Engineering

UCAS code: H100

Subject Requirements

Essential: Mathematics and Physics.

Highly Desirable: Further Mathematics.

A levels (or equivalent) in Mathematics and Physics provide the essential background to the Engineering course, and it is important that you are comfortable with the material that they cover. If you have the opportunity, we would also like you to have studied Further Maths. Don't be put off applying if you aren't studying Further Maths - the contents of this A level are covered in the first year of Engineering - but it will make your studies easier if you have seen this before.

We are very happy to accept applications from those who choose to take a gap year before starting their studies. A gap year can give you the opportunity to experience work in industry.

Written Work

None.

Admissions Tests

The Thinking Skills Assessment, taken on the day of your interview.

Director(s) of Studies

For Admissions: Dr Simon Guest - Fellow of Trinity Hall.

For Part II: Dr Christopher Padfield - Fellow of Trinity Hall.

For Parts IA & IB: Dr Jerome Jarrett - Fellow of Trinity Hall.

General Comments

Engineering at Cambridge is a demanding course, partly because the first part of the course is common to all students and includes Mechanical, Electrical, Information and Civil Engineering, Design Manufacture and Management, together with Computation and Mathematics. The course normally lasts four years leading to the degrees BA (with Honours) and MEng.

Why study Engineering? Perhaps you are excited by new technology: computers and the internet; rockets and space missions; long bridges and tunnels; cars, railways, jet engines and aircraft; mobile communications; etc. Perhaps you are appalled at the environmental consequences of the way we live our lives. Studying engineering gives you the background you will need to get involved in building the world that you would like to see.

Few would disagree that the Cambridge University Engineering Department is one of the best general engineering departments in the UK. It has an excellent record in both teaching and research. The four-year course at Cambridge combines the benefits of a general engineering education for two years with increasingly specialised courses in the final two years. At the end of the course, you will have both the background required to talk to engineers in other disciplines, and a specialist knowledge in your chosen field.

Although lectures and laboratories are organised by the central department, tutorial teaching and personal guidance are the responsibility of the College. Here you'll benefit from the strong engineering presence on the Fellowship.

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