Nuclear Engineering with Placement Year BEng Hons 48 months Undergraduate Program By Lancaster University |Top Universities

Program overview

Main Subject

Engineering - General

Degree

BEng

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Nuclear energy is so much more than power stations and reactors. It’s used in medical applications such as radiotherapy, scans and sterilisation; it creates carbon efficient energy contributing to reducing climate change; it powers space crafts; and even helps to make our food safe. Nuclear engineers focus on the design, application and maintenance of the systems and processes required to successfully utilise nuclear energy in these industries. It’s a highly skilled branch of engineering and graduates are well placed for the expansion of the nuclear industry over the next ten years. At Lancaster we have close connections to three nuclear energy sites within a 30 mile radius and you will benefit from site visits, project work and guest lectures.


What to expect
Our four-year BEng Hons Nuclear Engineering with Placement Year degree starts with your general engineering first year and includes core themes of design, materials, thermodynamics and heat transfer, along with mathematics. You’ll share this experience with all our School of Engineering students, regardless of their specialisation. We think this makes you a well-rounded graduate, with excellent teamwork and communications skills, prepared for a career where you will often work in multidisciplinary teams.


In Year 2 is where you start to specialise in nuclear engineering and you will learn core themes such as nuclear science, nuclear engineering systems, decommissioning and nuclear safety taught by staff with world-leading expertise. Working in our two new engineering buildings with state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll develop your creativity and technical skills as you design, build and test to solve real-world problems.


Your final year enables you to apply your skills in an individual project, during which you will learn to use professional software and develop your research and design skills further. Previous examples of projects that you can work on include mixed field radiometrics, cosmic radiation monitoring and accelerator mass spectroscopy. You will also gain specialist knowledge in key nuclear applications, develop an interdisciplinary approach, and apply engineering principles to analyse key processes. This experience will allow you to grow and enhance your professional and discipline specific skills, and you will gain relevant real-world experience.


Take further steps towards professional engineering with management skills, project management, and industry engagement. Sustainability, safety, ethics and quality management are kept in focus too.


Your placement
In Year 3, you will undertake a year in industry that will enable you to apply the knowledge and skills learnt so far and gain invaluable experience. We have extensive links built through our leadership in research and have students undergoing placements with multinational corporate companies to smaller specialist SMEs. Once you have completed your placement, you will write an extended reflective piece about your time spent with the company.

Program overview

Main Subject

Engineering - General

Degree

BEng

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Nuclear energy is so much more than power stations and reactors. It’s used in medical applications such as radiotherapy, scans and sterilisation; it creates carbon efficient energy contributing to reducing climate change; it powers space crafts; and even helps to make our food safe. Nuclear engineers focus on the design, application and maintenance of the systems and processes required to successfully utilise nuclear energy in these industries. It’s a highly skilled branch of engineering and graduates are well placed for the expansion of the nuclear industry over the next ten years. At Lancaster we have close connections to three nuclear energy sites within a 30 mile radius and you will benefit from site visits, project work and guest lectures.


What to expect
Our four-year BEng Hons Nuclear Engineering with Placement Year degree starts with your general engineering first year and includes core themes of design, materials, thermodynamics and heat transfer, along with mathematics. You’ll share this experience with all our School of Engineering students, regardless of their specialisation. We think this makes you a well-rounded graduate, with excellent teamwork and communications skills, prepared for a career where you will often work in multidisciplinary teams.


In Year 2 is where you start to specialise in nuclear engineering and you will learn core themes such as nuclear science, nuclear engineering systems, decommissioning and nuclear safety taught by staff with world-leading expertise. Working in our two new engineering buildings with state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll develop your creativity and technical skills as you design, build and test to solve real-world problems.


Your final year enables you to apply your skills in an individual project, during which you will learn to use professional software and develop your research and design skills further. Previous examples of projects that you can work on include mixed field radiometrics, cosmic radiation monitoring and accelerator mass spectroscopy. You will also gain specialist knowledge in key nuclear applications, develop an interdisciplinary approach, and apply engineering principles to analyse key processes. This experience will allow you to grow and enhance your professional and discipline specific skills, and you will gain relevant real-world experience.


Take further steps towards professional engineering with management skills, project management, and industry engagement. Sustainability, safety, ethics and quality management are kept in focus too.


Your placement
In Year 3, you will undertake a year in industry that will enable you to apply the knowledge and skills learnt so far and gain invaluable experience. We have extensive links built through our leadership in research and have students undergoing placements with multinational corporate companies to smaller specialist SMEs. Once you have completed your placement, you will write an extended reflective piece about your time spent with the company.

Admission Requirements

6.5+
32+

4 Years
Sep

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