Key information
Duration - 4 years: 1 year pathway + 3 years degree
Start Dates - January
Pathway Tuition Fee - £16,295.00
English Language Requirement - IELTS 5.5 with no less than 5.5 in each component.
The IS1 is the equivalent to the first year of a four year Scottish undergraduate degree. This programme is designed to help you develop your academic knowledge and skills within your subject area.
You will also focus on improving your English academic literacy in preparation for continuing onto your chosen Edinburgh Napier undergraduate degree. Studied across three terms, you will continue straight onto year two of your degree course at Edinburgh Napier University once you have successfully completed the pathway.
Available Progression Degrees
Students can progress onto a range of degrees following successful completion of the business pathway programme:
- BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Civil and Transportation Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Energy and Environmental Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering
What you will study
Alongside core modules, you will study subject-specific modules that will equip you with a foundation of knowledge for your chosen field of study.
Common module across all IS1 pathway routes
English and Skills for University Study (ESUS)
The ESUS module raises your awareness of the critical importance of English language competence in all four language skills areas within an academic context and provides English language preparation for continuing study onto the later stages of an undergraduate degree programme. Emphasis is also placed on developing the study skills you require for success, for example, research, critical assessment of sources, academic writing, team working, and your understanding of the conventions of higher education and of the need for good academic practice.
30 Credits
Course specific modules
Mathematics For Engineering
The aim of this module is to develop your mathematical skills and enable you to apply these with confidence in an engineering context, in particular to solve engineering problems. Among topics studied are complex numbers, calculus, differentiation and integration, descriptive statistics and series, matrices and determinants.
30 credits
Engineering Skills
In this module you are introduced to the fundamentals of engineering communication through sketches and drawings, to the writing of software using C and to working in a range of software environments. At the conclusion of the module you will be able to provide your own solutions to engineering design problems.
10 credits
Engineering Practice
Through this module you are introduced to workshop practice including demonstrations of machine tools, joining methods and the use of metrology equipment in the assessment of manufactured products. You learn about risk assessing, safe working in the workshop environment and gain insights into the professional practice of a working engineer.
10 credits
Mechanical Principles
The module aims to introduce you to the basic principles which will underpin your understanding of Mechanical Engineering as a discipline. The module covers a range of key topics including engineering units. Newton’s Laws of Motion, statics, dynamics, elasticity, pressure, thermal energy, gas laws, non- and steady-flow systems and heat transfer.
20 credits
Electrical And Electronic Engineering Principles
The module aims to introduce you to the basic principles which will underpin your understanding of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as a discipline. The module content includes the following topics – Network theorems, electrostatics, capacitor networks, inductors, sinusoidal waveforms, power applied to RCL series and parallel circuits, digital principles, digital circuit design and analysis and analogue devices and circuits.
20 credits
Principles Of Civil Engineering
Applicable to students studying Civil Engineering or Civil and Transportation Engineering, this module is in place of ‘Mechanical Principles’:
The module aims to introduce you to the basic principles which will underpin your understanding of Civil Engineering as a discipline in general and, in particular, of structural engineering. The topics you study on this module include fundamentals, section properties, force components and moments, truss and beam analysis, column buckling and beam design.
20 credits
Materials Engineering
Applicable to students studying Civil Engineering or Civil and Transportation Engineering, this module is in place of ‘Electrical and Electronic Principles’:
This module aims to introduce you to some of the key materials that are used in construction, demonstrate their properties, show how they are used and tested, and provide an appreciation of their strengths, weaknesses and relative durability in use. The materials that this module focuses on are cement, steel, non-ferrous metals and glass.
20 credits