BEng Product Design Engineering

The main objective of this engineering degree is to produce graduates with a broad and balanced set of skills and attributes required for the design and manufacture of innovative, optimised and sustainable technical products for the 21st century. This course develops the technical, personal, interpersonal and professional skills necessary to do that. It is a variant of the Mechanical Engineering degree, which focuses on design process methodology, materials, manufacturing and analysis.

The integrated curriculum connects content from different modules through team-based and individual projects, which act as a core activity each year.

Product Design Engineering Degree Highlights

We put emphasis on hands on, project based learning, and invest heavily in our state-of-the-art facilities and flexible project spaces to support this activity.

Professional Accreditations

• Both the BEng and MEng degrees are accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

Industry Links

• The School has strong links with both local and international engineering employers, and has longstanding relationships with companies such as Spirit AeroSystems, Leckey, Munster Simms Engineering, Sensata, HeartSine (Stryker), Caterpillar, Jaguar Land Rover, Lotus and Rolls Royce.

The curriculum is heavily informed by industry representatives who sit on an advisory board within the School.

Career Development

• Students have the opportunity to gain a place on the Engineering Leadership Programme and a range of Employability Development Workshops. http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofMechanicalandAerospaceEngineering/Study/CareerSupport/EngineeringLeadershipProgramme/
• The School actively encourages one-year work placements, offering preparation through its Employability Programme and support through its dedicated Placement Officer. You can spend up to 12 months getting hands on experience of a real engineering environment with a relevant company. Students have gained work placements with organisations such as Glen Dimplex, Dyson, Lotus, Survitec, Collins Aerospace, Terex, Leckey, Seven Technologies Group, Whale, JLR, Randox, Andor, Kingspan, Nacco, Intel and Accenture. Students also have the opportunity to work or study outside the UK through programmes such as IAESTE, Study Abroad and Study USA. In recent years, students have undertaken placements in companies in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Japan, Malaysia and the USA. For 2021-22 and beyond, the UK government will have to negotiate participation in the Erasmus programme, as part of the broader Brexit negotiations.

World Class Facilities

• The School has a wide range of experimental facilities to support structures, materials and manufacturing teaching.
• The School also has a range of flexible teaching spaces to support its project-based and collaborative learning strategies.

Internationally Renowned Experts

• The School has an international reputation for its contributions to the development of engineering education by playing a leading role in the CDIO initiative. www.cdio.org

Student Experience

• Teaching is carried out in the context of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating products or systems; hence better preparing graduates for professional practice.
• BEng students who demonstrate a high level of performance may be invited to transfer to the equivalent MEng degree at the end of Stage 2.
• In 2017, 18 and 19 students from our School were the winners of the UK National Undergraduate Employability awards category of 'Best Student Contribution to a Small/Medium Enterprise' for their placement year work.
• Since 2012 over 10% of the 35 annual Royal Academy of Engineering Leaders Scholarships awarded across the UK have gone to students from our School.

Queen's University Belfast is one of the leading universities in the UK and Ireland with a distinguished heritage and history.

Founded in 1845 as Queen's College Belfast, we became an independent university in 1908. The University is a member of the Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities, combining excellence in research and education with a student-centred ethos.

Queen’s campus is at the heart of Belfast in Northern Ireland which has the lowest cost of living in the UK (Mercer Cost of Living City Ranking 2021) making it a more affordable option for students.

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Queen’s offers a world-class education that prepares our students for leadership and citizenship in a global society.

Our inspiring alumni comprises outstanding scholars, Nobel Prize winners - such as Seamus Heaney and David Trimble - and influential leaders who are making an impact in Northern Ireland and across the globe.

Programmes are focused on preparing students for future employment. Students not only learn the core academic material from the staff at the forefront of their discipline but also learn how to put it into practice through practical workshops and hands-on sessions, ensuring that upon graduation, students are ready to step up as the next generation of industry leaders.

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Queen’s is attracting global talent to Belfast.

We currently have staff and students from over 80 countries, helping to create a multicultural and vibrant campus. They are joining a university that is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing the best global talent within an environment that enables them to realise their full potential.

An innovative, welcoming, and inclusive place to work and study, Queen’s is a leader in gender equality and diversity and currently holds a prestigious Athena Swan Silver Award. The University also holds 14 School Awards comprising 3 Gold, 6 Silver and 5 Bronze.

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Queen’s University Belfast is globally connected and networked with leading universities across the world.

We continue to drive forward research to shape worlds, focusing on five key areas. Ensuring a healthy living for all through developing solutions and treatments for diseases; helping to deliver a transformative and sustainable economy for future generations; leading to securely connected intelligence and AI and the data revolution. We are at the forefront of delivering future-focused human-environment relations; and will continue our strong history of expertise in conflict resolution and building inclusive and cohesive communities.

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We are forward thinkers and will continue to direct and shape research to help support a workable environment and society.

88% of our research has been assessed as world-leading and internationally excellent, 99% of our research environment was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent and we are ranked 24th in the UK for Research Power (REF 2021/ Times Higher Education).

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