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Mechanical engineering is a classic field of technical activity and research in the field of engineering. Main areas of mechanical engineering:
- Aviation and rocket-space technology
- Metallurgy
- Sectoral mechanical engineering
- applied mechanics
- Shipbuilding.
Aviation engineering, due to the scale of the aircraft industry, the use of electronic technology, has emerged as a separate area of engineering. Research directions:
- Aircraft construction
- Air navigation
- Ballistics and aerodynamics
- Integrated aircraft systems
- Aircraft testing
- Aircraft and helicopter construction
- Aircraft control systems.
At the junction of mechanical and electronic engineering, a new engineering industry has emerged - mechatronics. Scientists and technologists create equipment, systems, where mechanical and electronic components work together as parts of one organism, further enhanced by software.
Industrial engineering (industrial engineering) - engineering science, which arose at the junction of several sciences: mathematics, mechanics, social sciences, physics, economics.
The subject of industrial engineering research is integrated systems, including:
- Knowledge
- Information
- Materials (edit)
- Equipment
- Manufacturing processes
- Energy.
Specialists in this field are involved in the control and development of systems, taking care of the continuous growth of productivity and product quality.
Areas of specialization:
- Engineering management
- Operations research
- Mechanical engineering
- Systems engineering
- Construction engineering
- Financial engineering
- Ergonomics.
The rating "The Best Universities for the Study of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Industrial Engineering in Europe" was created as a result of a detailed analysis of the quality of education at European universities for future applicants.
Best Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | University of Cambridge |
| 2 | Delft University of Technology |
| 3 | Imperial College London |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 5 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 6 | Politecnico di Milano |
| 7 | EPFL |
| 8 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 9 | Technical University of Munich |
| 10 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 11 | KU Leuven |
| 12 | The University of Manchester |
| 13 | Politecnico di Torino |
| 14 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 15 | Ecole Polytechnique |
| 16 | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| 17 | Technical University of Denmark |
| 18 | Cranfield University |
| 19 | Universität Stuttgart |
| 20 | Chalmers University of Technology |
| 21 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) |
| 22 | Université PSL |
| 23 | The University of Sheffield |
| 24 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 25 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| 26 | University of Bristol |
| 27 | University of Southampton |
| 28 | Loughborough University |
| 29 | Technical University of Darmstadt |
| 30 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| 31 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 32 | University of Nottingham |
| 33 | CentraleSupélec |
| 34 | University of Twente |
| 35 | University of Birmingham |
| 36 | University of Bath |
| 37 | Technische Universität Dresden |
| 38 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology |
| 39 | UCL |
| 40 | Lund University |
| 41 | National Technical University of Athens |
| 42 | University of Leeds |
| 43 | Università di Padova |
| 44 | The University of Warwick |
| 45 | Bauman Moscow State Technical University |
| 46 | University of Naples - Federico II |
| 47 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna |
| 48 | University of Porto |
| 49 | Sorbonne University |
| 50 | Technische Universität Wien |
