BEng (Hons) General Engineering Bachelor's degree at East London

Develop the skills you need to confidently navigate your future career. You'll engage in real-world professional activities like networking simulations, mock interviews, and digital branding exercises, supported by industry guest speakers and career coaches. Practical sessions will sharpen your communication, research, and critical thinking abilities, while workshops will guide you in building a digital portfolio to strengthen your employability.

Build the academic and professional skills you need for success in the creative and technology industries. You'll develop key study techniques, including effective note-taking, research, academic writing, and digital communication. Through workshops, tutorials, and practical tasks, you'll boost your confidence as an independent learner and strengthen your ability to plan, organise, and deliver assignments.

Mastering key mathematical concepts is at the heart of succeeding in engineering, computing, and science. You'll work through topics like algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics, developing both your problem-solving ability and your technical fluency. This module focuses on applying maths to real-world challenges, helping you select the right processes and solve complex engineering-related problems.

Understanding how media messages are created and interpreted is essential in today's digital world. This module introduces you to key frameworks for analysing visual media, while also building your ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. You'll design an academic poster using professional software, develop critical thinking around cultural differences, and practise both oral and written communication for academic and industry contexts.

Engineering and construction careers demand practical skills and strategic thinking. In this module, you'll engage with engineering drawing, CAD tools, workshop practices, and applied mathematics, all within a live project framework. Time management, teamwork, and professional presentation are emphasised throughout.

This module aims to develop your core competencies to form the basis of future competencies development throughout the programme of study. You'll refine your engineering knowledge and skills through practical application. You'll explore how engineering activities impact the environment, commerce, society, and individuals.

The main aim of this module is to provide you with a basic understanding of the properties and behaviour of a wide range of engineering materials. You will learn to appreciate essential facts and principles required to make good choices in the selection of materials.

This module aims to provide you with the fundamental principles and concepts involved with dynamics, machine elements and electrical and electronic engineering. It enables you to select appropriate electromechanical systems to solve real-life engineering problems.

The primary objectives of this module are to prepare you for second-year study by developing the mathematical skills necessary for understanding engineering concepts. You will apply mathematical techniques to solve engineering problems. You will develop both the knowledge and understanding of mathematical principles and methodology necessary to underpin your education in your engineering discipline.

The main aim of this module is to introduce the basic theories of thermo-fluid mechanics. You will learn about the fundamentals of fluid behaviour, the interaction of fluids with solid bodies and fluid flow in pipes. This module plays a crucial role in deepening your comprehension of the fundamental structural characteristics of engineering materials.

This module aims to develop your understanding of the fundamental structural characteristics governing the properties of engineering materials. You will be introduced to the fundamental concepts and principles of engineering mechanics. The module will provide you with an appreciation of the relationship between conceptual models and real engineering systems.

This module builds on the Level 4 Mental Wealth: Engineering Profession 1 module to further develop your competencies to form the basis of your future careers. In this module, you will undertake feasibility studies with reference to human, financial, and logistical resources to realise a product/service. The module will further develop your self-awareness, interpersonal and negotiation skills through teamwork and mentoring.

The main aims of this module are to prepare you for third-year study by developing the mathematical abilities required for understanding engineering and being able to apply mathematical techniques to solve engineering problems. You will develop both the knowledge and understanding of mathematical principles and methodology necessary to underpin your education in your engineering discipline.

The implementation of design skills and strategies as a tool for design development, in response to set design briefs. You will be allowed to engage in group and live projects.

This module provides students with the knowledge of the main modes of failure that occur under various loading conditions, to enable the students to develop their understanding of the fundamental principles of the mechanics of materials and their application. The students' skills in solving analytical and practical design problems relating to complex stress systems will be extended through project work using various commercial and/or non-proprietary engineering analysis software tools.

This module provides new concepts in the deformation of materials under various loading conditions and extends the application of fundamental principles of mechanics of static systems to more advanced systems. This module introduces basic concepts and the principles of the finite element analysis (FEA) techniques and the application of FEA in structural and stress analysis.

This module covers dynamics and classical control theory, to enable you to extend the treatment of dynamics from point masses to rigid bodies and cover a broad range of applications of the principles of mechanics. You will apply a variety of mathematical and modelling techniques to the study of dynamics and feedback control problems.

This module develops your understanding and theoretical knowledge of applied techniques within engineering surveying. You will develop your ability to devise solutions to measurement problems and evaluate the results and the systems' performance in an engineering context. On this module, you will investigate and apply measurement techniques and systems in order to solve engineering surveying problems. This module includes a residential field scheme which takes place away from the university.

This module covers heat transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics exploring more theory to allow you to perform industrial-level analysis of processes. The scope includes an appreciation of fuels/combustion, power-producing cycles, internal/external fluid flows and further heat transfer. To extend the study of thermodynamic and fluid mechanics principles to provide the tools required for the design and analysis of energy systems, and to provide a foundation for subsequent modules in these are

The main aim of this module is to gain knowledge and analysis of various water engineering areas such as open channel hydraulics and basic coastal engineering.

The module is designed to provide students with the knowledge and understanding of quality control and engineering techniques; the essential management systems and concepts for their successful implementation within contemporary industrial environments; to develop a critical appreciation of common quality issues and a range of quality control tools and techniques; to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and methodologies used in reliability engineering.

The module aims to provide an understanding of fundamental principles of electrical circuits in terms of theory, analysis, design and application. This includes an Introduction to Alternating Current and Voltage (Sinusoidal Waveform, Sinusoidal Voltage Sources, Voltage and Current Values of Sine Waves, Analysis of AC Circuits), Capacitors and Inductors (Sinusoidal Response of RC and RL Circuits, Analysis of Series and Parallel RC and RL Circuits, Analysis of Series RLC and Parallel RLC Circuits)

In the Advanced Programming module, you will look deeper into computer science decomposition. You will expand your foundational programming skills to explore advanced object-oriented programming methods and concepts. Through hands-on activities, you will break down complex problems into manageable components.