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Through industry-connected project-based learning you’ll be equipped with the future skills employer’s need from future engineers to create and contribute solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the 21st Century.
This practical general engineering (honours) degree bridges many disciplines of engineering, including mechanical, electrical and electronic, civil, environmental, and product design. ASU London’s aim is to develop ‘ready and able’ professional engineers who are equipped with skills for the future job market.
Projects are developed around current industry-relevant such as smart cities, sustainability, user-centred design and manufacturing. These projects will be real-life industry challenges, co-designed with industry and community partners.
This interdisciplinary programme is ideal if you’re interested in all aspects of engineering and want to study a programme that spans multiple disciplines. The skills and knowledge you’ll gain are equally applicable to systems, products and processes across engineering.
For those who choose to study the MEng (over 4 years) you’ll graduate with an integrated master’s qualification, making you eligible to pursue chartered status as an engineer, without the need for further study.
The Global Design Engineering BEng/MEng will comprise the following core and optional modules. All modules are subject to change.
In Year 1, you’ll dive straight into hands-on engineering, working in teams to solve real-world problems and bring your ideas to life. You’ll build strong foundations in mechanics, materials, dynamics, and programming, while developing practical skills in CAD, simulation, prototyping, and data-driven design. Through design challenges focused on sustainability and global issues, you’ll learn how to test, refine, and justify your solutions, strengthen your leadership and communication skills, and start thinking and working like a professional engineer from day one.
You’ll be solving problems, designing products, and making big decisions as part of a team.
You’ll dig into the fundamentals of solid mechanics, materials science, and manufacturing but you won’t just study them. You’ll use them. You’ll choose materials, model your design with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, run stress tests, and figure out how to make it – all while thinking about quality, cost, flexibility, safety, ethics, and sustainability.
Get better at presenting ideas, working with others, and backing up your decisions with solid reasoning. Expect to be challenged, to inspire others, supported, and maybe even surprised by what you can create, break or make.
It’s fast-paced, practical, and packed with the kind of experience that makes you stand out. This is engineering the way it should be, hands-on, real-world, and all about bringing your ideas to life
Undertaking a design challenge, you’ll demonstrate your leadership and impact in engineering. Working on a real-life global challenge, underpinned by the UN Sustainability Goals, you’ll cover environmental, ethical, commercial, social, governance and cultural aspects of engineering.
Reflecting on your strengths and contributions, you’ll develop your teamwork, research, communication and problem-solving skills. These key skills are important for developing your professionalism as an engineer.
You’ll start to look at engineering as a professional multi-disciplinary activity. Designing a prototype for a product, you’ll integrate different aspects of engineering and apply the knowledge and skills you have learnt so far to create a solution to a brief. Through masterclasses and workshops, you’ll work in a team to research, design, manufacture and prototype a product to meet a given specification. You’ll test your prototype and get user and functional feedback to develop your design by implementing the feedback. Through the module you’ll gain practical skills in prototyping and manufacturing, such as 3D modelling, laser cutting and 3D printing.
You’ll start by building up your fundamental skills of dynamics, and develop your proficiency in modelling and simulation, along with your programming skills. No need to be an expert – we’ll help you get comfortable using programming tools like MATLAB to create smart, effective solutions. Exploring how motion, forces, and energy interact in physical systems, and how to simulate all of that with code.
You’ll work in a team to take on a real-life engineering scenario. Together, you’ll design, build, and present a working simulation, explaining your approach and showing off the code behind it.
By the end, you’ll be able to think like an engineer, build digital models of physical systems, and make decisions based on real life data. You won’t just understand the theory, you’ll put it into action. It’s hands-on, fast-moving, and focused on the kind of skills you’ll use in your future career.
Smart cities use data and digital solutions to improve networks, services and infrastructure for the people who live and work there. Learn about designing for smart cities, considering energy and the environment and using material sustainably for a healthy living space.
Develop and apply your understanding of data collection, the Internet of Things, energy and environmental issues, power systems and computing technologies with respect to a global design environment.
