This Performing Engineering Operations Level 2 course is designed as a foundation entry for newcomers to Engineering and forms the initial training of many apprenticeship programmes thus giving school-leavers progression opportunities towards Level 3 Engineering and/or Apprenticeships!
Learners will cover basic hand skills and techniques before moving onto metalworking machinery and learning design processes such as creating Engineering Drawings. Other subjects include Health and Safety, Material Science, and Engineering Technologies.
As a practical course, learners will spend plenty of time in workshops actually performing those processes used in the workplace. This is a fantastic starting point for anyone interested in how things are made and how they work.
Previous successful learners have gone on to careers in many different
sectors including aviation, space, robotics, motor sport, military and many
others. Alternatively, learners have used this as a basis for more theoretical
routes ultimately leading to university.
The course is practically based so much of the teaching and learning is workshop based doing practical assessment. There are classroom based activities which include writing reports about the work done, and there are sets of questions to complete to provide evidence that aspects have been understood (all reports are usually computer typed.
This course provides no barriers to what the learner may do next. The practical knowledge and experience gained will be immensely useful for progression onto the T-Level 3 Engineering course, or alternatively may provide the learning usually done in the first year of an apprenticeship meaning that could be skipped!
The aim of the course is to qualify for the Performing Engineering Operations level 2 Diploma. It covers those learners who may already have some skills from activities at home, or for those learners new to the subject. It provides a progression route for all learners as English and/or maths can be studied alongside. The nationally recognised qualification can form part of an apprenticeship so learners may find they can jump ahead, in certain circumstances, should they follow that route.