Engineering and design undergraduate virtual experience

Get to know our courses, facilities and students without having to step foot on campus.

Watch our subject videos

Our students and academics introduce their subjects and what you'll study on your course.

Find out from our students what it is like to study in our different departments.

Tour our facilities

From double-height design studios to our wind tunnel, specialist facilities and bespoke equipment are central to our teaching and research environment. Take a look around and find out where you could be developing your project work.

Explore 4 East South in our virtual reality model

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Meet some of our staff and students in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering and get a taste of life in the studio.

Take a student-led tour of the mechanical engineering labs and facilities for undergraduate students.

Undergraduate student, Emily Stimpson, shows us the undergraduate labs and facilities in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering.

Take a tour of our chemical engineering undergraduate laboratories, including an introduction to the techniques and equipment you could use during your degree.

Find out what facilities, laboratories and equipment you could use as a civil engineering student at Bath.

Hear about our placements scheme

Getting practical experience during your degree is a great way to get ahead in the graduate job market. Our dedicated Faculty Placements Team can offer help and guidance to find a role.

Improve your employability with an engineering placement year

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Put your theory into practice with a year-long, paid placement during your engineering degree. You could earn between 拢16,000 and 拢25,000.

Using structural analysis and design skills on placement at Campbell Reith

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Chelsea is spending her placement year working with structural engineers at Campbell Reith. She tells us about her experience so far.

On placement: working in project management at EDF

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MEng Chemical Engineering student, Sakshi, spent her year on placement at EDF. Read about her experience of working in the plant integration team.

View our students' work

Individual and group project work is central to all our degrees. Depending on your subject, you might build a race car, test a wastewater system or design a new building. Some of our students have won national and international awards for their work.

Our student-led competition teams design, build and race a range of fuel, electric and autonomous vehicles each year, competing in the UK and worldwide.

Transforming education in Swindon for a sustainable future

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A team of our students won the Ted Happold Award 2024 with their design of a sustainable and inclusive higher education institute in Swindon.

Innovating beneath the surface: lessons from Team Bath Hydrobotics

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Abdullah shares how his time with Team Bath Hydrobotics helped him grow his skills, shaped his ambitions, and plan his future career.

Pioneering the future of healthcare: developing a new artificial heart

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Our engineering students developed a more affordable artificial heart to help patients waiting for transplant surgery as part of a global competition.

Find out about your career options

Engineering can be a rewarding and lucrative profession. Find out what some of our graduates have gone on to achieve in their careers.

Creating meaningful and purposeful products: Compact Cane

Nia looks over her designs for the Compact Cane in our arts building cafe.

Nia Simpson is taking her final-year mechanical engineering project, the Compact Cane, to the commercial market.

Engineering a career of impact

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Rachel is a 2025 Top 50 Woman in Engineering. She discusses her journey from university to Project Manager working on HS2 for WSP.

Transformed by Team Bath Heart: A journey to winning an IMechE award

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Mechanical engineering graduate, Molly reveals how being in Team Bath Heart helped develop her skills to win the IMechE Mechatronics student of the year award.

Choose your course

Our courses cover architecture, civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering. We place project work and sustainability at the heart of all our degrees.

Undergraduate courses in architecture and civil engineering

Our accredited BSc, BEng, MEng and MArch courses provide you with an education you can be proud of.

Chemical engineers change the world by transforming ideas into products and services in an ethical, safe, responsible and efficient way.

Undergraduate courses in electronic and electrical engineering

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You鈥檒l discover the technology behind communications, healthcare, transport and energy to advance the next generation of applications, products and devices.

Undergraduate courses in mechanical engineering

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Test the limits of what is possible, by bringing together creativity with maths and physics to design and manufacture machines, technologies and systems.