Mechatronic Engineering

BEng Mechatronic Engineering at Keele prepares you to design intelligent, automated systems that integrate mechanical, electrical, electronic, and computer technologies. From robotics and advanced manufacturing to clean energy and autonomous systems, you’ll gain the skills to tackle real-world challenges, combining creativity, technical knowledge, and problem-solving to shape the technologies of tomorrow.

Why choose this course?

• Benefit from industry-informed teaching, networking opportunities, and practical learning

• Build key employability skills including data analysis, critical thinking, and evidence-based problem solving

• Flexible pathways let you choose an engineering specialism, with the option to exit with a BEng or continue to an MEng

• Gain industry experience through a work placement year, preparing you for a range of careers

• Study abroad with an international year to broaden your horizons

Mechatronic engineering combines mechanical, electrical, electronic, and computer systems into intelligent, automated solutions that are transforming industries from advanced manufacturing and robotics to clean energy and autonomous systems. It is a discipline where engineering creativity and technical mastery merge to design systems that are efficient, responsive, and sustainable. Every project you undertake offers the chance to improve performance, reduce environmental impact, and shape the technologies of the future.

This programme is designed to support your development as a professional engineer. You’ll begin with Engineering Fundamentals, gaining the scientific and technical knowledge to tackle complex problems. Alongside this, Engineering Skills will strengthen your practical ability through labs, workshops, and training in communication and project management. Engineering Simulation and Mathematics will then help you apply advanced analysis and modelling techniques, allowing you to understand and present engineering concepts with precision.

From the start of your degree, you will build a foundation in mechanics, materials, electrical circuits, digital electronics, programming, and simulation tools, alongside introductory automation and robotics. Specialist mechatronic study covers statics and dynamics, logic systems, microcontrollers, sensor and actuator integration, CAD, and control systems. As you progress, you will tackle complex applications including system modelling, control theory, advanced manufacturing, and embedded programming. In your final year, you will integrate your knowledge to address sustainability and clean energy challenges, while developing leadership, teamwork, communication, and research skills through an individual research dissertation and a collaborative industry-led design project.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.