Modern society needs high-quality Mechanical Engineering graduates for their professional mechanical engineering skills and expertise. Heriot-Watt University is proud that our graduates are constantly in demand for these skills.

Mechanical Engineers play key roles in all industrial sectors ranging from aerospace, oil and gas, through food and transport to manufacturing, chemical and entertainment industries. Mechanical Engineering offers an exciting environment where many skills are brought together to create innovative products and the infrastructure and technology for manufacture.

This Bachelor's degree aims to produce graduate Engineers who are able to meet society’s needs by the creation of products or processes that benefit the individual or economy. Many of the courses contextualise mechanical engineering science principles with mini-projects and students will work in groups to produce a solution to an engineering problem.

The core courses of Design and Manufacture and Business Awareness, Safety and Sustainability are particularly aimed at bringing knowledge from all engineering science disciplines together in a project. The individual project in year three allows students to become specialists in an area of their choice by working with an academic member of staff on a particular niche area of Mechanical Engineering.

*MEng MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
BEng students who meet the progression requirements for the MEng programme may transfer programmes at the end of Year 2.

Programme content

First Year

BEng & MEng

• Design and Manufacture 2
• Electric Circuits and Machines
• Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 3
• Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 4
• Mechanical Engineering Science 3
• Mechanical Engineering Science 4
• Mechanical Engineering Science 5
• Mechanical Engineering Science 6

Second Year

BEng & MEng

BEng students who meet the progression requirements for the MEng programme may transfer programmes at the end of Year 2.

• Business Awareness, Safety and Sustainability
• Design and Manufacture 3
• Design and Manufacture 4
• Mechanical Engineering Science 10
• Mechanical Engineering Science 7
• Mechanical Engineering Science 8
• Mechanical Engineering Science 9

Third Year

BEng & MEng

• Engineering Design
• Engineering Manufacture
• Project 1
• Project 2

MEng ONLY

• Group Project 1
• Industrial Training

Students undertake a compulsory industrial training placement.

Fourth Year

MEng ONLY

• Failure Accident Analysis
• Group Project 2
• Group Project 3
• Professional and Industrial Studies
• Specialist Engineering Technologies 1
• Specialist Engineering Technologies 2

• Heriot-Watt University Malaysia Foundation in Science: CCCC
• GCE A-Level: BBC
• STPM: BBC
• The subjects studied must include Mathematics and Physics.
• Diploma deemed recognised by the Malaysian Government
• Any other relevant qualification deemed recognised by the Malaysian Government.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, then evidence of proficiency equivalent to IELTS 6.0 is required.

September 

Graduates are in constant demand. Many engineers make their careers in established areas, perhaps in the infrastructure industries of energy and transportation or the design and manufacture of advanced equipment. Others find rewarding careers meeting the challenges of applying new materials and intelligent systems to products and manufacturing processes.