Again, working in a team, you’ll consider various engineering technologies to design a safe and clean environment, for your first project on smart cities.
All modules are subject to change and availability. If a module changes after you have been made an offer, you’ll be notified before you start your course.
In Year 2, you’ll build on your engineering foundations and focus on designing products and structures that are practical, manufacturable, and sustainable. You’ll learn how to design for mass production, apply user-centred and ecological design principles, and tackle real-world structural challenges while balancing cost, safety, and performance. Through community-based projects and by developing a professional portfolio and tailored job application, you’ll sharpen your technical expertise and start positioning yourself confidently for industry.
User-centred design is designing things with human factors in mind, so that people and things can interact as safely and efficiently as possible, considering both form and function. Gain the skills to identify the importance of user centred design and in product and workplace design, as well as the concepts of product visualisation. Combining aesthetics (beauty of design) and ergonomics (science of design) you’ll work on the design of a consumer product. You’ll collect feedback from consumers and present your findings. You’ll create a concept, develop 3D visualisations, undertake research with focus groups or questionnaires, allowing you to modify and improve your concepts.
Building upon your introduction to manufacturing in 1st year, you will learn all about how to design a product for mass manufacture. Learn about the design guidelines for processes like injection moulding and CNC milling alongside techniques in developing designs that are easy to assemble and cheap to manufacture.
Through masterclasses, workshops and design reviews, you will take a product through the phases of the design process from concept to technical design. You will learn how to create technical drawings of your products and optimise their design for manufacturing and assembly.
You’ll work on an industrial design project, usually related to the user-centred product design, considering factors like sustainability, materials and manufacturing methods.
Understand and apply the principles and applications of structural, mechanical, and civil engineering for the design of modern structures. You’ll explore the essential principles of structural engineering and examine their role in the analysis and development of a wide variety of engineering structures across civil, mechanical, and industrial contexts.
You’ll work on real world engineering structures, considering not just the engineering loading but the sustainability, health and safety, quality codes and regulations you must follow to optimise your design.
Appraise and apply ecologically responsible design principles to minimise the environmental impact of your ideas. Working on an eco-design product, process or construction, you’ll assess ecological considerations, whilst applying mathematical, scientific and engineering principles and modelling. Using an ecological approach to design, you’ll consider energy and carbon, the circular economy and materials, climate resilience, biodiversity and water as well as related aspects of well-being. Collaborating in teams, you’ll evaluate the relationship between design, cost and the ethical and legal requirements in the design of buildings. Advancing your knowledge of the underlying engineering principles.
Undertake a project with social responsibility at the heart of it. Utilising innovative technologies, you’ll design a collaborative solution for the community, or groups of people within the community with specific needs. You’ll research your audience, and co-create your solution, through experimentation, testing and evaluation. While working with your primary stakeholders, you’ll gain skills in real sustainability challenges, stakeholder partnerships, transdisciplinary formal participation, learning loops, co-creation and the use of virtual environments. Supporting your project, you’ll create and develop a website to effectively communicate your user centred design solution.
Building on the projects you’ve developed in earlier years, you’ll learn how to transform your design work into a professional portfolio that truly represents you as an engineer and designer. This module focuses on how to communicate your ideas with clarity, creativity and confidence – turning technical projects into compelling visual stories.
You’ll develop skills in visual communication, layout design, typography and digital publishing, learning how to structure pages, create strong visual hierarchy and present complex engineering work in a clear and engaging way. Through studio workshops, peer critiques and tutorials, you’ll iteratively refine your portfolio, exploring how to adapt it for print, PDF and online platforms while building a consistent personal brand.
Alongside your portfolio, you’ll create a tailored job application package for a real role of your choice. You’ll align your CV, cover letter and portfolio strategically to a job description, ensuring your work is not only visually impressive but targeted and relevant. By the end of the module, you’ll leave with a polished, industry-ready portfolio and the confidence to present yourself professionally to employers.
All modules are subject to change and availability. If a module changes after you have been made an offer, you’ll be notified before you start your course.
