Mechanical Engineering

Program Overview

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Mechanical Engineering

Engineering @ UWindsor

Program Overview & Highlights

• Co-op Available
• Honours 4-Year Program
• BASc

Begin your journey to an exciting career in mechanical engineering by developing a solid foundation in machine design, CAD, and thermos fluids with specializations in automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, and materials engineering. The faculty promotes connections with industry through projects, courses, and workplace co-op opportunities. Mechanical engineering includes two broad areas of study: thermofluids (which involves heat and power) and solid mechanics (designing mechanical parts, determining the forces on those parts during operation, and analyzing their performance as part of larger machines and systems).

You can choose to stay in the general mechanical stream and customize your senior level courses across available options or choose one of the following: Aerospace, Automotive, Materials.

Specializations & Streams

Aerospace

Develop your aerospace skills as you learn about propulsion, aerodynamics, structures, materials, and drone technology. Consider taking advantage of our unique opportunity to obtain your private pilot’s license for course credit or compete internationally with our aero or rocket teams.

Automotive

Study topics like vehicle handling, vehicle thermal management, innovative powertrain technologies, and participate in hands-on learning in the lab. Opportunities abound to design, build, and race a variety of ground vehicles in international competitions.

Materials

Apply the principles of material structure and properties to the design, manufacture, and analysis of components across a range of industry sectors, including automotive and aerospace. Includes metals, ceramics, polymers, and composite materials.

Small classes, for a hands-on experience to motivate your career.

Variety of options to tailor the program to your interests, and still finish with a mechanical engineering degree.

Students have a general first year, then can pick their engineering specialization in a 1:17 faculty to student ratio.

Learn More About Our Program

Over $2.18 Million in undergraduate scholarships offered annually

89.6% employment rate of graduates1

1 Two Years after Graduation (OUGS Engineering, 2020)

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

• Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Physics/SPH4U, English/ENG4U
• Strongly Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCV4U
• Minimum Average: 74% (74% average of all math and science courses except Biology/SBI4U)
• Mean Average: 87%

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

• Course Requirements: Grade 12 Advanced Functions, Grade 12 Chemistry, Grade 12 Physics, Grade 12 English
• Strongly Recommended: Grade 12 Calculus & Vectors
• Minimum Average: 74% (74% average of all math and science courses except Grade 12 Biology)
• Mean Average: 87%

Career Tracks

• Automotive/aerospace engineer
• Materials development specialist
• Manufacturing engineer
• Mining engineer
• Automation systems designer
• R&D manager
• Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems design
• Automotive product design and development
• Aerospace product design and development
• Manufacturing
• Mining

Related Programs

Mechanical Engineering

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

If you did not take Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) in high school, please identify yourself to the WINONE Office for First-Year Engineering by sending an email to [insert email]. After review, you will likely be enrolled in alternate math courses.

Required Course Notes

Students entering all four-year undergraduate engineering programs will be automatically enrolled for the following five required courses:

• GENG 1101
• GENG 1102
• MATH 1270
• MATH 1720
• PHYS 1400

Required Courses

GENG 1101: Engineering I

Overview of the engineering profession: fields, career development, sustainability, health and safety, relation to society, business and entrepreneurship, ethics, equity, and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation process. Academic integrity, strategies for university success, academic regulations, engineering-related extracurricular activities. Effective oral and written technical communication: informative and persuasive presentations; resumes and job search communications; technical writing and formatting; information gathering and analysis; research documentation and referencing; the use of visual tools such as graphs, figures, and tables; e-portfolios; and technical reports. (Open only to Engineering students.) (3 lecture hours and 1.5 tutorial hours weekly)

GENG 1102: Engineering Graphics

Visualization techniques, graphical communication using sketching, descriptive geometry, and computer-aided design (CAD) for orthographic projection, pictorial drawings, dimensioning, section views, and auxiliary views. Reading engineering drawings. Engineering graphics e-portfolio and CAD project to develop visualization skills and task completion skills. (Open only to Engineering students.) (4.5 hours weekly.)

MATH 1270: Linear Algebra (Engineering)

This course will cover linear systems, linear transformations, matrix algebra, determinants, vectors in Rn, dot product, orthogonalization, diagonalization, eigenvectors and eigenvalues, in the context of and with an emphasis on a broad range of applications in Science and Engineering. (Prerequisite: MATH-1280 or both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U)) (Antirequisite: MATH-1250, or MATH-1260.) (3 lectures hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

MATH 1720: Differential Calculus

This course will cover trigonometric functions and identities, inverse trigonometric functions, limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who do not have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1760. (Prerequisites: Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) or MATH-1780.) (Antirequisite: MATH-1760.) (3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

PHYS 1400: Introductory Physics I

First semester in a four-semester sequence in calculus-based introductory physics with an emphasis on mechanics. (Prerequisites: Grade 12“U” Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus or equivalent. Recommended co-requisite: MATH-1720.) (3 lecture hours per week, 3 laboratory hours per week.) Open to students in Engineering, Human Kinetics, Forensic Science, Bachelor of Arts and Science, and all programs within in the Faculty of Science; exceptions only with the permission of the Head or designate. (Antirequisites: PHYS-1300, PHYS-1305.)