Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
This highly flexible course is designed to strengthen your knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering. It offers a wide selection of optional modules, allowing you to tailor your studies to reflect your interests, and graduates go on to work in many areas of engineering. You’ll also have the chance to further explore a subject that interests you through your individual research project.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject with relevant modules.
Core modules:
Technical Communication for Mechanical Engineers
Experiments and Valid Computer Models
Strategic Engineering Management and Business Practices
Masters Research Mini Project
MSc Individual Research Project
Professional Development Portfolio
Semester 1 optional modules - choose maximum two from:
Industrial Applications of Finite Element Analysis
Fundamentals and Applications of Tribology
Advanced Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Additive Manufacturing - Principles and Applications
Mechanics and Applications of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Computational Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal System
Engineering Commercial Success: And making the world a better place!
Railway Engineering and Sustainable Transport
Advanced Dynamics
Industrial Experimental Methods for Engineering Problems
Semester 2 optional modules - choose up to three from the list below so that you have a total of 4 optional modules across the year.
Design and Manufacture of Composites
Advanced Energy and Power
Cardiovascular Biomechanics
Aviation Safety and Aeroelasticity
Railway Engineering and Sustainable Transport
Human Factors and User-Centred Design
Human Movement Biomechanics
Sustainable Materials Manufacturing
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