Bacharelado em Engenharia Mecânica

Mechanical engineering is a diverse field that encompasses researching, developing, designing, manufacturing, and testing mechanical devices such as tools, engines, and machines. Discover a career in nanotechnology research, academia, or government handling tasks such as R&D, equipment and system design, production supervision, plant engineering, sales, testing, and teaching. Your education will equip you to tackle challenges in energy storage, alternative fuels, waste management, environmental control, energy conversion, aerospace, and biomedical engineering.

Program Features

Interdisciplinary Emphasis and Specializations

Mechanical engineering offers diverse studies in energy conversion, fluid flow, solid mechanics, materials engineering and interdisciplinary areas like aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, robotics, biomedical engineering, and nanotechnology. This allows you to customize your education, developing expertise aligned with your career goals.

Hands-On Learning and Research Opportunities

The department emphasizes hands-on experiences, providing you with opportunities to conduct experiments in well-equipped laboratories. Undergraduate students can engage in research projects, either through research grants or the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) program, working alongside faculty mentors. You can participate in student organizations, gaining valuable engineering experience beyond the classroom.

Mission to Impact Society Locally and Globally

The Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering aims to impact society through education, research and service. Graduates excel in engineering careers, pursue advanced degrees, and value lifelong learning. The program fosters professionalism, leadership, integrity, and ethical responsibility, inspiring students to serve humanity and advance technologies and industries.

Outside the Classroom

Be a Difference-maker

Collaborate with industry professionals and your peers by joining professional and student organizations such as the Aerospace Club (including working with NASA), Engineers Without Borders, or Robotics.

Gain Hands-On Experience

Pursue research projects available to undergraduate students that offer funding and valuable opportunities to discover what drives you in your academic area.

Make Valuable Career Connections

Connect with companies and organizations for paid internships and jobs, such as via 1-to-1 counseling and career fairs through career services professionals within the colleges and the university.

As the only engineering college in Nebraska, we take our role very seriously. We provide our students with professors with national and international expertise in their fields, the latest technology, quality facilities, a vast network of successful alumni and friends of the college, and caring staff. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering is also unique in its variety of locations: three campuses in Nebraska's two largest cities.

The College of Engineering enthusiastically embraces its unique role as the singular intellectual and cultural resource for engineering instruction, research, and outreach within the state. It provides the people of Nebraska with comprehensive engineering academic programs to fulfill their highest aspirations and ambitions.