BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma / Extended Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (RQF)

Who is the course for
This course is for students who are interested in a career in mechanical engineering.

Course Content
This course is equivalent in size to three A Levels. 15 units of which 7 are mandatory and 3 are external. All units must be passed to achieve the qualification.

Mandatory units

• Engineering Principles (External Examination)
• Delivery of Engineering Processes Safely as a Team (Internal Assessment)
• Engineering Product Design and Manufacture (External Assessment)
• Applied Commercial and Quality Principles in Engineering (Internal Assessment)
• A Specialist Engineering Project (Internal Assessment)
• Microcontroller Systems for Engineers (External Assessment)
• Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems (Internal Assessment)

Optional Units

• Further Engineering Mathematics (Internal Assessment)
• Electronic Devices and Circuits (Internal Assessment)
• Mechanical Behaviour of Metallic Materials (Internal Assessment)
• Mechanical Behaviour of Non-metallic Materials (Internal Assessment)
• Static Mechanical Principles in Practice (Internal Assessment)
• Dynamic Mechanical Principles in Practice (Internal Assessment)
• Principles and Applications of Fluid Mechanics (Internal Assessment)
• Programmable Logic Controllers