Mechanical Engineering (Add-On) – BEng (Hons)

Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices industries must comply with the regulatory requirements of the markets that they supply to. This module aims to equip students with the requisite knowledge that will allow them to adhere to the specific regulatory requirements of safety, efficacy, quality and performance.
Validation is a regulatory requirement as well as a process of establishing documentary evidence demonstrating that a procedure, process, or activity carried out in testing or production maintains the desired level of compliance. This module will incorporate the documentary and testing requirements of a validation programme.

The successful alignment and integrated implementation of all analytical and computational techniques resulting in a more streamlined engineering design/manufacturing process with reduced costs, decreased development time and improved quality through the efficient usage and application of computational engines and appropriate industry-specific software.

This module aims to equip the student with the knowledge and understanding of the essential elements of mechanical vibrations.
Students will learn to analyse single degree of freedom systems and multi degree of freedom systems and how these systems may be used as a model for more complex engineering structures.
Students will learn to assess the dynamic responses of the system to both impulse and sustained forcing functions, and how the system may resonate under these conditions.

This module will introduce the student to components of the electrical infrastructure typical of the industrial environment.

This module will enable the learner gain an understanding of the operation and utilisation of HVAC systems, and building utilities and their integration within contemporary and future energy supply and demand profiles and applications.
It also focuses on the development of effective and efficient self−directed research skills.

To develop the student’s ability to carry out independent research into a relevant topic of technical merit related to the particular field of study.
To demonstrate the student’s ability to draw together in-depth knowledge and skills gained throughout the programme of study, together with independent learning, and to apply to a current and relevant industrial based engineering project.
To instil in the student the techniques required for effective dissertation preparation and presentation at an industrial level.

This module addresses two important areas of management that are essential to an engineering graduate; operations and sustainability. Operations management as a concept is introduced by exploring the role that operations management plays in productivity as well as global operating environments and strategy. Key aspects of designing operations are explored such as product design & development decisions in particular design for sustainability and product safety, process design, layout decisions, job design, ergonomics, and workplace safety. Sustainability at the level of the organisation is explored with particular emphasis on the sustainability of the transformation process.

The aim of this module is to enable the learner to acquire a good knowledge of industrial process control systems theory and practice, including PID control and loop tuning.

To build upon the student’s knowledge of engineering materials and to bring about a more detailed technical understanding of engineering materials and their response to mechanical loads and the effects of the environment on their performance and useful life.
To compare and contrast responses of the generic crystalline materials to that of the noncrystalline amorphous materials, and to understand the nature of the response and factors that influence such responses and their importance.
To quantify and predict these responses to aid design using proper material selection. To understand and appreciate the failure modes pervasive in material selection for proper design.

This module provides background and revision material on the concepts and equations for thermofluid flow problems. Using these concepts and associated correlations the learner will analyse various applied problems involving fluids.