School of Engineering and Design—Curriculum of Mechanical Engineering

Societal and planetary challenges, such as climate change, energy, and food security, are constantly changing with the times. Concurrently, cutting-edge research in fields such as AI, quantum technology, robotics, and advanced medicine, proceeds apace. As rapid technological advancement has increasingly rendered the challenges facing society into global concerns, today’s problem solvers require a new innovative framework. Mechanical engineering aims to tackle real-world challenges by flexibly integrating emerging technologies with mechanics as a foundation. As an academic discipline, its scope spans from the microscopic scale of atoms to the vast breadth of the universe. With mechanics at its heart, the world of mechanical engineering extends into other fields as well, integrating these in research of complex systems-through design, it even crosses into the realm of art. To date, this fusion of mechanics and emerging technologies has given birth to an abundance of novel fields of research. Thus, mechanical engineering plays a central role in scientific advancement, and continues to function as the global nucleus of higher education in engineering.