MSc in Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineers are expected to be creative, have broad knowledge, and work as members of multidisciplinary teams. With this program, you will become a problem-solver with a holistic perspective, ready to take part in today’s product development to create tomorrow’s sustainable society.

Five specializations

The first semester consists of mandatory courses in mechanical engineering, such as fluid power systems, computational mechanics, and deformation and fracture of engineering materials. They are combined with courses in product development and project management.

In the second semester, you may choose among five specializations:

• Applied Mechanics – classical and modern applied mechanics with a strong focus on the modeling and simulation of solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics.
• Engineering Design and Product Development – modern and advanced approaches in CAD, design optimization, and product development.
• Engineering Materials – deep knowledge about the behavior of classical metallic engineering materials, but also about plastics and new emerging materials.
• Manufacturing Engineering – covers aspects from the supply chain level down to automation and manufacturing processes. You will also learn about the factories of the future.
• Mechatronics – how to design and analyze controlled mechanical systems such as hydraulic systems.

Industry-related problems

Each specialization has a major project course in the third semester, where you work with industry-related problems and apply knowledge obtained from the specialization courses. This course prepares you for the master thesis project in the final semester. The thesis is usually written together with a fellow student in close collaboration with a company, either a small local business or a global industrial corporation like Siemens or Scania. The thesis project can also be performed as part of a research project here at Linköping University.

Syllabus

Purpose

A Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Linköping University works with all aspects of the realization of complex products and industrial processes.

A graduate from this program will be able to take part in multidisciplinary design processes where technical as well as economical, environmental and sustainability requirements are satisfied.

The program is aimed at students with a Bachelor's degree who would like to extend their knowledge in mechanical engineering and engineering science. Graduates are suitable for employment in industry, business, academic institutions, and major research/development laboratories.

Aim

Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning

The graduated student from the Master's Programme in Mechanical Engineering

• should have solid foundations in mathematics and engineering science
• should be able to use a computer effectively to model and analyze engineering problems as well as to visualize results
• should have specialized knowledge in one area of mechanical engineering

Personal and professional skills

The graduated student from the Master's Programme in Mechanical Engineering

• should have the ability to take a leading role in modern research and engineering
• should be able to gain competency in new fields of engineering, rapidly and independently
• should be able to participate effectively in multidisciplinary design teams, either as a team leader or in a specialist role

Interpersonal skills: Teamwork and communication

The graduated student from the Master's Programme in Mechanical Engineering

• should be capable of teamwork and collaborate actively within the group by sharing in the tasks and responsibilities
• should be able to initialize, plan, carry out, and evaluate scientific and engineering projects
• should be able to communicate and to give presentations in English, orally and in writing

Planning, execution, and presentation of research or development projects with respect to scientific and societal needs and requirements

The graduated student from Master's Programme in Mechanical Engineering has knowledge about suitable development processes for different kinds of research or development projects and is able to participate and actively contribute to all phases of research or development projects, including identification of needs, structuring, planning, execution and presentation of projects, taking into account the importance of technology in society, including economic, social, and sustainable development.

Research

Additive manufacturing

3D printing will have a huge impact on the manufacturing industry in the years to come, and a better understanding of the material properties of AM manufactured parts is vital to fully utilize the potential of this fairly new technology.

Biomechanics

What is the optimal pole technique in cross-country skiing? Why does blood pressure increase with age? These questions and many more can be answered by applying fundamental principles from mechanics and thermodynamics. It´s done in biomechanics.

Flexible Manufacturing Equipment

We at LiU have historically worked hard to be able to use industrial robots in applications where they previously could not be used.

High-Temperature Mechanics

High-Temperature Mechanics focus on load-carrying components in designs working at high, or very high, temperatures, primarily toward gas turbine applications.

Mechanical properties of structural materials

We work with a series of advanced mechanical tests methods to determine the mechanical properties of a material. By combining these methods with microstructural investigations we can study the active deformation and damage mechanisms.

Product Development

Important research areas are model-based design automation in which computers solve repetitive and non-creative tasks, product development for sustainability, resource efficiency and manufacturability, and product development for 3D printing.

Structural and topology optimization

In the research field of structural optimization, computational tools are developed to make it possible to find optimal load-carrying structures automatically.

Structural Integrity of Air Vehicles

Through evaluation and verification in strength, rigidity, durability, and damage tolerance, the aeronautical research aims to provide novel knowledge in the structural integrity of air vehicles.

