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Advanced Mechanical Engineering at University of Sheffield - UCAS

Course summary

Strengthen your knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering. Choose from a wide selection of optional modules to tailor your studies to your interests. Course description This highly flexible course is designed to strengthen your knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering. It offers a wide selection of optional modules, allowing you to tailor your studies to reflect your interests, and graduates go on to work in many areas of engineering. You’ll also have the chance to further explore a subject that interests you through your individual research project. Previous study To give you a fair chance of succeeding on your course, we need to make sure you have enough experience in relevant subjects. All of our MSc courses are designed for students who have completed a degree similar to our BEng Mechanical Engineering. Many of our MSc students come from different subject backgrounds, including aerospace, automotive, civil and marine engineering courses, as well as mechatronics, manufacturing, mathematics and physics. We would like to see evidence of experience in the key subject areas listed below:

  • Solid mechanics
Mohr's circle, 2D elasticity including plane stress and plane strain, bending of beams, buckling of columns, plasticity, fracture mechanics.
  • Statics, dynamics and control
Equilibrium, free body diagrams, kinematics and kinetics of mechanisms, vibrations, resonance, block diagram representation of feedback control, Laplace domain models.
  • Fluid mechanics
Laminar and turbulent flows, Reynolds number, Bernoulli’s equation, calculation of pressure drop in pipework.
  • Thermodynamics and heat transfer
First and Second Laws, Carnot, Rankine and Otto cycles, general conduction equation, convection, Nusselt number, emissivity, view factors. We would normally expect to see a strong performance in these subjects on your transcript. If you have studied these topics as part of modules with very different titles, you will need to indicate this on your application form. Accreditation This course is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.


How to apply

International applicants

English language requirements: IELTS 6.5 (with 6 in each component) or University equivalent.

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in mechanical engineering or a related subject. You should have a strong background in those modules most relevant to this course. Please see the previous study section above for more details on what we expect. We may also consider your application if you do not meet the standard academic requirements but you have relevant professional experience. English language requirements: Overall IELTS score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component, or equivalent.


Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

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Advanced Mechanical Engineering at University of Sheffield - UCAS