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The Engineering & Design Institute London (TEDI-London) is a collaborative, design‐led engineering Higher Education provider co-founded by the three PLuS Alliance partners – Arizona State University, King’s College London and UNSW Sydney. 

We are a new, degree awarding UK Higher Education provider specialising in engineering education at bachelor and master’s degree level and offer a new type of engineering education for future engineers.  

Our project‐based programmes empower students to become independent, curious learners with a global, future‐focused outlook. As well as offering students a practical way to study engineering, the vision has been developed to attract students from diverse backgrounds to consider engineering as an option for study. With a global shortage of engineers, attracting more people to the profession is paramount to ensure engineered solutions to global challenges.  

TEDI-London’s Global Design Engineering degree (BEng and intergated MEng) bridges many disciplines of engineering, including mechanical, electrical and electronic, civil, environmental, and product design. There is an option to study an Integrated Master’s in the fourth year.

> Learn more about the BEng/MEng.

For those not wishing to undertake a full degree, we also offer a Certificate of Higher Education in Global Design Engineering (Cert HE)

> Learn more about the Cert HE

TEDI-London has been granted new degree awarding powers from the Higher Education Regulator – the Office for Students.

This means students joining in September 2021 and beyond will be awarded a TEDI-London degree upon graduation.

The BEng (Hons) Global Design Engineering programme is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers as partially meeting the academic requirement for Chartered Engineer (CEng).  

Accreditation is a mark of assurance that the degree meets the standards set by the Engineering Council in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC).  An accredited degree will provide you with some or all of the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills for eventual registration as an Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng).  Some employers recruit preferentially from accredited degrees, and an accredited degree is likely to be recognised by other countries that are signatories to international accords. 

At TEDI-London we welcome students/learners from any academic discipline backgrounds, each application will be considered on an individual basis, in which we will be looking for the demonstration of our ‘triple A’ criteria: Attitude, Aptitude and Ability.

Applicants may come from a wide range of backgrounds including A-levels, IB Diploma or Career-related Programme, BTEC, and T-Levels and from those in employment looking to up-skill or cross-train into the engineering and design field.

The following criteria is intended as a guide to help you gauge if TEDI-London is for you:

• If studying A Levels, IB, BTEC (or any post 16 education) you’ll be on track for approximately 112-120 UCAS points or equivalent 
• If studying A Level Maths qualification (or equivalent) you should be on track to achieve a grade C 
• If you’re not studying a Maths A Level (or equivalent) you will need to pass our online maths refresher course
• International applicants will need to attend an online interview.

We encourage anyone interested in studying at TEDI-London to talk to our admissions advisors as we consider a much wider range of factors than just exam results when making offers. Tell us your background so we can guide you.

You will learn practically from day one, on projects that are real-life, industry challenges. The mixture of individual and group projects will allow you to develop teamwork, problem solving, commercial awareness, project management and leadership skills needed for the workplace.

The TEDI-London curriculum takes an interdisciplinary approach to engineering. This means that it includes all the elements of professional engineering as well as digital, design, and business skills. It also spans disciplines of engineering design rather that focussing on just one: from civil, to electrical, sustainability, and product design.

To support your projects, you will be able to access theoretical modules and content via our online learning platform. Modules will include computing, robotics, engineering and design principles, and prototyping, so students will graduate with a very broad set of skills. We think design engineering is a really exciting field of study as it allows you to explore both the technical and creative side of engineering.

You will be taught in classes of around 30-40 students, but your project groups will be much smaller – around 5 per team. Academics will assign teams so you will have the opportunity to work with a range of classmates throughout your programme.

At TEDI-London, we don’t have our own accommodation. But the campus’s excellent travel links mean you can either live locally or look further afield. 

We have strong relationships with well-respected providers of student accommodation. So, we’ll be able to help, whether you are looking for a room in halls, private student housing, a flat or house share. We want to make sure you are well supported and feel safe and secure as we understand where you live is an important part of your student experience. 

See our accommodation page for more info.

We provide a broad range of services to help ensure that you can achieve in your studies and support you in wider aspects of student life, such as with your health and wellbeing, your finances and your future career. The TEDI-London Student Hub team can support you on a range of topics including academic support, wellbeing and welfare, finance, accommodation, and can signpost you to relevant support within and outside TEDI-London. Our Wellbeing Service incorporates Counselling, Therapy and Mental Health mentoring, and you can access this specialist level of support throughout your time with us.

You can apply through UCAS

UCAS codes below: 

BEng Course code – TL01 

MEng Course code – TL02 

Institution code – T24 

Or you can apply to TEDI-London directly. 

Assessment is a mixture of group project reports, individual reports​​, pitches​, presentations​, demonstrations​​, short videos​ and posters. There will also be two open book examinations at the end of each of your first two years.

40 hours per week – including between 15 and 20 hours of scheduled teaching per week, as well as self-directed study. 

Design engineers can be employed across a range of industries including manufacturing, civil, mechanical, environmental, sustainability and more. You’ll acquire lots of transferable business, communication and product design skills too, and have lots of exposure with industry to network and learn more about the sectors you may want to work in when you graduate.

TEDI-London has been co-founded by three global universities. King’s College London, Arizona State University and UNSW Sydney.

King’s College London is regularly one of the top 50 universities in the world, according to various global league tables, and one of the oldest in England – founded in 1828/1829.

Arizona State University is recognised as the US’s most innovative university – ahead of MIT and Stanford. In addition, it also leads the US and is top five in the world for advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals including global impact on poverty and hunger, developing solutions for clean water and energy and promoting gender equality.

UNSW Sydney is, like King’s, also regularly in the top 50 universities globally and its engineering faculty is ranked as Number One globally in THE (Times Higher) and QS Rankings.

