Engineering, Design & Sustainability

Course Description: Engineering, Design & Sustainability

Over two weeks, students dive into the fundamentals of engineering and design thinking, exploring future-focused themes like green innovation, smart technologies, and systems design. You’ll learn how ideas are shaped, tested, and scaled - and how engineers can drive meaningful, lasting change.

Features and Highlights

• Understand how engineering and design can solve global problems

• Build practical skills in prototyping, collaboration, and sustainable thinking

• Gain confidence in leadership, design and innovation

• Develop a clearer sense of their future and next steps

• Leave with global connections with like-minded peers from across the world

What's Included

• All academic sessions, workshops & masterclasses

• All meals with dietary needs catered for

• Full-day weekend excursions and multiple local activities

• 24/7 pastoral care and programme support

• Evening socials, on-site activities, reflection space and wellbeing time

• Premium on-campus accommodation in university halls

• End-of-course graduation and completion certificate

Academics

Students will be taught in small groups by passionate, knowledgeable staff. Lessons are hands-on and project-based, from prototyping concepts to tackling real-world challenges. Students are encouraged to think critically, create boldly, and explore the environmental and social impact of their ideas.

Extracurriculars

Beyond the classroom, students will enjoy a wide range of extracurricular activities that run from morning to night - from lively evening socials to moments of quiet reflection. They’ll hear from inspiring guest speakers, take part in multiple excursions across the UK designed to complement both the academic and cultural experience, and engage in shared activities with peers from around the world. Students will also have the opportunity to explore the historic city of Bath, discovering its heritage from Roman bathhouses to elegant Georgian crescents.

Accommodation

Students will stay in premium, en-suite university accommodation and use professional-standard teaching spaces, from engineering labs and design studios to bright, purpose built lecture halls. Just a stones throw away from the city centre, the campus is set on 200 acres of parkland with panoramic views over the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath.