Manufacturing Engineering

The HNC in Manufacturing Engineering is built on an agile structure aligned to industry requirements and aims to provide you with a stimulating, challenging, engaging and memorable experience. It will help you gather essential knowledge of manufacturing, production and operations principles alongside foundational engineering principles and core practice. You will undertake a set of common core units as well as speciality-field units, enabling you to build behaviours, knowledge and skills that will help you progress to industry employment or further study.

The programme will provide you with a thorough grounding in general and aeronautical engineering principles at Level 4 that will support you through a range of specialist progression options relating to individual professions within the aeronautical engineering sector. You will work towards gaining the essential qualities of an engineer, including integrity, regard for cost and sustainability, as they apply to a range of roles and responsibilities within the aeronautical sector. You will undertake a range of common core and subject-specialist units, focusing on various aspects of modern manufacturing engineering, including mechanical principles, materials and testing, quality improvement, and other essential concepts and considerations.

The course has multidisciplinary as well as subject-specific aspects and will enable to you to preform technical roles throughout manufacturing, production, operations and engineering management.