MEng Electrical & Mechanical Engineering with International Study

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Key facts

  • UCAS Code: H3H6
  • Accreditation: degree has dual accreditation by the IET and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Study with us

  • study abroad available in year 4 to Europe, Americas, Singapore, China, Australia, New Zealand
  • develop expertise in mechanical, electrical, software and control systems engineering
  • participate in the Formula Student competition to design, build and race a racing car
  • gain international experience through studying abroad
  • access to IET Power Academy & Scholarship programme with paid work placements
  • professional accreditation by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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Course content

Compulsory classes

Engineering Mechanics 1

A study of mechanics gives you the basic tools to understand how the world, both natural and man-made.
You come to Engineering Mechanics with an elementary understanding of the basic principles of mechanics acquired from introductory school physics together with their application to problem solving. This class places more emphasis on the basic skills required to start to apply these concepts and principles to real engineering problem solving. The class focuses on the practice of these skills, rather than factual content. In this class doing required background reading, coming to class and doing homework are like practising for a football team. The tutor/lecturer is less a source of information and more of a coach who structures practice and sets standards. Students’ progress not by absorbing (and regurgitating) information but rather by practising their skills individually and learning to work effectively with others.

Engineering Industry & Profession

To provide an overview of industry and give you some understanding of the industry environment that you would enter as well as the types of roles you would/could undertake. To explain role and responsibility of the engineering profession and individual engineer.

The class is delivered to first-year undergraduate students in the specific context of electronic and electrical engineering together with relationship to mechanical engineering and computer systems.

Electronic & Mechanical Techniques & Design 1

This module aims to:

  1. introduce you to the practical and professional skills required of an engineer
  2. underpin theoretical concepts introduced elsewhere in Year 1 modules
  3. introduce you to individual and group project work
  4. expose you to problems requiring system integration and design
  5. encourage innovation in the context of project work
  6. facilitate the development of a range of transferable skills

Electronic & Electrical Principles 1

To provide you with a foundational understanding of the analysis and design of both analogue and digital electronic circuits.

Heat & Flow 1

Knowledge of thermodynamics, heat and fluid flow are important for the understanding and design of thermal and hydraulic systems involving energy conversion and transmission, such as engines and turbines, pumps and compressors, and associated pipework. The aim of the class is to introduce the basic concepts of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, and the applications thereof, as a foundation for further studies.

Engineering Mathematics 1E

To give a basic understanding of the concepts and applications of mathematical functions, differentiation, integration and complex numbers.  The class also provides an introductory experience of using mathematical tools to apply these concepts to practical engineering examples.

Engineering Mathematics 2E

To give a basic understanding of the concepts and applications of calculus, geometry, vectors, matrices and numerical methods.

Compulsory classes

Engineering Mechanics 2

1st Semester

The class aims to provide you with the basic skills to analyse dynamics problems, associated with bodies and simple mechanisms, from first principles.

2nd Semester

To develop skills, knowledge and understanding in the areas of structural analysis and elementary stress analysis. The work is divided into 4 parts:
  • statics revision including shear force and bending moment diagrams
  • beams in bending
  • shear and torsion
  • 2D stress and strain

Electromagnetism

You'll gain an understanding of the application of electromagnetic effects in practical devices and develop the mathematical skills necessary to analyse these effects in simple geometries.

Engineering Design & Manufacture

This class aims to introduce you to concepts and methodology required to undertake effective design and development of engineering systems. The product development process will be introduced and through practice, a working knowledge of appropriate engineering design processes, tools and techniques will be gained.

An overview of manufacturing and the manufacturing industry will provide a general appreciation of the range of processes employed in manufacturing together with an understanding of how components can be manufactured economically and reliably.

Electronic & Electrical Principles 2

To introduce you to the analysis and design of analogue circuits and systems as used in electronics, energy & power systems, communications, control and analogue signal processing applications.

Digital Electronic & Programming Design

To introduce you to the use of digital electronics and the rudiments of digital signal processing systems.

Electronic & Mechanical Techniques & Design 2

To develop a broad understanding of many aspects of engineering (general electrical and electronic, power engineering, mechanical engineering, computing and software) and to enhance generic skills required of a professional engineer (research, practical, team working, communications, reporting writing, oral presentation). 

You'll also benefit from two laboratory-based projects, which will enhance your understanding of important electrical and engineering principles that underpin many other classes within the degree programme.

Heat & Flow 2

This class aims to deliver fundamental knowledge on fluid mechanics and thermodynamics and illustrate their importance to engineering systems.

