MSc Mechanical Engineering
- January start available
- Professional Experience option available
Introduction
Study at the forefront of ground-breaking innovation with world-leading researchers on our IMechE accredited postgraduate Mechanical Engineering course in Chelmsford.
Already have an ARU degree? You may be eligible for our Alumni Scholarship for students starting postgraduate courses.
Why study MSc Mechanical Engineering at ARU?
- Join a course that's accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
- Stand out to employers with additional industry skills by taking our two-year Professional Experience option.
- Study in our state-of-the-art facilities and discover modules including Robotics, CFD, Design for Manufacture, and Sustainability and Engineering Management.
- Learn from a diverse breadth of expert staff with a wide range of industrial and academic backgrounds make learning more real, hands-on and relevant.
You’re serious about your career and so are we. Our MSc Mechanical Engineering will equip you to think adventurously, overcome problems and be part of the process of enabling society to advance. You’ll test your practical skills in our industry-standard workshop.
You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of advanced design and analysis techniques, the use of modern materials and manufacturing technology. We’ll expand your knowledge in a wide range of mechanical engineering areas and related fields, giving you the scope to be creative and scientific in equal measure.
As well as our one-year full-time course, there’s the option to study with us for two years and gain valuable experience in Year 2, with a choice of professional experience modules. We also offer a two-year part-time course too.
Our course will equip you with transferrable skills, including IT and management as well as data analysis. As a result you’ll be highly employable in the mechanical engineering marketplace, with a choice of different careers available to you.
Our facilities include a CAD/CAM centre, industrial-scale CNC milling machine, CNC lathe, rapid prototyping machine, scanning electronic microscope, Instron bi-axial fatigue-testing machine, tensile-testing machine, material-preparation facilities, welding equipment and electronic testing and measuring equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal generating and testing facilities.
Students completing an IMechE accredited degree are deemed to have met, part or all, of the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and are in a strong position to move on to achieve professional engineering status after a period of initial professional development in industry. The MSc will meet, in part, the exemplifying academic benchmark requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Accredited MSc graduates who also have a BEng (Hons) accredited for CEng will be able to show that they have satisfied the educational base for CEng registration.
It should be noted that graduates from an accredited MSc programme who do not also have an appropriately accredited Honours degree will not be regarded as having the exemplifying qualifications for professional registration as a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council; they will need to have their first qualification individually assessed through the Individual Case Procedure if they wish to progress to CEng.
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Specialist facilities
All our engineering students will use our specialist labs and equipment, including:
- CAD/CAM and engineering computer modelling centre
- industrial-scale CNC milling and lathe machines
- metal and plastic rapid prototyping machines
- welding equipment
- electronic testing and measuring equipment
- 3D printers
- tensile and compressive testing machines
- hardness testing equipment.
Outstanding student support
Join our student community and:
- learn from experienced tutors, who'll provide encouragement and feedback
- make full use of facilities including extensive library and IT resources
- access support, should you need it, with study skills, careers advice, health and wellbeing, and more.
Accreditation
Accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Our Mechanical Engineering MSc is accredited by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Provided you meet certain conditions, upon graduation you'll be able to satisfy the educational base for CEng registration.
Lecturers
Habtom Mebrahtu
Director of International Partnerships
Ahad Ramezanpour
Associate Professor
Hassan Shirvani
Director, Engineering and Tribology Research Group
Shabnam Sadeghi Esfahlani
Associate Professor in Robotics
Sarinova Simanjuntak
Associate Professor
Peter Marshall
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Mohamed Yehia
Senior Lecturer
Careers
Our course will help you find your career in engineering, or give you an additional skills boost if you’re already working in the industry. It shows employers that you’ve deepened your knowledge in a range of disciplines that include aerospace, automotive, biomedical, automation, and fluid mechanics.
After graduating with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, you’ll be in a stronger position to seek employment in a sector where machines are required to build complex structures, machines, or systems. Hence, you can undertake diverse job roles in aeronautical, automobile, marine and other engineering disciplines as well as consultancy.
Graduation doesn’t have to be the end of your time with us. You might choose to embark on a postgraduate research programme, such as our Engineering and the Built Environment PhD. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship and save £400 on your fees.
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