We collaborate with companies on our programme and curriculum content to ensure it meets and aligns with their industry needs. We have been doing this through an ongoing series of workshops with industry and a Strategic Industry Advisory Group.

On our Advisory Group we have very senior representation from: Waterman Group, Arup, Citrix, UtterBerry, Transport for London, NSAR and Hawkins\Brown, Royal Academy of Engineering.

At our industry curriculum workshops we have been working with people from: American Express, Microsoft, Jacobs, Sir Robert McAlpine, British Land, Arup, Waterman Group, Network Rail, Buro Happold, Hawkins\Brown, PTS Consulting, Infineon Technologies, Tech London Advocates, NMI Electrical Systems, Mimx5, TecQuipment, Crypto Quantique, Makerversity, Royal Academy Engineering, Think Radio, NSAR, Hosokawa Micron.

We also regularly work with industry professionals for our summer/winter schools, with them inputting on projects, mentoring, masterclasses and pitch presentations. Read more about how students collaborate with industry.

Yes. We have a sponsorship license, which means that we’re able to welcome International students to TEDI-London, provided your visa application is approved by the UK Home Office.

A minimum level of English proficiency will be required – A minimum IELTS of 6.0 (with a minimum of 6.0 in writing, and a minimum of 5.5 in all other elements)

Learn more about our international entry requirements and studying at TEDI-London as an international student.

International students will be expected to provide all documents required for the visa compliance before we issue a CAS. 

If you are an international student, you cannot work whilst studying because our student visa license is probationary.  

For other students, it is possible to work part-time alongside your studies should you wish. However, it is worth noting that our Global Design Engineering degree is a full-time course and we would advise against working too many hours in addition to the programme, as you may find it difficult to keep up with your studies. Finding employment with the option to work flexbile hours will enable you to manage your time to prioritise and work around your learning. One option would be to take part in our student ambassador scheme, which offers flexible working hours taking place on campus that you can easily fit around your schedule. 

Yes. We want to support everyone to achieve and will take additional steps if you declare a disability or specific learning difference to us.

When you declare a specific disability or learning difference to us, our Student Experience team will contact you directly to organise any necessary assistance and can help you with submitting requests for support from other organisations, for example the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA).

We also offer one-to-one support as required to meet reasonable adjustments. You will be able to find more information about this via the Student Hub.

Although theoretical learning content will be accessible via our virtual learning environment – TEDI-London does not currently offer a distance learning option, as student attendance is required to carry out onsite practical projects and assignments.

We particularly welcome applications from mature applicants and those from groups not traditionally represented on university programmes and/or in engineering.

Applicants may come from a wide range of backgrounds including those employment looking to up-skill or cross-train into the engineering and design field.

TEDI-London students have access to King’s College London Student Union facilities during their studies with us. This includes KCL Student Union clubs and societies, bars and cafés, plus the gym, and libraries, so you will really get to have the best of both with an exciting range of extracurricular opportunities around your hands-on engineering studies. 

You will learn hands-on in our ‘makerspaces’ and they are places for ideas, creation and, ultimately, making things.  

There are multiple makerspaces that allow for different types of hands-on learning. We are also using the makerspace to prototype, trial and manufacture solutions. From prototyping and 3D printing through to testing equipment, the spaces have been set up to include everything needed to ensure the projects can be progressed from concept to delivery. The spaces are used for production where students can use computer controlled and manual machinery; for computer-based team working; and for mechatronics where electrical and electronics projects can be programmed, assembled and tested. We also encourage the use of hand tools through modules on reverse engineering. 

TEDI-London has been founded to train a new type of engineer and our learning and teaching style will require our academics to be teaching excellent and therefore wholly focused on student experience and support. We will have access to the very latest research and cutting-edge knowledge through our founders.

There are individual projects at the end of both the BEng and MEng that students could use to explore research.

TEDI London is funded by its three founding partners under a joint venture agreement. Funds from the partners do not come from student tuition fees or taxpayer money.

All the projects will be based in TEDI-London, but there will be opportunities to visit industrial partners during collaborative projects. Major final year projects may be based in industry for up to 20 weeks. These may also take place abroad at our founding partner institution’s. 

In your third year you’ll have the unique opportunity to complete your Global Design Individual Project in Arizona or Sydney at one of our partner institutions Arizona State University (ASU) or the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

This gives you a fantastic 20 week study abroad experience where you’ll experience student life in a new country and campus, and build a global network of peers!

To qualify for the Study Abroad programme, students must obtain an average overall mark of 60% at Level 5.

Alternatively, students can opt to complete their project in the UK, collaborating with industry partners for a practical, industry-relevant experience.

Study abroad eligibility for International students is subject to visa status and any travel restrictions.

With our project based approach, TEDI-London students are professionals in training and will learn ‘hands on’ from day one on projects that are real life challenges co-designed and co-delivered with employers. Our course equips students for a placement and is designed to facilitate this as an integral part of the final year of study. This contrasts to the usual case, where a placement year usually extends the course by a year and the remainder of the course is predominantly lecture-based.  

Also, our course differs from degree apprenticeships, for which apprentices are typically employees and spend 80% of their time with their employer with only 20% of their time spent on campus. Additionally, at TEDI-London, students will be working with multiple employers, rather than just one. This provides a wider experience and broader exposure to potential employers – it also enables our students to build a portfolio of project experience and delivery to present, reference and discuss at job interviews. 

We offer two intake months to enrol on our BEng: September and January.

Whilst the typical starting month is September, we offer a second intake in January to give you the chance to study the same programme on a different timescale.

It’s a great opportunity if you’ve missed the September deadline and don’t want to wait until the following year, or are rethinking your options for study. Please note our second intake in January is intensive for the first semester, and you’ll also attend a mandatory Summer School in the July of your first year.