Bachelor of Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | full-time

If you enjoy solving technological problems and want to create sustainable solutions for people and the needs of the future, you should check this. Mechanical engineer in Sustainable Design Engineering knows, how to find real needs of people and organizations, designs products, machines and services in creative cooperation, and respects the natural world and future well-being by making sure that these designs have a sustainable basis.

Specialization in Sustainable Design Engineering may be the most important study field today, since it combines the three areas that together can make huge positive impacts towards the better world and future for people and the planet:

1. Mechanical Engineering

Technologies form the basis of the modern world, and it is in the core of mechanical engineering to make things work as effectively as possible from the viewpoints of functionality to material usage and energy consumption. In studies it is engineering mathematics, materials and production and structural mechanics, just to mention few.

2. Sustainable Development

Sustainability forms the background for all - whatever we do, it must fit to the sustainability frame, so that life can foster in this planet now and in the future. And believe me, it is not just recycling, but also understanding circular economics, material and product life-cycle analysis, social and cultural elements etc.

3. Design Thinking

While engineering and technologies are the ways, HOW to make things work as well as possible, design approach gives the purpose, the meaning, WHY we do things - what are the real needs and the most crucial problems to solve from the perspectives of LIFE and in both, the big picture, and the human size living. It means learning e.g., human-centered methods, creative ideation, and visualization, prototyping and concept design.

In Turku UAS you study in modern learning environments with cutting-edge laboratories and workshops, and versatile spaces for independent and group working. Between and after lessons and lab works you can have good time at the campus with your study buddies by, for example, playing pool or table tennis.

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