Engineering (Marine Technologies) HNC/FdEng

Program Overview

This nationally recognized program prepares students for the Marine Engineering industry by providing a comprehensive foundation in marine technologies, combined with essential professional skills in project management, supply chain management, and engineering principles. The program includes hands-on experience with industry-standard software and equipment, culminating in a major project that demonstrates students' ability to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges. It is accredited by professional institutions, partially fulfilling the academic requirements for professional engineer registration.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This is a nationally recognised qualification which will give you a superb grounding in the essential principles and techniques needed to meet the increasingly challenging and exciting nature of the Engineering industry, specifically within marine technologies. The course has been designed to produce highly employable graduates who combine an indepth knowledge and skills in marine technologies with a wide ranging understanding of more general professional requirements.

Outline:

HNC/Level 4

• Analytical methods for manufacturing: You will develop your knowledge and understanding of mathematical fundamentals, models and processes and their application to a range of engineering principles and processes.
provide a sound mathematical foundation for the relevant topics in the following years and for further progression.
• Business & project management: In this unit you will develop a working knowledge and understanding of the application of project management principles relevant to the control of projects and a working understanding of the processes.
You will explore the principles of business structures, business management and business finance. You will be able to analyse business plans from both the financial and operational perspectives.
• Marine Electrical and Electronic Principles: This unit will provide you with a deeper understanding of the principles of electrical and electronic circuits which will improve your critical awareness for safer and more efficient system installation whilst working with Marine equipment.
• Project: In this unit you will undertake a sizeable project, at an appropriate level mechanical design.
• Mechanical Design Principles: In this unit you will explore the application of a range of mechanical engineering principles relevant to the design of components, structures and machines.
• Supply Chain Management: In this unit, you will learn to understand the management of a supply chain from the supplier through manufacturing to the customer.
You will gain the essential knowledge to undertake an audit process and suggest improvements, with particular reference to sustainability and globalisation.

FdEng/Level 5

• Marine Auxiliary Systems: In this unit, you will develop your critical awareness and analysis skills when installing, faulting finding and designing electro-mechanical systems within a marine environment.
• Quality Management: The teaching in this unit will provide you with the awareness and understanding of quality management processes through developing concepts of quality control, reliability and quality awareness and to consider the legal issues related to quality.
• Major Project: This unit, undertaken over at least one academic year, will allow you to specialise and undertake a sizeable project in Manufacturing Management.
This individual project is student and company led and does not have a common theme. It provides you with an opportunity to focus on your chosen area of specialisation and to make a major contribution either to a company’s business or to develop a new product from scratch.
• Work-based Unit: The work based unit aims to facilitate the professional development in terms of transferable skills, technical ability, motivation and maturity.
It further aims to instil in the student the importance of keeping a record of CPD.
• The Engineering Professional: The aim of this unit is to understand the requirements for Membership of a professional institution such as IED or IET and the requirements for registration as a Technician or Incorporated Engineer and to initiate a programme for lifelong learning and continuous professional development towards these ends.

Assessment:

Other:

• As a student on this course you will have the benefits of using the Bournemouth & Poole College’s excellent facilities including 3D printing, an industrial robot, CAD/CAM suites and material testing laboratory.
• During the first year you will use CAD software to produce both 2D production drawing and 3D models, undertake design simulations and run stress analysis.
You will be introduced to the capabilities of 3D printing to produce physical models and use a CAM package to develop and simulate a milled product. There will be an introduction to business processes and theory within engineering companies and different project management techniques. This is tied together with the underpinning of mathematical theory, engineering science and materials science, including metal and polymer experiments.
• During the second year you will be introduced to different design principles and how to undertake a design project.
The importance of considering manufacturing methods is emphasised, as is engineering calculations and the behaviour of materials when developing your design. You will undertake a group design project and an individual, company relevant, project that will also demonstrate your ability to project manage. The business processes and theories from the first year will be applied through the production of a business plan. Your understanding of mathematical theory and engineering science will continue to be developed throughout the second year. A more detailed company relevant major project is undertaken to demonstrate you can apply what you have learned over the last three years. You will also undertake writing your first academic paper for possible publication. To link in with the requirements for the IED and IMechE you will also undertake Continual Professional Development and a work based log throughout the year.
• FdEng: Accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as meeting the academic requirement, in part, for Incorporated Engineer registration from the 2019 cohort intake up to, and including, the 2023 intake.