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Talk for Engineering Applicants
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Open day for
Automotive Engineering
BEng H330/ MEng H335,
Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
BEng HH73 / MEng HH37, and
Engineering Business Management
BEng HN12 Why Warwick University is a
great place to study
Student comments
After visiting Warwick on an Open Day, I knew it would be ideal for me:
the structure of the course, combined with the leafy campus
environment meant it was an obvious choice. It hasn’t disappointed.
The course at Warwick is highly enjoyable. The variety of topics covered
early on in the course helps to explore what areas are of interest to you,
as well as the group work and various methods of assessment, resulting
in a worthwhile experience.
Studying Engineering requires commitment and discipline to keep up
with the workload, but the rewards are worth it-
I wouldn’t want it any other way!
Making the best choice
• Making your choice of University
• Narrowing 5 UCAS choices to 2 (firm & insurance)
Agenda for this talk:
• What to look for
• Engineering at Warwick
• Student life
What to look for
Selecting firm and insurance offers
The University of Warwick is a top 10
university • Consistently in the top 10 of UK universities
• Ranked 7th in UK Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE)
• According to a 2013 High Fliers Research
survey, Warwick is the “top most targeted
university by graduate employers”
2013 Guardian
University League Table
1 Cambridge
2 Oxford
3 London School of
Economics
4 St Andrews
5 Warwick
6 UCL
7= Durham
7= Lancaster
Generous bursaries
Family income Annual help with tuition fees
Annual help with living expenses and course costs
Annual total
£0–£25,000 a year Warwick National Scholarship of £2,000
This reduces tuition fees to £7,000.
Warwick Bursary of £2,500
£4,500
£25,001-£36,000 a year
- Warwick Bursary of £1,500
£1,500
£36,001-£42,611
a year
- Warwick Bursary of
£500
£500
We guarantee an automatic fee waiver of £2,000 (Warwick National Scholarship) to full-time students with family incomes of £25,000 a year or less, who are eligible for a tuition fee loan from the UK Government and who have undertaken their sixth form education
within a state school or college in England.
Financial support from Engineering
• Free text books for all core modules in the first year
• Free lab coat and safety shoes
• Free calculator
• Merit scholarship for the first year for firm choice
offer holders
– £1,000 (paid in January 2014)
– Maximum of 100 awarded based on students’ A-Level
results or equivalent
What to do if all the offers are similar?
• Is there BEng / MEng flexibility
• Has there been flexibility on grades in August
• Is the course flexible
• Where do you think you will be happiest
What happens if I miss my offer
• In Engineering we aim to accommodate all firm offers
– We will review all results that just miss the offer and in some cases automatically accept you
– If you applied for MEng but miss the grades we expect to be able to offer you a BEng if you meet these grades
• If you hold us as insurance and miss your firm offer
• If you have been rejected and met our offer your place will be confirmed automatically
• If there is no decision – phone us
• If all else fails go to clearing!
Engineering employment statistics
6 months after graduation
• 68.7% in work
• Including 11.1% combining work & study
• 13.1% in further study
• 14.6% still seeking work
• 3.5% not available/other
• Median salary, six months after graduation, is
£25,000
• Warwick is 4th in the Russell Group for graduate
level jobs and 3rd in the highest average salary
Recent graduate destinations
• Civil – AECOM (formerly Faber Maunsell), AmeyMouchel, Atkins, Balfour Beatty,
Halcrow group, McAlpine, Network Rail
• Mechanical, Automotive, Manufacturing – BAE Systems, Cummins diesel, GE Aviation, Jaguar Land Rover, Marshall
Aerospace, Ricardo, Rolls-Royce
• Electronic, Systems, Computer – Dorset Software, Morgan Stanley, Renishaw, Siemens, Telent
• PhDs in – Atmospheric Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Material Science, Medical Physics,
Mobile Robotics, Power Electronics
Automotive Engineering
BEng H330/ MEng H335,
Manufacturing & Mechanical
Engineering
BEng HH73 / MEng HH37, and
Engineering Business Management
BEng HN12Engineering at Warwick
Why choose our engineering courses
Student comments
I am pleased to say my first year has been a sea of opportunities! I feel
the degree is tailored perfectly to the needs of the industry, and this is
achieved particularly through the Business module.
