Mechanical Engineering courses

About Meng Mechanical Engineering in Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

You’ll receive a grounding in the core disciplines of mechanical engineering in the first two years of your MEng Mechanical Engineering degree. When you get to the point of taking optional degrees, this will help you make informed decisions.

In Year 1, students work alongside peers from other science and engineering disciplines and have access to mechanical labs, electrical engineering labs, chemical labs, and physics labs. This provides fundamental lab skills as well as multidisciplinary teamworking skills which will be crucial as the degree progresses and becomes increasingly specialised.  

You’ll progress into practical workshop sessions in the lab in your second and third year. Here, you’ll learn about fluids, design and manufacturing, dynamics, and thermodynamics – all core principles of mechanical engineering. 

Your fourth and fifth year in your MEng Mechanical Engineering course will include staff-supported individual and group projects, which will help you step into a career as a mechanical engineer. You’ll follow your own path through a wide range of optional courses designed to develop knowledge and skills in specialist engineering subjects.  

This five-year MEng Mechanical Engineering degree is the standard route towards a Chartered Engineering professional qualification, so you can progress towards that with this degree.

As well as career-specific skills and knowledge, Heriot-Watt’s MEng Mechanical Engineering course will also equip you with vital soft skills, which employers place huge importance on. These important skills include teamworking alongside fellow mechanical engineers and students from other engineering disciplines, such as chemical and electrical engineering. You’ll gain skills for professional presentations and technical writing, and develop business awareness, covering issues such-as life-cycle sustainability and financial viability.

Entry requirements

• Year 1

  Standard entry requirements 

• Highers AAAB (including Mathematics and Physics with one at A)
• A-Levels BBB - AAB (including Mathematics and Physics)
• Int. Baccalaureate 30 points (including Mathematics and Physics at Higher Level 5)
• BTEC DDM in Engineering
• HNC A in graded unit (in relevant HNC including Engineering Mathematics 1, 2 and 3)

• Minimum entry requirements*

• Highers BBBC (including Mathematics and Physics or Engineering Science BB)
• A-Levels BCC (including Mathematics and Physics with one at B)

• * Minimum: under our Fair Access Policy, we will relax our standard entry requirements for some Scottish students depending on their circumstances. Our minimum requirements will apply if you:

• live in an area within the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation lowest 20% (SIMD20), or
• are care experienced.

• We can also make exceptions for some Scottish students with grades above minimum but below standard. Read more about our Minimum and standard entry requirements

  Year 2

• Advanced Highers AB (including Mathematics and Physics plus Highers at AAAB)
• A-Levels AAB (including Mathematics and Physics with one at A)
• HND Pass with AA in Graded Units (Must be relevant subject and include SQA Engineering Maths 1, 2, 3 & 4)
• Int. Baccalaureate 34 points (including Mathematics and Physics at Higher Level 6)
• Global College Successful completion of Bachelors Degree Accelerator Foundation - Engineering and Science

• Year 3

  Entry to Year 3 is only available via our associate student partnership college route. 

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Heriot-Watt University Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

International students applying through UCAS can find their exact tuition expenses by submitting the Fee Status Enquiry form. The cost of living will be determined by the course opted as well as the applicant's nationality. Edinburgh has a comparatively lower cost than other UK cities. Estimate cost of living on and off-campus for UK Campuses is tabulated below: 

Living in a rented flat may vary according to the type of accommodation and facilities being availed. The estimated monthly cost including food and travel is £923.

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