Mechanics of Vehicles and Construction Machinery (graduate studies, 4 semesters)

Education in the Mechanics of Vehicles and Construction Machinery (automotive and construction machinery engineering) field of study enables to gain comprehensive engineering knowledge of general machine design, as well as the expertise, concerning the design, production, safety, control and exploitation of "the faculty objects of interest", i.e. vehicles (cars, tractors, railway vehicles) and construction machinery (building and road machines, cranes, conveyors, etc.).

The graduate of the Mechanics of Vehicles and Construction Machinery field of study possesses extensive general knowledge connected with basic subjects and specialist knowledge of machinery and vehicle construction. The graduate is also able to use modern tools of computer-aided design, production and exploitation process, which are applied in contemporary design offices.

This results in the interdisciplinary, systemic approach to solving technical problems as well as in taking other challenges in their work, including those related to intensive development of science and technology.

The Mechanics of Vehicles and Construction Machinery field of studies consists of the first-cycle studies (undergraduate) for Engineer’s degree, and the second-cycle studies (postgraduate) for Master’s degree, available as a full-time and a part-time study modes.

For the second-cycle (MSc) studies, the Mechanics of Vehicles and Construction Machinery field of study is available both in Polish and in English. The latter is provided in the Double Degree System in cooperation with the Technical University Berlin.

The following specialisation areas are offered for the second-cycle (MSc) studies in English:

  • Advanced Machinery and Vehicles Engineering

 

The Course elements library for the first-cycle studies in Polish is available here.

The Course elements library for the second-cycle studies in English is available here.

  

 

Course Elements Library

 

Mechanics of Vehicles and Construction Machinery – for the second-cycle studies in English

 

First year

Semester 1

 

No Subject Symbol Full-time study Point
subject Type of course ECTS
  L E Lab Pro  
1 Complex number analysis 501 2 1 0 0 4
2 Probability and statistics 502 2 1 0 0 4
3 Advanced applied mechanics 503 2 2 0 0 5
4 Integrated production systems 504 2 0 1 0 4
5 Design theory 505 2 0 0 0 2
6 Physics 506 3 0 0 0 4
7 Automatic control 507 1 1 0 0 3
8 Local models of layered structures 508 2 0 1 0 4
9 P.E 509 0 2 0 0 0
 Sum  16 7 2 0 30
25

 

First year

Semester 2

 

No Subject Symbol Full-time study Point
subject Type of course ECTS
  L E Lab Proj  
1 Computer modelling in engineering practice. 510 1 0 1 0 3
2 Technological systems safety 511 2 0 0 0 2
3 Selected topics of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics 512 2 1 0 0 3
4 Introduction to robotics 513 1 0 1 0 3
5 Knowledge based systems in engineering design 514 2 0 0 0 2
6 Advanced structural materials 515 1 0 1 0 3
7 Modelling and testing of machines 516 2 0 2 0 6
8 Vehicles dynamics 517 2 0 1 0 3
9 Numerical methods in mechanics 518 1 0 1 0 3
10 Computer aided manufacturing 519 2 0 0 0 2
Sum 16 1 7 0 30
24

 

Second year

Semester 3

 

No Subject Symbol Full-time study Point
subject Type of course ECTS
  L E Lab Proj  
1 Elective course HES 601 2 0 0 0 2
2 Elective course HES 602 2 0 0 0 2
3 Modeling of machine elements by using original prog. in FEM 603 1 0 1 0 3
4 Modelling of automobiles suspensions 604 1 0 1 0 3
5 Genetic algorithms and neural networks 605 1 0 1 0 3
6 Machine diagnostics 606 1 0 1 0 3
7 Elective course 607 2 0 0 0 2
8 Elective course 608 2 0 0 0 2
9 Elective course 609 2 0 0 0 2
10 Elective course 610 2 0 0 0 2
11 Interim project 611 0 0 0 5 6
  16 0 4 5 30
25

 

 

  Elective courses sem. 3 ECTS
1 Active safety systems in an automobile 2
2 Ecological powertrains 2
3 Simulation of vehicles and machines 2
4 Combustion and catalysis 2
5 Degradation of supporting structures 2
6 Introduction to modeling and control of construction machinery 4
7 Distributed mechatronics systems 2
8 Advanced methods of digital signal processing 2

 

  Elective courses HES sem. 3 ECTS
1 Technology Transfer 2
2 Polish / German - Advanced level 2

 

Second year

Semester 4

 

No Subject Symbol Full-time study Point
subject Type of course ECTS
  L E Lab P  
1 Elective course HES 611 2 0 0 0 2
  Elective course HES 603 2 0 0 0 2
2 Elective course 612 2 0 0 0 2
3 Elective course 613 2 0 0 0 2
4 Diploma seminar 614 0 2 0 0 2
5 Master of science thesis 615 0 0 0 18 20
6 Practice diploma 616 4 weeks 4
    8 2 0 18 30
  28
                 

 

 

  Elective courses sem. 4 ECTS
1 Hybrid drives 2
2 Energy cogeneration in vehicles 2
3 Electric and Hydraulic Lifts 2
4 Multidomain environmental hazards 2
5 Smart Materials and Structures 2

 

  Elective courses HES sem. 4 ECTS
1 Business management 2
2 History of technology 2