Welcome to your Mechanical Engineering and Sustainable Energy Technologies course

Teaching will be through a mixture of workshops, lectures, tutorials, labs and seminars. Most modules have four hours of contact a week and class sizes will be bigger in lectures and smaller in workshops, tutorials and labs. Most classes are face to face on campus, and we use a range of assessments including technical reports, lab reports, group assignments and online and traditional exams.

Welcome Week is your first opportunity to meet your fellow students and the staff you’ll be working with, in one place. We’ll be getting involved in activities and making sure you know more about how the University works and how the next few weeks and months are going to look. We’re hoping that you’ll get to know us and your course mates and be ready to start with the next stage of your journey.

In Welcome Week, you’ll be introduced to the IMechE and IET professional bodies who accredit the course so you can learn more about becoming a member and the benefits linking in to a local and global network of professional engineers can bring to your future career.

This is an Award for the graduate Mechanical Engineer who wishes to gain an in-depth understanding of clean energy systems, smart technologies and advanced design and analysis techniques as well as the use of modern materials and manufacturing technology.

You will enhance your knowledge of modern engineering simulation and experimental techniques and be aware of new technological advances. The course covers a broad range of areas related to Mechanical Engineering with modules in Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics, Low carbon and Renewable Energy Systems, Power and Propulsion Systems, Engineering Design and Manufacture and Advanced Materials and Quality.

During your time as a postgraduate student, the following useful texts will prove useful:

1. Introduction To Renewable Energy (2016), Vaughn Nelson and Kenneth Starcher, 2^nd Edition, CRC Publications
2. The Global Status of CCS: 2016 Summary Report (2016), Global CCS Institute
3. Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (2015) by Richard G Budynas, Keith J Nisbett, 10^th Edition, McGraw Hill Publications

For the first sessions in Welcome Week – as always it would be useful to bring a notepad and pen – while we’ll make sure you have access to any information you need – you might want to note a few things down. As you start your lectures and learning then you’ll want to make sure you always bring a few things to your sessions. Pens and a notebook are a must, while you’ll find that always carrying a scientific calculator will mean that you’re always prepared. It is useful to have a smartphone for logging into the attendance system too. We have PCs available on campus that have the simulation and design software on that we use, but some of these packages can be downloaded onto your own laptop if it is powerful enough. Most don’t work quite as well on Apple Macs.

Once enrolled, you will be able to download a range of software free of charge from the University.

Software link

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