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Engineering Courses at DCG

Join a profession where the opportunities are limitless. Studying Engineering is your route into a high-earning career working on diverse and exciting projects. Skilled engineers are in demand to shape the products, materials and technologies of tomorrow – and DCG will equip you for that challenge.

Mechanical, manufacturing or electronics: whatever branch of engineering sparks your interest, we can power up your career plans. As advances in fields like robotics and artificial intelligence are transforming today’s industries, we help you develop the qualities that really matter to employers – technical ability coupled with problem-solving skills and an innovative mindset.

In what is the country’s leading high-tech city, you’ll get hands-on with everything from computer aided design and 3D printing to pneumatic, hydraulic and robotic control systems. Our state-of-the-art mechatronics lab introduces you to the processes found on up-to-the-minute production lines.

Alongside full-time Engineering qualifications that give you a head start, we support apprenticeships covering disciplines such as lean manufacturing, welding, toolmaking, mechatronics, machining and technical support. You don’t even have to leave DCG to progress to higher education: the options go all the way up to a BEng Honours Degree.

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Engineering – Course Listings

Course Type: Adult and Community
Location: The Roundhouse
Start Date: 10/09/2024

Course Type: Adult and Community
Location: The Roundhouse
Start Date: 10/09/2024

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: Ilkeston

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: Workplace

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: Workplace

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Higher Education
Location: The Roundhouse
Start Date: 12/09/2024

Course Type: Higher Education
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: Higher Education
Location: The Roundhouse
Start Date: 09/09/2024

Course Type: Higher Education
Location: The Roundhouse
Start Date: 09/09/2024

Course Type: School Leaver - Vocational/Technical
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: School Leaver - Vocational/Technical
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: School Leaver - Vocational/Technical
Location: The Roundhouse

Course Type: School Leaver - Vocational/Technical
Location: The Roundhouse

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Key Information

Drawing on wide-ranging experience in the engineering industry as well as academic credibility, our teachers ensure students achieve to their full potential. They have forged strong partnerships with leading names such as Rolls-Royce plc and JCB as well as innovative small and medium-sized companies which are growing rapidly and creating new job opportunities.

These key industry contacts mean that your learning will be supported by work experience, internships, company visits, trips to engineering landmarks, guest lectures and professional mentoring. Employers regularly work with our staff to set real-world challenges: our students have designed model aeroplanes, advanced renewable energy initiatives and joined ‘women into engineering’ campaigns.

Discover our campuses and facilities here. Each campus page contains:

  • 360-degree images of our facilities
  • A location map
  • A list of courses that are run at the campus
  • Student Success Stories
To find out more about our Engineering courses, attend our next course and career event or contact us on 0800 028 0289
Press the Apply Now button, that can be found at the top and bottom of every course information page and follow the instructions for the InTouch applications portal. If you are unable to apply online, contact Student Services who will help you complete your application form and will be able to help and guide you to make a decision on the course of study to meet your needs and ambitions.

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Engineering – Success Stories

Zoe Fittock

Apprenticeship

Young female engineer with brown hair and a white jumper sat typing on a laptop.

Shabaz Baz

Apprenticeship

Former apprentice Shabaz Baz stood in front of a whiteboard wearing a white t-shirt.

Angelina Stankovic

Apprenticeship

Angelina Stankovic, a female apprentice with brown hari wearing a black shirt.

Ben Wilcox

Apprenticeship

Young male wearing a black sweater, leaning against a white pillar.

Becky Caitlin

School Leaver Vocational

Becky Caitlin

Luke Payne

Apprenticeship

Derby College and Collis Engineering apprentice Luke Payne

Ali Amin

Apprenticeship

Former Derby College apprentice Ali Amin holding his award.

Melissa Chimutanda

School Leaver Vocational

Melissa Chimutanda at Rolls Royce

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