Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Sea Turtle Robot built by students at Imperial. She doesn’t just swim - she flies underwater like an ancient plesiosaur. Designed to help us understand the prehistoric marine reptile and protect real sea turtles in the wild.

What's it like to be a first year student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London? Find out from Isabela's video diary.

Rohan explains the academic side of being a Mechanical Engineering student at Imperial College London. 

Hear from third year Imperial College London students exhibiting their Design Make and Test projects. This is a major engineering design project carried out by teams of third year students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

" I would encourage people from Leeds and northern cities to come to London because it's actually an amazing place...it has some standard and I think it really does live up to that"

From São Paulo to London! Meet Isabela, she shares what life is like in the first couple of weeks of joining us.

Fire is all around us and almost unavoidable. Fire science has much work to do to protect people, the environment and create a safer world. 

Lecturer Dr Peter Huthwaite, and current research students Naomi Shipway and Xiaotang Gu explain what NDE is all about, and why a PhD in this field is worth doing. 

Photos of the event can be found on our Flickr account. 

This video showcases a research paper from our department's Electrochemical Science and Engineering group, comparing different cooling methods for lithium-ion battery cells. 

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The Biomechatronics Laboratory at Imperial College (http://www.biomechatronicslab.co.uk/) and Athletec introduce the first wearable smart Taekwondo kick tracking system.  Imperial  student and Taekwondo black belt Yuhua Gu demonstrates. 

Adults and children alike explored the fun side of Mechanical Engineering.

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An Imperial expert in fire finds evidence for a surprising theory about the Titanic – that it was already on fire when it left port, and this contributed to its rapid sinking.

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Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan discusses how prototype sensor technology may make robotic prosthetics more user-friendly for people in the future.

To find out more about the research discussed in this video please click here. 

Guest speaker: Alan Begg FREng, ex Senior Vice President of Group Technology at SKF

Guest speaker: Nick Molden, founder and CEO of Emissions Analytics

Guest speaker: Dr Barbara Lane,  UK leader for the Applied Innovation and Technology Group at Arup

Third-year student Alice shares her experience of studying Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London.

Spanish students Juan studying Physics and Carmen studying Mechanical Engineering reflect on their experiences of life at Imperial, living in London, managing a work-life balance.