Master of Mechanical Engineering (Leuven)

The Master's programme in Mechanical Engineering has three versions:

• A Dutch-language version for students who have already obtained a Master's degree of Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering
• A Dutch-language version for students who have completed their Bachelor's training at our Faculty or at another university with Mechanical Engineering either as a major or as minor.
• An English-language version which mainly addresses foreign students, and to which admission is granted after evaluation of the application file.

• The programme consists of five modules.
• The first major component is the core module in mechanical engineering.
• The second major component is one out of five options, which have been put together in a complementary way.

• Manufacturing and Management: modern techniques for the design and production of discrete components, CAD and computer integration in production, management techniques, maintenance and logistics of a production company.

• Mechatronics and Robotics: mechatronics is the discipline in which the synergy of construction, sensing, actuation and control of machinery are concurrently defined and tuned for optimum integration

• Thermo-technical Sciences: physical principles and analysis, design, construction and operation of combustion engines and thermal and flow machines, cooling machines, power plants, etc.

• Aerospace technology: physical principles, analysis, design, construction, exploitation and operation of aircraft and space systems;
• Vehicle technology: physical principles, design, analysis and production of cars and ground vehicles and of systems for ground transportation.

The third and fourth components in the programme structure concern a set of elective courses, to be chosen from a list of technical coursesand from a list of general interest courses.

The final component is the Master's thesis, which represents 20% of the credits of the entire curriculum.