Mechanical Engineering, MEng (Hons)

This course empowers aspiring engineers to innovate and address complex challenges, enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of modern industries. By leveraging initiative, numeracy, and specialized knowledge, students will contribute to sectors like aerospace, manufacturing, renewable energy, and medicine. The program provides access to advanced facilities, including robotics and 3D printing, and emphasizes practical application through individual and group projects. The first two years focus on shared fundamentals in engineering science and design, covering topics such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and dynamics.In subsequent years, students can tailor their studies with optional modules in mechanical engineering streams, such as aerospace or sustainability. Hands-on learning includes design-make-test projects in well-equipped workshops, culminating in a major group project in the third year and an individual research project in the final year, often tackling real industry problems.

You will share the same first year across the department - developing knowledge of the engineering fundamentals, science and design. The science subjects studied include thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, dynamics and electro-mechanical systems. In design, the emphasis is on project work and in both the first and second years, you will undertake a design, make and test project, which you will manufacture in the department's well-equipped student workshop. Course flexibility opens up in the third and fourth years, with optional modules to help you tailor your degree to your interests and aspirations. You can choose the broad mechanical engineering programme, or you can pick one of the specialist streams (aerospace, automotive, bioengineering, management, manufacture, materials, mechatronics or sustainability). You will undertake a major group design-and-make project in your third year and an individual research project in your final year, many of which are based on real industry-relevant problems or challenges.