Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering – MSc

You will develop skills and knowledge that employers are seeking and advance your career to senior levels in areas such as automotive, aerospace, petrochemical, scientific or manufacturing engineering applications. Your studies will be underpinned by excellent industry links with local businesses, including Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Balfour Beatty, Bombardier and Pektron, as well as the Local Enterprise Partnership, D2N2 while studying at University of Derby. This course is flexible, so you will have plenty of choice in the specialist subject modules you take and the ways in which you learn. Some modules of this course are delivered through lectures and tutorials, some online and some in the workplace. You will study both on your own and as part of a group and your project work will give you crucial experience of working in teams. 

This degree will make you benefit from high-quality teaching which will keep you up to date with latest developments in everything from e-manufacturing to robotics and develop your managerial skills to set you up for success in a global industry environment. The curriculum of this course will enable you to use and enhance the knowledge and intellectual skills you have gained during the course through an extensive exploration of a proposed postgraduate study related to the course material and make you produce a coherent, sustained and comprehensive research study to demonstrate your ability to generate complex proposals with an awareness of current issues and insights as well as originality in the application of subject knowledge. Where appropriate, you will propose new hypotheses and speculations. You will be challenged to demonstrate a critical understanding of how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research in the production of clear, logically argued and original work related to your field of study.