Mechanical engineering sciences research courses
We have a strong focus on research and our postgraduate research students have access to leading technologies and the opportunity to gain industry experience within our related research centres.
What we are researching
The research interests in our School sit at the intersections between engineering resilience, green living and healthy living.
Studentships
Assessing and modelling the performance of syntactic composite materials
Funding information:
Funding covers a stipend £19,000 pa (tax-free) and UK “home” tuition fees for 3.5 years. Funding is available to cover travel, conferences and consumables. Eligibility follows standard research council rules and include UK/Irish citizenship or ordinary residence within the UK for 3 years prior to the funding commencing, but please note that in the latter case only home fees will be covered.XPS for energy materials: development of methods for the chemical speciation of transition metals
Funding information:
Funding covers a stipend £20,000 pa (tax-free) and UK “home” tuition fees for 3.5 years. Funding is available to cover travel, conferences and consumables. Eligibility follows standard research council rules and include UK/Irish citizenship or ordinary residence within the UK for 3 years prior to the funding commencing, but please note that in the latter case, only home fees will be covered.Actuation methods for thin flexible composite deployable structures for space applications
Funding information:
This funding offer covers tuition fees at the UK resident rate, and provides a stipend of £20,000 p.a.Facilities
The University invested over £6.5m in new and upgraded facilitates in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
This video showcases some of the mechanical engineering facilities that have benefitted from upgrades.
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Find a PhD course
If you are interested in doing a PhD with us, please look at the interests of our Department's research groups and get in contact with an academic.
Study in industry
Our students have the opportunity to spend four years in industry via our unique engineering doctorate programme hosted through our prestigious EPSRC funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Micro- and NanoMaterials and Technologies (MiNMaT). This programme combines working on research with an industrial partner and taught courses on our campus.
