Master of Science in Computational Engineering Design (Advanced Mechanical Engineering Science)

at University of Southampton - Highfield Campus United Kingdom

This integrated mechatronic engineering master's course will get you ready to take the lead in developing tomorrow’s intelligent machines and devices. It’s designed to meet the high demand for graduates with advanced mechanical and electrical engineering skills. The course includes management and legal training, preparing you for your career ahead - whether you go into robotics, flexible manufacturing or any other discipline in this fast-moving field.

This programme has the same curriculum as our 3-year BEng Mechatronics degree, but includes an additional year. This is when you’ll study mechatronics in greater depth and develop your professional skills. It also has a strong focus on practical work, including the design and build of an autonomous robot.

You can take this course with an additional year-long, paid placement. Apply with UCAS code H36H for the Industrial Studies option. For international students, this is the only way to spend a year working in the UK, and it’s the best way to make contacts that could lead to employment here.

This MEng Mechatronic Engineering master's degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.

Customise your degree to suit your law interests and tackle the latest legal problems on this LLM Master of Laws. Choose modules across areas like commercial, corporate and human rights law.

Learn from our research-active team, who are at the forefront of global legal reform and development. Gain the knowledge and practical skills to pursue a wide range of legal and non-legal careers.

On this flexible master’s in law you'll start with a week-long introductory course on common law to understand the way this important legal system works.

From here you’ll develop your legal skills to take on complex issues arising from practical scenarios. You’ll learn how to advise, litigate and negotiate. You'll learn to understand the legal frameworks that underpin your areas of interest.

During the taught element of the course you choose the modules you’d like to study to match your career plans. They might include:

• International law of the sea
• Marine insurance
• Principles of commercial arbitration
• Intellectual property law in a global world
• Corporate governance
• Human rights in context
• Armed conflict in international law
• Free speech and privacy on the internet

Our high-profile advisory and law reform work, along with our internationally recognised research, brings the latest legal developments to your learning.

How do we develop the next generation of drugs for treating bacterial infection, AIDS, cancer, depression and heart failure? These are among the challenges being addressed by pharmacologists at Southampton. Our BSc Pharmacology degree will prepare you to make your own contribution to this important work.

This 3-year programme will give you an in-depth understanding of the major pharmacological concepts and principles.

These include:

• The discovery and production of new drugs
• The interaction of drugs with humans and animals
• How existing drugs can be improved or repurposed
• Ways to solve the problems of toxicity
• New-generation antibiotics

You'll refine your practical skills in our state-of-the-art teaching labs. This will prepare you to work with our experts in pharmacology and undertake your individual research project in year 3.

As part of your degree you can also:

• Spend a year working in the pharmaceutical industry between years 2 and 3
• Spend a semester at a partner university abroad during year 2

Discover how to help the world develop resilience to increasing urbanisation, climate change and natural disasters, on this MSc Civil Engineering.

The course is ideal if you’re a civil engineering graduate interested in boosting your career prospects. You'll learn the skills to solve problems in building design, water supply, infrastructure, structural and bridge engineering, geotechnical engineering, and earthquake engineering.

You may also have an opportunity to complete a research project whilst undertaking an industrial placement.

You’ll gain a sound understanding of civil engineering design and applications through core and specialist modules covering:

• Coastal and maritime engineering
• Hydraulics
• The environment
• Infrastructure
• Transport
• Management

Depending on your module choices you can develop different skills. For example, during our structural engineering modules you'll learn how to use industry standard finite element analysis software. This is important for the design of structures and foundations in other modules.

If you live in the UK or EU you'll have the option to take the MSc with an 11 month industrial placement. You'll carry out the latest applied research on real projects, whilst working with major civil engineering companies and research centres.

This degree is accredited as meeting the requirements for Further Learning for a Chartered Engineer (CEng) for candidates who have already acquired a partial CEng accredited undergraduate first degree. Learn more about accreditation on the Joint Board of Moderators website.

This Sustainable Energy Technologies MSc offers an introduction to current and modern energy technologies for sustainable power generation. You’ll gain expertise and practical skills in areas of energy research including photovoltaics, fuel cells, energy storage and batteries, combustion, electrical power systems, and wind, wave and tidal energy. 

Sustainable energy technologies need to meet a range of criteria across economic, social and environmental metrics. 

This master’s course will give you an understanding of sustainable energy systems, resources and usage. You’ll learn to design and assess the performance of fuel cells and photovoltaic systems, wind power and hybrid propulsion systems. You’ll also learn how thermo-fluid engineering processes can be used for the production of low-carbon energy. 

You'll also look at other renewable technologies and have the option to undertake a range of specialist modules, covering subjects such as waste resource management to bioenergy. 

Under the guidance of world-class experts, you’ll have the chance to put theoretical and practical skills to the test as you undertake a piece of independent research culminating in a dissertation.

Demography is the study of human populations, their size, density and distribution. Discover how to gather and analyse demographic data and population change on our MSc Demography degree. You’ll explore historical and current population trends in developing and developed countries and the social and economic impact of demographic change.

Graduate with the quantitative analysis skills to support social policy-making across a range of sectors.

Understanding demographic change helps strategic decision-making across a range of sectors. From health and social care to local and national government and international organisations. It’s also an important way to inform market research.

On this UK master’s course in demography, you’ll look at issues such as population and reproductive health. You’ll cover demographic methods and approaches, and both qualitative and quantitative social science research methods.

