What can an undergraduate expect if they choose to study for a mechanical engineering degree?
We give them the basic sciences that they need to work in engineering: so solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and also the design and the applied skills that they would need to be able to use those sciences in real engineering. [We teach] a lot about the applications of the different principles used in engineering: the way you design something, the way you make something, and over the course you build up from doing quite small projects (often on your own) up to quite large, substantial group projects. You are working both on the technical design of things and also the business side of it, so you are not just coming up with smart ideas, you have to be able to sell what you’re doing. You must be able to say it is going to cost something: it is going to cost this much to run it, to last this long, it’s going to generate these emissions… so essentially this combination of the hard science, and the things you need to know to apply that science (to design and be able to commun
