Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering (Honours)

BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering delivers the profession’s canonical training across three years: engineering mathematics, mechanics of materials, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, dynamics and control, design and manufacture, and professional engineering practice, converging on a substantial individual project and group design work in the final year.

DMU teaches the discipline hands-on from its engineering workshops and labs — machining, materials testing, CAD through to simulation — and design-build-test cycles recur through the course because the accrediting profession expects graduates who have made things fail and fixed them. The degree family sits within the university’s established accreditation relationships with the engineering institutions, to be confirmed current at offer.

Workshop access shapes the student experience here more than module lists convey: design work is manufactured, tested and redesigned in-house, and the professional-practice thread — standards, ethics, safety cases — runs assessed through every level because the accrediting institutions require evidence of it; students should keep their logbooks meticulously, as those records feed later chartership applications.

Leicester’s location earns its keep for this subject specifically: the East Midlands manufacturing corridor — aerospace, automotive, rail and general engineering — surrounds the campus with employers who take DMU students for projects, site visits and graduate schemes, and whose vacancy flow anchors the course’s employment record. September cycles at £17,300 apply on this standard route.

Graduate outcomes are among engineering’s steadiest: design and manufacturing entry at £26,000–£30,000, chartered-engineer progression through the institutions, and a qualification whose translation to Indian and Gulf industry is immediate. The honours degree qualifies for the Graduate Route at the 18-month term applying to applications from January 2027, and taught-route visas exclude dependants.