Course Overview

Study mechanical engineering at Edinburgh Napier University and gain the opportunity to enter an exciting and varied field of engineering, allowing you to design and develop machinery we use every day, including vehicles, buildings, healthcare, and even space technology.

We will provide you with an introduction to engineering principles, ensuring you grasp the basic skills before progressing into more specialized areas such as thermodynamic systems and mechanics of materials.

As you advance through this course, you'll learn to apply and develop your skills to become proficient in analyzing and designing a range of engineering systems and applications to prepare you for a professional role in the industry. You will also get the opportunity to undertake work placements that will give you essential industry experience and valuable contacts, helping to lead to future employment.

As a graduate mechanical engineer, you could develop exciting new technologies essential for modern living, alter the way we use energy for the better, and profoundly affect how we travel. You could have a hand in almost every aspect of people's lives.

Modern mechanical engineers play a crucial role in producing the most innovative technologies, such as the electric car, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and renewable energy. The course focuses on learning engineering principles and practices, as well as computing skills and design principles, relating to a wide range of mechanical engineering systems.

You'll also cover control and instrumentation systems, engineering applications, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, dynamics, and statics. In addition, your addition, you will gain skills in various up-to-date industry-standard design software and applications.

General Eligibility

Our entry requirements indicate standard and Minimum qualifications with which we usually accept students. However, competition for places varies yearly, and you aren't guaranteed a business if you meet the minimum qualifications.

Minimum Year 1

SQA Higher

Standard Entry Requirement

BBBB including Maths and Science (excluding Biology) or Technical Subject*. Please note that grade B must be achieved in at least one required subject.

National 5 Grade C in English.

Minimum Offer Entry Requirement

BCCC including Maths and Science (excluding Biology) or Technical Subject*. Please note that grade B must be achieved in at least one required subject.

National 5 Grade C in English.

A Level

CCC including Maths and a Science (excluding Biology) or Technical Subject*

GCSE Grade C/4 in English.

Irish Leaving Certificate

H2, H3, H3, H3 at HL, including Maths and a Science (excluding Biology) or Technical Subject*

OL English at O4.

BTEC (QCF) Extended Diploma Level 3

MMM (Merit, Merit, Merit) in a related subject. BTEC must include Maths, but if not, we would accept Level Maths at Grade C as an alternative.

GCSE Grade C/4 in English.

BTEC (QCF) Diploma Level 3 plus A Level

MM (Merit, Merit) in a related subject plus A Level Grade C. BTEC must include Maths/A Level Grade C in Maths.

GCSE Grade C/4 in English.

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Award of Diploma with 28 points overall with three HL subjects at grades 6, 5, and 4, including a Science (excluding Biology) or Technical Subject* with minimum grade 5.

Grade 5 in SL Maths and grade 4 in SL English.

T-Level

Grade Pass

T Level must be completed in an Engineering subject or include Science (not Biology) and Maths components. Alternatively, Level Maths and Science (not Biology) would be required.

GCSE Grade C/4 in English.

Technical subjects accepted

*Physics, Engineering Science, Design & Manufacture, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Graphic Communication, Computing Science, Design & Technology.

Minimum Year 2

SQA Advanced Higher

BBC including Maths and a Science (excluding Biology) or a Technical Subject*

National 5 Grade C in English.

A Level

BBB including Maths and a Science (excluding Biology) or Technical Subject*

GCSE Grade C/4 in English.

HNC

Pass HNC in a relevant subject with a Grade B in the graded unit.

Must include passes in the modules Engineering Maths 1, 2, and 3, Thermofluids and Statics, and Strength of Materials.

Technical subjects accepted

*Physics, Engineering Science, Design & Manufacture, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Graphic Communication, Computing Science, Design & Technology.

Minimum Year 3

HND

Pass HND in a relevant subject with a Grade B at SCQF Level 8 in all graded units.

Must include passes in the modules Engineering Maths 1, 2, 3, and 4, Thermofluids and Statics, and Strength of Materials.

DUT

Pass DUT in a relevant subject with an overall grade of 12 to include English at 11 in the final year of studies.

Minimum Year 4

Irish Ordinary Degree

Pass in a relevant subject with 50% overall, with a minimum of 50% at first sitting in all final year subjects.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week

Language Requirement

• IELTS (Academic)

  6.0 overall, with no component below 5.5

  TOEFL Internet-Based Test

  80 overall, with a minimum of 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 17 in writing

  Pearson’s Test of Academic English

  56 overall, with a minimum of 51 in each component

  Cambridge C2 Proficiency (formerly Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE))

  169 overall, with a minimum of 162 in each component

  Cambridge B2 First (formerly Cambridge English First (FCE))

  169 overall, with a minimum of 162 in each component

  Cambridge C1 Advanced (formerly Cambridge English Advanced (CAE))

  169 overall, with a minimum of 162 in each component

  Trinity Integrated Skills Test (ISE)

  ISE III, ISE III, & ISE IV with a pass in each component

  LanguageCert English language qualification

  B2 Communicator Test with an overall 39 or above and 25 or above in all skills