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Engineering

L2 Diploma in Engineering Operations

Mode of study

Full Time

Start date

08/09/2025

Entry requirements

A minimum of 4 GCSEs at grade 9 - 3 including a grade 4 in either maths or English and a Level 1 qualification.

Course Code

DP2ENA1F/1

Duration

1-Year

Location

Welwyn Garden City Campus

Awarding body

Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited

Assessment

Students are assessed holistically, through collection of evidence in a portfolio, verbally, witness testimony and demonstrating knowledge and understanding.

About the course

The programme equips you wih the basic skills and knowledge to carry out a range of engineering and manufacturing processes at semi-skilled or operator level. You will develop and demonstrate technical and wider sector-related knowledge.

Career options

Students can progress onto the Level 3 in Engineering or an Apprenticeship

There are so many different areas of engineering to work in; however, most engineers choose to specialise in just one, such as chemical, automotive or robotics.  Careers in engineering are constantly evolving and new processes and technologies are being developed all the time.  This allows engineers to stay on the ball and react to new problems and challenges in their chosen career.

Engineering careers are constantly varied in terms of their job responsibilities, but also in their working locations.  As an engineer you could be working in an office, in a laboratory, on an oil rig, in a factory or on a race track.

Each engineering discipline requires professionals with very specific skill-sets.  However each and every area of this sector is as complex as the next.  Consequently, all engineers need to have strong mathematical skills, logic and the ability to rise to intellectual and practical challenges.

 

Students that have yet to achieve their C or above in GCSE English and/or maths will be expected to study this alongside their main programme. In addition, students will develop study skills and maths in context with Engineering to support their development and progression.

Please contact us to find out if you require any specific equipment for this particular course.

Students are assessed holistically, through collection of evidence in a portfolio, verbally, witness testimony and demonstrating knowledge and understanding.