Admissions

UCAS Course Code: FLN0

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 4 years
Degree awarded: MEng

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 1 (with 2 or 3 more students transferring at the end of year one from Materials Science)
Applications shortlisted for interview: 69.9%
Successful applications: 29.3%
(including Materials Science applicants)

Open days

See Materials Science
See Economics and Management

Contact details

Undergraduate Admissions Secretary, Department of Materials, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH
+44 (0) 1865 273651
Please email us at undergraduate.admissions@ materials.ox.ac.uk
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Application information

We are unable to accept applications for deferred entry for 2015 for Materials, Economics and Management.

Materials, Economics and Management

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Work placements/projects

Students are encouraged to undertake a voluntary materials-oriented summer placement in industry or a research laboratory. Recent locations for placements have included: Beijing, Tokyo, Boston, Santa Barbara, Bochum and several regions of the UK. A principal feature of the course is the six-month management project immediately after the examinations in the third year. This project is usually taken in industry, guided by an industrial supervisor and an academic tutor. A voluntary industrial tour to an overseas destination is organised in most Easter holidays (numbers are usually limited to 20 students). Recent destinations have included: San Francisco, Amsterdam, Milan, Tokyo, Toulouse, Beijing and Munich.

A typical weekly timetable

During years 1 and 2 your work is divided between lectures (about ten a week), tutorials (about two a week), and practicals (two or three afternoons a week). Typically the work for each Materials tutorial or class is expected to take six to eight hours, often more for the Economics and Management tutorials. Year 3 starts with a two-week design project, and about eight to ten lectures and two classes/tutorials a week for the first two terms. After your six-month management project in the fourth year you will be attending about ten lectures and one or two tutorials or classes a week.

1st year

Courses

Directly examined:

Structure of materials
Properties of materials
Transforming materials
Mathematics for materials and earth sciences

Continual assessment:

Practical work
Crystallography classes

Additional elements:

Engineering drawing & CAD classes
IT skills
Industrial visits
Career planning
Foreign language option
Introduction to errors in measurement

Assessment

First University examinations:
Four written papers; continual assessment components equivalent to a fifth paper

2nd and 3rd years

Courses

Directly examined:

Structure and transformation of materials
Mechanical properties
Engineering applications of materials
Electronic properties of materials
Introductory economics
Microeconomics
General management

Continual assessment:

Practical work
Industrial visits
Team design project, assessed by written report and oral presentation

Additional elements:

Mathematics
Experimental error analysis
Industrial talks
Communication skills
Essay writing skills

Assessment

Final University examinations, Part I:
Seven written papers; continual assessment components equivalent to a further 1.2 papers

4th year

Courses

Directly examined:

Option courses in materials
Economics or Management options: a range of options, including Accounting & finance; Marketing & strategic management; Game Theory; Macroeconomics

Continual assessment:

Six-month management project, assessed by written report

Additional elements:

Industrial visits
Careers events
Technology transfer

Assessment

Final University examinations, Part II
Two written papers; continual assessment component (project report) equivalent to a further two papers