What is Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering?

This is often seen as the broadest of all engineering qualifications as the skills required range from mathematics and electronics to metal fatigue and fluid mechanics. Nearly all machines used in everyday life —from the car or washing machine to the most complex aircraft or electricity supply plant to the tiniest surgical instrument—have required the skills of a mechanical engineer. Every industrial plant or manufacturing operation relies on a mechanical engineer for its smooth running and efficiency.

 

Mechanical engineers are involved in design, testing, inspection, and manufacture of mechanical devices and components. As a mechanical engineer you will work as a professional using technology to make the world a better, safer place.

 

Do you enjoy…

• Imagining new solutions to problems?
• Exploring how machines and technology work?
• Using computers and mathematics to apply physics to the real world?

 

Graduate skills and career opportunities

Our graduates have taken jobs with employers in sectors such as: High tech manufacturing (Intel, Pfizer, DePuy, National Instruments, Seagate, Siemens); Automotive (Jaguar, Rover, BMW, Dromone); Engineering and Business Consultancy (Arup, Deloitte, Accenture); Energy (OpenHydro, ESB, Eirgrid, EDF, Vattenfall); and Process Engineering (Cameron Flow Control, Procter & Gamble, Syngenta, Glanbia, Kerry).

 

Graduates also go onto Master’s and Ph.D. programmes in universities such as: RCSI; University of Edinburgh; Imperial College London; University of Cambridge; ETH Zürich; KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Université Grenoble Alpes; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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