In Year 3, you’ll study three core modules alongside a choice of optional modules, allowing you to shape your degree around your interests. You’ll advance your technical expertise through complex analysis, modelling and optimisation, tackle real industry-style challenges, and explore innovation and entrepreneurship by developing your own design and business plan, you’ll refine your professional portfolio, and plan your next steps.
As part of the course, students are required to complete the core subjects, and select 1 of the optional projects. They will also select from the optional modules.
You’ll deepen your engineering expertise by tackling advanced principles in analysis, modelling and optimisation. This module challenges you to apply systematic engineering thinking to complex products, systems or structures – designing for flexible, lean and agile environments.
Through problem-based, collaborative projects, you’ll work on industry-relevant challenges that develop your technical capability alongside your teamwork, critical thinking and communication skills. You’ll engage with advanced modelling, optimisation, automated manufacture and data analysis – preparing you for higher-level study and professional engineering practice.
Providing you with the knowledge and skills attributed to successful innovators, and entrepreneurs. Discover the modern drivers of successful innovation, and the various models that have proven ongoing success. Producing an original design, you’ll have the opportunity to innovate and apply your entrepreneurial skills to design engineering. In facilitated workshops, together we’ll examine innovation and entrepreneurial case studies. Through collaboration with an external organisation, you’ll develop your design project along with a business plan, with a managerial, entrepreneurial and design mindset.
Reflecting on all your projects, skills gained, and methods used throughout your degree, you’ll continue to work on your professional portfolio. Underpinned by the Engineering Council’s framework, you’ll demonstrate your progress towards becoming a professional engineer. In particular, you’ll be reflecting upon how your recent experiences relate to the UK-SPEC (UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence and Commitment) areas of competence. You’ll consider your career trajectory and plan for your specialisation, further study or career prospects.
Integrate all your knowledge from your previous learning to complete a major individual project. You’ll be expected to use an analytical and methodological approach involving elements such as project planning, designing, implementation, testing, quality assurance and evaluation and you’ll present your findings in a formal setting. Your project will be a significant piece of work, possibly related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, smart cities, big data or informed by an industry need.
This is your chance to take the lead. You’ll design, manage, and deliver a project of your own, something rooted in your degree, relevant to industry, and shaped by your interests. You’ll be in charge from start to finish defining the problem, planning your approach, applying technical skills, and producing a full written report. It’s a deep dive into real engineering work guided by a supervisor but driven by you. Expect to develop skills in everything from research, planning, development to hands-on technical skills depending on your project. You’ll meet with your supervisor at key checkpoints to review progress, get feedback, and make sure your project stays on track. Culminating with a final report and a viva, where you’ll present your work and defend your decisions. Along the way, you’ll build serious skills in project management, evaluation, communication, and independent problem-solving, all documented in your portfolio. It’s your final-year project and your biggest opportunity to show what you’re capable of.
You’ll rethink how materials shape the products we design and the impact they have on the world around us. This module challenges you to move beyond traditional materials selection and design for a circular, sustainable economy, considering lifecycle impact, ethical sourcing and corporate responsibility alongside technical performance.
You’ll work with emerging sustainable materials including bio-based polymers, natural composites, recycled metals and additive-manufactured components, testing and characterising them experimentally while applying Design of Experiments. You’ll evaluate environmental and social impact using tools such as lifecycle assessment, and balance technical performance, cost and sustainability in your decisions. Alongside a sustainable redesign project, you’ll develop a CSR strategy proposal, building the skills to make responsible, evidence-based materials choices that drive meaningful change in engineering and design.
Design and build intelligent systems that connect devices, networks, and data in real time to transform industrial processes. You’ll explore how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is used in smart factories, robotics, and automation – integrating sensors, actuators, and AI to create scalable, secure, and efficient solutions. You’ll cover essential topics like edge and cloud computing, data acquisition, digital twins, communication protocols, and cybersecurity. Using hardware and software, you’ll develop IIoT systems capable of real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and adaptive control. Giving you the skills to deliver smart, connected systems that improve performance and decision-making all while tackling the ethical and societal questions that come with deploying large-scale digital infrastructure.