I came into university very unsure of what I wanted to become, or even
what I wanted to study. I was only sure that I was interested in
technology, its changes and business. And Warwick was the university for
me that offered a good combination of engineering and business
studies.
The main appeal of studying engineering for me at Warwick was how you
don't have to make a decision of which engineering discipline you want
to study until the end of your second year.
2013 Guardian
University League Table –
General Engineering
1 Cambridge
2 Imperial College
3 Bournemouth
4 Oxford
5 Exeter
6 Warwick
7 Leicester
8 Loughborough
Why Engineering at Warwick?
• Consistently in the top 10 for general
engineering
• Ranked 5th in UK Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE)
• Unified approach to teaching
engineering
• Common 1st year leaves you time to decide on your choice of specialist
engineering course
Undergraduate engineering
degrees at Warwick
• Engineering
• Automotive Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electronic Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Engineering and Business Management
• Engineering and Business Studies
Structure of the degrees
• Our courses are flexible
• Students can adapt as they
discover their strengths and
passion for certain
disciplines
• Project work is an important
part of the course
Flexible degrees at Warwick
• One intake for all Engineering courses
• Gap year students welcome
• BEng and MEng courses
• Final choice made at end of 2nd year
• MEng students must achieve 2i performance
• Options at end of years 1 & 2 to change degree course
• Ability to take a year in industry at any point after year 1
• Exchange years for MEng 3rd year
• Current partners in Europe and Australia
Measuring student performance
• First year
– Does not count to final degree
– Students must pass exams at end of year
– Tutors monitor performance weekly to
address any issues early on
• BEng
– 2nd year: 30% of final degree based on exams and course work
– 3rd year: 70% based on exams and course work
• MEng
– 2nd year: 20% of final degree based on exams and course work
– 3rd / 4th years equally important
• 40% each based on exams and course work
Accreditation
• MEng engineering courses are accredited as fully satisfying
the educational base for a Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• BEng engineering courses are accredited as partially satisfying
the educational base for a Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• BEng Engineering Business Management and BSc Engineering
& Business Studies are not accredited as they do not contain
enough engineering
3 year BEng or 4 year MEng?
• MEng degree has 4 years of study
– UK students have access to Government
funded student loans for all 4 years
– Courses automatically meet the
academic CEng requirements
– Employment rates are normally higher
• To become chartered from a BEng degree:
– Typically involves taking an accredited MSc course
• 1 year versus 9 months of study
• Individual research project versus group project
• MEng degree integrated, MSc stands alone
• UK/EU students have no access to Government funded student loans
for MSc courses
Open day for
Automotive Engineering
BEng H330/ MEng H335,
Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
BEng HH73 / MEng HH37, and
Engineering Business Management
BEng HN12
Course details
Course details – 1st Year
• Typical week
– 12 hours of lectures
– 5 hours of labs and seminars
– 20 hours self-study
• Each student has a
Responsecard
– Interact in
lectures via
keypad
• Support
• Weekly meetings with
your personal tutor
• Engineering student
office
• Computing in
Engineering 24/7
• Library
• Learning grid 24/7
Core Subjects in 1st year
• Technological science
– Mathematics
– Mechanics and Energy
– Circuits & Devices and Systems
• Design for function
– Project work
– Materials and production methods
• Economics & the structure of
industry
– All accredited engineers require
business teaching
Optional modules in 1st year
• Optional modules, choose one from
– Biomedical Engineering, Multimedia
Technology, Technology in
International Development
– Aesthetics of Design
– Foreign language
– Foundation Maths: for those with higher
level physics but no maths
2nd year studies
• Core modules
– Technological science
– Design
– Starting & running a business
• Optional modules
– Engineering:
