This course is well balanced, covering a wide range of topics in engineering science and engineering practice. The course is designed to educate the next generation of mechanical engineers to have a positive impact on our society across the 21st century.

Our curriculum embeds a diverse set of professional engineering and management skills spanning four core thematic areas:

• design and manufacture
• dynamics and control
• materials
• energy and fluid flow.

Years one and two are common to all mechanical engineering students and cover the fundamental principles of mechanical engineering. Teaching is delivered via lectures, seminars, laboratories, design classes and short projects in modelling and manufacturing.

This course provides the opportunity to study abroad in an English-speaking environment in your third year and is ideal if you are seeking a career abroad or in a multinational company. You will follow the MEng course at Bristol in your first, second and fourth years.

You will spend your third year studying at one of our partner institutions in or outside Europe, such Sweden, Netherlands, the US, Singapore or Australia. To find out more about studying abroad, visit Global Opportunities.

In the fourth year you will return to the University of Bristol and have the opportunity to select from a range of specialist options and undertake a substantial group project to address an open-ended technical challenge.

There is no direct entry onto the course but you can transfer from the other courses if you reach a high academic standard in your first two years.