Surface engineering for performance and durability

What can be done to protect metallic components operating at high temperatures? how can we increase the fatigue resistance of structural components? Surface modification for better performance and durability is the main focus of our research.

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About Linköping University

Linköping University will never rest on its laurels.

In close collaboration with the business world and society, Linköping University (LiU) conducts world-leading, boundary-crossing research in fields including materials science, IT and hearing. In the same spirit, the university offers many innovative educational programs, many of them with a clear vocational focus, leading to qualification as, for example, doctors, teachers, economists, and engineers.

The university has 32,000 students and 4,000 employees on four campuses. Together we seek answers to the complex questions facing us today. Our students are among the most desirable in the labor market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

LiU achieved university status in 1975 and innovation is our only tradition.

History of Linköping University

In 1975 Sweden’s sixth university was founded in Linköping. Since then Linköping University (LiU) has grown considerably, expanding to Norrköping and Stockholm.

Linköping has been an important center of learning since medieval times when Linköping Cathedral offered a school with extensive international contacts and its own student hall in Paris. In 1627 the Cathedral School became the third upper secondary school in Sweden and in 1843 a college for elementary school teachers began operations. In Norrköping, the Fröbel Institute – Sweden’s first college for training pre-school teachers – was founded in 1902.

From university college to university

What would later become Linköping University began to take shape in the mid-1960s. Higher education in Sweden was expanding and in 1965 the Swedish Parliament decided to establish a branch of Stockholm University, together with a university college of engineering and medicine, in Linköping.

In the autumn of 1967, the branch of Stockholm University moved into premises in central Linköping. There the first students could take courses in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Two years later the units for engineering and medicine got underway.

In 1970 education and research started moving into the recently built Campus Valla, a short distance from the town center. Buildings A and B were the first to be completed. The same year the various parts were merged to form Linköping University College, including faculties of engineering, medicine and arts, and sciences.

The new university college was the first in Sweden to offer study programs in Industrial Engineering and Management and Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, both starting in 1969. A few years later, in 1975, Linköping University launched Sweden’s first Computer Science and Engineering program.

1975 was also the year when Linköping University College became Linköping University, the sixth university in Sweden. In line with the 1977 reform of the Swedish higher education system, teacher education was also transferred to Linköping University.

Interdisciplinary research and problem-based learning

Linköping University has always worked with innovation in education and research. In 1980 the newly formed Department of Thematic Studies adopted an approach that was new in Sweden. Research was organized in interdisciplinary themes, such as Technology and Social Change or Water and Environmental Studies. Scientists worked across boundaries to solve complex problems. LiU was also first in Sweden to introduce graduate research schools for different themes. The model later spread to other parts of the university and became a national success.

The new Faculty of Health Sciences (Hälsouniversitetet), formed in 1986, combined governmentally and regionally funded education. It introduced a radically changed methodology, being the first in Sweden to use problem-based learning, PBL. Later, LiU became the first university in the world to allow students from different health sciences programs to treat actual patients on a student-managed training ward.

Expansion to Norrköping – and Stockholm

A significant milestone in the history of the University was the opening of Campus Norrköping in 1997. Some programs had previously operated from Norrköping, but the number of students now grew drastically in line with government efforts to expand higher education. Historical factories in the former industrial district were again filled with life, as they were filled with classrooms, laboratories, cafés, a library and of course students.

Linköping University also expanded to Stockholm when the reputable Carl Malmsten School of Furniture sought a collaborative partner from the academic sector. The Malmsten furniture design and handicraft programs became part of LiU in 2000. After almost 60 years at Södermalm in central Stockholm, Malmstens moved to new premises on the island of Lidingö in the autumn of 2009. LiU got its fourth campus.

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LiU in figures

Some important figures for Linköping University.

Education

• 32,000 students (full-time equivalents 17,907)
• 21,400 on Campus Valla
• 5,500 on Campus Norrköping
• 3,900 on University Hospital Campus (US)
• 2,100 distance students and students in other locations, including Campus Lidingö

(Some students take courses on more than one campus.)

• 120 study programs, of which 27 are international programs in English
• 550 single-subject courses
• Exchange agreements with 400 universities in 50 countries
• 2,400 international students
• 2,200 first cycle degrees
• 2,700 second-cycle degrees

Research and scientific training

• 300 professors
• 1,200 PhD students
• 40 licentiate degrees
• 140 doctoral degrees

Staff

• 4,000 employees (full-time equivalents 3,156)