Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

at Newcastle University United Kingdom

Our MSc gives you an in-depth understanding of geotechnical engineering. It covers topics associated with:

• The engineering behaviour of soils and rocks
• Geotechnical design
• Site investigation and testing
• Construction practice

Advanced geotechnical specialisms are also taught. These include the application of state-of-the art computational tools in design and the engineering of specialist earth structures such as tailing dams.

Our Geotechnical Engineering master's is for both practising professionals and new graduates in:

• Earth sciences
• Civil engineering
• Geological science
• Geology
• Geophysics
• Maths
• Physics

This course meets the growing need for skilled geotechnical engineers in:

• Construction
• Environmental sector
• Energy industries

It highlights cutting-edge technologies in geotechnical engineering and provides an understanding of:

• Design and construction
• Project management and health and safety
• Sustainability and environmental impact

This three-year nutrition with food marketing degree focuses on developing your critical and analytical skills. Ensuring you will graduate as a conscientious and socially aware food professional, ready for a career in nutrition and marketing.

Our industry-recognised qualification helps to fast-track your career. You will be able to apply for direct entry into the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists as soon as you graduate.

Our degree's teaching is informed by the research carried out by experts based at Newcastle University. This guarantees your studies are at the cutting edge of industry developments, so you graduate with the most up-to-date knowledge of nutrition and food marketing.

You'll explore topics such as: human nutrition, marketing strategy and consumer behaviour, while developing a holistic understanding of the global food system.

Our MSc Advanced Architectural Design is aimed at international designers who want to enhance their design and research skills.

This architectural design course helps you consolidate your own identity as a designer. You'll develop your own distinctive specialisms through research-led design. We'll prepare you for a world where successful architects increasingly have to be specialists as well as generalists. Our aim is to help you become a leading architect in the profession.

The course offers an innovative, absorbing, research-led pathway in advanced architectural design.

Our School’s leading academics in Architecture, Planning, and Landscape will support you. You'll also work with leading practitioners.

You'll benefit from the School’s strong culture of integrating design theory and practice. Designers must be able to deliver their speculations. This architectural design course helps you to design at the highest level, and implement your designs.

For achievements of the School’s architecture and design students please read our Design Yearbook

The city of Newcastle has a legacy of global design innovation from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This legacy is matched by its world-renowned culture-led regeneration in the twenty-first century. The city boasts both elegant historic architecture and urbanism, and contemporary design. It is a stimulating place to spend time, engaging with advanced design thinking.

This Zoology MBiol Honours degree focuses on developing your scientific knowledge and provides a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of zoology. This ensures you graduate prepared for a role in this varied field.

Through laboratory and field-based teaching, you'll learn and perfect the skills required to succeed in zoology. In your fourth year you'll work alongside our active research staff to delve deeper into more advanced topics.

Our zoology degree shares its first-year programme with other biology degrees in the School and ensures you gain a thorough understanding across a range of topics. You'll select from modules such as: ecology and conservation, genetics and evolution, diversity of life: form and function.

This three-year course will equip you with real-world, problem-solving skills and an understanding of the academic theory that underpins professional accounting and finance practice.

This course will give you a head start on your career with industry-recognised accreditations, research-informed teaching, and practitioner insight.

Balancing practical application and the development of technical skills, the programme covers the core areas of financial accounting, management accounting, and finance.

It equips you with the knowledge and skills to apply mathematics and statistics in the business world.

You spend two-thirds of your time studying mathematics and statistics, and have the flexibility to tailor the combination of mathematics and statistics content to suit your interests.

You also spend one-third of your time studying management, with topics including:

• General management theory and practice
• Interpreting company accounts
• Human resource management
• Ethics and corporate governance

Political and environmental influences are impacting the types and uses of plants in food production and eco-systems management. Limitations on the use of synthetic herbicides and growth pattern regulators are changing the management strategies available.

Graduates of this applied agri-biological degree will be well placed for a wide range of careers in this vital and developing sector; including plant genetics, bio-chemical research, and agronomy.

On this degree you can select options with a cellular and molecular emphasis underpinning fundamental understanding of plant physiology.

You may take optional modules dealing with a range of applied or associated topics to provide you with the knowledge and insights needed for example to manage crops;

• In agricultural systems
• Conservation grassland
• Woodlands, or
• To develop new approaches and products to control pests and diseases.

You will have the opportunity to take a year's work placement to develop your work based skills, usually taken in research or in the plant science sector.

The degree is similar to our Earth Science BSc Honours, but includes a year of advanced study at master's level.

Earth science covers everything from the formation of rocks and minerals to the impact of human activity on the environment.

This degree prepares you for a wide range of possible careers – from geology to geomatics, and from geochemistry to environmental consultant. Whatever you choose, you'll be equipped with relevant skills in:

• experimental science
• fieldwork
• scientific investigation
• project management

Your final year research project will deepen your knowledge and enable you to work with internationally leading researchers and professionals.

Our civil engineering degrees focus on developing your knowledge and practical skills on topics across the discipline, so you graduate as a well-rounded civil engineer, and well-equipped for your future career.

This foundation year will help you build the base knowledge you need to progress to any of our civil engineering degrees.

This is a full-time programme of study covering core civil engineering topics, including:

• Foundation mathematics
• Applied mechanics
• Material science

This accredited degree provides training in key and emerging topics such as cyber security, data science and bioinformatics. This ensures you graduate prepared to meet the evolving needs of the industry.

Taught by world-leading experts, you'll study a broad curriculum in your first two years, developing knowledge in different aspects of computing science. You'll gain highly desirable skills in problem solving, program design and implementation.

Your paid work placement in Stage 3 will provide practical experience and industry contacts benefiting your academic study and long-term career goals.

From Stage 4 you can specialise in a particular area of computer science or build your own broad based degree.

In Stage 5 you can choose master's-level modules from the MSc in Advanced Computer Science. You'll receive comprehensive research training to help develop your skills in computer and information systems.