Blackpool and the Fylde College
UCAS Code: H714 | Higher National Certificate - HNC
Entry requirements
A level
from A levels to include mathematics and a technology, engineering or science-based subject
Pearson BTEC 90-Credit Diploma (QCF)
in a science or technology-based subject, including passes in mathematics
Pearson BTEC Diploma (QCF)
in a science or technology-based subject, including passes in mathematics
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
in a science or technology-based subject, including passes in mathematics
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in an appropriate discipline (excluding Functional Skills)
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About this course
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.
Modules
Module title Code Credits Optional
Engineering Design ET4MD269 15 No
Engineering Mathematics ET4MD270 15 No
Managing a Professional Engineering Project ET4MD271 15 No
Production Engineering for Manufacture ET4MD275 15 No
Quality and Process Improvement ET4MD276 15 No
Compiuter Aided Design and Manufacture ET4MD282 15 No
Industry ET4MD283 15 No
Industrial Robots ET4MD284 15 No
Assessment methods
You will receive many opportunities for formative assessments on all the HNC programmes where you will be able to demonstrate the necessary knowledge and skills required for undertaking the summative assessment. Formative assessments will take the form of a short quiz, short exercises, a short written or verbal task, group work, practical observation or a simple question and answer activity. Through these activities, the tutors will be able to identify the different learning needs of each learner, and make corrective interventions early on the programme through verbal or written feedback. The formative assessment results can also be
used by tutors to gauge the effectiveness of their planned teaching and learning.
The summative assessment on this programme varies and depends on the requirements of each unit. Some of the assessment tools that will be used are written assignments including reports, research and essays, presentations, group project, exams, calculations and problem solving and practical laboratory-based assessment. Assessment can also be ‘time-constrained’
and take place under open book examination conditions or set by Pearson Edexcel. These assessment methods should allow the student to demonstrate understanding, knowledge and critical thinking skills required to pass and awarded high grades based on the assessment criteria.
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Top job areas of graduates
Graduates are in significant demand, so unemployment rates are well below the national graduate average and starting salaries are well above average. Much the most common industries for these graduates are now vehicle manufacture - there are not enough people with these degrees to go round and so the big employers tend to take the lion's share at the moment. But pretty much anywhere there is manufacturing, there are production engineers. Bear in mind that a lot of courses are four years long, and lead to an MEng qualification — this is necessary if you want to become a Chartered Engineer.
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Manufacturing engineering
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