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BEng in Mechanical Engineering

(Sønderborg)

Programme structure

The Bachelor of Engineering includes half a year’s internship in Denmark or abroad. The degree is vocationally oriented meaning that after 3½ years you will be ready to enter the job market. The degree will also qualify you to continue your studies and take a Master of Science in Engineering. The programme is taught in English.

The study programme is based on themes providing coherence between your courses and your project.

Every semester is based on a main theme:

  • Discover the mechanical development process
  • Design and build mechanical products
  • Manufacture and Operate Mechanical Systems
  • Cooling-heating and Power Conversion Systems
  • Experts in Team innovation/Innovation/specialisation
  • The engineering internship
  • Final project

Internship
As a Bachelor of Engineering student you will have a mandatory internship in a company. The internship is at your sixth semester and can be spend in Denmark or abroad.

At your internship you will practice what you have learned, and the theory will be tested in relation to the concrete challenges in a company; beside that, you will develop a network. Under your internship you will develop and get a solid understanding of the work tasks your future career will revolve around.

With an internship you will get an understanding of what you can expect, when you are done studying. You will get tasks that corresponds with the knowledge you have, but there will also be an opportunity to develop your professional skills the way you want to. You will become even better at planning and completing assignments you already have been introduced to during earlier lectures.

That network you will develop doing your internship, can you use for your last semester. Many students doing their internship develop ideas for their bachelor’s thesis. Also, many students cooperate with their internship company doing their bachelor’s thesis.

Maybe the internship and the cooperate with the internship company will resulting in a permanent job after your graduation.

Internship abroad
With an internship abroad you will gain international experiences – and you will train and use your linguistic skills while you have an experience for life. Beside that, it is a great value to be able to refer your internship in a company abroad in your CV, in relation to future job applications after your graduation.

You can read descriptions of the individual subjects by clicking on them in the study course diagram below. On mobile phones, the diagram is best viewed in landscape mode.

In your 5th semester, you have the opportunity to study abroad at a foreign university. You can choose either a university that SDU collaborates with, or you can choose to arrange your stay at another university. SDU collaborates with more than 200 partner universities, and we want to help you find the perfect place for you.

The rules for your degree are specified in the programmes’ curriculum, which is the formal description of your education.

The curriculum contains information about the purpose and structure of the programme, including which subject elements the program contains, whether there are opportunities for a semester abroad, project-oriented courses or similar, rules for conducting teaching and exams and rules for participation in exams, etc.

As a student, you are responsible for keeping yourself informed about the rules that apply to your programme. Therefore, it is important that you know the curriculum for your programme.

Read the curriculum for BEng in Mechanical Engineering (Sønderborg)

A subject description is a detailed description of a subject, where you can, for example read about the purpose of the subject, the content of the subject, including the form of teaching, the expected workload, and the exam in the subject.

Read course descriptions by clicking the course in the description above.

The programme lasts 3 1/2 years (seven semesters) and is standardised at 210 ECTS - i.e. one year of full-time education amounts to 60 ECTS. The ECTS system is an international points system, and ECTS indicates the workload to which the completion of a given education is standardised.

Read more about ECTS on the Ministry of Higher Education and Science's website

The subjects in the bachelor of engineering programmes are typically examined at their completion, which means that you go to the exam in January and June.

Many different types of exams are used: written and oral exams, take-home exams and seminars and projects.

A seminar is a form of teaching and examination in which all students in the seminar circle must write an assignment. The assignments are then discussed in the seminar circle, and the students take turns defending their own assignment, opposing the assignment of others and being “general” discussion participants.

Read more about the individual examination forms in the individual subject description (see model above).

A Bachelor of engineering degree is just the beginning of your education

The Bachelor of Engineering programme is vocationally oriented meaning that after 3½ years you will be ready to enter the job market. The degree will also qualify you to continue your studies and take a Master of Science in Engineering.

A BEng in Mechanical Engineering will therefore also qualify you to continue with a relevant master's degree in, for example, Mechanical  Engineering.

Read more about the master's programmes in Mechanical Engineering

Read more about the master's programmes in Product Development and Innovation

See all SDU's master's programmes

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