Education at Mechanical Engineering

Studying this master's programme will give you the skills to design better products and services, improving and making a real difference to people's everyday lives. It is user-centred and sustainability-oriented, with a holistic systems perspective on product development. A strong focus on the interplay between people, technology, and design will give you the unique combination of skills required to work within the humanistic dimension of technology. With creativity, empathic ability, deep theoretical knowledge of human behaviours, and a sense of responsibility regarding the potential solutions, you will be highly sought-after and uniquely well-equipped to tackle a wide variety of diverse challenges.

Master multi-disciplinary product development while taking user needs and the full life cycle of a product into consideration. Product development is a core industrial activity encompassing a great many diverse challenges — a multidisciplinary process of identifying and imagining the wishes of companies, end users, and wider society, and bringing those wishes to reality. Studying this master’s programme, you will acquire the knowledge and practical skills necessary to master multi-disciplinary product development while taking all phases of the product life cycle into consideration. After graduation, you will be well-placed for a variety of career paths, including R&D for large corporations, business development, start-up entrepreneurship, consultancy, or research.

Are you passionate about developing the next generation of production facilities for global manufacturing companies? This master’s programme will bring you up-to-speed in the latest advances in modern production, giving you the skills to improve and develop manufacturing processes and high-performing sustainable production systems. You will learn how to lead and develop new projects, as well as manage systems already in full operation. You will receive education in a broad base of production engineering, leaving you well placed to take up a wide variety of roles, in areas ranging from the automotive industry to medicine, health care, and food.

As far back as the Stone Age, materials have played a significant and defining role in human development — central to contemporary prosperity and the keys to future social evolution. Material engineers, therefore, have an essential role to play in developing and refining the materials of today and tomorrow, exploring their limits and taking their potential to the next level.When you study this master’s programme, you will gain the knowledge and skills to drive innovation, handle the complexity of materials problems and to find solutions within the entire lifecycle of products and processes, from design and manufacturing to end use, and recycling.

Learn how to problem-solve and optimise product design within a broad spectrum of different engineering applications. This master’s programme will give you an internationally competitive education in modelling, computational and experimental techniques in applied mechanics. You will train how to solve solid, structural, and fluid mechanics problems in a broad spectrum of different application areas, gaining core competencies and preparing to become a key player for both large and small enterprises. You will also gain the skills required to work with the mechanical design of sustainable and competitive products — all while considering aspects like reliability, robustness, weight, and energy efficiency.

The human brain, economic markets, our immune systems — even the formation of clouds. These are all examples of complex adaptive systems, formed from multiple interacting components, often nonlinear and dynamic, leading to a collective structure and organisation across multiple levels. With a truly interdisciplinary approach, encompassing several theoretical frameworks, this master’s programme will provide you with a broad and thorough introduction to the theory of complex adaptive systems and their application to the world around us.

Every day, freight trains, trucks, aeroplanes, and ships transport enormous quantities of raw material and manufactured goods around the world, while billions of people travel for work and leisure in the same manner. This master's programme will prepare you to meet the ever-changing demands in the critical industries of aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, marine technology, and railway technology, with the option to specialise in one in particular.

Graduate School Machine and Vehicle systems are both basic science and applied. As a doctoral student, you will learn technical problem solving through quantitative and qualitative thinking.

If you are interested to study scientific areas related to shipping, ranging from naval architecture and ocean engineering, climate and environmental impact, to maritime operations, on and below the water, you should apply to the graduate school Shipping and Marine Technology.

The scientific basis for doctoral studies in Solid and Structural Mechanics spans mechanics, strength of materials, and structural mechanics. Your research project may be of theoretical and/or applied nature.

In the graduate school of Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics, you as a doctoral student develop your knowledge both through theory and applications in the field.

Computers and digitalization have a huge impact on everyone and on society as a whole. Are you interested in participating in research that drives and directs the course of this evolution? Consider applying for a doctoral studentship in Human-Computer Interaction after your master's degree!

Do you want to study at a graduate school that deals with methods for product development? As a doctoral student in the graduate school of Product and production development, you get to learn methods and working procedures all the way from idea to finished products.

Do you have an interest in an interdisciplinary subject area that describes the relationships between a solid material's composition, structure, properties and performance, and how these relationships may be controlled through different parameters in the fabrication process? Then you may apply to a doctoral student position within the graduate school in of Materials Science when you have received your master's degree.