Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering

at University of Bedfordshire - Luton Campus United Kingdom

The global aviation and airport management industry is expanding rapidly, and this course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and experience you will need to establish your career in this area.

Using the latest interactive teaching technologies, the programme covers a number of business, leadership and specialist areas. And the proximity of our campus to London Luton Airport means that you will have plenty of opportunities to enjoy a practical-based approach to your studies through work placements with airlines and related organisations.

London Luton Airport is the fastest growing major airport in the UK with passenger numbers increasing from 12 million to 18 million per year.

Marketing with Aviation and Airport Management offers and inter-disciplinary course combining key subject areas of business, marketing and aviation management in a practice orientated way. This will allow you to develop a deep understanding and practical knowledge of marketing and the specialist area of aviation.

To prepare you to graduate as a professional, you will evaluate different perspectives to inspect global, political, economic, social, technological, legal, ecological and business environments. You will have the option to experience industry practice and real word business experience to increase your skills and capabilities to work as a marketing practitioner in aviation.

Why choose this course?

The proximity of the Universitys Luton campus to the London Luton Airport and the planned expansion of their business and carrying capacity make studying for a BSc Marketing in Aviation and Airport Management at the University of Bedfordshire an excellent choice, providing knowledge of the role of marketing in securing the survival of organisations in the aviation and airport management (AAM) sector.

The course is structure with a clear focus on developing your employability by building a foundation on the core principles of business knowledge and operations and developing the skills, knowledge and understanding of Aviation Sales & Marketing, Aviation Law, Digital Marketing, Security, Airline and Airport operations in this highly competitive industry. You will apply established techniques such as problem-solving, critically thinking and analysis to solve real marketing-related problems The knowledge you build to examine and challenge marketing concepts and data within the context of the AAM sector and interaction with industry professionals allows you to progress seamlessly with practice-oriented and transferable skills to become employment ready in the marketing and AAM industry.

Students on this course studying full-time would be eligible to apply for membership of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Free membership is available for the duration of your course and gives you the benefit of the monthly online magazine, AEROSPACE. Where possible, students will have the opportunity to get a placement at Luton Airport and to visit aviation events.

The course will include an embedded IATA Leadership & Management Diploma course which is offered free to all students on the BSc Aviation & Airport Management course starting in 2017/18. Students who successfully pass an externally run IATA exam and meet additional requirements will graduate with a BSc plus an IATA Leadership & Management Diploma.

After graduation of this course, you'll be producing quality journalism for audiences from the hyper-local to the global. You will have developed an internationalised approach, and be able to challenge specific cultural perspectives, deepening the quality of your analysis. This course will teach you to evaluate issues of media and international development, such as human rights and media structures and explore the latest academic and journalistic research technique

Why choose this course?

• Articulate your journalism across media platforms
• Produce a final project of your choice, either in the form of a journalistic portfolio or an academic dissertation
• Attend master classes and visit the BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, Bloomberg and others
• Interview top UK politicians, human rights lawyers and others visiting the university
• Data Analytics Units covers a wide range of topics including programming, databases, security, project management and computer networking, giving you both the underpinning theory and the ability to apply it to complex real-world problems, as well as an awareness of emerging technologies and developments

This BA (Hons) Psychology course explores how professional psychologists use evidence-based practice to make a difference in people’s lives. It also introduces you to the psychological theories that explain human thoughts, emotions and behaviour.

The course shows how applying psychological knowledge can help us better understand and explain human behaviour. You learn about the key approaches - cognitive, social, developmental, biological, individual-difference psychology – as well as investigating psychological theories; historical and conceptual issues; and research methods.

In your final year, you complete a literature-based Honours project.

Why choose this course?

• Apply theory to real-life situations so you understand how psychology works in the real world
• Explore different perspectives on issues and problems, and learn to evaluate them in a critical manner
• Learn with an academic team actively involved in leading-edge research, activity which feeds back directly into your learning
• Benefit from studying in our modern facilities with a range of up-to-the-minute equipment to aid your learning
• Develop skills highly valued by potential employers such as the ability to conduct research, manage projects, problem solving, critical analysis, communication and team-working
• Use your degree to move on to postgraduate education and training to become a chartered psychologist, or specialise in a specific field such as forensic or health psychology
• It can open doors to a career in research, the prison service, police, social services, the mental health sector, business and HR, and teaching

In order to remain competitive international businesses are looking for graduates who are able to work in a flexible, collaborative way in order to help provide innovative solutions to often complex and open-ended international problems.

This course is specifically designed to enable you to develop these skills through an exciting programme that links academic theory and real world business projects in realistic business settings.

Studying this course will help you to gain an insight into the reality of international business that goes beyond what is discussed in the text books and will help you to engage with potential employers in a much more meaningful way.

Why choose this course?

The course isn’t just theoretical; it’s based in industry practice and can be very hands-on. We also have business employers regularly come in to give seminars, which motivates us to work harder.

This course is ideal for computing graduates who want to prepare for a general career in IT without the need to specialise at this stage.
Subjects range from data modelling, embedded systems and systems architecture to intelligent agents, equipping you to fully understand the application of computing technology in real-world situations whilst gaining the practical business skills that employers seek.

Why choose this course?

