
Mathematics
Course Overview This challenging course will encourage you to develop your mathematical skills, improve your ability to think logically and enable yo…
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Course Overview
This vocational course, equivalent to three A Levels, is designed for students considering a career in engineering, ranging from product design through to high technology production methods and technical sales. Being a vocational course it is aimed at students who prefer learning through doing. This course will provide you with a firm, broad foundation in engineering enabling students to choose from a wide range of careers to move onto upon successful completion of the course.
Second year students will have to carry out a compulsory 315 hour industrial placement.
Assessment: |
Exams (33%) Coursework (67%) |
Duration: | 2 Years |
Entry requirements: |
Standard entry requirements, plus grade 4 in GCSE Mathematics and grade 4 in another technical subject like science or Resistant Materials. |
Exam board: | Edexcel |
Costs: |
£75 for textbooks, safety boots, overalls and safety glasses. |
Programme leader: |
You may be required to complete an activity before you start in order to help introduce you to the subject. Check back in the summer term for more details.
In the first year you will focus on areas including engineering principles, computer aided design (CAD), secondary machining, electrical engineering, commercial and quality and design and manufacture. Most of the work is internally assessed where students are given up to 2 weeks to complete an assignment which has to be handed into strict deadlines, the rest of the course is externally assessed. During the second year you will study engineering materials, mechanical principles, microcontrollers, analogue electric circuits, calculus and either further maths or additive manufacturing. there is also a design, build and test project. This is all internally assessed except for the microcontrollers unit. Also in the second year students are also expected to undertake work experience, some of these may be through college contacts with prestigious local companies like Costain, BMW and Carlin Motorsport.
This practical, work-related course is demanding in terms of the coursework required from you. Good organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines are vitally important to be successful.
This course is designed to give students a wide choice options. Some students go onto higher level apprenticeships with some notable companies such as GSK and Rolls Royce. Others go onto university where the qualification is widely accepted. At university students go on to study subjects including mechanical engineering, product design and aeronautical engineering. Some students find that studying Maths A-Level alongside the BTEC Manufacturing Engineering course offers them a wider choice of universities.
Last year students went on to various destinations including university places at Brighton, Northampton and Glasgow Caledonian.
Many students go onto higher level apprenticeships sometimes with the companies they completed their work placement at. These days more students are applying for Degree Apprenticeships where their employer pays for them to complete a university degree. Engineering Students from Henley College have successfully applied to, and joined the companies and organisations shown above.
Students completing their BTEC at Henley typically go on to study a wide range of engineering disciplines including Mechanical, Electrical, Automotive, aeronautical and even civil Engineering. Popular universities are Portsmouth, Oxford Brookes, Hatfield, Coventry, Cardiff, Southampton, Birmingham, Nottingham
Name: | Alexandra |
Course: | Engineering |
Alexandra joined us from Pangbourne College and achieved D*D*D* in Engineering. She won the 'Young Female Engineer of the Future 2019' at the Oxfordshire High Sheriff Engineering Awards. Alexandra is now going on to a degree apprenticeship at Rolls Royce, which she was one of just 34 successful candidates from 32,000 applicants.
"Alexandra joined us with a obvious passion for Engineering. She enrolled onto the course and, in addition, enrolled on a Maths A Level. This meant she had effectively enrolled for the equivalent of 4 A Levels.