Mechanical Engineering (Hons) University College Dublin

Overview

We face unprecedented challenges, from understanding climate change, to managing global mobility, to finding sustainable growth pathways for the burgeoning population in the developing world. 

The Mechanical Engineering (Hons) programme from University College Dublin provides you with the education, skills and knowledge you’ll need to understand the challenges, and help to develop the new solutions we need. Working in areas ranging from energy to aerospace, biomedicine or manufacturing, mechanical engineers are changing our world for the better. 

They create new solutions, integrate disparate technologies, increase energy efficiency, reduce our consumption of natural resources and minimise our impact on the local and global environment.

Careers

Opportunities are extraordinarily diverse, making graduates highly resilient to changing economic circumstances. Recent graduates are currently employed in the energy, biomedical, aeronautical, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing and IT sectors.

You can also pursue graduate study internationally or as a part of UCD’s accredited Masters degree, e.g. ME in Biomedical Engineering, ME in Computer & Electronic Engineering, ME in Electrical Power Engineering, ME in Engineering with Business, ME in Energy Systems Engineering. Those with a strong interest in research also have the opportunity to pursue a PhD.