Mechanical Engineering

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The Master in Mechanical Engineering has been awarded the international EUR-ACE quality label. This certifies it as a high-quality programme which meets the international standards for professional engineering education at the masters level.

Areas Covered

Mechanical engineers are professionals who can perform a vast range of activities, such as:

* the development of mechanical and thermal equipments (motor and railway vehicles, machine tools, steel frameworks, boilers, heat exchangers, etc);
* the production of energy (thermal energy, wind energy, new energies, climatisation, indoor air quality, etc.);
* the planning and production management (logistics, transportation, industrial maintenance, human resources management, quality control, etc)
* industrial automation (automation of production lines, robotics, control systems, etc)
* the development and implementation of new materials (ceramics, composites, polymers, biomaterials, etc);
* the design and development of new products (integrated design, ergonomics, sustainability, etc);
* the maintenance management and automobile repair
* the creation of new companies
* the assessment of projects and consultancy

Professional skills Mechanical engineers are expected to:

* use their technical competence and knowledge in order to solve a vast variety of issues, in an intelligent way;
* Recognize the need of experimentation and being capable of projecting, performing and interpreting the results of an experimental program;
* Communicate in a efficient way the content and significance of their work to a vast variety of audiences through several means of communication;
* Take part in multidisciplinary teams with a high level of integrity and ethics;
* Continue their training;

There is a connection with several companies and associations (mainly in the North of Portugal- but also in the rest of the country as well as in the European Union). This connection is made by students´ projects in various areas of investigation at DEMEGI (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management).

Keywords

* Automation
* Personal and Interpersonal Capacities
* Drawing
* Mechanical Engineering
* Physics
* Heat Transfer and Fluid
* Management
* Informatics
* Mathematics
* Materials
* Applied Mechanics
* Manufacturing and Automotive Engineering

Please note: only foreign students who are or were registered in a higher education institution (even if they did not complete a degree) can apply to this study programme. The right option when applying online is Transfer. For applying to this study programme the following documents are mandatory: * For foreign Higher Education applicants: High School/K12 grade or equivalent grade (pre-university year) as well as the grade of the required subjects or of an equivalent national examination. If necessary, the jury of the Higher Education application grade could attribute an equivalent grade based on the courses completed by the applicant in the same scientific area. * Certificate listing all the Higher Education courses completed, their duration (semester/year) and number of credit units/ECTS (required); If you cannot obtain a certificate containing this information, you should add a list of courses completed, providing the information requested. * Certificate/declaration issued by the last Higher Education institution you were registered at, stating that you will not be time-barred due to periods of limitation in the academic year for which the application is being submitted. If you cannot obtain this certificate/declaration, you should make a declaration of honour to that effect, however the enrolment will be conditional until presenting the Certificate. * Declaration of Honour as the candidate will not complete the programme before the applications deadline (require). This does not apply to candidates from foreign higher education institutions, so foreign candidates must attach a blank document.