Advanced Mechanical Engineering

As a graduate mechanical engineer, this MSc course of Advanced Mechanical Engineering delivered by Cardiff University will provide you with an advanced qualification which will enhance your career prospects and extend and update your skills and knowledge. Thecourse actively encourages the understanding and practice of inter-disciplinarysystems engineering thinking that brings together mechanical engineeringsubjects in a way that reflects the needs of industrial andacademic problem solving.

Key facts

More specifically, the program aims to:

• Provide you with an advanced knowledge of topics in mechanical engineering, and in associated engineering and scientific disciplines over a broad range of specialist subjects.
• Provide an awareness of the safety, environmental, social and economic context in which mechanical engineers need to operate.
• Offer you the opportunity to develop a wide range of intellectual, practical and transferable skills that will allow you to follow a career in research, industry and other professional areas of the economy.
• Help you to gain a systematic understanding and a critical awareness of current problems and new insights which are at the forefront of mechanical engineering.

The close integration of the case study and project will allow you to explore, in-depth, a chosen topic related to the course. This providesyou with an individually tailored program to meet your needs in aflexible yet focussed manner, with the project seen as being the keyopportunity to acquire and exercise leading edge mechanical engineeringknowledge. You will be given the opportunity to show originality inapplying the knowledge you acquire, and will develop an appreciation of howthe boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research. You will be trainedto deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, and will begiven the opportunity and encouragement to demonstrate initiative andinnovation in solving challenging problems and in designing new components and systems.

The close involvement with industry, particularly at the project stage, ensures that the experience the course provides has both relevance andmeaning.Lecturers delivering the modules are working with some of the world's most renowned engineering companies. Partners include Airbus, BAe Systems, Bosch,Tata Steel, Daimler, EADS, Fiat, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Messier-Dowty, NetworkRail, TWI, Parametric Technology, Physical Acoustics Ltd, Renault, Renishaw, Rolls-Royce, SAP, Siemens, Silicon Graphics, Stile Bertone, The Highways Agency, TRL, Microchip, and WS Atkins.

This degree course will prepare you for entry into careers in research or industry. In addition to technical skills, you will acquire professional skills such effective communication with technical, management and non-technical audiences, project planning, evaluation and prioritisation.

Accreditations

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Courses include:

• Tribology

• Artificial Intelligence

• Control

• Quality and Reliability

• Theory and Applications of the Finite Element Method

• Risk and Hazard Management in the Energy Sector