Getting into Engineering – Dr Dave Brtnell, Warwick, Liam Madden, Imperial London

• UK is desperately short of Engineers

• If sb is interested in applied science, direct them to engineering.

• 23k engineering graduates per year – not enough!

• Bucking the trend of pay rises – good pay

• Warwick University School of Engineering

• Imperial have individual departments but Warwick is general engineering

• Can specialise later.

• Intake target 255 Home and EU. Maths and Physics top grades ie A. 3^Rd subject optional – another science based subject – Meng A, Beng B

• No interview.

• Broader engineers. Imperial deeper engineers.

• Gap years welcomed.

• Beng and Meng courses.

• Work placements excellent idea.

• Can move between Beng and Meng courses subject to good grades.

• Ability to take year in industry at any point after 1^st year.

• Exchange years for MEng third year – e.g. Autstralia, Canada, Europe and Japan

• Good pastoral care – personal tutors.

• If miss offer (just), this will be reviewed (firm offer)

• If Warwick as insurance and miss firm offer, will be confirmed at Warwick.

• If no decision, phone them.

• Clearing is sorted pretty quickly. Go to the website. Students contact the unis to see if they can obtain a place.

• Adjustment period – students who meet and exceed the terms of their conditional offer. Students have 5 days to seek a place at another uni while firm place is helpf for them. May enable to go to higher ranked uni – but may be at back of queue for uni accomodation.

• Imperial Maths A*, Physics and various options – SEE IMPERIAL SLIDE. 2K applicants for 150 places in computing etc, whereas 400 applications for 50 places for Biomedical Engineering.

• Biomed Engineering – A* A A etc etc

• 1^st 2 years provide the platform for specialisation. 4 year programme – 2 years compulsory, then 2 years optional courses.

• Can be taken across the Faculty.

• Business school is graduate-only. Encouraging entrepreneurs, start-ups.

• Check accreditation by Institutes of Engineering

• UCAS application form. Point to –

  • achieved grades

  • predicted grades

  • optional qualifications

• Need to do other stuff – work-life balance

• Personal statement –

  • Medics must refer to biomed technology

  • Outreach activities

• Pre-processing of UCAS application form. In 2014, 1/3 of Imperial places went to most highly ranked near-misses.

• Offer grades are usually higher than published grade requirements.

• IB 666 people are on 1^st and II.i students whereas the A-level “equivalents” more likely Ii.ii.

• Why are offers higher than published?

• PS focus on one area if applying to both Imperial and Warwick, for example.

• CEng – chartered engineer. SHOW AWARENESS OF THIS IN PS. Meng courses acrredited as fully stisfying the educational base for a Ceng. Beng partly satisfies. Engineering and Business do not contain enough engineering – so not accredited.

• 2^nd 2 years are determined by requirements of whichever accrediting body the student is working towards