Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
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How long will I study?
5 Years
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Where will I study?
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What are the entry requirements?
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When do I start?
September 2025
Course summary
- Thrive in an exciting learning environment that inspires, prepares, and supports the engineers of tomorrow.
- Become a professional engineer from day one and learn by completing applied and industry-linked projects.
- Design, analyse, and test engineering devices by applying crucial engineering principles.
- Study diverse engineering disciplines in a dynamic environment of rapidly changing technologies and industrial practices.
- Acquire specialist academic knowledge while developing your professional and personal skills.
By studying BEng General Engineering at Sheffield Hallam you will benefit from a practice-based approach, based around core engineering subjects including mechanical science; electrical and electronics systems; and engineering practice. These subject threads run throughout the course, enabling students to have a breadth and depth of electrical and mechanical engineering knowledge and understanding.
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How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive. This course is designed for you to gain experience as a ‘professional engineer from day one’ where you will develop technical and professional skills from the start.
You will experience and engage in a variety of learning activities as you progress through the course. The balance of these activities changes at each level of study to encourage you to become increasingly independent learners, developing the ability to take the initiative, plan, organise and complete programmes of work; as an individual, a leader and a member of a team.
You’ll learn through:
- Lectures: students-centred sessions and digital use of lectures emphasising peer collaboration.
- Tutorials: where you practise and apply your knowledge.
- Laboratories and workshops: to gain hands-on practical experience.
- Computer sessions: solve problems using industry-standard software.
- Project-based learning: where you will apply your knowledge, creativity, problem-solving, critical analysis and professional skills in real-world projects.
- Q&A and discussions: for self-assessment and understanding.
- Support sessions: where you receive advice and feedback.
- Group work activities: solve problems and collaborate with your coursemates.
Key Themes
Laboratories are a fundamental part of the General Engineering course, designed to develop and reinforce your learning of theoretical concepts applied by observing, recording, and analysing experimental results. The course will ensure you develop highly professional skills and knowledge of engineering that will enable you to be employed. In such a competitive and challenging world, knowledge, skills, and expertise in engineering are invaluable.
During the first year, you will study engineering in a multidisciplinary context. You will cover the fundamental principles, skills, and knowledge of engineering sciences such as mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, and computational techniques in solving engineering problems.
In the second year, you will study a 20-credit module focusing on electrical engineering besides the engineering science to maintain the general engineering discipline.
Finally, in the third year, you will study a 40-credit mechanical engineering module besides other relevant engineering discipline modules leading to an industrial-based independent project. The Independent project will consolidate the specialism of your pathway.
Course Support
You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly-skilled, graduate-level employment. This includes:
- Access to our student support triangle to help with your personal, academic and career development
- Access to our Skills Centre for support with one-to-ones, webinars and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments and assessment preparation
- Industry-specific employability activities, including work placements, live projects and networking opportunities
- Get support when you need it from the Engineering Café, a weekly drop-in session where students can ask questions and get advice from academics.
- Need to practise your mathematics? Attend a dedicated Maths and Stats Support drop-in session that runs twice a week.
Course leaders and tutors
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Applied learning
Live Projects
Throughout all years of study you will have the chance to work on live-projects, using the tools and skills relevant to the industry today. You’ll be treated as a professional from the day you join us, and these projects will help you to harness the skills you learn with us to the real world.
You will have the opportunity to get involved with SHU Racing, initiated and led by Sheffield Hallam students. SHU Racing caters to a broad audience, reflecting our commitment to professional diversification. The team strive to optimise and develop a Formula Student competition car. This is done through smart innovation and professionally engineered development, implementing lean manufacturing strategies.The SHU Racing team currently consists of over 70 undergraduate students, predominantly from the engineering disciplines.
Work Placements
You’ll have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you valuable work experience to prepare you for your future career and allows you to graduate with an Applied Professional Diploma to add to your CV.
We’ll be on hand to support you in applying for and finding suitable placement opportunities. We’re in regular contact with local and national companies – and we can help you with interview techniques and preparing your CV.
Field Trips
Staff will also endeavour to arrange trips that students will be invited to attend allowing them to observe relevant industrial processes through supervised visits.
Networking Opportunities
Attend scheduled events across the academic year and meet industry partners, employers, researchers, and alumni. Past engineering events have included the Alumni Careers Panel, Careers Fair, Winter Research Poster Event, SHU Racing Launch and EngFest.