You’ll learn how to design and implement advanced manufacturing systems using the latest digital tools. You’ll explore how CAD/CAM integration, additive manufacturing, simulation and digital twins come together to create smarter, more efficient production processes. You’ll use digital tools to develop solutions that support real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and data-driven optimisation. The focus is on building systems that are adaptable, scalable, and aligned with Industry 4.0 standards. This is about using technology to improve how things are made, faster, cleaner, smarter.
Here’s where machines learn to see and you learn how to make it happen. You’ll explore how vision systems power smart tech in engineering, from spotting defects on a production line to guiding autonomous robots through complex environments. You’ll work with smart tools to build your own machine vision system. That means data acquisition, processing images, extracting features, training AI models, and evaluating how well your system performs. Research deep learning techniques and understand how visual data can be turned into reliable decisions. Through hands-on projects and case studies, you’ll design, implement, and refine a solution to a real engineering task. You’ll reflect on the bigger picture: how machine vision affects industry, society, and ethics. This is your chance to build something intelligent, visual, and impactful and to learn what it takes to bring vision to machines.
All modules are subject to change and availability. If a module changes after you have been made an offer, you’ll be notified before you start your course.
If you choose the integrated Master’s, you’ll continue to Year 4 (subject to meeting the progression requirements). n Year 4, you’ll advance your engineering design skills to tackle complex global challenges, using cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking. Develop your leadership and project management expertise while applying Design for Excellence principles. Through a collaborative Global Design Project, you’ll deliver innovative, sustainable solutions in a real-world context.
When you enter Year 4, you’ll develop your skills for designing innovative solutions to complex global challenges. Here, you’ll advance your expertise in utilising cutting-edge engineering principles, methods and tools to address diverse socio-technical problems in engineering. You’ll research real world case studies, showcasing pioneering projects in subject areas such as civil electrical/electronic, materials, and mechanical engineering, demonstrating the application of advanced engineering principles in diverse design contexts.
Effective leadership is the ability to successfully influence and support a team to deliver a shared goal. Here, you’ll learn what it means to be a good leader. You’ll look at the difference between management and leadership, what leadership is, various leadership styles and theories, how to plan strategically, recognising leadership traits, how to develop effective leadership skills, how to create a vision, set the tone, listen effectively, handle conflict, overcome challenges, and address ethics in leadership. You’ll understand, reflect and improve your own leadership performance. By exploring theories, applying them practically, and reflecting on your experiences, you’ll develop the skills necessary to lead diverse teams, manage complex projects, and drive innovation in a globalised engineering environment.
Leverage digital tools and methodologies to enhance your engineering designs, analyses and implementations. Evaluate the potential of emerging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Virtual Reality (VR) in the context of Design Engineering projects. You’ll integrate some of these digital technologies into your design process to improve efficiency, innovation, and sustainability, whilst considering the diverse cultural and contextual factors inherent in engineering projects. You’ll critically assess the security, ethical, legal, and socio-economic implications of using digital technologies in engineering, demonstrating an understanding of responsible invention and the promotion of societal well-being.
Explore the principles of Design for Excellence (DfX) and its diverse applications in the field of design engineering. We’ll equip you with the capabilities and proficiency for applying design principles to achieve excellence across various dimensions. Emphasis will be placed on fostering a holistic understanding of design considerations and may include performance, sustainability, usability, manufacturability/buildability and repairability amongst other factors. You’ll look at emerging trends and multi-criteria for analysing design decisions for Design Excellence, resulting in persuasively communicating your solutions and design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Apply your project management, commercial and business skills in your Global Design Group Project. Working in teams, you’ll develop a working prototype, technical specification, supply chain analysis, manufacturing plan, a five-year business plan, marketing strategy and identification of sources of start-up funds. You’ll critically review new and emerging technologies and use this information to create innovative designs for products, systems, components or processes to fulfil new needs. You’ll also consider business practices within the commercial, economic, legal and social context of engineering processes, evaluating customer and user needs, and being mindful of the need to promote sustainable development.