Thermodynamics is the science that is devoted to understanding energy in all its forms and how energy changes form. The aim of the first semester of this class is to supply the necessary analytical tools to study these energy changes when applied in engineering situations, in particular for transportation and power production. Fluid mechanics and the behaviour of fluids is an important aspect in the performance of engineering systems.

In the second semester the underlying physics of fluid flow and its application to simple systems is presented.

Engineering Mathematics 3E

The aims of this class are:
  • to develop the means of solving certain differential equations
  • to consider applications of Taylor and Maclaurin series
  • to generalise earlier ideas in calculus to deal with functions of several variables
  • to discuss in more detail matrices, determinants and functions of a complex variable
  • to introduce vector calculus and eigenvalues/eigenvectors

Compulsory classes

Instrumentation & Microcontrollers

INSTRUMENTATION

To develop techniques for system modelling based on block diagrams and transfer functions and to use such techniques in the context of analysis and design. To introduce you to instrumentation and measurement as an interdisciplinary engineering activity. To explain the basic principles of feedback and control systems.

To enable understanding of the dependence of measurement and control on a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines; to provide appreciation of the universal application of measurement and control within the same range of disciplines.

To demonstrate engineering design as applied to instrumentation systems and control engineering; in particular, to explain the important contribution of electrical, mechanical and software engineering to this process.

MICROCONTROLLERS

To allow you to gain practical design, implementation and test experience of the techniques required to create combined hardware/software systems with an emphasis on measurement.

Engineering Analysis

It is important for you to see mathematics and statistics in the context of the computational problems they will be exposed to in their discipline.

The aim of this class is to further develop your skills and abilities in advanced mathematical concepts in the field of engineering. This will be achieved through contextualised problem solving using applicable mathematical and statistical techniques and tools on problems of moderate complexity.

Engineering Innovation & Management

This class aims to provide you with an understanding of the importance of innovation in today’s business environment. The class aims to also develop understanding and skills in the area of innovation management. It aims to develop practical skills for you to integrate a number of themes including:

  • product development
  • IP
  • product finances
  • project management
  • market analysis with a view to successfully exploiting new ideas

Engineering Computing

This class aims to:
  • introduce you to writing software using the Python programming language with modern development tools
  • provide you with an awareness of and skill in the use of a CAD software in the design of engineering systems

Signals & Systems

The aim of this class is to introduce you to the fundamentals of continuous and discrete time signals and linear systems. At the end of this class, you should be able to mathematically and pragmatically define, analyse and design these systems.

Dynamics 3

This class aims to:
  • introduce the general principles of the kinematics of rigid bodies and different types of motion: translation, rotation and general plane motion
  • study the kinetics of rigid bodies focussing on plane motion, equations of motion, angular momentum and D’Alembert’s Principle
  • utilise the fundamentals taught in second year Dynamics to demonstrate the principles of analysis of the dynamic performance of mechanical engineering systems
  • introduce the basics of modelling the vibrations of mechanical systems
  • combine the fundamental theory of free and forced vibrations of damped and un-damped systems with some essential laboratory practice and demonstrations

Integrated Design

Elective classes

Choose one of the following two options and one further 20 credit class.

Electronic & Electrical Principles 3

This class promotes detailed understanding of the electrical and electromagnetic principles and their deployment in a range of engineering applications.  These are associated with electromagnetic waves propagation in bounded and unbounded media.  They are also in:

  • electric power generation (both conventional and renewable)
  • power distribution and energy utilisation
  • electric transportation systems
  • the propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space
  • in insulating and conducting lossless and lossy media
  • optical fibre

You'll gain an appreciation of the fundamental principles, engineering solutions, and social and economic implications of such applications.

Heat & Flow 3

The class builds on your previous study of thermodynamics and extends this to cover mixtures, psychrometry energy and its applications. It also extends the study of heat transfer. Here, heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation is covered together with heat exchanger design.
In addition, this class takes the study of the laws of conservation of mass, energy and momentum applied to fluid flow to a more advanced level. The knowledge and understanding of fluid flow is extended and this class supplies the analytical tools to provide an appreciation of boundary layers and compressible fluid flow.

You'll spend this year at a recognised overseas academic partner.

You’ll study an approved curriculum that is equivalent to the home one, and all the subjects/credits you pass count towards your degree at Strathclyde.

The choice of which partner is yours – we offer opportunities in Europe through Erasmus or further afield through our international exchanges to USA, Canada, China, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand.

To give you some ideas, take a look at our latest international exchanges list.

