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KU Leuven Master of Mechanical Engineering
KU Leuven

Master of Mechanical Engineering

Leuven, Belgium

2 Years

English, Dutch

Full time

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Sep 2025

EUR 7,771 *

On-Campus

* non-EEA fee

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About the programme

Mechanical engineering is a very broad area of study in the field of engineering sciences. It integrates almost all disciplines of technology. Any device or product that is used in modern, everyday life is the result of an ongoing synergy between different basic techniques. In short, all products in modern society are developed by bringing together different technical disciplines. Mechanical engineering is the preferred integrator for realising this objective.

Furthermore, technological developments in mechanical engineering are often a catalyst for innovations in related domains. New production techniques make it possible to further miniaturise electromechanical systems. This requires multidisciplinary training and a curriculum in which all these technologies get the attention they deserve.

The programme offers you the choice between an application-oriented and a generic methodological approach, with many of the courses enjoying close links to the top-level industrial research of the programme’s lecturers. This ongoing link with the world of industry offers you an advanced, up-to-date content, leading to cutting edge research and development that has resulted in spin-off companies and innovation-driven entrepreneurship.

This programme consists of 5 components:

  • Core courses
  • Modules
  • Elective courses within an engineering context
  • General broadening or general interest optional courses
  • Master’s thesis

Students choose 1 option within the modules. In this program, three generic options and two application-oriented options are offered:

Generic options:

  • Manufacturing and Management: Modern techniques for designing and producing components, CAD and computer integration in production, management techniques, maintenance, and logistics in a company.
  • Mechatronics and Robotics: Discipline focusing on the synergy of construction, perception, control, and operation of machines, optimizing their integration for competitive advantage.
  • Thermotechnical Sciences: Physical principles for analyzing, designing, building, and operating combustion engines, thermal machines, refrigeration machines, power generators, etc.

Application-oriented options:

  • Aero & Space Technology: Physical principles for analyzing, designing, building, implementing, and operating aerospace systems.
  • Vehicle Technology: Physical principles for designing, analyzing, and building cars, vehicles, and transport systems.

Programme strengths

  • The department has a large experimental research laboratory with advanced equipment, to which you will have access. FabLab (a "Fabrication Laboratory") is also directly accessible.
  • The department has built up an extensive network of companies which have already recruited a large number of our alumni over many years and from whom we receive invaluable, informal feedback on the programme.
  • In addition to their academic teaching and research assignments, several members of the teaching staff also have other responsibilities in advisory boards, in external companies, science & technology committees, etc. and they share that expertise with students.
  • Students are also encouraged to participate in an industrial and research internship abroad.
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