Advanced Mechanical Engineering MSc

Enhance your education with specialist topics that help you develop technical, transferable, and research skills industry values in professional engineers.

Mobility, sustainability and health. These are just some of the areas in our lives where technological developments are driven by advanced mechanical engineering. But innovation can’t happen without the right people with the right training. We’re looking for you — engineers ready to take their education further and use it to help industries adapt and respond to the challenges of our world.

On our course, you’ll explore mechanical engineering at the next level, from manufacturing technologies to design and development and computational modelling. You’ll develop your understanding of analysis and simulation methods and apply these practically to solve complex problems.

As well as advanced engineering topics, you’ll also learn professional and research skills, and project and change management theory. These will help you develop transferable skills, critical thinking, and other professional behaviours valued in responsible engineers going into industry.

Key benefits

* Follow your interests: specialise through optional units in areas of engineering such as automotive or robotics

* Shape your degree experience: choose between a research-based dissertation or a group consultancy project working with industry

* Research skills: explore opportunities to work with academics on current projects in our research centres

* Optional placement: get professional experience as part of your degree and improve your career prospects

Learn from experts in the field

Our course draws on the research expertise in our Department. You’ll learn from academics working across the breadth and depth of mechanical engineering and based in our active research centres. You could also get involved by working with academics on current projects.

Use specialist facilities

We have a range of facilities, laboratories, technologies, and equipment to support your studies. These include:

* software tools such as Matlab and SIMULINK

* high-performance computing facilities

* experimental, design and manufacturing laboratories

* IAAPS opensource database

From course to career

We work closely with industry partners to make sure our course covers the knowledge and skills that employers look for in graduates. These include technical, communication, data handling, groupwork and design skills. We also have a Faculty Employability team who can support you with CV writing, placements, interview preparation and skills, job seeking, and career development.

We aim to prepare you for a career in industry, research, or academia. You could go on to work in large or small industrial settings, where you could use your skills to improve efficiencies in equipment, processes, and systems. You could also decide to move forward with research and complete a PhD with us or another institution.