Our degree courses are driven by the demands of industry. In your first year, you will learn the essential principles of mechanical engineering, including law and management, systems design, modelling and computing, to give you the practical and professional skills required for the workplace. At the end of year two, you can follow an interdisciplinary course or dictate your own learning by selecting from a number of specialist themes, including automotive engineering and biomedical engineering. In the third and fourth year, you will study modules specific to your chosen theme while mastering your design, problem solving and project management skills through individual and group design projects. During your studies, you will have the opportunity to spend time on placement in industry. You can either spend one semester or one year on placement. We can propose a range of companies that will allow you to spend time in industry. There are also opportunities to undertake work experience in the summer holidays of your second and third years.

Our graduates have entered careers including: graduate mechanical engineer, Royal Naval officer, associate (chartered accountant), helicopter engineer, applications engineer, consultant, graduate design engineer, research consultant, associate (management consultant), and development engineer. If you are considering a career in the armed forces after the MEng in Mechanical Engineering, Southampton is one of the universities designated for the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme, which provides sponsored places to students on specific courses, and has active Army, Navy and Air Force units. Among the organisations employing our Mechanical Engineering graduates are: WS Atkins, AWE, IAC Aviation, GE Aviation, Johnson Matthey, Lloyds TSB, PricewaterhouseCoopers, QinetiQ, Royal Navy, Dysons, BAE Systems, BP, Dstl, Fluor Daniel, Jaguar and Schlumberger.