You’ll learn:

• Demography theory and methodologies
• The skills to plan, carry out and share demography research, especially where statistical analysis methods are important
• Research methodologies, focusing on demographic methods, survey design and analysis
• Critical thinking in the context of population sciences.
• How to prepare to become a demographer in areas like government, local authorities, and international health and policy

You’ll benefit from the cutting-edge research conducted in our research centres led by professors from our department:

• Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Population Change
• Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy
• Economic and Social Research Council National Centre for Research Method

Learn to design helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and their avionic systems on our specialist integrated MEng Aeronautics and Astronautics / Airvehicle Systems Design course. You’ll study many advanced engineering, including the design and manufacture of fast-moving aircraft and spacecraft, before specialising on their systems, performance and optimisation requirements. This course is ideal for a career in air vehicle design.

Aeronautics and astronautics looks at the science, engineering and manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft, and how they operate within our atmosphere and in space.

You’ll study the general principles of aerospace engineering, then take more advanced modules specialising in advanced air vehicle systems and avionics systems design.

In Year 3 of this airvehicle systems design degree, you'll complete an individual research project and in Year 4 you’ll participate in a group design project.

You’ll get hands-on experience in our extensive facilities, which include:

• dedicated student design studios and workshops
• the largest wind tunnel in any UK university
• jet laboratory with supersonic ramjet, turbojet and rocket engine
• Boeing flight simulator
• state-of-the-art space propulsion facilities
• professional manufacturing centre

As part of this course you can:

• showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show
• attend site visits to experience engineering in practice
• apply your engineering knowledge to solve a real-world problem

You can take this course with an additional year-long, paid placement. Apply with UCAS code H41H for the Industrial Placement Year option.

The MSci Geophysics master's degree at Southampton is a wide-ranging degree, which combines many of the sciences. We have strong links with industry, excellent facilities and offer many fieldwork opportunities. You'll graduate with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue a career in anything from oil and gas exploration to offshore surveys.

Geophysics is the science of applying physical principles to help us understand our world. You’ll work across Maths, Physics, and Geology, with the opportunity to take modules in astronomy, geography, and archaeology.

At Southampton, you'll learn about current geophysics and gain a range of geophysical, geological and mathematical skills. These include practical field skills and computer programming.

This broad course is one of only a few in the UK that combines terrestrial and marine geophysics, and offers great flexibility.

You can shape the course to your personal interests or career plans by choosing options that explore subjects like:

• current and past climate change
• tides and waves
• hydrocarbon exploration
• our unique seafloor surveying module

Depending on your grades, you can apply to study abroad at one of our partner universities. There you'll take specialist modules and projects that are not available in the UK.

As part of this course you'll:

• study at our pioneering research institution and waterfront campus, the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS)
• use our modern, industry-standard, labs and teaching equipment, including the National Oceanographic Library
• take field courses in the UK and abroad, where you'll design and carrying out your own surveys
• benefit from our many links to geophysics and geology companies

Accreditation by The Geological Society of London means that our teaching is of the highest quality and has been approved by an independent body of academics and industrialists.

This is the only degree in the UK to combine economics and actuarial science. Actuarial science uses mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk and uncertainty. Actuaries are essential in industries such as insurance and finance. You'll learn to use the Bloomberg trading terminals in your first year, and study with students on the related Mathematics and Actuarial Science degree.

Your A level results will determine which core or compulsory modules you'll need to take.

You'll study core modules in microeconomics, macroeconomics and quantitative methods. Optional modules will let you shape your studies around your interests or career plans. These include international trade, survival models or public economics. You can also choose modules from outside the Economics and Mathematics departments.

You'll study in lectures and small classes. Our facilities include the behavioural economics laboratory and the Financial Laboratory (FinLab). This is a realistic trading room environment using the most detailed financial data available.

As part of this course you can also:

• Spend a semester abroad in your third year
• Spend a year in employment
• Gain vital work experience on our Student Innovation Projects

This BSc Economics and Actuarial Science degree is accredited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). You'll be eligible for 6 exemptions from the core principles:

• Actuarial Statistics (CS1 and CS2)
• Actuarial Mathematics (CM1 and CM2)
• Business Finance and Economics (CB1 and CB2)

This is the maximum number of IFoA actuarial exemptions available on any undergraduate programme.

Our MSc Mobile Communications and Smart Networking master's programme prepares you to become a capable wireless engineer. We'll help you build core areas of expertise, from understanding the fundamentals of wireless transmission, coding and signal processing, to building wireless transceivers and designing intelligent wireless networks.

Wireless communication has had an enormous social impact on our civilisation, and the need for wireless engineers with advanced skills will continue to grow as our world becomes more connected. Future wireless networks will have to intelligently manage a massive number of 'Internet of Things (IoT)' devices in a highly complex environment and in real-time.

This programme will prepare you to become a proficient wireless engineer with in-depth knowledge and the ability to apply it. You'll gain an advanced understanding of areas such as:

• Transmission and coding
• Signal processing
• Transceiver design
• Network design

You'll also have access to outstanding experimental research facilities, including our world-class high-voltage lab and a £110m interdisciplinary clean room.

The key strength of this programme is that we place an emphasis on fundamental concepts and how they relate to recent advances in wireless system and network design. We use real-world examples to emphasise the relevance and importance of these concepts.