Welcome to Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering belongs to the so-called constructing engineering sciences. Mechanical engineers are often busy analyzing, constructing, designing, building and/or improving tools and devices. However, it is not possible to do this at an academic level without a thorough basic knowledge of the various elements and properties of these instruments. This requires subjects such as mathematics, mechanics, materials science, control technology and fluid mechanics. Many mechanical problems cannot yet be properly analyzed with the knowledge that a starting first-year student has at his/her disposal. Problems that are dealt with in this course often come back elsewhere in the program and are then dealt with in an ever more profound way thanks to the increasingly deeper knowledge and skills of the students.

The program Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology is not known as simple, but we do our best to offer a curriculum that is as studyable as possible. The combination of the lectures (in which basic knowledge and basic skills are taught) and the Challenge Based Learning (the projects in which the synthesis and application of the basic knowledge and basic skills comes about) guarantees a very solid and broad education, which means that the graduated mechanical engineer has a broad range of job opportunities.

Fig. 1 Prof. Dr. Ir. P.D. Anderson, Responsible lecturer of the course Introduction Mechanical Engineering
Dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology.