Mechanical engineering plays a critical role in solving the world’s grand challenges by producing sustainable energy, providing a safe environment and clean water, building safe and efficient transportation systems, designing new means of energy conversion and storage, and improving mechanical/electrical systems in homes and buildings. Emerging high technology fields of nano-materials and biomechanics are further examples of areas where mechanical engineering plays a vital role. Furthermore, established areas of mechanical engineering such as design, manufacturing, automation and control are essential elements to devising large-scale complex systems that drive the global economy.
Focus Area:
Potential major field of study include but not limited to:
- Biomechanical Engineering
- Controls
- Design
- Dynamics
- Energy Science and Technology
- Fluids
- Manufacturing Automation
- Materials
- Mechanics
- Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems/Nano
- Ocean Engineering
Career Pathway:
The versatility of the field means that mechanical engineering graduates would be able to compete for any job that requires competencies in science, technology, and engineering with a strong quantitative backbone. Mechanical engineers carry with them an ability to solve problems, from the known to the unknown, in a logical and reproducible manner, thus allowing for the creation of leading-edge innovations in any sector in which they happen to work. These skills, along with the universally-recognized competencies of mechanical engineers, make a mechanical engineering degree one of the most-sought-after degrees in various industries and sectors today.
Potential career pathways for graduates of Mechanical Engineering include but is not limited to:
- Application engineer
- Energy/Mining engineer
- Product development engineer
- Manufacturing engineer
- Aviation/Aerospace engineer
- Design engineer
- Maintenance engineer
- Automotive engineer
- Water plant engineer
- Building systems engineer
- Automation and robotics engineer
- Control and instrumentation engineer