems and Fault Finding (15 credits)
Electro, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Systems (15 credits)
Maintenance Engineering (15 credits)
Operations and Plant Management (15 credits)

Please click on the ‘Programme Specification’ button to find out more.

Please note that some of these units may not run as we respond to employer needs each year.

This course is taught via a combination of lectures, tutorials and practical sessions. UCW’s Higher Education Library Plus (HE.LP) team also deliver a series of sessions on degree-level research and academic writing to all first-year students. When not in scheduled classes, students are expected to continue learning through independent self-study. This involves reading relevant literature, working on individual and group projects, and undertaking research in preparation for coursework and exams.

On all of the above pathways, students will receive an average of 7.5 hours of scheduled teaching per week.

Assessment

Written Exams

0%

Coursework

100%

Practical Exams

0%

A minimum of CC at A Level including at least one relevant subject, or a related BTEC Extended Diploma at MPP, or equivalent. Five GCSEs at grade C/4 are also required.

Applications from those who do not meet these requirements but who have demonstrable and relevant work experience will be considered on an individual basis pending an information advice and guidance interview.

Please apply for this course by filling in this application form and sending it to admissions@ucw.ac.uk.

Quick Stats

This course addresses the need for highly qualified engineers and offers students the chance to enter the engineering profession, get ahead in their current role or progress for further study.

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Quick Stats

This course addresses the need for highly qualified engineers and offers students the chance to enter the engineering profession, get ahead in their current role or progress for further study.

Find out more