Career opportunities
With a Mechanical Engineering degree, you will have many opportunities in the future. As a mechanical engineer, you can work as a process engineer, project leader, system engineer, production engineer and much more at either engineering firms or research institutions.
- As a process engineer, you design industrial systems for the gas sector or food sector.
- As a sustainability project leader you devise technological solutions for reusing or storing energy.
- A systems engineer will use the latest technologies for designing smart robots.
- You might work as a technical buyer, working with the engineering team to ensure that projects will delivered on time.
- An R&D medical engineer designes medical scanners and other devices, like prostheses, or even designing 3D implants.
Of course, you can also continue studying and take a master's course at Fontys or a technical university. Fontys offers master's degrees in Digital Technology Engineering and in System Design.
Agreements have been made with Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e) for a special programme, which makes it easy to move on to a master's programme at the TU/e.