You’ll develop the ability to think beyond individual components and tackle the complex, interconnected challenges shaping our world. As engineers increasingly work across technical, social and environmental boundaries, this module equips you with the tools to understand and design within complex systems.
You’ll explore Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering, learning how to model relationships, feedback loops and emergent behaviour, and how to identify meaningful intervention points. Working on an industry linked, interdisciplinary challenge such as sustainable transport, renewable energy or global health systems, you’ll apply systems mapping and modelling tools to diagnose problems and propose integrated solutions.
By the end of the module, you’ll be able to analyse complexity with confidence and design strategies that balance technical, social, environmental and economic dimensions, preparing you to lead change in a rapidly evolving global context.
All modules are subject to change and availability. If a module changes after you have been made an offer, you’ll be notified before you start your course.
As an undergraduate student, you’ll study modules totalling 120 credits each academic year. A typical 30 credit module requires a total of 300 hours study. This is made up of facilitated contact hours, guided and independent study.
You’ll work hands-on in our ‘makerspaces’, both individually and in groups, to research, design and create conceptual designs, or artefacts and prototypes. You’ll be guided through the project and problem-based learning approach through sessions that provide the opportunity to discuss challenges associated with the projects and share your ideas and learn from each other.
Teaching comprises of workshops, masterclasses, group discussions and practical sessions in the makerspaces. This is supported by individual study through our online learning environment.
We don’t do exams. Assessment is a mixture of group project reports, individual reports, pitches, presentations, demonstrations, open book in-class tests, short videos and posters.
This diverse range of assessment methods ensures that you demonstrate your understanding and skills in multiple authentic ways, catering to different learning styles and preferences, as well as mirroring desirable, professional employability skills.
Unlike a degree apprenticeship, ASU London students will be working with multiple employers, rather than just one. This provides a wider experience and broader exposure to potential employers – it also allows you to build a portfolio of project experience and delivery, to present, reference and discuss at job interviews. You’ll be engaging with industry in a professional capacity from the very start of your programme.
In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to complete your major project either in partnership with industry, or with one of our founding partners in Arizona or Sydney*.
We offer opportunities for summer internships to our students, usually between their 2nd and 3rd year, opportunities range from roles in global responsibilities to tech companies.
*Study abroad eligibility for International students is subject to visa status and any travel restrictions.
Our entry requirements are designed to open pathways to higher education for students from a wide range of academic backgrounds. Like Arizona State University, we measure our success not by whom we exclude, but by whom we include – and how well they thrive.
The criteria below are provided as a guide to help you determine whether ASU London is the right fit for you:
You can view our full list of country specific entry requirements on our entry requirements page.
English language requirements: English level can only be demonstrated through an IELTS Academic for UKVI minimum score of 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in all skills).
Visas: For more information on student visas and work rights, please visit our student visa page.
Scholarships: The Inaugural Global Scholarship is now open for international students. Learn more about funding opportunities here.
Our Global Design Engineering programme was awarded ‘Inspiring Course’ at the Independent Higher Education Awards 2024 and ‘Empowering Student Voice’ in 2025.
We don’t just hear our student’s voice, we listen. In the 2025 National Student Survey (NSS). We are proud to have outperformed the England sector benchmark across multiple categories, including achieving 93.3% satisfaction in Student Voice compared to the national benchmark of 73.4%. Our students feel empowered: with 100% satisfaction in their ability to give feedback on their course and 100% satisfaction in their freedom to express ideas, opinions, and beliefs.
We were also recognised at the Independent Higher Education Annual Conference 2025 where we were presented with the Student Voice award.
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“Unlike other undergraduate institutions, ASU London focuses on hands-on projects and real-world experiences in partnership with engineering companies. I was drawn to the idea of learning by doing – being able to create something tangible and see the results of my efforts.”
“The education I’m receiving at ASU London is shaping me not just as an engineer, but as a problem solver and innovator. The skills I’m developing are versatile and will influence my future career path, allowing me to adapt to various roles that might extend beyond traditional engineering.”
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