Mechanical Engineering

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⇑Mechanical Engineering at AGH

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: engineering and engineering trades

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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⇑Why study Mechanical Engineering at AGH?

Why study it:

Programme: from mechanics to manufacturing systems
Labs: CAD, CAM, FEA and CFD
Placements: a 4-week internship in a plant you choose
After graduation: design offices, factories and power plants

Mechanical Engineering at AGH University of Krakow is a first-cycle engineering programme in mechanical and manufacturing engineering – from mechanics and machine design to production systems and engineering materials. It is for people who value precision, enjoy tackling intricate technical problems and want to design, build and run machines.

Programme: from mechanics to manufacturing systems

Alongside mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science, the programme covers:

engineering graphics, mechanics, strength of machine elements, machine design, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics
electrical engineering, electronics, automation and control
design, manufacturing and operation of machines, including power, technological and transport machinery
engineering materials and their mechanical, technological and operational properties, plus new materials used in machine construction
quality and safety management, intellectual property, patent law and technology transfer

Labs: CAD, CAM, FEA and CFD

You learn computer-aided engineering in practice: solid modelling and technical documentation in CAD applications, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and numerical calculations such as FEA and CFD. You also plan and run experiments – both measurements with mechanical engineering instruments and computer simulations – then interpret the results and draw conclusions. Computer tools for data analysis and processing are part of the same toolkit.

Placements: a 4-week internship in a plant you choose

Internship at a glance

Length4 weeks
Whensummer break of the 6th semester
Wherea mechanical or manufacturing engineering plant chosen by the student

After graduation: design offices, factories and power plants

Graduates work as machine and equipment designers, product, test or validation engineers, engineers in manufacturing and energy plants, technical supervision engineers, and specialists in machine operation, repair and overhaul.

Typical employers include machine-building companies, design offices, consulting, construction and technology firms, quality and technical acceptance units, research institutes, mining and processing plants, and power and combined heat and power plants. Running your own business is another option.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme page at rekrutacja.agh.edu.pl.

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⇑Test: check whether Mechanical Engineering is the right major for you!

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⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.

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Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies engineering, physics, engineering mathematics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering disciplines.

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Mechanical Engineering

Engineering is no longer just an industrial discipline or technology — it is also a concept of statesmanship and of humanitarianism and a challenge worthy of our best. Mechanical Engineering is a career which follows a never-setting sun.

: The Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1963) Vol 85. p. 93

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Mechanical Engineering

The field of mechanical engineering is frankly as old as human life itself. Fire, the wheel, the printing press, and many of the life- changing discoveries and inventions of the past few centuries are simply applications of mechanical engineering in order to solve everyday problems.

‎Dr. Vook Ph.D and Charles River Editors (2011) Mechanical Engineering 101: The TextVook

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Mechanical Engineering

The work before us is a proof that the doctrine of mechanics is of the utmost importance to mankind in general, and to civil society in particular, which could hardly subsist without it.
The author of this work is Mr. W. Emerson who is well known in the literary world, from several ingenious writings with which he has obliged the public; some of which have passed under our consideration since the commencement of the Review. In this treatise Mr. Emerson has laid down the fundamental principles both of theory and practice, and demonstrated most of them from the common elementary geometry, and the rest from the common rules of algebra; which is certainly the best method of rendering a treatise of this kind useful to the generality of readers, the fluxionary calculus being too difficult for them to understand.
The work is divided into thirteen sections: the 1st. contains the general laws of motion. 2. The laws of gravity, the descent of heavy bodies, and the motion of projectiles. 3. The properties of the mechanical powers; the balance, the leaver, the wheel, the pulley, the screw, and the wedge. 4. The descent of bodies upon inclined planes, and in curve surfaces; and the motion of pendulums. 5. The center of gravity, and its properties. 6. The centers of percussion, oscillation, and gyration. 7. The quantity and direction of the pressure of beams of timber, by their weight; and the forces necessary to sustain them. 8. The strength of beams of timber in all positions; and their stress by any weight acting upon them, or by any forces applied to them. 9. The properties of fluids, the principles of hydrostatics, hydraulics, and pneumatics, 10. The resistance of fluids, their forces and actions upon bodies; the motions of ships, and the positions of their fails. 11. Methods of communicating, directing, and regulating any motion in the practice of mechanics. 12. The powers and properties of compound engines; of forces acting within the machines; and concerning friction. 13. The description of compound machines or engines, and the methods of computing their powers or forces; with some account as the advantages or disadvantages of their construction.

Ralph Griffiths, ‎George Edward Griffiths (1754) The Monthly Review. Vol 11. p. 490-491

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