What is Mechanical Engineering?

  Mechanical engineering offers a wide range of interesting and challenging career opportunities in research, design, development, manufacturing, testing, and marketing for either private industry or government.

Mechanical engineers may work on a wide range of products such as engines, transmissions, compressors, pumps, computer disk drives, CAD/CAE software, oil field drilling rigs, missiles, space satellites, earth moving equipment, container manufacturing machines, medical equipment, and many other products encountered in daily life.

The mechanical engineer is a professional person concerned with satisfying the needs of society using a combination of material, human, and economic resources. Mechanical engineering covers a very wide spectrum of activities in the engineering profession. These activities include the conversion and transmission of energy and associated power processes; the kinematic, dynamic, strength, and wear considerations, as well as economic aspects of the development, design and use of materials, machines, and processes; and the analysis, synthesis, and control of entire engineering systems.

Many mechanical engineers are employed in each of the areas listed below.

Aerospace Metal Fabrication Electronics Manufacturing Biomedical Devices Public Utilities and Power Plants Automated Manufacturing and Robotics Materials Processing Plastic Injection Molding Automotive Sports Equipment Product Development  Test Engineering Aircraft Design Quality Control Rapid Prototyping Concurrent Engineering

You can find more information about mechanical engineering and other careers on the UC Denver Career Services web site at careers.cudenver.edu.