Compulsory classes

Group Project

This project will have a strong industrial influence and provide you with an opportunity to utilise both your hardware and software skills by developing a functioning system. You are required to demonstrate at an internal business tradeshow/exhibition at the end of the year.

Advanced Systems Engineering

Elective classes

60 credits from an approved list of classes offered by the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Classes in the list include, for example:

Advanced Power System Analysis & Protection

Allow you to understand, critically analyse and assess technical requirements for power system operation, management and planning.
To enable you to carry out advanced types of power system analysis as well as understand and use results from these analyses in power system operation and planning.
To enable you to have a detailed understanding of the main concepts related to the function, design and operation of protection schemes for distribution, transmission and generation applications.
To enable you to understand the implementation and other associated issues relating to protection of power systems.

High Voltage Technology & Electromagnetic Compatibility

The aim is:

  • to introduce the fundamentals of high voltage electrical insulating systems
  • to provide a basic understanding of principles, mechanisms and characteristics of high voltage discharges in vacuum and condensed media
  • to provide a basic understanding of the behaviour of dielectric materials stressed with electric fields and their use in high voltage systems
  • to understand the principles of high voltage generation and impulse testing of the high voltage systems
  • recognise that disturbances exist within a power system substation and appreciate that these disturbances may affect electromagnetic compatibility
  • be competent in dealing with the implications of those disturbances; in particular the effects of system switching

Power Electronics for Energy & Drive Control

Modern energy conversion systems rely on the integration of range of technologies including power electronics, electromechanical actuators and energy storage elements. This class will build knowledge of the building block technologies and show their application to modern energy conversion systems.

Power System Economics, Markets & Asset Management

Present and give an understanding of the economics, trading and pricing of electricity supply and how it is shaped by technical, commercial and regulatory considerations.

Give an understanding of power system economics under an environment of multiple suppliers and users.

Present the challenges, technologies and value of asset management within an electricity supply industry context.

Give a deep appreciation of factors affecting security of supply and how it might be quantified.

Wind Energy & Distributed Energy Resources

To provide an understanding of the principles of wind turbine power generation with attention to the wind resource, rotor aerodynamics, structural design, power conversion and control. It also addresses socio-economic issues and provides an underpinning in distributed energy resources including small scale generation, energy storage and demand management and their integration and management within power networks.

Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Develop the necessary skills that will allow you to analyse, design, implement and simulate advanced DSP techniques and algorithms for a variety of communications and general engineering problems.

Advanced Microcontroller Applications

Provide advanced competence in the use of industry standard microcontrollers programmed in low and high level languages in real time applications.

DSP & FPGA-Based Embedded System Design

Design and implementation of real time embedded systems through familiarisation with Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and FPGAs via lectures, up-to-date technical discussions and hardware programming. This class provides hands-on experience in translating Digital Signal Processing concepts into real-time embedded systems applications.

Image & Video Processing

To provide an introduction to the techniques relevant to digital images and video.
This includes techniques both to process images and video and also to efficiently compress and communicate them.
The class will give you a comprehensive understanding of various image and video processing and coding standards. You'll also study some key applications of these standards.

Control Techniques

This class aims:

  • to introduce you to the concepts and tools of modelling, simulation for control of dynamical systems
  • to introduce you to the concepts of computer control engineering and enable you to learn the skills required to understand and analyse digital control systems for real time engineering applications
  • to enable you to appreciate the design of estimation and its use in control design
  • to introduce you to the methods of system parameter identification and its application in control engineering
  • to present you with the concepts of fault monitoring, detection, isolation in dynamical systems
  • to introduce you to the monitoring and evaluation of closed-loop system performance
  • to appreciate the industrial applications of control engineering methods

Aerodynamic Propulsion Systems

This class aims to introduce you to the principles of experimental aerodynamics and computational aerodynamics performance assessment. The class also provides an introduction to the importance of aeroelastic phenomena on aerodynamic design. The aim is to provide you with an understanding of the importance of understanding the aerodynamic flow field and its importance in the design process, and the interaction of the aerodynamic loading with the structure.

Machinery Diagnosis & Condition Monitoring

Condition monitoring and fault detection in structures and machinery plays an important part in the maintenance and protection of equipment, and has come to the fore since the recent advances in computer-based systems. The aim of the class is therefore to provide an understanding of Condition Monitoring (CM) and its relevance to industry. This is achieved by studying different CM and integrity assessment techniques, the instrumentation and use, and how they are applied. Particular attention is paid to vibration-based health monitoring and signal (time series) analysis.

Machine Dynamics

Mathematical Modelling in Engineering Science

Spaceflight Systems

Spaceflight Mechanics

Aerodynamics in C