Future careers
This course prepares you for a career where you will be able to apply your creative and innovative engineering problem-solving skills while working in multidisciplinary teams. Graduates from this course will be able to work in many sectors across the breadth of engineering such as:
- Automation and control
- Electrical and electronics systems
- Mechanical and engineering design
- Project engineering
- Energy
- Process
- Robotics
Graduates from this course will work in a variety of roles such as mechatronic engineer, electrical engineer, mechanical, engineer, junior field engineer, project engineer, control engineer, Quality engineers.
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
City Campus
City Campus is located in the heart of Sheffield, within minutes of the train and bus stations.
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Adsetts library
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Learn moreEquipment and facilities
The collaborative institutions will support learners’ understanding and application of the subject, specialist resources in various ways such as mechanical workshop, materials testing equipment, manufacturing facilities, automation and control equipment, electrical and electronic facilities and CAD labs dependant on delivery site and pathway.
Students should be able to work within dedicated laboratories for
- Embedded systems – hardware and software facilities for advanced FPGA, microcontroller development (ARM and Arduino)
- Electronics and communications – modern digital oscilloscopes, function generators, power supplies and spectrum analysers
- Control systems – PLCs, pneumatic and hydraulic kits with software for monitoring and control (SCADA)
- Computer-aided design (CAD) and simulation software such as SolidWorks and SPICE
- Analysis software such as Fluent, Abaqus, Ansys and MATLAB
Entry requirements
All students
UCAS points
- 112- 120
This must include at least 64 points from two A levels, equivalent BTEC National qualifications or T levels: including a Mathematics based subject AND at least one other relevant subject - Physics, Physical Science, Engineering Science, Computer Science, Chemistry, other Science/Technology subject. For example:
- BBC-BBB at A Level including a grade C in a relevant subject.
- DDM in BTEC Extended Diploma in a relevant subject.
- Merit overall from a T Level Qualification
- A combination of qualifications which must include a relevant subject and may include AS levels, EPQ and general studies.
You can find information on making sense of UCAS tariff points here and use the UCAS tariff calculator to work out your points.
GCSE
- English Language at grade C or 4 or equivalent
- Maths at grade C or 4 or equivalent
GCSE equivalents
- Level 2 Literacy or Functional Skills Level 2 English
- Level 2 Numeracy or Functional Skills Level 2 Maths
• Foundation - pass from the Extended Degree Programme Engineering and Mathematics, dependent on academic performance
• Access - an Access to HE Diploma with at least 45 credits at level 3 and 15 credits at level 2. At least 15 level 3 credits must be at merit grade or above, from a QAA-recognised Access to HE course, or an equivalent Access to HE certificate.
If English is not your first language, you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or equivalent. If your English language skill is currently below IELTS 6.0 we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an equivalent English score.
We will make an offer to all applicants likely to achieve or better these entry requirements.
We welcome applications from people of any age. We may be flexible in our normal offer if you can show a commitment to succeed and have the relevant skills and experience. This must show that you will benefit from and finish the course successfully.
Additional information for EU/International students
This course is not open to international students who require a Tier 4 (General) student visa to study in the UK. If you are an international applicant but do not require a Tier 4 (General) student visa, email our Admissions Team to find out whether you’re eligible to apply.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page. .
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Maths And Engineering Science
Professional Engineering Practice
Programming & Computer Based Engineering
Year 2
Compulsory modules
Engineering Design And Manufacture
Further Engineering Maths And Engineering Science
Year 3
Compulsory modules
Automation And Control
Design Challenge For Sustainability & Enterprise
Electrical Engineering Systems
Year 4
Compulsory modules
Sustainable Engineering Design
Systems Design And Engineering Analysis
Final year
Compulsory modules
Project: Implementation
Project: Management And Scoping
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fees for UK students starting part-time undergraduate study in 2025/26 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fees for UK students starting this course in 2024/25 are £4,625 per year (based on studying 60 credits per year).
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
Financial support for home/EU students
How tuition fees work, student loans and other financial support available.
Additional course costs
This link allows you to view estimated costs associated with the main activities on specific courses. These are estimates and, as such, are only an indication of additional course costs. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
Additional costs for Engineering courses (PDF, 327.4KB)Legal information
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