Undergraduate

Course Overview
The B.A.I. (Engineering) degree programme is based on two years of general engineering, providing students with a firm grounding in the principles common to all disciplines, followed by two years of specialisation. Graduates are professionally accredited engineers with both a broad-based understanding of the whole discipline and a detailed knowledge of their chosen specialist area. The aim is that graduates will be able to continuously train themselves, to adapt and move into related or newly emerging areas as their careers develop after graduation.

The Freshman years
All students follow a common programme for the first two years. The Junior Freshman (first) year comprises introductory courses in engineering science, mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, graphics and computer-aided engineering, and a group design and build project.
In the Senior Freshman (second) year, students take further engineering science modules and complete two more group design and build projects. This allows the student to explore all the possibilities open to you in advance of making your final decision about what specialism to concentrate on.
While every effort is made to allow students to study the course they choose, the B.A.I. Management Committee reserves the right to allocate the available places. In some departments the number of places for students of any one year may be limited. Timetable difficulties may also reduce the number of options available.

What happens next?
At the end of the Senior Freshman (second) year you choose one of the five specialist areas:
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electronic Engineering
Electronic and Computer Engineering (joint programme)
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Courses in the Sophister (third and fourth) years aim to broaden and deepen your knowledge and understanding of the specialism you have chosen to follow to degree level.
Subjects are studied in much greater detail and students undertake real-life, practical projects. If you choose civil, structural and environmental engineering you could end up testing the pre-cast concrete used to build the Paddington to Heathrow railway; if you choose computer engineering, you might find yourself building a microprocessor system.
A substantial design project will be part of your final-year assessment in each discipline.

5th Year Options
Students graduating after 2012 will require a Masters degree to be directly eligible for Chartered status. Therefore the School offers several options for a 5th year leading to a Masters degree (MAI).

Double qualification with INSA de Lyon
Suitably qualified students may, at the end of their second year, apply for transfer to the double qualification programme, run jointly with the INSA de Lyon, the largest Engineering School in France. Instruction at INSA de Lyon is through French and students will be required to have a high standard of language competence before participating on the programme. At the end of a five-year double qualification programme TCD students may receive, in addition to the B.A.I., the Diplôme de l’INSA, which confers full professional accreditation in France

MAI (Domestic)
This entails spending the 4th and 5th year in Trinity College, undertaking additional modules in the specialisation as well as a group project in 4th year and a significant individual project in 5th year

MAI (International - Option 1)
This is offered in collaboration with the European CLUSTER Programme, a consortium of 12 universities. The student spends their 4th year abroad and returns to complete their 5th year at TCD. The other partner universities are: Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona; Technische Universität Darmstadt; Technische Universiteit Eindhoven; Institut polytechnique de Grenoble; Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Université Catholique de Louvain; Helsinki University of Technology; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Politecnico di Torino; KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm

MAI (International - Option 2)
This is offered in collaboration with the UNITECH Programme, a consortium of 9 universities and 15 multinational corporate partners. Students will spend one semester in a partner university followed by a six month internship with one of the corporate partners.Partner universities: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg; ETH Zurich; Loughborough University; Politecnico di Milano; RWTH Aachen University; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona