About Mechanical Engineering in University College Dublin

Mechanical engineers help to improve our world. We face unprecedented challenges, from understanding climate change, to managing global mobility, to finding sustainable growth pathways for the burgeoning population in the developing world. Mechanical Engineering in UCD provides you with the education, skills and knowledge you’ll need to understand the challenges, and help to develop the new solutions we need. Working in areas ranging from energy to aerospace, biomedicine or manufacturing, mechanical engineers are changing our world for the better. They create new solutions, integrate disparate technologies, increase energy efficiency, reduce our consumption of natural resources and minimise our impact on the local and global environment. If you want to help forge a path to a brighter future, Mechanical Engineering at UCD is the place for you.

Opportunities are extraordinarily diverse, making graduates highly resilient to changing economic circumstances. Recent graduates are currently employed in:
 

• Energy, biomedical, aeronautical and manufacturing sectors
• IT companies
• Management and project management
• Research

Graduates can pursue taught or research master's in Mechanical Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Engineering with Business, or Biomedical Engineering in UCD or elsewhere. Those with a strong interest in research also have the opportunity to pursue a PhD.

Professional Work Experience (PWE) is incorporated in the ME programme. Six-to eight-month internships (the majority of which are paid) have included the following employers: AbbVie, Accenture, Boston Scientific, Fingleton White, Glen Dimplex, Henkel, Hilti, Jacobs Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover, and Nypro.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Successful graduation from an academic secondary school program or equivalent (For most countries, the same academic preparation as is required for university entrance in that country is required for consideration. 
• Program-Specific Prerequisite courses completed at the senior level (e.g. Grade 12);

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: An average score of 6.5 over all components and a minimum of 6.0 in each band on the Academic Version.
• TOEFL:  minimum score of 600 in the paper-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL PBT), with Test of Written English at 475 +. A minimum score of 90 is required in the Internet based TOEFL (iBT) with a score of at least 20 in each section
• PTE: Minimum of 63 and at least 59 for each item in the Communicative Skills section..

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University College Dublin Average Tution Fees And Other Expenses

• University fees are fixed each year, however additional expenses while studying in Ireland must be planned beforehand.
• Tuition fee for the academic year 2020-2021 is given below:

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