MEng Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London

Our Mechanical Engineering degrees emphasise the development of skills needed by the twenty-first century graduate engineer:

• imagination
• creativity
• intellectual agility
• the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams

Study programme

All of our Mechanical Engineering courses start with the same two core years of intensive engineering science. You attend lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions in areas including:

• thermofluids
• materials
• mechanics
• mechatronics
• stress analysis
• design

You practise sketching by hand, use computeraided design (CAD) to produce solid models and industry-standard technical drawings, and create the blueprints for your own designs.

You also develop your manufacturing skills in hands-on workshop sessions, and bring your designs to life through a ‘design, make and test’ group project.

Your final two years of study mostly comprise elective study and project work. The elective technical modules cover some of our key research areas such as tribology and combustion, as well as solid mechanics, thermofluids, robotics and nuclear energy. The non-technical modules can be as diverse as design, art and creativity, or business economics (delivered online by Imperial College Business School).

In the final year, you can broaden your learning experience by choosing modules taught in other engineering departments. These may include Aeronautics, Materials, Bioengineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, depending on availability. 

The last two years of the course involve substantial group and individual project work, with the freedom to choose topics proposed by staff based on their cutting edge research or even pitch your own ideas.