Computer systems, Forensic engineering
– Introduction to Secondary teaching
– Foreign language
3rd year Automotive Engineering
• Project
• Automation & robotics
• CAD/CAM and simulation
• Design for manufacture
• Design for safety & comfort
• Quality techniques
• Systems modelling & control
4th year Automotive Engineering • Group project
• Design for safety & comfort
• 4 optional modules from subjects such as: • Advanced robotics
• Design for sustainability
• Dynamic analysis of mechanical systems
• Energy conservation
• IC engines
• Quality systems
• Renewable energy systems
• Simulation of operations
• Supply chain management
3rd year Manufacturing & Mechanical
• Project
• Automation & robotics
• CAD/CAM and simulation
• Design and manufacture of
lean operations
• Design for manufacture
• Industrial design
• Quality techniques
4th year Manufacturing & Mechanical
• Group project
• Innovative process development
• 4 optional modules from subjects such as: • Advanced robotics
• Design for sustainability
• Dynamic analysis of mechanical systems
• Energy conservation
• Quality systems
• Renewable energy systems
• Simulation of operations
• Supply chain management
3rd year study Engineering Business
Management • Core modules
• Project, Quality techniques & Supply chain management
• Three engineering modules from
• Automation & robotics
• Design for manufacture
• Industrial Design
• Design for safety & comfort
• Three business modules from
• E-Business & value chains
• Corporate strategy
• International business strategy
• Marketing management
4th year group project:
Warwick Submarine
• Designing a human-
powered submarine to be
raced in an international
competition in 2014.
• Team of 8 students from
many engineering
disciplines.
Example from another team
Video
4th year group project:
evGP electric vehicle Grand Prix • Annual international event
at Purdue University, U.S.A.
• 2011 Warwick Finished
4th
• 2012 Warwick joint 1st
• Team of 8 students from
many engineering
disciplines.
US TV clip
Student Life at Warwick
Helping students settle in and making the
most of their opportunities
Student comments
Taking part in societies and sports clubs is one of the best aspects of
being at university. Most students I know are part of at least one society
and one sports club. With over 75 sports clubs and 230 societies,
everybody finds something to their liking. I wouldn’t consider university a
complete experience without trying out several new activities!
Last year I participated in Warwick Hitch, a 1500 mile hitchhike to
Morocco where I raised nearly £500 for charity. I met so many amazing
people and experienced Europe & Africa in a way I never would have as
a tourist.
On the way I was lucky enough to drive over the tallest bridge in the
world which for me, as I am studying Civil Engineering, I found absolutely
fascinating.
Accommodation
• 6458 rooms in self catering halls
• Firm and insurance choice offer holders apply online for accommodation by 31st July
• Students are asked to select their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice of accommodation
• Priority for firm choice offer holders
• All recent students, firm and insurance, placed in Hall for their first year
• Flexible letting periods 30 or 39
• Weekly costs from £78 to £150
Accommodation after 1st Year
• We support students for their whole stay not
just first year!
• Plentiful, quality off-campus housing
• Found via Warwick’s Accommodation Office,
estate agents & friends
• 42 to 48 week lets typical £60-£80 per week
• Add £15-20 per week for utility bills
• Buses every 10 to 15 minutes
• Can return to hall in final year
Coventry
Leamington Spa
Life at Warwick
• Sports
– From £49 / year for sports hall, swimming
and fitness
– Football & rock climbing to frisbee
& ball room dancing!
• Culture
– Warwick Art Centre, for theatre,
cinema, art
• Students Union
– Over 230 societies including curry club
and belly dancing
– Cultural, political and religious societies
Engineering societies
Engineering Society
– Making the most of
your degree
– Engineering Challenge
• Revision help
• Internship help
• Industrial visits
• Socials
– Trip to Dublin
Engineering Without
Borders
• The role of engineering in tackling poverty
• International projects
available for students
Conclusion
We hope you enjoyed our open day and found it useful
Please have a safe journey home
I am happy to answer any final questions