Mechanical design engineer
Turning a requirement into a drawing somebody can manufacture. It is the broadest role a mechanical degree leads to and the one that transfers furthest outside engineering.
What the work actually is
You take a need, decompose it into functions, generate concepts, choose between them defensibly, and then do the unglamorous majority of the work: tolerances, fasteners, material selection, and the fifteen revisions after manufacturing tells you the part cannot be made that way.
Good design engineers are distinguished by how early they involve manufacture. A part that is elegant and unmakeable is a failure, and learning that takes most people a year on the job.
You will own drawings, so geometric dimensioning and tolerancing stops being an exam topic and becomes the language you argue in.
The course chain
In the order worth taking them. Each one links to what it covers, when it runs and what it needs first.
- 0542-4422Engineering design: introduction and methodsCore: systems · Semester A · 4h
- 0542-4420Theory of machinesCore: systems · Semester A · 4h
- 0542-4224Mechanics of solids 2Core: solids · Semester B · 4h
- 0542-44253D printing and design of plastic partsDepartment electives · Semester B · 3h
- 0571-4174Inventive design and thinking (TRIZ)Faculty electives · Not fixed · 2h
What prepares you
Engineering design is the method course and it needs only linear algebra, so it fits in the third-year fall. Theory of machines is what lets you specify a mechanism rather than copy one. Mechanics of solids 2 is the sizing. 3D printing and plastic parts is where design for manufacture becomes concrete.
Closest neighbours
Additive manufacturing engineer
Design and production by adding material rather than removing it. Israel is a global centre for this, so the route from these courses to these companies is unusually short.
Mechanical designMiniaturised systems and materials4 coursesManufacturing and process engineer
Owning how the thing actually gets made, at rate and at yield. Less visible than design and considerably harder to outsource.
Mechanical designStructures and computational mechanics5 coursesMedical device engineer
Mechanical engineering inside a regulated product. One of the largest and most stable employers of mechanical graduates in Israel, and the sector least affected by downturns.
Miniaturised systems and materialsMechanical designStructures and computational mechanics6 courses
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