Course Level: Level 3
Exam Board: OCR
Specification link: Click to View
Entry requirements: 5 GCSE's Grade 5 or above including a Grade 6 or above in Mathematics
Watch the following video from the Engineering Department which runs our Mechanical Engineering & Design Course:
Course Description
This course will cover a broad spectrum of engineering knowledge and combine it with a practical focus on the design and manufacture of engineered products.
You will be assessed through a combination of External exams and Internal Controlled Assessments.
Career Pathways
L3 Engineering leads to Level 4 and Level 5 Engineering. It also leads to apprenticeships and direct employment.
It may be the springboard that you need to discover where your engineering vocation lies.
This could lead to Civil Engineering or Quantity surveying as a career.
Job Opportunities
You could work in a wide and exciting range of industrys, you could work in the water industry, you could work in building services, you could choose a career as a materials engineer or a manufacturing engineer.
This could lead to: biomedical engineering, making prosthetic limbs, Formula 1 making parts for and building racing cars. You could end up developing and making parts for technologies that don’t even exist yet!
