Mechanical engineers help to improve our world. We face unprecedented challenges, from understanding climate change, to managing global mobility, to finding sustainable growth pathways for the burgeoning population in the developing world. Mechanical Engineering in UCD provides you with the education, skills and knowledge you’ll need to understand the challenges, and help to develop the new solutions we need. Working in areas ranging from energy to aerospace, biomedicine or manufacturing, mechanical engineers are changing our world for the better. They create new solutions, integrate disparate technologies, increase energy efficiency, reduce our consumption of natural resources and minimise our impact on the local and global environment. If you want to help forge a path to a brighter future, Mechanical Engineering at UCD is the place for you.

First Year
Engineering students follow a common first year. Modules include:

• Calculus
• Chemistry
• Creativity in Design
• Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Energy Engineering
• Engineering Computing
• Linear Algebra Mathematics
• Mechanics
• Physics

Second to Fifth Year
Core modules for Mechanical Engineering students may include:

• Advanced Metals Processing
• Mechanical Engineering Design
• Mechanics of Fluids
• Materials Science & Engineering
• Heat Transfer
• Electrical and Electronic Circuits
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Mechanics of Solids
• Professional Engineering
• Engineering Thermodynamics
• Applied Dynamics
• Measurement & Instrumentation
• Statistics & Probability
• Electrical Energy Systems
• Modelling and Simulation
• Computational Continuum Mechanics

A student’s week includes attending lectures and tutorials as well as participating in laboratory-based workshops and undertaking independent study.

A combination of end-of-trimester written examinations and continuous assessment is used. In your final year, you’ll also submit a report of your research project.

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Students have the opportunity in their third year to spend either one or two trimesters studying abroad in a partner University, there are options to study in countries such as Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, USA.

Opportunities are extraordinarily diverse, making graduates highly resilient to changing economic circumstances. Recent graduates are currently employed in the energy, biomedical, aeronautical, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing and IT sectors.

Professional Work Experience

Professional Work Experience (PWE) is incorporated in the ME programme. Six-to-eight-month internships (the majority of which are paid) have included the following employers: AbbVie, Accenture, Advanced Surgical Concepts, Ethos Engineering, Fingleton White, Glen Dimplex, Henkel, Hilti, Irish Distillers, Jacobs Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover and Nypro.

Graduates can pursue taught or research Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Engineering with Business or Biomedical Engineering in UCD. Those with a strong interest in research also have the opportunity to pursue a PhD.

• Mature Entry Route
• DARE Entry Route
  
• HEAR Entry Route
  
• University Access
  
• Progression from Higher Certificate or Ordinary Degree
  

UCD Engineering & Architecture College Office,
Engineering and Materials Science Centre,
Belfield, Dublin 4

Tel: +353 1 716 1916
Email: katie.oneill@ucd.ie