Higher National Diploma (HND) in General Engineering


  • Start Date: 15/09/2025
  • Course is for: Adult
  • Course Length: 1 Year
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This course is ideal if you’d like to pursue a career as a multiskilled Engineer or progress on to a degree course at university in either electrical electronic or Mechanical engineering. The course is delivered part time after which you will achieve an HND in General Engineering.

You will develop your skills and knowledge in a broad range of areas covering range of mandatory, specialist and optional engineering modules set at HND level which are:

  • Industrial systems
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Further Mathematics
  • Professional Engineering Management
  • Advance Mechanical Principles
  • Research Project and Industrial power.

All taught by industrial experts and set up to develop right skill level making you work ready within General / Multiskilled Engineering.

You will study:

  • Professional Engineering Management
  • Further Mathematics
  • Advance Mechanical Principles
  • Industrial systems
  • Research Project
  • Industrial power electronics storage
  • Lean Manufacturing.

Assessment

Assignments, Reports and Portfolios.

Please note: Courses will run subject to sufficient student numbers.

Some units are subject to change depending on industry requirements.

Sometimes planned delivery is subject to change, for example moving to remote learning. If this is the case we will clearly communicate this to you beforehand.

You’ll be based in our world class Skills Academy for Automotive, Engineering, Manufacturing and Logistics campus at Team Valley where you’ll benefit from our outstanding workshops which have a range of industry standard mechanical maintenance equipment including:

  • lathes
  • millers
  • grinders
  • fabrication and welding workshops
  • electronics laboratory
  • pneumatics
  • PLCs
  • ICT suites with industry standard engineering simulation software packages, including Matlab, MultiSim, Autocad Inventor.
£4,500

120 Credit HNC in a related subject.

Students with other HNC Engineering qualifications may apply following an interview to ensure the correct combination of units are available to ensure a successful overall award.

Our highly skilled and experienced team of engineers will work with you to help you build the skills and knowledge employers require for your career in engineering.

Each of the team has served their time in their industries and can use their skillset to help prepare you for your career.

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