• Study a broad range of IT disciplines including online database applications, intelligent agents, programming embedded systems, professional project management systems architecture, network systems, distributed and parallel architectures and cryptography and cryptanalysis
• Explore and analyse current trends in the continually expanding area of internet technologies including wireless internet and network configurations and enjoy opportunities to work with innovative distributed environments and architectures
• Develop practical and business skills necessary for a wide range of careers in IT from management to high-level web application development or system administration
• Gain in-depth skills in network management and administration (allowing you to work as a Network Manager) including essential security aspects, grid-computing and fault tolerance
• Benefit from developing expertise equipping you for a career as an IT Consultant, Programmer, Systems/Business Analyst, in web development/web services or in further study on an MSc by Research, MPhil or PhD.

This course examines the problem of crime, why people offend and how crime is controlled. It also gives you the practical skills you need and the confidence to apply theories of criminology in real-world settings.

Through the course, you develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the criminal mind, criminal justice system, the modern criminological environment and principles around the rehabilitation of the offender.

There is a choice of optional units for those with individual interests, such as youth justice, crime and the media, youth and crime, and violence in modern society. In your final year, you also undertake an independent research-based project, supported by expert staff who are all actively involved in research themselves.

Why choose this course?

• Develop your research skills and the ability to make sound judgements based on in-depth knowledge
• Explore your commitment to the principle of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice
• Study with academics who have world-leading research expertise in areas such as community safety, offending and youth justice
• Take the course over four years and include an optional year’s placement in industry (see below), allowing you to gain practical skills, build your CV and make contacts
• If you need to step up into higher education, start with a Foundation Year (see below) which guarantees entry to the undergraduate course
• Graduates of this degree also benefit from opportunities for postgraduate study at the Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime
• It can lead into careers in the criminal justice system or wider human services, including youth justice and youth work, offending teams, policing, community safety, local government and research into criminal behaviour

This course shares its first stage with our other related BSc degrees to give you a foundation in the subject while providing a platform for specialist study in the second and third stages.

The course is broadly based yet carries enough depth to provide credible vocational skills; because of the wide range of courses taught in the department a number of special equipment is accessible in areas such as biometrics, robotics or computer graphics, which allows you to encounter the context of use of various concepts in Computer Science.

Computer Science is a complex and wide-ranging subject, and includes the study of computation theory, the design of systems and artificial intelligence.

This course shares its first stage with our other related BSc degrees to give you a foundation in the subject while providing a platform for specialist study in the second and third stages.

You will concentrate on essential areas such as systems architecture and security, acquire practical programming, modelling and software development skills before focusing on a chosen specialist area for your final stage project.

Why choose this course?

• Learn a broad-based range of subjects but in enough depth to give you high value vocational skills
• Study in a carefully structured but flexible way, sharing the first foundation stage with our other related BSc degrees before specialising in the second and third stages
• Develop your practical skills in a variety of programming languages
• Gain confidence in the use of specialist biometric, robotic and computer graphic equipment
• Explore the latest developments in artificial intelligence
• Challenge yourself as you decide which specialist area you would like to focus on
• Benefit from studying with highly qualified specialists in dedicated laboratories using the latest hi-tech equipment

In a constantly evolving field, there’s a growing shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals with the up-to-the-minute expertise needed to keep on top of the game. This cutting-edge course equips you with the knowledge and skills employers are looking for.

Careers in the cybersecurity field offer huge potential for skilled graduates. This wide-ranging course is designed to develop the diverse skillset you need to identify and manage physical, natural and electronic security breaches and violations in all areas of cyberspace.

Our cutting-edge teaching and training techniques give you a thorough understanding of security processes and practices as well as the complexities and challenges associated with information security; the legal requirements around information-security domains; and post-incident analysis techniques.

Work-based learning and placements enable you to put theory into practice, as you build your ability to understand and analyse threat factors and multi-stage cyber attacks, and put controls in place to mitigate risk and impact.

Why choose this course?

• It is fully aligned with BCS, CESG and IISP requirements, making your qualification highly relevant to a range of employers
• You learn from a dedicated team of cybersecurity experts, trainers and active researchers
• Learning approaches are practice-based and include work-based and placement activities as well as interactive demonstrations by academic staff and guest speakers
• You apply your technical cybersecurity skills using secure virtualised and containerised environments
• Your degree qualification balances technical and management skills, enabling you to enter careers across a wide range of security contexts
• Take the course over four years and include a year’s placement in industry (see below) where you gain experience and make contacts for the future
• If you are stepping up into higher education, you can start with a Foundation Year which guarantees your entry to the Undergraduate course (see below)

The advent of digital media has created an explosion of possibilities when it comes to illustration. This innovative course gives you the drawing skills, techniques and industry know-how to produce, distribute and publish your graphic work.

This course takes in the full scope of contemporary illustration practice from craft-based techniques and drawing to digital and sequential moving image-based work. It ensures you develop the drawing, photography and digital-media skills you need for a career in areas such as film, animation, music video, advertising, publishing, video games and app design.

Working in small, lively, creative groups, you study a cluster of design courses including Animation and Graphic Design, with units covering materials and methods; studio practice; context and ideas; thinking through making; collaborative partnerships; and the critical and creative background to modern design.

Why choose this course?

• Work in spacious, well-equipped studios and benefit from high-spec facilities in digital media, motion graphics, bookmaking, stop motion, risograph printing and screen printing
• Gain skills and confidence with regular one-to-one contact with industry-experienced teaching staff and excellent technical support
• Explore the changing role of the designer and design in society so you can challenge current social, political and environmental thinking in your work
• Develop skills in creative problem solving, collaboration and entrepreneurship
• Take the course over four years and benefit from a year’s placement in industry, building your experience and making contacts for the future
• If you need to step up into higher education, start with a Foundation Year which gives you guaranteed entry to the undergraduate course