General Engineering

About this course

General engineering is a deliberately broad approach to engineering education, one that resists early specialisation in favour of developing a deep understanding of engineering as an integrated whole. Most of the great engineering challenges of our time, from designing sustainable energy systems to building resilient infrastructure to developing advanced healthcare technologies, require engineers who can think across disciplinary boundaries and bring multiple kinds of expertise to bear on complex problems. A general engineering education builds that integrative capacity in a way that narrow specialisation cannot. At the University of Sheffield, this four-year, full-time degree is taught across seven engineering departments by world-leading academics, giving you genuine breadth of engagement with the full range of engineering disciplines before you choose a specialism in your later years

Where its graduates go

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