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Broad Based Engineering
Headstart’s course at the University of Birmingham provides you with an opportunity for a hands-on engineering experience in an excellent campus environment. You will be involved in an Engineering Design exercise and a First Year lecture. You will visit our laboratories, perform experiments and use some of our major facilities. For example, you can visit the Automotive workshops where our undergraduates design and build their own racing cars.
During the week you will visit industry to see how products are designed and manufactured in real time. In 2009, delegates visited either Jaguar Cars, the Arup campus at Solihull to gain experience of civil engineering design, or A Rolls-Royce Plc and Goodrich Corporation Joint Venture to see electronics in an industrial setting.
You will meet lecturers from each of our main Engineering Schools: Chemical; Civil; Electronic, Electrical & Computer; Mechanical; and Metallurgy and Materials. They will give you a flavour of student life within their Schools and an overview of the career options available to you as a graduate. You will also be introduced to some of our specialist degree options such as Sports Materials and see where our Energy Engineering modules are leading to in terms of fuel cell technology.
Your accommodation will be in a hall on or close to campus, within easy reach of the Engineering Schools and the University’s extensive sports and leisure facilities. Evening entertainment will include bowling, sports and an end of course restaurant dinner. The whole course will be rounded off by a walk through the City and some shopping in the Bullring, followed by an ‘all you can eat’ lunch at the Big Wok in Birmingham’s China Town.
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