Mechanical engineering
Mechanical Engineering is an extremely diverse and exciting聽discipline,聽filled聽with聽career聽opportunities.鈥疢echanical聽engineers are masters of energy, motion, forces, solids, liquids and gases and numbers.
What is Mechanical Engineering?聽
Mechanical聽engineers design, build, test and maintain all manner of machines in all manner of places.聽This field聽covers virtually all areas of development and production, including:聽
- 础苍补濒测蝉颈蝉听
- 顿别蝉颈驳苍听
- 顿别惫别濒辞辫尘别苍迟听
- 惭补苍耻蹿补肠迟耻谤颈苍驳听
- 翱辫别谤补迟颈辞苍听
- 惭补颈苍迟别苍补苍肠别听
What do Mechanical Engineers do?聽
The skills learned as a mechanical engineer are applicable across multiple industries including motor vehicle development, aircraft and ship construction, propulsion design, power plants and robotics.聽
Depending on your area of interest, you can apply these skills to any number of sub-disciplines of Mechanical Engineering.聽These include:聽
- 笔辞飞别谤听骋别苍别谤补迟颈辞苍听
- 狈辞颈蝉别听&补尘辫;听痴颈产谤补迟颈辞苍听颁辞苍迟谤辞濒听
- Flow聽础苍补濒测蝉颈蝉听&聽Measurement聽
- 罢谤补苍蝉辫辞谤迟听
- Design &聽Simulation聽
- 颁辞尘辫辞蝉颈迟别听厂迟谤耻肠迟耻谤别蝉听
- Building Services聽
- 颁辞苍蝉耻濒迟颈苍驳听
- 滨苍蹿谤补蝉迟谤耻肠迟耻谤别听
- 础肠辞耻蝉迟颈肠蝉听
- Medical Devices聽
If聽it鈥檚 a machine, a聽mechanical聽engineer聽would have been involved聽with designing it, constructing a prototype, testing it, perfecting it and rolling it out on the production line. Some mechanical engineers may even be involved in marketing or selling it.聽
Mechanical Engineering聽careers聽
A mechanical engineer might work in the automotive industry, aerospace and transport industries, power generation, refineries, insurance industries, building services, railway systems design, consumer goods design and production and management consultancies.聽
Here鈥檚 a list of some of the聽tasks聽they might be聽called upon聽to do:聽
- Design vehicles, ranging from spacecraft to high-performance racing cars聽
- Analyse the acoustics data for planning a building聽
- Design a ventilation and air conditioning system for a large building聽
- Design the air-filtration unit for a train聽
- Design a suitable power system聽
- Design and develop next generation machines for aiding the disabled聽
- Develop new concepts for underground mining machinery and transport聽
- Use fluid structure interaction models to design rotating blades using advanced materials聽
- Design and manufacture industrial robots for a range of applications.聽