General engineering at Durham and Warwick - essays? Percentage weighting by year?

Hello,
My son is trying to decide between Durham and Warwick for General Engineering. I'm trying to help him while he is concentrating on his exams. My questions are:
1. Does this course involve essay writing? If so, what sort of percentage weighting?
2. How much does each year count towards the final degree?
Any help, greatly appreciated thank you. I wish everyone the best of luck.

1) Engineering degrees typically do minimal essay writing, there certainly will be technical report writing. You’ll be expected to develop professional writing skills, learn to communicate technical information to relevant stakeholders… some reports maybe several thousand words and dissertations 10,000+ words. The writing style in engineering is much more akin to published scientific literature (of course fresh undergraduates do not typically write at the same standards of a journal paper) but being able to review relevant background, scope a problem, outline technical methods, describe results & relevance and clearly conclude the meaning of your results is really what is important - structuring qualitative, opinion based arguments will not be part of assignments.
2) what percentage is each year worth? Check each universities undergraduate handbook or ask them directly , it changes at every uni. Although typically first year is minimal if any weighting then progressively more with the bulk of classifications from years 3 & 4 with potentially some boundary/borderline policies as well.