About Mechanical Engineering (meng) in Cork Institute of Technology
The programme has been developed to address the need for both new graduates and existing engineers to acquired advanced competencies in computational methods, analytical methods, and design.
The EGFSN/Forfás Report: Future Skills Requirements of the Manufacturing Sector to 2020 report published in 2013 has identified shortages of Mechanical Engineers at level 9 with specialist skills in design and development, control and automation, and management of innovation in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors. This programme will address these shortages.
Specifically this programme of study is designed to progress your qualifications in the following ways:
- Deepen your technical knowledge, skills and competencies in the core field of Mechanical Engineering through modules in computational methods in solids and fluids, control engineering, and industrial heat and power.
- Deliver specialist knowledge in areas such as integrated design and process modelling and lean sigma.
- Enhance your knowledge and entrepreneurship through strategic business management and managing innovation.
- Enable you to carry out in depth research in an industrially focused sector of Mechanical Engineering through specialist modules in research skills, project realisation, and thesis preparation.
Academic qualification equivalents
- Bachelor's degree (Honours) holders with a minimal overall first division result
- First Class BSc Science/Arts/Commerce three year degree (for MA Global Business Practice/MSc International Business course)
English language requirements (one of the below):
- IELTS 6.5 overall (6.0 for Business programmes)
- IELTS 5.5 in all four components (listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- PTE 60 (63 for integrated programmes)
- PTE 55 in all four components (listening, reading, speaking and writing)
