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Durham University: Advanced Mechanical Engineering

Institution Durham University View institution profile
Department Engineering
Web durham.ac.uk
Telephone 0191 334 1000
Study type Taught

Summary

Course Summary The MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering is a highly respected course that will give you a clear understanding of the engineering challenges faced by industry and society across the world and provide you with the skills and knowledge to tackle them.

Using leading-edge tools and technologies, the course will bring out your engineering best through a combination of theoretical and practical learning. You will learn vital collaborative working skills by joining with other students in exciting multinational teams to carry out advanced design work to the appropriate design standards, using complex engineering analysis tools.

Some of the modules you may cover will introduce you to a range of advanced mechanical engineering topics including areas such as: turbomachinery design, non-linear stress analysis, fluid mechanics, contact and friction, giving you the extensive knowledge base that is essential for an engineering career.

Why Durham University? The Department of Engineering is a general engineering department that works on the principle that engineering is an integrated subject rather than a series of unconnected topics.

The world-leading teaching and the research opportunities that we offer underline this academic positioning.

Teaching and supervision are provided by the Department’s subject specialists, who have an outstanding reputation for their expertise.

An extensive range of facilities is available to support research work and we have strong and productive links with industry partners, ensuring that the research is relevant and applicable at this challenging yet exciting time to be in engineering.

For more information please visit Our Department: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/engineering/

Facilities An investment of more than £4 million has boosted the computing resources available, providing large memory and high-end processor machines for projects requiring major computer capacity.

The Department of Engineering features a number of modern dedicated teaching laboratories including the newly refurbished electrical laboratory.

Other facilities include a wind tunnel, state-of-the-art clean rooms for experiments in very controlled environments and a geotechnical engineering laboratory.

We guide postgraduate researchers so that they are able to make a significant contribution in the Department’s key areas of engineering focus.

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Durham University 

  • World top 100 University: Joint 89th in the QS World University Rankings 2025
  • UK top 10 University: 5th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025 and 6th in the Guardian University Guide 2025
  • 7th in the Complete University Guide 2025
  • World top 30 University for sustainability: 19th in the QS World University Rankings 2025
  • 65th in the world in the category of Employer Reputation. QS World University Rankings 2025

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