King's College London

The General Engineering degree aims to produce engineers of the future who want to make a real-world impact. You'll gain powerful, in-demand skills and expertise across multiple engineering fields, coupled with essential problem-solving and project management capabilities. This will prepare you for the diverse and complex challenges of tomorrow's workplace, and ensure you're highly adaptable and sought after in a rapidly evolving global job market.

Taught by award-winning experts and leading researchers, our unique curriculum offers a blend of leading engineering specialisms. You'll apply mathematical and scientific principles with hands-on, practical skills, tackling authentic design challenges and real-world projects from day one. The first two years build a solid foundation in core engineering principles, while the third year allows you to specialise with your choice of modules and apply your knowledge to real projects, giving you a significant head start in your professional journey.

You can also choose to study for the integrated Master’s course (MEng) – adding a fourth year to your degree during which you’ll undertake substantial group research and a design project, integrating advanced knowledge from four years of study. The MEng is the main qualification pathway for students who make an early decision to train as engineers.

Accreditation

This programme is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer. The integrated master’s programme – the MEng – fully meets the requirements.

Engineers of the future not only need to have in-depth, specialist knowledge but increasingly require skills such as critical thinking, project management, and emotional intelligence to solve complex challenges and create innovations that work for people and communities.

At King's, our unique General Engineering degree equips you with a holistic mindset to be creative, aware, and responsible innovators and problem solvers. Teaching in entrepreneurial skills coupled with an awareness of the environmental, business, social, legal, and regulatory contexts, also sets our engineers apart.

The first two years contain everything we believe engineers need as a solid foundation to explore real-world problems in the third year. This includes core engineering principles across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and fluidic domains, underpinned by essential skills in systems thinking, sustainability, modelling, programming, and engineering design and management.

In years one and two, 25% of modules see you apply your learning to innovate and create new products and services for the benefit of society, culminating in substantial projects at the end of each year. You will consider the full stack of requirements, from specifications and design to manufacture and assembly, to operation and testing. You’ll benefit from our state-of-the-art Makerspace – equipped with the cutting edge technologies and tools you need to build your prototype.

In third year you will choose from a diverse range of optional modules covering areas such as mechanics and systems control, computation and machine learning, telecommunication systems, energy generation and storage, vehicle dynamics and future automotive technologies and cutting edge materials and manufacturing.

You will then undertake a substantial individual project of your choice – presenting your work to peers and tutors in a showcase at the end of the module. You’ll also get to use our dedicated Engineering Project Space fitted with advanced technologies including industrial robots, 3D printers, composites manufacturing facilities, VR headsets, motion capture cameras and material testing machines.

The course is taught at King’s Strand and Waterloo Campuses, putting you in the heart of London with access to all its academic resources and within easy reach of the social and entertainment attractions of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities. The Department of Engineering is based on the Strand Campus.