Safety Engineering
UCAS Code: H123
Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) - BEng (Hon)
Entry requirements
A level
To include two from: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, ICT, Technology or Engineering. Candidates offering only ICT and/or Geography as the subject requirement are invited to interview.
Overall Access profile with 65% in Science, Science & Technology, Engineering.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
To include Grade C in Mathematics and Grade C in English.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
12 at higher level.
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
To include two from technological/scientific subjects and Mathematics and English at Grade O4.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Overall BTEC Extended Diploma in Aeronatical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Engineering with a profile of DMM with 7 Distinctions to include Applied Mathematics, Mathematics for Engineering Technicians, Further Mathematics or equivalent.
Scottish Advanced Higher
To include one from: Mathematics Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, ICT, Technology or Engineering. Candidates offering only ICT or Geography as the subject requirement are invited for interview.
Scottish Higher
To include one from: Mathematics Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, ICT, Technology or Engineering. Candidates offering only ICT or Geography as the subject requirement are invited for interview.
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About this course
Important notice – campus change
This course will move to the Belfast campus. Students will change campus part way through this course.
This course prepares you for a leadership role in the design of highly creative technological solutions for the delivery of complex engineering projects and humanitarian relief responses.
The two key focal points of the course, safety engineering and disaster management, intertwine perfectly to educate and prepare you for roles within industry. The safety engineering strand will concentrate upon intelligent design of systems and processes to create more efficient organisations and industries with a highly attuned emphasis on environmental sustainability and inherently safe design for all concerned. The complementary disaster management focus then explores the macro issues to prepare you to lead and manage disaster response teams in a truly international context.
This course prepares you to be in a position to respond to man-made and natural disasters. You will come to develop your technical, scientific and creative skills to help people and communities most in need and most specifically in the face of adversity, such as post-disaster or extreme emergencies. Through this course you will develop a full understanding of your ethical role in terms of designing critical solutions to highly sophisticated problems with the primary aim of preserving or improving human life.
If you register on the BEng (Hons) programme initially you may transfer to the MEng (Hons) Safety Engineering and Disaster Management providing you achieve an average of 60% or more in your second year of study.
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