• Hands-On, Real-World Experience Right from the Start: Project work, field trips, and an 'Open Innovation Challenge' - during the first year of the program, you can demonstrate your expertise and hands-on skills!

• Start with Mechanical Engineering and study a variety of options: You start your degree program together with students studying mechanical engineering and electronics & information technology. This gives you an idea of different fields and subject areas and after your first year of studies, if you want to, you can easily switch to mechatronics or electronics & information technology.

You can choose your area of specialization from among the following electives:

• Modelling and Simulation
• Product Development
• Drive and Control Technology
• Material and Production Technology
• Information Technologies

The Bachelor's degree program in Mechanical Engineering consists of the following areas*:

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Studies Introduction and Orientation Phase (StEOP)

After enrolling in a Bachelor's degree program, you will be required to complete the StEOP requirements at the start of your studies. The StEOP requirements consists of certain courses that are outlined in the curriculum. If you take other academic courses before completing the required StEOP courses, you will only get limited academic credit.

The Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the JKU focuses on modern mechanical systems. This includes mechanical electrical/electronic elements and the software by which they are controlled. They interact flexibly with other machines, people, and the environment.

Subject areas include:

• The world of mechanical engineering: Designing and calculating mechanical components and systems (CAD, CAE, etc.); lightweight construction, such as parts for aircraft
• Base-knowledge physics: Technical mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics
• Materials: Construction, properties, treatment, selection
• Manufacturing/Production: Manufacturing and processing technologies
• Electrical/Electronic components and systems: Base-knowledge fundamentals, electrical drives, sensors and measurement technology
• Automation technology: Controlling and regulating mechanical systems
• Robotics
• Computer Science: Software, programming, product data management, artificial intelligence

Let our mechanical engineering students and professors tell you about studying mechanical engineering at the JKU.

Your Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering initially prepares you to pursue an advanced Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering (scheduled to start in the Fall of 2023 at the JKU).

Graduates who hold a Bachelor's degree can pursue a business career at many different industries in areas such as product development, design, calculation, production, or even in sales:

• Robotics
• Agricultural and forestry machinery
• Machine tools
• Metal and polymer production
• All types of vehicles and aircraft ranging from passenger cars and fire engines to drones designed for rescue observations

Graduates of the Master's degree program are qualified for various engineering activities, especially in management positions.

• Draft/design modern machinery: You work on developing electric cars as well as laser sintering machines for 3D metal printing.
• Plant engineering: You develop, for example, a production line for motocross machines and design the way robots and processing machines interact.
• Simulate computerized system behavior by creating your own program in which robotic movements supports the control system you have designed.
• Experimental work: You focus, for example, on studying an aircraft wing section made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic for fatigue behavior, especially when exposed to turbulant wind conditions on a dynamic test rig.
• Project management, production planning, system optimization or technical sales: As a project manager, you will be responsible for developing and installing automatic production plants for car bodies, planning hydraulic excavator production, optimizing their hydraulic drives, or talking with international customers to present the latest developments in fighting tunnel fires.

After completing your undergraduate degree, you can continue your education by pursuing an advanced degree:

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