Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
On the bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering taught at the UPC campus in Vilanova i la Geltrú, you will learn how to conceive, design and calculate the mobile and structural components of machines. You will also learn to define the manufacturing processes of these components and to design fluid, electrical and mechanical control systems.
What can I learn by taking the bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering on the UPC Vilanova Campus?
Machine and Structure Design
Students learn about techniques for analysing stress and calculating resistance. Structural and industrial construction design, electrical installation design and energy efficiency studies are also covered.
Manufacturing Process Engineering
This increases knowledge of the most current manufacturing and surface engineering processes and of the analysis of how components work, with an inductive methodology based on real facts. Current tools and techniques are used.
Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0, also known as smart industry, is considered the fourth industrial revolution. It seeks to transform businesses into intelligent organisations to achieve the best business results.
+8 Reasons to study this degree
- 92% of graduates get a job in their field
- You will be trained in mechanical processes and systems
- You will learn structural design of production systems and processes
- You will acquire knowledge for analysis, calculation and design
- Practical teaching model with real projects
- Construction of competition vehicles
- +300 Internship agreements in companies
- +60 international mobility agreements in 25 countries
- 11 research groups
Students’ experience
- Engineering serves to solve problems
- Solving a problem requires creativity
- You will learn to use 3D programs
- You can simulate a material, a mechanism, there are no limits
- UPC Vilanova has a lot of practical learning
- You will learn teamworking skills
- With discipline and perseverance, you can do anything
Access information and curriculum of the Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Duration
- 4 years
- Study load
- 240 ECTS credits (including the bachelor’s thesis). One credit is equivalent to 25-30 hours of study.
- Delivery
- Face-to-face.
- Minimum entrance mark (2023-2024 academic year)
- 6.362
- Timetable
- First, second, third and fourth semesters: mornings and afternoons / Fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth semesters: afternoons
- Fees and grants
- Approximate fees per academic year: €1,107 Consult the public fees system based on income (grants and payment options)
- Official degree
- Recorded in the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities’ degree register
- Coordinator of the bachelor’s degree
- Amelia Nápoles Alberro
Weighting of university entrance examinations (PAU)
Subject weighting table for the specific stage
Common access
Access to industrial engineering degrees at the UPC’s Vilanova i la Geltrú School of Engineering is via the same pre-enrolment process for the 200 places available, which are divided between the following degrees:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (40 places)
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering (40 places)
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (120 places)
Choosing a degree
The first academic year is common to all of the degrees. Once students have passed it, they can apply for admission to the degrees they wish to take, in order of preference. The School assigns students a specialisation in view of their applications and their academic records at the School.
Students who have passed the first academic year on industrial engineering degrees at the EPSEVG may be admitted to the second academic year of the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering, depending on their academic records and the number of places available.
Admission
Entrance routes and enrolment.
Validation of higher training cycles (CFGS)
Validation of higher training cycles (CFGS)
Legalisation of documents
All documents issued in countries outside the European Union must be legalised through diplomatic channels or carry the corresponding apostille.
First semester
Second semester
Third semester
Fourth semester
Fifth semester
Sixth semester
Seventh semester
- Project Management 6
- Optional 24
Eighth semester
- Bachelor’s Thesis 24
- Optional 6
- Obligatory186 ECTS
- Optional30 ECTS
- bachelor's thesis24 ECTS
- TOTAL240 ECTS
Check the recommendations for the order of enrollment of the subjects, as well as the semester in which teaching is offered. Semester 1 (Q1) runs from September to January and Semester 2 (Q2) runs from February to June.
Optional credits can be obtained by taking optional subjects or by other means.
Specific optional subjects of the Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Cross-curricular electives
If the 18 credits of the same itinerary are exceeded, an accrediting diploma will be issued, upon request to the SIAE, through the Demana.
- Regulated profession
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- Technical industrial engineer.
- Industrial engineer (by taking the master’s degree in Industrial Engineering).
- Professional opportunities
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- Planning, management, execution and assessment of engineering projects related to mechanical engineering.
- Management, design, assembly and maintenance of industrial and production systems and installations in the fields of mechanical, electromechanical and thermal engineering and fluid mechanics.
- Calculation and design of hydraulic and thermal engines.
- Projects in the industrial HVAC sector and the processing and transport of fluids.
- Design, management and maintenance of equipment and industrial installations, structures and constructions.
- Drafting of technical, advisory and feasibility reports.
Tutorial action on each degree is conceived as a service for students in which tutors guide, inform and advise them on how the University works and how it is regulated.
Their main functions are listed below.
- To advise students on the following:
- Planning their enrolment in accordance with their academic progress and the recommendations for enrolment..
- Improving their academic performance (study methods and use of learning resources such as the School’s library and other services).
- Assessment processes (for subjects and for curricular assessment of initial and final stages).
- Taking optional credits or having them recognised, external placements and participation in national and international mobility programmes.
- Choosing and carrying out the bachelor’s or master’s thesis.
- To direct students to other people or services at the School to solve specific issues.
- To collect students’ proposals for improving teaching and degrees.
In the Tutorial Action Plan, each student on each degree is assigned a tutor from the group of tutors for the corresponding stage:
- Initial stage if the student has not yet passed 120 ECTS credits
- Final stage if the student has passed 120 ECTS credits
Tutors for the initial stage teach in the first half of the degree and tutors for the final stage teach in the second half of the degree.
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