• UC Davis offers mechanical engineering majors a nearly unparalleled variety of opportunities for hands-on projects that will satisfy students’ curiosity and drive to create as they help reinforce the fundamental engineering principles they've studied in lecture classes.
  • Mechanical engineering graduates from UC Davis may move directly into careers in technical fields in a range of industries. Many are able to put their skills to work solving societal problems such as industrial pollution, the need for practical mass transit systems or the need for clean-running personal vehicles. Others enter graduate study in engineering or other related technical areas.
  • Students will begin with a rigorous series of courses in mathematics, natural sciences and basic engineering to prepare themselves for more advanced study. At the upper-division level, students will study more advanced essential engineering topics. In student’s fourth year, they will choose an area of concentration and begin tailoring their major to their own interests. Stduents may study such specialized topics as vehicle stability, mechatronics, combustion and the environment or wind-tunnel experimentation.