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What is Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering?

This is a broad area focusing on the design and development of products and processes.  Mechanical engineering has a strong product and equipment design element, while manufacturing engineering analyses the processes and systems required to produce goods.

What is the BEng (Hons) in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering course?

This is a four year honours degree, which prepares students for employment in a very broad range of engineering situations.

This course has recently been modified to include the following specialised streams:

  • Mechanical/Manufacturing
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Green Technology and Alternative Energy Systems
  • Robotics & Automation
  • Systems Integration and Industry 4.0. 
  • These streams may also be reflected in the Placement module in Year 3 and in the two-semester long Final Year Project. This will allow the students to accumulate a possible 60 credits in their chosen stream in the final two years of this programme.
  • Please note that not all streams may run in any given year.

Industrial Placement

Industrial placement takes place in semester 6, which can be up to six months duration (March - September). These placements have been very successful at providing for the students a perspective on the broad variety of material that they have covered in the course. 

Students have been previously placed in Bausch & Lomb (Waterford), Honeywell (Waterford), Intel (Leixlip), Janssen Pharmaceutical (Cork), Lipton's (Cork), Servier (Wicklow), Schering-Plough (Wicklow), and Stryker (Cork).

Field Trips

Industrial visits are an integral part of the course, providing the students with examples of authentic applications of course material. Other events, such as visiting lecturers or Engineering Society trips, occur on a regular basis.

Course outline is subject to change.

Year 4

In year four, students choose from one of six streams.

Mechanical / Manufacturing

FEA & Design Tools    

Process Control 8.1

Energy Conversion    

Supply Chain Management

Additive Manufacturing

FEA & Design Tools

Additive Manu. 1     

Additive Manu. 2    

Design for Manufacture and 3D Printing

Biomedical Engineering

Introduction to Convergent Technologies

Sustainability & Validation

Pharmaceutical Compliance & Law

Biomedical Engineering

Green Technology & AES

Passive Building Design Strategies

Sustainability & Validation

Energy Conversion

Sustainable Energy Recovery & Utilisation

Robotics & Automation

Introduction to Convergent Technologies

Process Control 8.1

Robotics & Vision

Advanced Programmable Logic Controllers

Systems Integration & Industry 4.0

Introduction to Convergent Technologies

MES / Networks & IoT

Industry 4.0

Application of the Internet of Things


 







 

Year 1

Semester 1 Semester 2
Engineering Maths 1 Introductory Engineering Calculus
Physics Electrical Science
Materials 1 Manufacturing Technology 1
Mechanical Systems Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Drawing Computer Aided Draughting
Engineering Professionalism Manufacturing Systems

Year 2

Semester 3 Semester 4
Electrical Engineering Computer-Aided Design
Engineering Maths 2 Thermodynamics
Engineering Design Manufacturing Technology 2
Applied Mechanics Production Systems
Introduction to Programming Intermediate Engineering Calculus
Materials 2 Electronic Engineering

Year 3

Semester 5 Semester 6
Quality Management Industrial Studies & Placement
Automation and Control
Mechanics of Materials
Dynamics & Vibrations
Enterprise Resource Management
Fluid Mechanics

Year 4

Semester 7 Semester 8
Heat and Mass Transfer Advanced Materials & Process Selection
Facility Simulation & Reliability Applied Fluid Mechanics
Operations Strategy Manufacturing Facilities
Project 1 Project 2
Elective 1 Elective 3
Elective 2 Elective 4

Leaving Cert: Minimum entry requirements

2 subjects: H5
4 subjects: O6/H7
English or Irish: O6/H7
Mathematics: O3/H7

H5 or better in a Laboratory Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics with Chemistry and Agricultural Science) or Technical (Engineering, Technology, Technical Drawing, Design & Communications Graphics) subject compensates for not making the required grade in Mathematics (O3/H7).

Advanced and Equivalent Entry:

Graduates of the course may find work in the following areas:

  • Process Design and Improvement
  • Enterprise Resource Management
  • Product Design & Development
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Quality Management
  • Past graduates are employed in a variety of companies including Bausch & Lomb, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Mercury Engineering, Radley Engineering and abroad.

Graduates of the course may find work in the following areas:

  • Process Design and Improvement
  • Enterprise Resource Management
  • Product Design & Development
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Quality Management
  • Past graduates are employed in a variety of companies including Bausch & Lomb, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Mercury Engineering, Radley Engineering and abroad.

Graduates of this course are eligible to proceed to taught and research postgraduate programmes in SETU Waterford and other colleges.

Contact

Course Leader

Dr Abdulaleem Albadawi

Assistant Lecturer -

Call: +35351302090

Email: [email protected]

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